More wintry slogging

More wintry slogging by leecolgate at Garmin Connect - Details

Well, that was bloody hard work.  Only 15 minutes, but once again the cold really hit the chest and throat.

I'm not being hugely clever at the moment in my preparation for these runs, which I do not think is helping much.  The being-out-of-work guilt is filling my brain with chores and things I could be doing round the house and I'm trying to do them while I do my core strength and warm up exercises.  And then they go wrong and I end up not running until a couple of hours later, which renders the warm up useless and means I'm going out on cold legs, not doing another warm up because it's too cold and I just want to get it over with.

Somewhat fortuitously, I can afford to piss about like this for another week, as the training actually doesn't start properly until next week.  Sometimes losing track of time delivers these pleasant little surprises.  I had also, for example, forgotten that the clocks change this weekend, although I'm still trying to work out whether this means more time in bed or less; and whether this matters, given my current lifestyle.

I have applied for another vacancy this week and was rather pleased with the covering letter.  Having submitted it and thought about it since (I really have to find something else to do with my time, am trying to do a couple of hours a day of Spanish), though, I'm realising there are many improvements I could have made.  Fingers crossed anyway and hopefully more will come up now 2013 budgets are (or should be) getting signed off.

I have to spend the next few hours trying to work out what the hell I changed the combination to on the new padlock we got this morning.  It's definitely not what I thought and there are only 10,000 possibilities!  Then, if I have time, I need to look at our monthly outgoings and work out how much I absolutely have to be bringing in every month for us to be able to keep living here - am toying more and more with working part time and retraining in something I give a damn about.

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