Janathon - Day 8 - RWH!

As I mentioned yesterday it is my Daughter's 16th Birthday today and last night she had a party in the house with approximately 30 guests - we went to our neighbours house (bad move all round!)!  Stained carpets, smashed bottles and glasses, broken breakfast bar stool, snapped plant and a visit from the police were just some of the events of the evening...!  Luckily for her I was too intoxicated by liquor myself to be too bothered about the chaos going on around me when I got home just after midnight!

 I never sleep well when I've been drinking and last night was no exception!  I was awake at 5am, and eventually decided to get up at 6.30am!  Feeling slightly queasy I set about filling the recycling bin with a vast combination of bottles and cans and doing a general tidy up! Once the house looked a little less like it had been trashed by burglars I ventured outside taking the dog on a  walk to gauge how my body would react to exercise! I had a general feeling of ickiness, a pounding head and churning stomach and decided to make it a short walk.  I was grateful to get  home without vomiting in the street or passing out and I decided languishing on the sofa groaning loudly and watching  TV was the order of the day!




Run with a Hangover (RWH)

However, I'm not very good at sitting around doing nothing so a couple of hours later I decided to bite the bullet and RWH! I thought a short run might help move the alcohol and its nasty toxins out of my system - Alcohol is evil but I will never learn!  Whilst I'd been sitting around doing very little I had tried to rehydrate my body by drinking plenty of water and I managed to stomach a banana.


Well, I eventually got up off the sofa and ran, but felt like death the entire time! Perhaps I was still drunk who knows?  

As my Achilles was still feeling  delicate (as well as my head and stomach now) I decided to try to run on soft tracks and trails and not so much on the road!  Yet again it was raining the wet stuff - very, very, very fine rain but very wet all the same!!

I managed a 3.32 mile run, but it felt more like a half marathon!  I didn't feel on top of the world afterwards  and the endorphins certainly didn't seem to kick in!!

At home I showered, ate and then settled back down onto the sofa (the safe sanctuary I shouldn't have left!) - this time however football was on and my husband had control of the remote!

Later in the day, once the rain had stopped I decided to venture out again (kill or cure) and managed a short fairly enjoyable walk!  

All in all its been a long tiring day and I'm now ready for my bed!  

"I promise that I will do my best, to love my legs and my body, to detox this week so I have the will to run and keep the Janathon going "

Running Miles: 3.33 miles
Time: 32 minutes 40 seconds
Average pace: 9.51
Average speed: 6.09 MPH

View my run on:  http://connect.garmin.com/activity/139905433 

           View my walks on:  http://runkeeper.com/user/fitlesley/activity/65488304
                                          http://runkeeper.com/user/fitlesley/activity/65428508

           Walking Miles:  3.11 miles

Janathon total to date:


Running  -  33.52
Walking  -     8.82 miles


Total Janathon Mileage - 44.72

As well as completing the Janathan this month, I have pledged to try and run/walk 2012 miles in 2012!  The Janathon has helped give me a kick start to reach this goal and I only have 1967 (The year I was born incidentally!) miles to go!