A bit of an update

It's been a little over five months since my last post and, although I've not stopped running entirely, it has been on the back burner while I've been getting to grips with fatherhood.

That all being sorted now, in so much as I'm coming to terms with life without sleep, I'm donning a new pair of trainers and slowly going to notch up the miles to prepare myself for a potential 26.2 mile jog round London next year. Fingers crossed.

I'm not feeling in bad shape this year. I've not been running much but I've kept up with cycling to work and have recently added a dose of swimming into the mix. And, on the odd occasion I've taken myself out for a little test drive, the outlook is not unpromising. In fact, I've clocked a PB for the 10,000m (in olympic speak) twice consecutively and am now down to 44'08".

So this weekend I decided to kick off my pre-training training, if you like, with a warm up 5k on Saturday and an 13.5km run through Bushy Park and along the river on Sunday. It's good to be back!