The Second Challenge

Do the Blackpool Half Marathon

Ow Ow Ow Ow Ow
How is it possible for my legs to HURT this much.
I have some shiny new running shoes. I have drawn up a list of runs that I have to do between now and April 5th to get myself gradually fit, breaking myself in gently and building up so that when it happens I'll be ready for it, starting with just two miles - two miles that's all, on the flat. And I cycle eight miles every day and do Aikido so I shoudl be pretty fit you'd think.
Basically this challenge means that my legs are going to hurt from now until mid-April.
I did two miles, round Chorlton Park. It's a lovely park - full of old trees and wood carvings, football pitches which were busy and a kids playground which was empty so I went all Rocky and tried to do some monkey crunches (or GI Jane sit ups as Em calls them) ha ha ha. Basically by hanging off the bars with my knees and one arm and tightening what I think are my stomach muscles I managed to convince myself that I was doing something - making a fool of myself I suspect.
That was on Saturday. Then my legs hurt on Sunday, and worse on Monday, and stopped briefly after acrobalance but then started again on Tuesday and still hurt now.
This week I have to do a two mile and a three mile run.
It is Wednesday and I haven't done either yet.
I did go to singing last night - I was in the middles again and the lady next to me kept telling me that I was singing the wrong bit and putting her finger nearest me in her ear - to block me out maybe? Simon who runs it has invited me to a family party on Saturday - presumably to get me on my own so that he can gently break it to me that when they said it didn't matter what your singing voice was like they didn't MEAN it. So maybe I won't go, then I can carry on singing, oblivious. We did 'The Truth Hits Everybody', and 'Won't you Come Home Bill Bailey' - theme seemed to be songs with more words in them than notes.