daggy draws

I went to Chadstone today in the hope of finding my Bridesmaid dress for my sisters wedding.

No such luck and I am a major pain in the arse to go shopping with, hence I usually go alone. I tend to crack it after about and hour, worse still when I get hungry and crash like I did today because I refused to eat junk in the food court

I am a stubborn cow and if something looks ugly on the hanger I refuse to be cajoled into trying it on. I spent about 90 minutes and looked in a heap of shops and didn’t try one thing on. You would think it would be easy to find a stylish black dress wouldn’t you? Anything I even vaguely liked was in every colour but black. And what the hell is it with these bloody smock dresses, they even make the mannequins look pregnant!

Ughh, maybe I will try Bridge Road tomorrow, if I have the strength.

Training
I had a top session tonight, 500, 800, 1km, 1km, 800, 500 on the tan with 90 second recoveries.

I was halfway in when I realised I had forgotten my watch, because I am not at work I wasn’t wearing it like I usually would. Of course I had a brief panic attack, the thought of having to do a session with no data to pick over afterwards, Quelle Horreur! However it turned out for the best, I just relaxed, enjoyed the session and ran by feel. I was a little nervous because I last did this session about 2 months ago and it was dreadful. I struggled very badly and had to pull out of the 1km reps, it was one of the only sessions I have every done that frustrated me so much I almost cried

Today was the complete opposite, sure it was tough but there was never any doubt I would get though it and I felt fluid, light on my feet and confident. Obviously I can’t post times but I managed to hang on to the back of the second group tonight and was coming in about 10 to 15 seconds behind a girl who normally blows me off the track (I am sincerely hoping she just wasn’t having a bad day) and I was on the shoulder of another lady who is normally ahead of me. I had a chat with her and she assured me she was having a good day, so I must have been as well

I did have a slight handicap though, seems that I might have lost a bit of weight around the hips (not complaining!) because my shorts kept falling down they are kind of tight fitting (not any more) gym style shorts, sadly without a draw string, so I had to keep hitching them up Thankfully I wore black undies today! It was a tad distracting though, probably more so for any poor soul running behind me.

PS - thanks for the translation John, you beat me to the punch, I was going to google it today.