Late '14 - Lightly Limbering Up for London

[marathondan]

Well it had to start sometime, and today is as good a day as any. I've successfully completed three weeks of sloth and torpor - let's face it, two of my key skills - but with a date in London next year I need to make a start sooner or later. The hard stuff will start around Christmas, but until then I'll get what I can in the bank.

So it was a couple of laps round the Bracknell mill pond this morning in the early light, three miles all told including the uninspiring plod there and back. A workmanlike effort, but it did the job.

All seems well on the tendon front. Three weeks of no running also means three weeks of no stretching, but I seem to be out of the woods. The most likely suspect at the moment seems to be the back, which has been twingeing a bit recently and made itself known this morning with the occasional loss of footing.

Life seems busier than ever. This weekend was typical - 1 voluntary activity, 2 scout activities, 2 music activities, 1 craft project, all needing parental engagement. I think I bagged one hour of me-time during daylight hours, which was spent mangling some basic guitar chords. And I have clients camped in my office till the end of the year, making lunchtime outings rather bad form. But having delved into the RC archives a little recently (more of which later), I would love to be able to find some new and inspiring routes. The trouble is, the lack of daylight hours in which to explore. Something for me to think about.

Hopefully this is part of the wider annual RC resurgence - looking forward to hearing tales from the South Downs and the Southern Hemisphere of others getting back out there.