{"id":4464,"date":"2011-10-02T15:18:18","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T14:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/2011\/10\/02\/great-edinburgh-bum\/"},"modified":"2012-04-20T15:55:58","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T14:55:58","slug":"great-edinburgh-bum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/2011\/10\/great-edinburgh-bum\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Edinburgh Bum"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A fellow non jogger.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yup<\/p>\n

Today was the day that hundreds of people took to the streets of Edinburgh to do The Great Edinburgh Run. Congratulations! Hat\u2019s off! A huge achievement.<\/p>\n

Today is also the day that I am hanging my head in shame as I christen myself The Great Edinburgh Bum. And when I say \u2018great\u2019 I don\u2019t mean \u2018excellent\u2019 I mean \u2018great\u2019 as in you \u2018great big hairy daftie\u2019. I committed to do it. And didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

I imagine you are probably less surprised than even me.<\/p>\n

But as usual, I genuinely\u00a0 thought this time would be different. it started when I watched as my friends shrank\u00a0 into tight fitting jogging clothes, glowed with health and bumping their gums about how the felt\u00a0 marvellous. This caused the revelation that\u00a0 running was the answer. So I got together with an equally keen pal and we embarked on the training sheet.<\/p>\n

Monday 1 minute walk, 1 minute run for 20 minutes. Even that was hell to be honest. But we did it.<\/p>\n

Then 2 days later we graduated to the 2 minute walk and 2 minute. That was also hell. No really, when I say hell I mean HELL.<\/p>\n

So at this point you will either be thinking \u2018lazy useless unfit wheezagram\u2019 or \u2018yeh I know what you mean\u2019. It seems the world is divided into those that do and those that don\u2019t. Those that want to and those who definitely don\u2019t and in my defence \u2013 because obviously I have to have one \u2013 those who have big boobs and find running akin to hoisting\u00a0 a pair of tattie sacks from the top of their rib cage\u00a0 and those who have small, wee, controllable fun bags \u2013 the small booberoos.<\/p>\n

So today I do feel guilty. Annoyed. Embarrassed and of course unfit. So berate me if you will. I am.<\/p>\n

However, I am meeting someone tomorrow as I head off into the new regime. Well when I say \u2018new regime\u2019 what I really mean \u2018a regime\u2019 as opposed to no regime at all. So this new fangled, muscle twanger? Pilates. Yup. I have heard about it and never tried it.<\/p>\n

Watch this space\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026I can feel a honing coming on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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