June 30th. The end of Juneathon.
Today, a return to reality at work. I even managed to finish about 5.15, but still felt weary after the weekend, so settled to bow out in shame, 29 out of 30 juneathons and a finale of 4.2 miles. The run was even relatively uneventful…one girls skirt being blown up along the seafront, two seperate heckles from the overweight audience as I ran, both girls, both probably the apple of their father’s eye, both equally so ugly even the boys of Hastings haven’t got them pregnant yet despite them surely being overdue at all of 15 years old. The abuse thing seems to be growing, unless it’s because i’m running more in the summer than I usually do so there are a few people out to see and thus abuse me. It’s all fun though. And since I was pushing on a bit, I was sufficiently out of breath to resist informing them either a) they’re wrong in their assumption of my childhood being fatherless or b) I’m sure a forest can’t run, trees don’t have legs. Oh yes, to celebrate Juneathon being over (and nothing to do with wanting to go shopping, listen to I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue, eat, blog and water the greenhouse, honest!), I outed the run in 28 minutes 40 seconds. A fraction under the 7 minute mile pace i’m targeting for my next 10k, assuming I do it on the flat. And I thought i’d lost my pace over the month!
So, the embarrasing statistics:
June 1: 3.5 miles
June 2: 3.0 miles
June 3: 4.2 miles
June 4: 4.2 miles
June 5: 2.0 miles
June 6: 2.1 miles
June 7: 3.7 miles
June 8: 1.0 miles
June 9: 4.2 miles
June 10: 3.5 miles
June 11: 4.0 miles
June 12: 4.2 miles
June 13: 1.0 miles
June 14: 1.0 miles
June 15: 1.0 miles
June 16: 0.7 miles
June 17: 2.1 miles
June 18: 5.4 miles
June 19: 1.0 miles
June 20: 4.2 miles
June 21: 2.1 miles
June 22: 2.1 miles
June 23: 1.0 miles
June 24: 0.7 miles
June 25: 1.1 miles
June 26: 4.2 miles
June 27: NO JUNEATHON!!!!!!
June 28: 1.5 miles
June 29: 3.8 miles
June 30: 4.2 miles.
Total: A mere 72.5 miles. Still loads more than the 13 miles I did last June, though. But I was preparing for a mountainbike race last June and in France for it for the last 3 days of the month, so that’s understandable.
So tomorrow, i’ll rest. Well, do a bit of upper body stuff, to be honest. And ride the bike a bit. But that may wait until Wednesday. I’ll probably run again on Thursday to prepare for the possibility of a small race on Sunday, we’ll see.
29/30 Juneathons. 286 cars. 1 massive show of appreciation to Joggerblogger on his mileage and to everyone else taking part – hopefully you’ve enjoyed the challenge as much as I. Don’t think i’ll join Jogblog in a Veganthon during July, though, that’s a challenge too far! And as for no alcohol…
