Rain and temporal showers

Okay,  cold showers are good.

FraidyKat might be crazy but my run this evening was nice because it was raining. It made it cool so I didn't get hot and sticky. 
I'm finally starting to feel my stride again. It's taken two long months and lots of vigilance (who wants a vampire sneaking up on them mid run? Not me - in case you missed the memo, runners are vampire hunters who use themselves as bait; there's a perfectĺy rational explanation, honest) but I now feel like I'm making progress. It's just a case of slowly building stamina rather than relearning how to run.

The only real oddity today was the techno-flu that seems to have suddenly infected my phone.
The S Health app I use (it was pre-installed on the Samsung) has thus far been great. Throw on gps, set your goal and go for a run. It tracks your route, elevation changes, speed - it gives you a chart like a lorry tachograph, although of course much slower - it'll even track your heart rate is you have a monitor it can pair with. It also takes your weight and calculates your calories. Up until now this has been fine, 200 to 400 calories seems about average for now, so why today was it insisting I had burned over 3000 calories?!

I can only conclude that either there was a glitch in the app or I got stuck in a time loop somewhere on the run. Come to think of it, that last run did feel like it took an awfully long time to climb. Hmm...

Just like British voters, evil creatures don't care for the rain. It makes for peaceful runs but temporal phenomena seem attracted to storms, why else would rainy days during the holidays go so slowly?

FraidyKat runs - away from timeloops
FraidyKat runs - away from timeloops
FraidyKat runs - away from timeloops
FraidyKat runs - away from timeloops
FraidyKat runs - away from timeloops
FraidyKat runs - away from, oh you get the idea

Eek and oops

Well that didn't take long. I have already done an oops and missed a days training.
Flimsy excuse follows:  On Friday I had to go to the Doctor for a blood test and then I had to pack for a trip to see the family. Not much chance to get the exercise in.
Saturday, no run (the plan is to do it tomorrow instead) but I have spent the day at a Dinosaur park and according to the S Health app I have walked 2.6 miles.

I have realised that a plan is simply an ideal situation to aspire to, not a set of commandments that must be followed or suffer the wrath of God.
If I don't manage it perfectly there is no point beating yourself up or, worse, giving up.
The plan is a living document - subject to change and never ever set in stone for anything but the end goal, race day.

As for the diet, fasting days have been a little chaotic  although I have been doing them but disappointingly I have not actually lost any weight. On the plus side I have lost inches round my waist so I can only guess the exercise is giving me muscle - yippee!
I shall therefore continue with the fasting because the weight has to start dropping again at some point soon.

I shall be seeing dinosaurs everywhere for the next few days. But of course they hide among us, they have hung on for millions of years, they are not stupid they know how not to be caught.
Who wants fossils when you can hunt a fresh T-rex? Bring on the big guns

FraidyKat Runs - from Velocaraptors