Fantabulous February

[Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man]

Look, the hardest thing about not running for a while is that when I get back here and catch up on all the posts that I've missed, it's like I've been living in a hole and missed out on all the fun. You're a very motivating lot here you know.

Anyway I've just had lunch so I can't really go out and hit the tarmac just yet, and I promised somewhere else to have a beer in celebration of all the Almeria heroes who did so amazingly well in sunny Spain - well done all of you!

The wretched truth from down here is that I haven't run for weeks now. I've been having way too much fun otherwise and I've slipped into a kind of summer malaise. The good news though is that my diet is going really really well, so I'm still losing flab depsite the lack of exercise. However, the activity levels do have to increase soon. And now that the distractions of cricket and tennis are almost over, it shouldn't be quite so difficult to fire up the running shoes again.

First though, there's still the little matter of some cricket finals to be played against the old enemy. Better sharpen up the ol' sledging tongue, put on the war paint and see if we can't coax one more big score out of Adam Gilchrist.

Once more into the fray then...