Success

Managed to sleep right through to my alarm this morning and get out for a run. I repeated the reverse route from the other day (where there's a major shunt right at the end). It's the first time since I started beinng active again that I DIDN'T STOP FOR A WALK IN THE MIDDLE! Hurrah!!!. I got round what used to be my 30-minute medium-pace course in 30 minutes 26 seconds.

Now, that is about 10 seconds per mile slower than before, which sounds quite a lot. But it's actually on 1.67%, which is pretty darned good. Faithful iPod and its new Genius feature helped, picking a sequence of dance tunes with very similar BPM, including Mac Thornhill's 'Who's gonna ease the pressure'. Now this is a piece of very early house genius. Immensely long, but towards the end there's this sequence of what was then cutting edge sampling, which is an absolute pant wetter. It's not on Blip, but if anyone finds it on Last or Spottify, I might consider giving them a try.

Thinking of other people for a bit, my friend and colleague requires sponsorship for the Great North Run later this year. Mr David Hughes, more power to your elbow. Knee. Whatever.

And congratulations to Maddie Wood, who completed her first marathon, the Edinburgh, in ferocious heat and despite the fact that they ran out of water (echoes of Boston) last weekend. Please sponsor Maddie here.