Week 1 Complete-ish

That's right, week1 of training is done and I almost completed it to plan.
This is what actually happened: -

Week	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
1 31/03/14	Defence Lab	Run 1min Walk 90 secs x8	Cross-train Jillian Michaels DVD	Run 1min Walk 90 secs x8	Cross-train JM DVD	Run 1min Walk 90 secs x8 2.6miles walking	Run 1min Walk 90 secs x8
Missed the DVD on Friday – had a blood test in the morning and then had to pack and travel to Norwich in the evening. Also moved the Saturday run to Sunday, although I had a long walk around the dinosaur park on Saturday.

Not far off, so all in all a happy beginning.

There are plus sides to moving the run to Sunday. It's quieter and feels so much more relaxed. There's also the view.

 They ran away the instant I stopped, but that field is full of tiny lambs. Spring has spun, the flowers are in bloom and the lambs are fattening for mint. Sorry to any vegesaurous readers but most of those pretty little woolly jumpers will end up in someone's oven, only the lucky few are to avoid that fate.
It's definitely been worth all the upheaval of moving home to go from running through suburbia to running through beautiful villages and pastures. The only downside is now playing chicken with cars driving at 60mph (I'm being generous here assuming they are not breaking the limit) on lanes without paths.

That in mind, a word on rural lane etiquette.
Walkers and Runners - please travels so you are facing oncoming traffic, it avoids sneak attacks and shows an awareness of the world; and if you can move to the side when a vehicle gets close it's a good idea.
Cyclists - yes, it's the good old rules of the road, obeying signs and road markings (ad nauseam). What this boils down to is the law of superior tonnage: If it out weighs you by a factor of ten don't assume it's going to stop when you pull out because if it doesn't you'll be the one who comes off worse.
Motorcyclists - It's not the TT. There could be a tractor round that blind bend and even the humble pheasant can cause quite a mess if you hit it, not to mention a pedestrian or a loose bull. (I speak as a biker here who hates to see ruined leathers)
Horse riders - You're really well behaved where I live, you wear high vis-vests (some of the horses wear them too, very flash) and travel in single file. Sadly not all riders remember that their horses have minds of their own and can get spooked by the weirdest things.
Cars, Trucks and Tractors - Yes of course you own the road, I know, you pay a huge a huge amount of road tax (I own a car too, I pay half the Highways Agency's annual budget!) but please allow others to occasionally bask in your glory and if you don't hit anyone you won't get dented body panels and the need to wash the blood and gore off your metallic paint.

There are off course other interlopers into the road network, aside from stray animals. Near me it's crashing Gliders or Hot Air Balloons, I once lived in a place where the hazards were Tanks and marching soldiers (and Army Guard Dogs if you were really unlucky).
What's your weirdest road hazard?

In the invisible section today I had small trolls peaking out from behind the hedges as I ran. They aren't dangerous. not unless you're a Goat or a Shetland pony (a delicacy). It's the Kobolds you need to watch out for, they're weak and small singly but in packs you don't want to mess with them. Avoid stopping by ditches if you run in the early morning or at night after dark.

FraidyKat Runs - for the views