It's early days I know but my training is on schedule for 19 Feb (Brighton Half Marathon) with a run home from the garage this morning. The training plan dictated 5 mins easy, 20 mins tempo run (I'm not completely sure either but I think its just a bit faster than comfortable), 5 mins easy. On a treadmill that's quite achievable. But there are too many other things to think about on the road, especially when there's no pavement for part of the way and it really is on the road, 23mph wind and intermittent rain. The hills are not conveniently positioned and my left shoelace unravelled twice!
I made it through the run and just had the car repair bill to get through.
Warning lights are very handy but telling me one of the bulbs is about to blow, but keeping the specifics a secret is not very helpful. I can either pay for someone to test each individual bulb to see which one is about to blow, or wait until it does and then replace it. You can probably guess which option I've taken. The tyre scare seems to be just that and all four have been given a reprieve for another 0.8mm so I might be able to look forward to a set of tyres for my birthday (lucky me I can hear you say). And the windscreen washer which I thought would be a new motor job turns out to need a simple flush. However, to get to the bit that needs to be flushed it's necessary to take the wheel arch off! They must have put the apprentice on that bit of the design working group. Anyway I've just been told its ready now and isn't going to cost very much. It was an inspired plan to go to Tanbury Motors rather than Vines I think, especially as the temptation to trade in for the new 3 Series has been successfully avoided.
I wonder what it is about cars that makes them so alluring. I don't need a new car, I don't even like driving very much and avoid it whenever I can but the new BMW and the Guilietta are vying for attention in my heart and I'm finding both difficult to resist.
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