New Thread, Fresh Start

[Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man]

Am enjoying my first beer for four days A reward for four days of running, hill climbing, weight training and a sensible calory-controlled diet. No niggles from resumption of training, either. So tonight is beer night. Just one, mind, but a good one - a Coopers Vintage Ale. A bit young, but still bloody nice.

It's funny how the old optimism returns after a bit of a lay-off. I found myself on the treadmill this afternoon planning all kinds of amazing training schedules and in my mind completing all kinds of crazy races. I'm even dreaming about running again. .. effortless, free-flowing all-day kind of running. The kind that's so far removed from reality as to be about as funny as Maggie Thatcher. But anyhow, so far so good, I'm training again and enjoying it, so all is right with the world.

The beer is really, really good too. I'm enjoying it now as I write this. Well, in between sentences anyway. For trivia fans I'm drinking it out of an Adnams pint glass, recently stolen from a London pub. Stolen by the same mate who stole the Fullers pint glass last year for me and which caused no end of grief here in the forum as World War III erupted over whether there is a Marquis of Granby in Soho or not. It was kind of fun actually.

Sadly no such biffo can be started with the Adnams glass as my mate can't remember which pub he was in at the time. As a consequence we can only assume he didn't have the publican's blessing to take the thing. But as he doesn't know which pub it was, what can one do? Nothing for it but to enjoy a pint of one of Australia's finest ales and appreciatively toast whichever pub it was taken from. Well, in any case, as one or two punters here keep pointing out, we are a convict colony after all As long as we're stealing from the poms, who really cares?

All jokes aside, if anyone can flog a few more glasses for me, it would be nice to make some complete sets. Fullers, Adnams, Guinness... anything you like. Send them to MLC Man, c/o HM Prison Risdon, Hobart.

Gosh it's hard running with these bloody chains on me legs...