92 Days To Go - Super Saturday

Date & Time : 21/01/12 10:00
Distance : 9.5 miles - Long Run
Total Training Distance (since beginning Jan 12) : 94 miles
Route & Stats : Whitlingham & Inner Ring Road 

Despite being away from home all week I managed to get 3 good 4 mile runs in around Newcastle city centre, including a lap round St. James Park or the Sports Direct Arena depending on your persuasion.  It was nice to get home on Friday though, except our boiler had broken down on Thu and the house was bloody freezing which meant we all had to wear a lot of clothes and huddle around a couple of  electric fan heaters.

Just as well Saturday turned out to be a really full on day as I didn't have time to get cold.   The agenda for my Super Saturday looked like this;

1. Run - Get in a decent long run, at least 10m
2. Football - Quick change and bite to eat then off to Carrow Road for Norwich v Chelsea
3. Bake - Dash back from football and get baking with Imogen - 2 batches of cup cakes
4. Curry - Once the cup cakes were in the bag, cook a chicken curry for the family
5. Eat - Eat the outputs from 3 & 4
6. Rest - family night in - huddled in the lounge to watch a film

I would say that after a bit of a dodgy start with the run, the rest went pretty well.

1. Run - tough.  Struggled to maintain any kind of rhythm in the gusting wind and rain. In the end I managed 9.5m before time ran out.  I still managed 9min miles, but it felt a lot slower and was easily the worst run I have had so far this year.  However, experience tells me that it happens and not to get too worried about it.
2. Football - a really enjoyable 0-0 draw against Chelsea, which we could have won, but to take a point off one of the top 4 and keep a clean sheet felt like a win.
3. Bake - had a blast with Imogen as my assistant and the outcome was pretty good, not quite as good as my lemon drizzle cake last week, but still 2 batches of cup cakes made and both very edible.  Learnt a couple of new techniques. 
4. Curry - awesome.  Never cooked a curry before, but with a little bit of help and instruction from Mrs W, I would say it was bloody good and even more amazingly the girls pretty much ate the lot, which knowing their fussy palette is testament to a job well done.
5. Eat - easy, never an issue for me.
6. Rest - we ended up watching Cowboys & Aliens (7/10), when I say we, I mean me and Ellie - Mrs W fell asleep and Issy was glued to the iPad, still a great night in.

It's fair to say that we didn't do much on Sunday ...... with the boiler being fixed in the morning, we just wanted to crank it up to tropical levels and walk around in our pants (thankfully no pictures of that!).