So it's this blog itself that's becoming the problem?

Following on from my last blog, I have now jogged and logged today's (very short) run and am finally almost caught up with myself.

I am flabbergasted ... 25 days in and I have so far managed (with a little bit of last minute deadeline-itis) to Janathon every day so far. I am beginning to allow little glimmers of hope that I might even make it all the way. Wouldn't that be grand? Don't tell anyone though, or it'll never happen ...

The support I'm getting from fellow Janathoners, friends and family is just fabulous (and as for you lot, reading this - I am in awe of your boredom threshold!). Aching muscles yelping at me, travel and work gaining the upper hand diary-wise, tiredness and mere procrastination fighting back: the hurdles mount. But the support I've been getting is astounding and I do think I should say thankyou*.

Interestingly, as time has gone on I have become accustomed to worrying about when to fit in the Janathon - but worrying more about what on earth I am going to blog about. It's all very well if you run miles every day, are an expert on monitoring your maximum heart rate, and are a supreme photographer.

However.

For me there is a very simple process.

1. Self-talk.
2. Get changed and out of house.
3. Set off, often without any much of a plan as to which direction, sometimes simply "the way I didn't go yesterday".
3. Walk. (aka "warm up")
$. Set phone up to GPS-track me.
5. Start jogging.
6. Put phone into specially-purchased belt.
6a. While jogging along check to see if phone working, trying not to bump into any lamp-posts while distracted. If it isn't glare at it unproductively then fiddle. Put it away again.
7. Keep jogging along one of several routes distinguished mostly by whether they are more round the outside of one of the nearby housing estates or through the middle.
8. Breathe. Breathe more raggedly.
9. Feel vaguely amazed I am still moving.
10. Self-talk.
11. Keep jogging and continue to endeavour not to bump into anything.
12. Focus on getting past the one mile point if at all possible.
13. Keep jogging beyond a mile if I can summon up the energy/time, and am not feeling too sorry for my legs, or worried about the possibility that my breathing might stop altogether.
14. Slow, turn off phone, and back to walk.
15. Try and log run on phone as I walk home. (walk home aka "cooling off")
16. Faff around failing to find key to get in.
17. Get into house.
18. Collapse on sofa/bathroom floor.
19. Stare at red face in mirror, more in sorrow than in anger. (It's such an attractive look I find.)
20. Wonder, worry and wibble over how exactly to keep you from falling asleep in my latest blog.

And so I move, in one simple step, from the whole jogging self-talk and procrastination setup, to the totally separate but bizarrely similar whole blogging self-talk and procrastination process.

This Janathon: it is a strange and wondrous concept indeed! But with this blog, nevertheless, I am done for today, and so I hereby pronounce:

Day 25, consider yourself well and truly Janathoned.

* Today for example I had NEW EQUIPMENT! If any of you are mad enough to have read all these ranting diatribes you will have formerly seen me raise concerns over the great hairband quest. Well yesterday I arrive home to a small package through the front door ... with some fantastic new hairbands** therein, specially provided to help see me through. Sally, you are a star!
** I appreciate such a gift leaves me with one fewer on the list of possible excuses for giving up, and my gratitude for such encouragement is possibly therefore mitigated, but I'm officially ignoring this element of the situation due to my over-developed stubborn streak retaining as all too often the upper hand.