Reasons to be cheerful...

Two creamy pints and a lift home!

Ryan's recovery station!

It wasn't my idea, but these tinkers had one of their own!

Mostly armless...

Training has taken a severe blow having recently experienced a senior moment leaving me with 7 stitches on my elbow (which I can no longer bend until it heals) and more bruises than you could shake a stick at... on the upside there are frequent comedy moments, usually when eating or dressing.

Not sure about the 5 mile run this weekend. The stitches are due to be removed this Friday, I guess all will be revealed then... well not not all I hope!!

New year, old legs...

Oscar Wilde once said "Good resolutions are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account". He has a point; so far this year I've managed to polish off a mid-week bottle of wine, exceeded the 5 latte daily allowance, get to day 8 without running once and not shave every day. On the up side I have... um... well, we have an entire year to get it right!!

I have to decide which marathon to run in the first part of this year; Belfast or Cork. A Corkonian I used to work with reckons Cork would be far better, for one it's a little later than Belfast (June rather than May) and (for another) it's a little flatter. It'll be training run for the Dublin marathon in October where I'd like to beat 4.30 so perhaps Cork would make more sense, we'll see!

I'm off to fetcheveryone to start planning!