#131.21 - How blue is too blue?

Hmmmm... I think I have slightly overdone it... I do like it but it is VERY BLUE. Maybe I will mix it in with purple and some green the next time. Go proper mermaid. What amazed me was how easy it was to do. After years and yeas of doing this it appears I have developed a knack. Most important is the applicator which is a square piece of plastic that goes on a handle... then have a glove on the applying hand that fits. Dry clean hair and then everything is set. I think blue is MUCH NICER than white. I love blue hair.

I went running in Belvoir Park and hit another running milestone - I took the route to the Lagan and then ran up the Lagan Meadows hill - which is the steepest hill in the forest - I did that without stopping - it was easy peasy compared to my usual resistance training. I ran that and then ran down to the tow path, then back to the Lock Keepers up that hill and the up the hill to the carpark. That to me is the hill route. I can now run that everyday of the week with no bother. I have now become a mini hill runner after two months. I do not understand it, but it is what it is. 

I will now complain. I HATE PEOPLE WHO TALK AND RUN. If you want to talk go and have coffee. If you want to run, run QUIETLY. Don't be breathing and talking and running. It used to really annoy me when people ran with me and insisted on talking. I tell you this. I am a slow runner at the best of times, talking slows me down even more and it is so stupid. Do you need to talk so much that you can't even keep quiet for half an hour as you run? FFS. Apologies to all the runners who talk, but seriously, if you have to run and talk then running is definitely not the exercise you should be taking up. 

Today no less than four pairs of people ran and talked at the same time. At the last stretch there were these two women. OK I understand if the talking is something very important and you have suddenly found the formula to world peace and you must instantly share it with someone in case you forgot it. Yes, under those circumstances you may speak when you run. But if it is gossiping about your sister-in-law or maybe discussing your next purchase of lycra leggings, could you not keep it to AFTER the run? I was soooo annoyed by the time I hit the fourth pair that I decided that I sprinted so that I would get away from them and their incessant breathy gabbling. This inadvertently made me sprint in the last section of the run, which is what you want really, and I managed to finish strong. 

So I suppose they do have their uses.

But apart from that, next to dog walkers who seem to think that having their German shepherd/ Great Dane/ St Bernard cross off a lead while you are running past it is ok (why is it always the owners of large dogs who do this), they are the most annoying people runners share the Lagan Tow Path with - oh that and MAMIL brigade. I remember when the Lagan Tow Path was just me and three moorhens. Literally. Me. Three moorhens. Now it is populated by people who do not seem to understand that it is not SIM Tow Path. When you walk towards people you have to try and avoid mowing them down. Now you should only EVER take the Lagan Tow Path either very early in the morning before 7 am or very late at night - after 9 pm. When it is dangerous.

I suppose i should stop complaining now. I am really happy that I have regained not only my running but improved my stamina exponentially. I surprised myself running away from those women talking away.