Into day 104 without a penny gambled.
Thanks for your support folks 🙂
I am fine. Just stressed about this darn Nvq3 that am just so unmotivated to do. Its like am very motivated when it comes to supporting my clients... but all this writing and thinking lark is doing my sweede in. lol I love writing and thinking on here but not Nvq terminal tedium.
"Know how to address conflicts or dilemmas that may arise between an individuals rights and the duty of care"..... well I do this every day, but can I be bothered to write about it...no f*****g way. The lady comes to collect the folders on Wednesday. Holy f***! lol
Went for 30 min run last night that turned into 2.5 hours. I was on fire man!
No gambling problems... S.A 🙂
Jesus wept as the edit facility returned 😉
The sun has come up, later it will go down.
Just read your post SA and thanks for popping in...Anyhooo...enough about you ..let's talk about me!...lol lol lol
Just kidding ...Am sending you studious vibes so you can get through your nvq work today unscathed ..you are up early too for a Saturday ..wow! ...just noticed that as thought it was a post from last night ...
Weathers getting better for running so get that nipple cream out to avoid painful chaffing..
keep posting xxx
R and d. Xx
Ps...if your still on fire today also got a cream for that 😉
S.A.
Thank you so much for that link. I have just added it fo my favourites. I usually research all info on the Runners World site but I really enjoyed reading the McMillan articles about the long run. I booked my marathon place last night for me and the wife. She is currently training for a half marathon and is doing very well. She only had a baby seven months ago but her times are down over different distances and yesterday she ran home from work covering nine miles. She never thought she could do a marathon but I talked her round and now she is as excited as me. I can't wait to get started. I had to quit my football last week due to a long, long injury with my groin but straight running doesn't cause me any bother. I am going to rest up for one more week then get started again. Last year when I was training for a half marathon I decided to go out running at 5.30 in the morning. Not everyone's cup of tea but when the sky is blue and the world is quiet with no cars other than the odd taxi and no wind there is no better start to your day. Do you think you will run other marathons? Running is defo life's best therapy. No-one has ever went for a run and felt worse on returning home than they did before they went out the door.
Tomos.
Day 105
Thats funny Rach.. the witch is dead 😉
Interesting to hear your thoughts Tomos and yes ive got a marathon in 2 months time. Ive been giving it some this weekend. 2 hours 20 mins on Friday eve and 2 hours 50 mins this morning. Like you i prefer to get up at the *** of dawn to run.
Ive not got the marathon sussed yet though. Its deceptive you see. At the moment and when its cold and cloudy I find I can run at a fair pace for 2 hours without anything to drink (no carb solution, no electrolyte drink, no water) and i think to myself this is easy. However this doesn't last.
I find that life after 2.5 hours is a completely different ball game. I start to get very fatigued and very quickly, my legs start aching badly, my muscles cramp up, my tendons want to snap and by 3 hours plus am swearing like a trooper willing my feet to keep going and shortly after that I loose the will to live lol
The real challenge of the marathon is training for the last 10 km and at the same time being able to hold down a job.. lol. I wanted to do the full 3 hours today but i had to stop myself cos otherwise I might have struggled to get up and go to work tomorrow.. especially after having done a long one friday too.
That article makes sense doesn't it. I also read the stuff that says don't do more than 2.5 hours in a long run cos the benefits don't outweigh the deficits. I don't agree with that though. I think ones body gets use to exactly what you get it accustomed to. So if ones longest run is 2.5 hours then thats what your body expects it to do, which then means that if your an average 4 hour plus marathoner then youve got 90 minutes of pure hell!
One idea i do like though and in order to build endurance without running for 4 hours is this. Back to back long runs... 2.5 hours late in the evening say 7.30 - 10.00 P.m then up at 6 and do it again before the legs have had a chance to recover.
Its a risk of course. I think..mmmm... injury!! but reckon i might give it a go in a couple of weeks time. May the force be with me.
Good luck with your training Tomos and your wife of course. keep in touch with how its going. Am always interested to hear how fellow runners are getting on.. and hey it sure beats gambling. It doesn't arf fill that gambling shaped void.
Ok thats me done for this moment in time. Thanks for listening folks... S.A 🙂
The sun came up this morning and later it will go down.
Day 106
Another day passes gambling free.
Thanks for listening... S.A 🙂
The sun came up and now its gone down.
Hi there
Running sounds brilliant, very envious.
Have all the different Angry Birds games on my laptop, my excuse is that my six year old grandson likes them but he gets very cross when Nana beats him on the space ones.
After the sun comes up please can you arrange for it to go down a bit later so we can get some nice light evenings in instead of these gloomy old ones.
Thanks in advance
xxx
Day 107
I love playing angry birds Rainbow. I am a big kid 🙂
Well the sun came up today and i went to work and it was good again... no problems. This evening ive been for another long run and i feel ok especially considering all the miles ive been putting in recently.
I am now blocking from my mind the fact that ive NOT done the work i was supposed to have done for my Nvq and the Nvq lady comes tomorrow. Am gonna have to face the music. I woosh i hadn't started the darn thing to be honest.
Anyway thats me. No gambling problems and all bills up to date or ahead. I intend to keep it that way. Thanks for listening... S.A 🙂
Know just what it's like when you need to study, I would find anything that I was convinced needed doing first, even playing angry birds or the ironing when I had an essay deadline. I was so lucky as I had my daughter living near who would proof read for me and jolly me along when I felt like giving up. I even resorted to spending sprees at times and just want to say please don't let that happen to you. Can't do the work for you, wish I could, but with you in spirit, just get an extension and go for it once it's done you will feel tons better and enjoy the running even more if anything like me.
xxx
Hi Sa,
Thanks for your post. I'm glad you seem to be feeling alright just now. Not skipping around constantly whistling a jaunty tune, but real life "Ok-ness" which isn't so bad eh?
I'm glad we are heading ever closer to Spring, as I know running is your therapy, and it's easier when it doesn't hurt to be outside.
Take care,
f x
Day 108... hey thanks peeps 🙂
I can't believe that ive had another positive day at work. There starting to string together...it can't last surely?? As it turns out i'd done enough of the Nvq so as not to get into bother, and other folks had done very little, so i came out ok.
Anyway am fine. Not much to say really. Glad i went for a run yesterday and not today. Cold wind, cloud and drizzle just now. Time to cook a nice hot meal. No gambling problems and thanks for listening... S.A
P.s The sun came up today but i haven't seen it cos of the clouds but am reliably informed that its about to go down again. It will be up again tomorrow no doubt.. happy days 🙂
P.s.s Its interesting isn't it that sometimes you don't realise how stressed you are until your not feeling stressed anymore... and then you think, i was really stressed wasn't I.
Ive just broken into a broad smile for no particular reason. But perhaps the reason being is becuase at this moment in time am not feeling stressed about anything.
Sa
fella, you earnt the right to feel stress free.
Why??
Look at you efforts, you have for 108 days turned it round .
Keep making the choice just for today.
Me i will enjoy the ride too.
Duncs stepping forward never back.
When you're smiling...when you're smiling ....the whole world smiles with you ..; )
Good on ya SA ...for a minute I thought you were going to say you were stressed about not being stressed...lol
Stress free is the way to be xx
R and d xx
Day 109
Thanks both 🙂
Stress returns today, work stuff mainly but nothing i can't cope with. Also went down the gym tonight and struggled. Am tired and worn out. No running till sunday long run I reckon.
No gambling problems, but it still saddens me sometimes (like today in fact) that i didn't nip this gambling lark properly into touch years ago. O well such is life. Thanks for listening S.A 🙂
The sun came up and then it went down, but i didn't see that little yellow orb at all.
Day 111
There is a certain satisfaction of paying a council tax installment even before the bill has dropped through the letter box. I am slowly but surely getting ahead of myself on rent and bills so that when the summer arrives I can afford to relax a bit and spend a bit and maybe have some fun, whatever having fun is.. 🙂
I often feel like i cannot have fun and enjoy life because of my periodic gambling binges. Amongst the many things that my gambling takes from me... is options. Gambling limits my options because when i gamble I then have no money and perhaps more importantly I just feel so wretched inside. Life with gambling then becoames like an endless cycle of waiting for pay day in order to play catch up on rent and bills.
Over the years my gambling cycle has become like a self-wounding exercise and the longer it goes on the worse it gets, as if i do not deserve to have a better quality of life.
Well I bloody well do deserve to have a better quality of life and with these words i remind myself not to let up on my determination and resolve to step off my gambling merry go round once and for all and very much a day at a time only. Thanks for listening folks... S.A 🙂
The sun has come up but once again it is obscured by cloud. Later it will go down. This is one certainty of life.
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