1:46

1 hour 46 minutes for the Silverstone half-marathon - not too bad at all! Especially when you consider we took it relatively easy in the last quarter to stave off injury, ran through a full on hale storm and colossal icy winds AND started 18 minutes late and therefore had to overtake some 4,500 people on an often thin and windy course.

Great fun, though I think I can speak for both Jules and myself that the legs are feeling more than a weeny bit tight.

I'm going for a 20 mile LSJ (long-slow-jog) next week. If that goes ok you never know this marathon thing might just get run. In a very weird way I am really looking forward to it!

PAIN but PROGRESS

A few small runs, a good long one from Liverpool Street to Clapham, a nasty flu bug and a big nights dancing in Dusseldorf took me to this weekend in ok shape.

I forgot to add a very frustrating calf strain that knocked me out for a few days and my buddy Dave being knocked out for a while by a slipped knee type thing....urgggh!

A good 8km warm up yesterday for the longest run I have ever done. Fealt good this morning and set-off on my own with a positive aim - to add least run a half-marathon. Jules (Arnie if he reappears) and I are running the Silverstone half next week and I wanted to put myself in a position when I could run a decent race. Not setting out to risk injury, but a reaonsable race at a comfortable/reaching uncomfortable pace none-the-less.

Bi-weekly run passed speakers-corner





To cut things short, I ran approx 25km today. From Southwark to Vauxhall to Westminster through St James Park to Green Park to Hyde Park to Notting Hill all the way back to Westminster to London Bridge and all the way back on the South Bank to the Wellington by Waterloo to watch England crush French hopes of a Grand Slam.



Glorious day and a really good run. For the first time a reached that state of pace by pace pain. After about 20km it began to hurt and I realisd for the first time just how hard the real thing is going to be in just 6 weeks from today. Pain... but it fealt good. Hard to explain it. In the glorious sunlight to beating music it just makes you feal alive!

Nex week the half, then going to try a 20 miler and then we will see where we arer. Hopefully Dave will be back so the running can be joined by some more debt strewn economic colapse talk though doubt is significant and the pace is perhaps a bit more significant without such mental puzzles.

To the even more important news. An email around my old department has raised about another $180. It is about right to approach some amtes, family friends, family and an outside chance of significant funds from a certain committee I am approaching and we're starting to get somewhere. I really hope a reaonsable sum will be raised for those awesom kids!!

Circa: 300km

$500 (neat numbers but they need to increase with JUST 6 WEEKS TO GO!!!)