Catharsis or katharsis (Ancient Greek: κάθαρσις) is a Greek word meaning "cleansing" or "purging". It is derived from the verb καθαίρειν, kathairein, "to purify, purge," and it is related to the adjective καθαρός, katharos, "pure or clean."
I've been slightly melancholy over the past few days, in early January '96 my Mother was killed, and obviously it's January now, so it's abit on my mind, as it is every January.
I'm also planning a wedding, for this May. Yipee! But, right now, it always comes back to the fact that my Mother as a dress maker should be making my wedding dress. That was written in stone at age 10 or 12 when girls realise that weddings & stuff happen and it's a day you can plan to dress up like an actual princess & people on the high street won't laugh.
So while today was a rather Lazy 2 mile run, I certainly did use it to pound out the stress & headaches out.
My husband to be has obviously noted the melancholy as there are Gu cookies on the counter in the kitchen.
So that was the 1st Seven Days of Janathon! Phew, my shins have begun & ended their protests about it. Hopefully that's the most I'll have to put up with. (Please no one say "famous last words")
I have a game to play today. Spot the Difference;
Aside from my in ability to crop them to reasonably the same size, and that one is of my feet stood up & one of my feet sitting down, can you spot the difference between my new trainers?
Yes the bloody English crappy weather has made my feet all soggy, and made my beautiful white trainers all black & mushy. *SULK* Well, what should I have expected? Really, this is England, in January.
It was a cold wet run & more like one of those assault courses where you have to put your foot in each tyre as you run through them, trying to avoid the deep cold puddles & the sadistic drivers trying to soak me. This must be a good form for me as I ran my quickest mile.
And through the magic of technology I can share the "Attaboy" (yes that really is what Nike call these audio clips) BTW - they don't start talking until 3 or 4 seconds in...
(yes yes I wrote Paul instead of Paula, my fingers were cold!)
oh & while were at it this is the Crazy Loud American shouting FIYA!
So whilst out allegedly running, I was got to wondering who to blame for this soggy situation, and I gave this thought my full undivided attention, missed the turn back home & it was a full 3 minutes before I properly looked around and realised my error.
Using this extra time to curse & swear I remembered the Tweet that started this horrible chain of events for me...
Yeah, back in November it might have seemed great, but with all this extra weight & cold & wet & snow, I'm not inclined to agree with my former self or this Tweet.
So here's the last bit of embedding into this blog, and another Nike ad that I like..
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I hope this blog post makes sence, but I've just eaten a whole packet of Oreos, and fear I may be entering some kind of sugar coma.
Total Miles at End of Week One
PS - Mr Virtual Runner, Thanks, honestly, I'd not have started this and once I've warmed up & dried out I'm certain I'll love Janathon again.
PPS - Cathy, extra thanks for doing this for us. Love you!
Really quick run today & a really quick blog post. I'm ravenous, so is my Son, who I'm breastfeeding. There's chillie on the table, it's calling my name! No podcast tonight just a few powersongs. Shortest run MTD.
Not quite a triumphant as yesterday, but I ran. Today I listened to the 5k101 podcast from Running mate.
A little different in the run/walk splits than the previous podcasts. 2min run 3 walking, if I'd have tried this back when I started I probably wouldn't have ran ever again, and this time round I think I just took it super slowly so as not to be totally dead at the end of the 2 min. Coupled with the plugs for both their Facebook page / website & their app, I didn't enjoy this one so much, I think I might be very annoyed with Tod the narrator if I had to listen to this 2 more times. So not impressed with the week one podcast.
I was impressed to come home & see Captain Picard reading the CBBies bedtime story!
But he didn't say "Make it so" at any point & I had to explain to my daughter why I was shouting it at the TV.
Oh here's a bunny I saw in a church yard on my run.
There we go broke the 2 mile mark on Day 3 of Janathon! W00T!
Todays run was brought to me via the NHS Choices C25K podcast!
I didn't want to listen to the same podcast 3 days in a row, and a quick search in iTunes threw up this as one of my alternative options for Week One.
During the run you're prompted by the lively sounding Laura, who encourages & counts you up to each change of pace, and tells you that she'll have you running 5k, or for 30 min, with the next 9 weeks (3 weeks quicker that Robert Ullrey.) The music is quite generic, but they've obviously choosen the tracks to match a BPM for the pace of the walk/run.
No shout out from Paula Radcliffe in the Nike+ app today, she must be having a day off, just some random american guy telling me "You're on FIYA" (well that's my attempt at how to write the way he shouts "fire" down my head phones)
Oh & this Nike add, accuratly sums up how I feel abour running at the moment...
So I felt rubbish yesterday, it had been 6 weeks since I last ran & when I actually did yesterday, it was a huffy puffy, CBA affair.
This morning I downloaded Robert Ullrey's couch to 5k program. And went out and felt much better about it all. The podcast was the 1st thing I did when I started running, and I distinctly remember thinking "The bastard, this is week One?!" when doing the intervals. Today, I felt much better, don't get me wrong I was knackered and red at the end of it all, but I ran and didn't feel like I was about to die!
Things I learnt today; 1) turn off voice prompts when listening to podcasts. 2) breastfeeding my son means I need new sports bras, not just everyday bras. 3) Paula Radcliffe must live in my phone, as she congratulated me on my furthest run this month!
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