Have just got back from my run, and although i didn't do as well as the last time i blogged, i still did it so wahoo! However, i feel it is time to have a little moan about something which is really beginning to bug me... Dog walkers. aaah yes, this collectiopn of seemingly innocent people; at peace with the world, enjoying a leisurely morning stroll... and letting their bloody pets chase me and snap around my ankles! Its soooo annoying! I realise i sound a bit like the grinch (yes i do realise its the middle of June and not Christmas), so lets move on to happier things.

I went to see Emily (as in Emily's Angels) in hospital yesterday and was muchly happy to see how much better she looked. For those of you who don't know, her lung collapsed last week and we were all very worried... When i saw her a few days later her face had swollen leaving her looking rather like a chipmunk (The doctors words, not mine!) Anyway she was looking far less like a chipmunk and far more like a princess yesterday... which i tried to show in a playdough model, only she ended up looking more like Shrek with a hard hat on. Damn. Back to the point, she seems much more like herself (hence the ordering us to make playdough models of her!). So a big well done to Em for getting those naughty lungs on the road to recovery.

More updates soon,
xxx

OOooh dear serious lack of commitment to the blog! woopsie! Well when i wrote that last blog (yes, all those thousands of years ago) i had just started on my training for the hydro active womens challenge (HAWC) in Septmber. Well to begin with, this was the first time i had done any exercise for months, due to GCSEs and plain laziness, so it came as quite a shock to me quite how unfit i was! I tried to go running every morning and after about two days i decided i really didn't wnat to do any training at all, i was burning and not tanning and deffinitely not toning. So that was it.

I then departed for a fantastic two week holiday in Cyprus, during which i ate a ludicrous amount of food; but did regret having given up so easily... I also did quite a bit of swimming, and really enjoyed not only the exercise but the proud feeling afterwards. I also began to notice a slight change in my legs and they began to feel like they actually contained some muscle.

I am now back in good old England and training has resumed! I have been going for a run every other morning and i am feeling so proud of myself for keeping it up (okay its only been a week so far but heyho)! I'm still not fit in any sense of the word, but this morning i managed to run a little bit further without having to walk for a while. I jog around this field near my house and normally i run the long sides then walk the short sides, but today i managed to run two long sides and one short side before i needed to walk for a while! yay! I also sprinted a bit at the end, which was really good as it left me on a high (its a natural hiiiiiiiiiigh...).

I am going away again next week up to my family just north of Yorkshire, where i usually become a couch potato and sit around eating and watching daytime TV, but hopefully i will be able to keep up with the running... as its only a month till the HAWC... aaaaaaaaah! Wish me luck, or even better sponser me at www.justgiving.com/emilysangels

Anyway i will be off now, as its eviction night on BB, but i promise to post again soon... And i shall tell you a little bit more what has really inspired me to start training again (i mean apart from all the donoughts consumed in Cyprus).

Bye!