July 20th 2010 – Disappointment, & moving on...

I decided to telephone Women’s Health Magazine today. It had been 3 weeks since mum’s 70th birthday, the day I originally emailed them about my plans. It is with real disappointment that I was told “we get people all the time saying they are doing this and doing that....and we just don’t have enough room in the magazine for your story”. That was it...no “let me read your proposal”, or “that sounds interesting, tell me more about it”; I couldn’t even entice them, not even a little!!
So after that I decided now or never! My plan was still a great one and there is no reason I can’t succeed, with them or without them. I spent some time today talking to my brother about a blog, and how I go about setting one up. So with that I did it! I also emailed the Lung Foundation about my plans and I’m waiting to hear from them.

With no kids tonight, they are both at work; I took the opportunity to run. After Sunday’s 14km I wasn’t going to run until tomorrow – but in my effort for this endeavour not to impact too much on our family, tonight it was! I did walk FD#1 this morning, and yesterday, and I’d been really pleased at how well my body has held up after that run. I had a reasonable stretch before the run tonight and went 7kms. By the last km my legs were feeling it but I did manage to push for the last bit – again the time on my phone/radio didn’t reflect the effort I felt I’d put in. I must borrow MGal’s watch that calculates pace/distance to see if I’m really running over a minute slower that we did on the weekend. I did put my heart rate monitor in for a new battery, but I am thinking I should buy one of these watches instead...though I really, really want a GPS/heart rate monitor!!