Ask someone in the street to name you what they think are the most dangerous sports and I guarantee that running will not be there. Before I was a runner I would never had included it in a list of dangerous sports but now I would.
Today's session was mile reps. Scary but not scary enough to make running a dangerous sport. I met Lins as usual outside his work at 12:30 at we jogged to Kelvingrove Park to meet John. The "mile" reps are in fact 0.91 miles but being hilly work out time wise about the same and so I was looking at about 5:10 for the mile and Lins and John just under the 5 min. Because of this I would set off 5 to 10 seconds before them. This would cause me some issues later on.
The first rep was tough, downhill from the statue and then all uphill after that. I ran it in 5:08. We had a 1:30 recovery and then ran the "mile" the opposite direction. I was shattered after this one. My calf muscles really felt like they were about to cramp on the down hill section of the rep but I still got about 5:10 for it. We were now half way through our session and so had a longer recovery of 2 minutes.
The third rep started as normal. I felt much better after the longer recovery and so pushed the downhill a bit faster in an attempt to stay ahead of the others for a bit longer. All of a sudden a doberman left its owner and bit me on the bum. It felt more like a wee nip but I soon gave the owner "dogs" abuse. I was screaming at the top of my voice, effin this and bast*rding that.. half of the park heard me and now I was centre of attention. I continued my rep for a few paces when Lins and John asked to see my ass. Okay maybe that sounds a bit dodgy but they really did. I was cut and bleeding. So we chased the owner. The one that I was giving my entire vocabulary of profanities to. He looked mental with tattoos in places too painful for me to even write down. To be fair he was very apologetic to me but Lins was starting to wind him up so I thought it was time to go. But as I thought about it Lins was right. What if it was a child that the dog had pounced on?
We did the last rep and then headed back to work, training over for the day and that bit warier of dogs.
... and now for the porn.... a picture of my bum... ;-)
4 comments:
Ouch. Hope you've had a tetanus jag recently!
Marco,
l know l shouldn't laugh but it was funny as ****, abit like a cartoon when you leaped into the air.
So stop your moaning sore arse........
Hi Marco, if the dog punctured the skin with his teeth it would probably be a good idea to see your doctor and get some antibiotics *before* it goes all horrible and septic rather than after.
Quality!.....not the mile reps, the dog biting you on the arse:-)
wish I had seen it.
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