Another update...

Not much running recently. Went for a short run on Saturday, less than 3m, but I was, and still am, suffering from a cold. Nearly killed me. My legs felt so drained afterwards.

That was the first run in a week. The previous Saturday I did one of my usual pre-knee routes. About 5.4 miles at a good pace after a slow start. This run and a similar one a week before book-ended one run in Prague! That was an early morning run from the hotel, through the main square, across Charles Bridge and then up to the castle. It was a tough run but a different way to start a working day in comparison to the other times I've been away. This was a short run, about 3.5 miles.

Onwards and slightly upward...

Two good runs over the weekend - 4.3 miles in Saturday and then an easy 3 miles Sunday. Neither were  "long runs" but I did go up a couple of hills, which I have been avoiding since I tweaked my knew.

Today's run good too, a faster 3.3miles in about 32 mins. Managed to keep first mile to a nice easy 6mph for a change. Weight at weekend about 11 7, tonight 11 3.

On the way....

Started a training plan yesterday, out for a run tonight... I'm on the way! The end of the line is the Great North Run.

Starting weight is about 11'7'

Mobile blogging...

Is there a point?

This week I discovered my hotmail account was hacked, resulting in a dodgy mail written in even dodgier English going out to all the people in my contact list. Somethings I learned as a result:

• based on the number of e-mails that bounced most of my contact list is out of date.
  
• some people in my address book are still on the end of the same e-mail address after 10 years and it was nice to hear from them.
• I have about 20 odd passwords to change just in case the hackers nicked off with another password or two.

Unrelated to all that I posted some pictures on Flickr from a weekend Eurostar trip to Brussels at the end of last year.

And unrelated to both hacking and Brussels I posted three or four pictures from a few days we had (me and Jo) in Jersey in September of last year, one of which is the one to the left

Jo on a chair

That was a bit of hard work. It does make me think that I may not be posting images in the right way.

Anyway, Jo on a chair, taken at Stockwood Park on Sunday with my new phone.

Me, on the same chair as Jo -

First things first...

Okay, so now I have a blog I suppose I should post something.

Well yesterday, Jo and I decided to go to Stockwood Park for afternoon tea and cakes. The park is situated in Luton and it was grandly signposted as a country park. I very much of the opinion that anything the size of a small park situated in the boundaries of a town can not be classed as a country park.

We had tea and cakes (the name of which I have forgotten as I was more concerned with the school boy error that I had committed of choosing the smallest piece of cake at the the self-service cake table for myself and the largest one for Jo. D'oh) then decided to have a wander round the grounds. And we were pleasantly surprised.

It often seems to me that these type of parks promise more than they deliver, but Stockwood Park covered all the bases for a Sunday afternoon walk - as well as some rather pleasant gardens with a focus on recycling and sustainability, there was also a number buildings housing a history of Luton and the surrounding area through the ages (I even learnt what Mesolithic meant) and the Mossman collection of carriages and cars. Through out the collections and display there were plenty of things for kids to touch, play with and climb on. In fact there was enough to occupy a jaded adult like myself for at least another afternoon or two.

I took some photos on my new phone which I'll post when I've extended my web 2.0 adventures to Flickr.