half marathon training

I've just finished my weekend of nights and am currently fighting off sleep whilst sat in the glorious sunshine in the garden (it makes a change for me to have nice weather on my days off!).

This week marks the start of my half marathon training in preparation for the Great North Run (September 7th 2014). Im using the Nike + training app as I wasn't quite sure what training to do & unlike my last half marathon I thought I ought to do some proper training!

This weeks training looks like this :

I'm determined that i'm going to stick to the plan as I really want to get my time under 2hours!

but currently the sunshine is winning and I have no intention of donning my running shoes until it at least cools down a little!

Tomorrow I'm off to the florists for an initial appointment to get some ideas for our wedding! Super excited about it!

At the moment I'm loving peonies, Juliet roses & just all things girly and flowery! 

xx

Wedding plans, Running, Nights & too much cake.

So I thought a couple of months into being engaged the whirlwind would of died down by now!
It hasn't! We've booked our wedding date & venue (its not till september 2015) but now I feel under pressure to book the photographer, florist, find the perfect dress, etc. etc.

I'm hoping once things are all booked we'll be able to just enjoy being engaged.

I'm currently working nights, (this is my second weekend in 3weeks!) My last lot of nights I decided it was clever to still run the 10mile event I had booked on the following morning. This was NOT a clever idea! Especially considering I hadn't ran in around 2-3weeks prior to that. I ran a very slow time of 99mins 52secs. Still under 10min miles & considering i'd not slept in around 28hours not bad! I felt crap for it though!

Its given me my love of running back :-) I've been out a couple times this week and although not for 'long runs' i've just enjoyed tootling round the park :-) Plus im lusting after some new trainers.

So i'm on nights again this weekend and hoping that i wont lose my running cool but im not planning on running until i've finished nights :-)

today i made the most lush red velvet cake.
then ate all the leftover cream cheese frosting!
:-0

never going to fit into my wedding dress at this rate!
best get my head back into 'clean eating' mode.

Jennifer xx