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Yikes… nothing doing this week either! I’m way beyond Christmas/New Year excuses and it’s too early for Easter.

Happy New Year!! Again, that’s all I’ve got… I better get back to it soon, the clock is ticking…

Christmas is over and New Years is about to begin… and that’s all I have to say about that.

Let me get that broken record out… Yes another week of rubbish running. I missed every weekday run and my first weekend long run BUT I did manage my second (and the longer of the two) weekend long run on Sunday, in fact I ran an extra 3 miles on top of the scheduled 14…

My resolve to stick rigidly to the plan is weakening as time goes on… in fact the words “plan”, “stick” and “rigidly” were nowhere in sight this week, we can probably put “resolve” in that shameful group too… however, “weakening” is most certainly there… sigh… To summarise… having missed all 3 weekday runs and 1…

OK, this was never going to happen… last night we had our Christmas party, my 10th with Cúram Software, and our night in the four Season had no chance of ending early. All I wanted to do this morning was have a leisurely breakfast and very late checkout, both of which were performed beautifully.

A few months ago I ranted about the accuracy and precision of German engineering having run out of petrol at exactly the same moment that my motorcycles’ petrol gauge reckoned it would. The lesson “if it’s German you can trust it, it’ll do exactly what it’s supposed to” had been learned and for months I…

A less than excellent week of running. Last weeks’ 11 mile long run ran into this week and on Monday morning I managed to squeeze it in before work, not to be recommended as I felt tired all day and sleeping at my desk is something I need to cut down on. On the down…

Not a great race… arrived on time to find the Police had closed off the long access road to the start line so I had to park the bike about a mile away. Once I had changed and packed my bike gear away I had to run to the start line, literally an uphill struggle.…

Another excellent week of running, almost! I managed the first 3 runs without any deviation fro the plan, however the weekend followed a big night out which managed to sloooow everything down… Bottom line is I didn’t do my weekend runs BUT I’ll be up extra early tomorrow morning to get the long 11 miler…

As of today I’m no longer restricted to the size of bike that I can ride!! Might think about one of those 8L American monsters…

This week has been an excellent week of running. All 5 runs have been done on time even though I had a ton of excellent excuses lined up, this could be a turning point!! Here’s a summary: Sun 22, 8am: 6.531 miles Sat 21, 11am: 5.49 miles Thu 19, 8pm: 3.25 miles Wed 18, 7pm:…

After last weekend’s 10K race I felt sure I would honour my commitment of sticking to the weekday program of 3-5-3 runs but as we’ve seen so many times before I wormed out of every one convincing myself that I’d make it up tomorrow. Well Saturday arrived with 3 miler on the calendar, quickly followed…

Had a fantastic day learning how to race around a track in race prepared Mazda3 and a Formula Sheane, it’s amazing how much you can push those cars and how well they stick to the track! My best lap time was 1 minute 10, apparently not bad for a beginner and at the risk of…

This morning was cold and wet… and I mean REALLY cold and very wet! Oh… and windy, lots of wind…. the unhelpful blowing in the wrong direction kind of wind and as this run was along a closed motorway I didn’t expect much shelter along the way. I arrived an hour early to collect my…

… didn’t happen BUT that’s OK. the oul legs feel tired this morning and I reckoned that it would be better to do the weekend race (Saturday) and long run (Sunday) than get the 3 miler in this morning… makes perfect sense to me!

… lovely early morning run, up with the birds and out at 6am. I wanted to make up for yesterday’s poor effort and stretched the 5 miler by and additional 1/2 mile. Nice easy pace or about 10 min/ml, just concentrating on getting the legs used to running after such a long break. Tonight or…

… should have been a 3 miler but I only managed 2 miles before giving up, pathetic I know but I should doing a 5 miler tonight to keep up with my schedule so perhaps an easy morning wasn’t a bad thing!

… not this morning at 6am as hoped but sometime today. I’ve got to stick to the plan; there’s a 3 miler on today’s card and it’s got to be done! I’m challenging myself to stick rigidly to the plan; every day has to be ticked off, every run has to be done and if…

Just back from a week in Lanzarote, one of the Canary Islands. Great week, stayed in a lovely hotel by the sea, hired a car for the week and toured the entire island while managing a few days by the pool or on the beach. That’s the good bit… As to be expected there were…