I run because I love food

I’ve been having difficulty finding the time to write my Juneathon blogs as well as do the actual Juneathon exercise – or rather, last night I caught up on Hotel Babylon via the iPlayer, instead of updating my blog. That’s one of my few guilty TV secrets – quite a big one given that I look upon soap-addicts and Big Brother fans with complete distain. Mind, Nigel Harman isn’t a patch on Max Beesley, is he?

So, Saturday – bit of a pathetic attempt at Juneathon. Just five sets of 20 triceps and biceps exercises using the Swiss ball and some very light weights (I only have little 2kg ones – pink, natch) before going to meet four lovely girlfriends for pottery painting and a long, leisurely lunch in Woking.

Sunday was better: a double-bill featuring a run and a walk. The run was a nice plod along the normal Dinton Pastures/river route with an extension to Stanlake Vineyard – just over six miles I reckon. Was a bit hot and bothered by the end of it, but glad I went out. The circular walk started from Sonning, up the river to Shiplake then across to Binfield Heath, then back to Sonning – around 8.5 miles. We stopped off in Binfield Heath at The White Hart pub. I wouldn’t bother paying a vist, £8.20 for two pints of shandy and – in the absence of any crisps in the building – about six tinned olives and 20 peanuts. All served by two women who looked as though they’d been chewing wasps. No wonder the beer garden was completely empty at 4pm on a warm Sunday afternoon.

If it’s Monday, it must be British Military Fitness as I’m trying to get back into the habit of going religiously twice a week. A man called Craig arrived to take our group, and he must have been important as he turned up in a BMF van. Good sesh despite the heat, and I now know there are only three benches in the park and many trees.

So, today is the last day of Juneathon and JogBlog says it’s illegal not to run. It’s going to take all the willpower reserves I have in me to plod the pavement after work what with the day I’m having, but I shall try… :-/