A Long time

Hello Blog fans!
Hope all in reading world is going well.

It has been 'A long time' since I wrote one of these. (Yes I just used the title of the blog in the blog... maybe that is why I chose that title, or maybe the reason will become a lot more apparent later!)

Why has it been so long?
What was I doing?
What is the air speed ratio of an unladen swallow?

Well I can answer those first two questions by informing you all that my sister got married!

see...

I wonder if any of these people have legs?

You may notice that the person on the left of the photo is wearing fairy wings but fear not, she is not a crazy person.

Sally and Sam got married on a stage (The Royal Theatre, Northampton if you must know) and the beginning of the ceremony was like a little show, in which Genevieve (the girl with the wings) played a fairy!

She was then a witness

She was also the person who inspired me to the Marathon in the first place,

NICE ONE GEN!

Anyway, Sally getting married was a pretty major event in my family and I was busy doing all manner of things before the wedding, 

Then on the actual day i danced for 'A Long time' (ooh) and my legs hurt so much afterwards that no running could be done.

It was an amazing day and everyone basically had the best time of their lives.

Big congratulations to Sally and Sam who will now be together for 'A long time' (yeah, did it again)

Although I danced the equivalent of a Marathon at the wedding I was a little worried when I put my running shoes back on yesterday that I would have lost something having not run for over a week!

However, due to the fact that I had nothing else on yesterday and it being a relatively nice day I thought I would just keep running and see how far I could go.

For how long did I run??

'A LONG TIME!'

Here is a picture of my run

Looks kinda like a phone doesn't it!

If you are wondering where it was I actually ran to it was all the way to the house of parliament

When you look at this picture do you hear music going

"RULE BRITANNIA"

I do

When I got to the houses of parliament I took some inspiration from our deputy prime minister and swiftly changed direction. (BOOM SATIRE)

I didn't take any photos on my run as I have to stop running, take my phone out of my handy phone carrying case, stop the run-mapping app, unplug the headphones, take the photo, do everything again in reverse and frankly I COULDN'T BE BOTHERED

plus I was on a roll, running the longest run of my training so far... so I simply didn't bother.

All in all the run was a success, although I was feeling it a little by the end I have proved that I can run over a 1/4 of a marathon and maintain a speed of ten minute miles!

FOR THE WIN!

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Thanks loads,

Nicholas

Getting to know London

Hallo there blog fans (I am still calling you blog fans),

I haven't written anything in a while but that is because the majority of my runs are rather boring, I leave my flat, run down to the river, around battersea park, back across the river, along the thames, back up to my flat... DONE!

(sometime if I am feeling CRAZY! I do it in reverse... it is out there, I know!)

I think it is worth noting at this point quite how tedious it can be, very tedious, so tedious in fact that it is impressive that I keep doing it, so impressive in fact that you should all donate lots of money to Asthma UK now, after all that is why I am putting all this time and tedious effort into running this ruddy long way!
Click on this link and it will take you to a marvellous place of donation-y goodness!



However, sometimes, if I have the day off work or for some other odd reason have an excessive amount of time I decide to run to places I have never run before.
It is actually a rather good way to see whole sections of London above ground that I would otherwise never see.

So yesterday (Friday the 1st of November) I decided to run towards a bridge in the distance (you know how much I love bridges)
When I got there it turned out it was just for overground trains so it could have been a bit of an anti climax if it hadn't been for all these other things I noticed on my run.

Firstly I saw this overground station

I feel 'Imperial Wharf' may be over compensating for something with this sign

It was this overground station that stood on the north end of the bridge I couldn't cross. The station itself seemed to mainly built into the  bridge and had obviously been modernised recently with the use of much glass!

Fair enough, an overground station isn't the most exciting thing one can find in London... but later in my run I found this,

How fancy the rugby posts are in Chelsea!

The Lots road power station (also known as the Chelsea Monster) used to supply the power to the entire underground network!

It is just an empty husk now but it is a pretty epic building and surprisingly close to the fancier bits of Chelsea and south Kensington!

Still not impressive enough??? well there is just no pleasing you Blog fans...

What about this statue?

 stop trying to steal my baby!

This statue is called 'In Town' and although I don't really understand why it is called that, or why it is placed where it is (relatively out of town) or why they seem to be playing a game of Baby Rugby but i can admire that the people do look like people and that must have been bloody hard to do! (I assume... I have never done metal sculpture myself but I don't think it is one of those skills that comes naturally!)

The last sight of the run was less impressive then some of the others but definitely the one I am most likely to visit again, although next time I will not be running.

It is like they looked inside my head and made my perfect place!

It's a Karaoke Bar Pizzeria, what is not to love! If I ever disappear for an excessive period of time, this is where you will find me. Drinking a cocktail, singing 'everybody get up' by five and eating a Ham and Pineapple pizza! Basically, Living the dream.


As you can see a productive run, for those who are interested here is what the run looked like

Leave comments of motivation and let me know what you think my last run looked like!

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and thanks for reading!

Big Love,

Nic