Race Week!

Don’t get me wrong, I have really enjoyed the training, I have been running in rain, snow, wind, frost, fog, dark, mornings, evenings, on treadmills and sunshine….bliss! however this weekend, apart from quite a nippy 10k on Friday evening I had the weekend off! Which was nice…..however I have been kept busy by various other tasks…. Food shopping, and allotment on Saturday morning, I managed to get another 2 grassy beds dug over, very nearly ready for my rocket garden when it arrives, so far I have early and mid early potatoes in, radishes, blackberries, redcurrants, onions and garlic, and at home in seed pots, we have tomatoes, celeriac, parsnips and the children’s sweet corn…which looks really impressive!
Saturday afternoon I took Felix and Imogen swimming, Ottilie didn’t make it as she through a paddy and stayed at home with Feralyn…..she wasn’t happy….Felix however was loving it as Imogen is a confident swimmer and can go off and swim and go off the diving boards. Felix has me to himself; he can swim now a little without armbands and kind of dive/belly flop…tres funny!
After that we all go to the play park…cracking to see it full on a sunny Saturday afternoon….bribery and corruption we managed to get the children out with a lolly and home for Dr Who. We were trying to wear them out as we had the lord and lady over for dinner, I found these scallops which I pan fried with capers, sage and lemon…delicious, and then a slow braised lamb shank in red wine onions and balsamic vinegar….notice the Italian theme? Finished off with a raspberry tart…nice! And only a couple of glasses of wine! When in Rome...
Sunday consisted of Car boot in the morning, wasn’t really in the mood, but I did find some really nice sleeping bags for the kiddies for our weekend camping expeditions!
Also a DVD player for the grown up room! Oh and some raspberry canes!
Felix and Ottilie had a party @ 10.30, weird time, but best to get these things over with and it leaves the rest of the day to us! While they were partying, Feralyn, Imogen and I went for a walk over to Penshurst, which was beautiful, looking lovely, heard cuckoos, saw lambs etc, I’ll have some photos up on face book soon!
Home after that, roast in, gave the kids bikes a going over, washed, pumped and oiled…then I did the bikes…LOL

1st lunch in the garden of the year…fantastic, I could get used to this!
We banned the kids from TV yesterday, until the evening, so they were outside digging, bouncing, reading, kicking, shouting, screaming, etc…poor neighbors!

In the evening we kicked back and relaxed watched Dr Who again, then a film that I recorded the night before…Run Fatboy Run, Simon Pegg runs a marathon for the 1st time…funny!

This is what I do most weekends when I run as well, but pure bliss when I haven’t got a 6am 15-20 miler to contend with!

A school friend ran the Brighton marathon, his 1st on Sunday, and came in @ 4.40, a great run Matt! We have been matching times whilst in training so as the weather looks cracking, its harder to run in the heat! slightly nervous!
Any how, lots of carbs for me this week, 3 little 5k runs and that’s it Sunday here I come!

I’m off for some Pasta!

I'm very Excited!