So, it seems if you hang around the streets of Glenbrook long enough, your health care professional will turn up out of the blue, and you can get a consult in the street, free of charge, no medicare card required, and there's not that two hour wait in the surgery....

Well, as luck would have it I bumped into Dr Norm today who had a feel of my cheekbone.  And he recommended Hirudoid for it.  Hirudoid - which is manufactured for haemorrhoids.  Noice.  He tells me I have a haematoma there and if I don't do something about it, I will have it for ever.  I came home and had a good look at it in the mirror and have realised I also have a dent in my face there now, and a strange black mark.  I don't want to have lumps, bumps and holes in my face for ever!!


I also hate my hair.  Why oh why did I get it cut?  I now cannot tie it back and look like a total moron when I am out running with hair going everywhere.  And to top it all off, I am covered in zits.  So zitty face, crappy hair and lumpy bumpy face - it all adds up to rather depressing really.  I have been looking at hats as a means of disguising hair (and zitty forehead).  


However, running has been ok.  Monday I tried to kick off the week with a speed session.  I know feck all about speed sessions though.  So I just ran really fast until I couldn't run any more.  Then I had to walk a bit.  Then I decided rather than run like the clappers for a few minutes and then die on my arse, it would be better to try and maintain a pace I could hold on to, so I did this, admittedly I did speed up on the last km, I was secretly hoping to better any previous times.  I don't really enjoy that kind of running, when you finish feeling like spewing,  but I guess I am not going to get faster by plodding along at my dire speed.  


Tues and Wed were busy due to impending Board meeting, and I just need to accept that there are going to be times when I cannot run.  Thursday I decided to make up for it by running 10km around the lake, and again, tried to see if I could beat my PB.  I was 2 minutes off, but I felt it was a nice honest 10km.  By Friday afternoon I could not wait to get out the door and get running, so did the river run at 4pm pretty much on the dot.  I really enjoyed it.  I OVERTOOK someone!  First time ever in my life I have done this on the river run.  


Yesterday I ran in the rainy misty morning and loved it, and finally today Marie and I did the river run again.  I feel like a big fat porker because I have eaten out with family and friends so much this weekend, I almost feel that I have been "slacking off" on everything now that North Face is over.  I need to clean up my act and knuckle down - whether I am ready for M7 marathon remains to be seen, but I have Woodford to Glenbrook and Willy to Billy coming up, maybe even another half marathon.  I guess I just don't feel committed to anything.  Maybe I should just enter that bloody marathon even though I am not really ready.  It would certainly scare the knickers off me and get me out training with a renewed sense of purpose.  Trouble is, it is not far enough away for me to go, ahhh that is AGES away, stop worrying.....WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT I NEED.  I knew I blogged for a reason!!!!