Last season ponytails were glamorously high and glossy; now they’re low, understated and cool.
Christ, has someone let the Ponies know?
This piece of laughable tripe came from the latest Marie Claire magazine, a work colleague buys every kind of Mag every month and I amuse myself reading them over lunch. I am trying to picture the journo writing the above little snippet without choking with laughter, because surely they can not be taking this shit seriously.
Surely!
It gets better though as we move a few pages on to the in depth expose on this seasons nail polish trends. You will all be relieved to know that it is now OK to wear navy polish on your fingers and purple on your toes without the risk of being set upon in the street by the fashion police and thrown into a gulag for the terminally unhip. Personally my toenails are generally purple (well some of them anyway), however I suspect that bruised toenails were not quite what the fashion forward little miss who wrote the article had in mind.
I suppose my messy would rather start work half an hour earlier so I can get away early than spend time in the bathroom drying and straightening my hair pony tail just ‘aint gonna cut it, for shame, how ever will I live with the shame?
And the only reason my hair is even long enough to turn into a pony tail is because I can’t seen to find the time to make a damn hairdressers appointment.
Running
Ok, when was the last update, Tuesday?
Yesterday I was supposed to do an 8km recovery run before run leading. I headed out along the yarra to run to the rail bridge then back up the other side of the river. I ignored my watch and just ran in a way that felt relaxed. Therefore when I got back and had covered 8.4km at just over 5 minute kms I was a little taken aback. Recovery runs should not really be barely above the pace of the previous day’s tempo run should they? Should have been more like 5:15 to 5:20 pace and I will have to be more disciplined in future lest I burn out.
Then it was off to run leading, 5.3km looking after the slow group so I was forced to take it easy, though due to some navigating hiccups I did pick up some of the medium paced group at about 3km so I left the slow group to the other run leader and took the medium group back.
Total for the day, about 13.7km
This morning I was running a strength and interval session and ran down to the tan to pick up the group and then ran the warm up with them down to where we conduct the session, this was about 4.3km at a very easy pace. It was 5:40am when I started for goodness sake, it is always a miracle that I make it to the tan without falling into the river.
This afternoon I am going to do an interval session with HVT, I missed my usual session on Tuesday so it will be a change to do a session on Thursday for a chance; I think it is 6 by 500 today.
Regarding the AV15km at Latrobe on the weekend this is not a goal race, hence I am not tapering and I am doing a hard session the Thursday before. Speaking with Tim last night I agreed just to approach it as a tempo run and tack on a couple of Kms as warm up and cool down to bring it up to 17km. If I were to run this one flat out it would require at least a week or so recovery and I don’t want to factor this in at this stage, so tempo run it is.
This morning, for the first time ever I forgot to pack my work clothes, was already for my shower, had underware and shoes but no clothes 
Luckily I didn’t really work up a sweat this morning so I had my shower and put my running gear back on (leggings not shorts, thank the lord) and then at 9am on the dot nipped out to Myer. $60 later new pants and new top thanks to elcheapo Miss Shop gear being on sale and therefore even more elcheapo than usual.
