Running Away

Got stuck behing a guy on a pushbike, riding on the pavement just too quickly for me to overtake. His trousers were belted just beneath his buttocks, so the full length of his tartan boxers was on display. I just don't understand the mentality of people like that. I just want to shout 'Aren't your bollocks cold? Well pull your trousers up you idiot!!'.. surely they can't be designed to have the crotch shackling their knees like that? His comapnion had half of his head shaved to one grade, the other half slightly longer, with a wavy join like a tennis ball. I must be getting old!!

I did my 5k training run around the common today. (unless you conusult my pedometer, which says 3.6k, ho hum). I actually enjoyed it. i jogged the first km while I sorted my breathing out (horrible, hate the 1st 5 mins!!), then ran a slow but decent pace for a while. I struggled on the uphill bits (they are slight undulations, but upundulation isn't a real word, and uphill sounds more hardcore). I picked up the pace for the last km, but I misjudged this and went to fast too soon, so I spent most of the last km wheezing and dribbling like a dying asthmatic. I felt brilliant afterwards though.

..Now I'm in work (3 hours late), and I'm tired. I have quite a lot I need to do before I go to the states, and not a lot of time to do it in since I'm away this weekend. Better get on with it then!.. just a final note to say supervision was relatively painless (apart from Tim saying that the day after I get back from the states I have to give a tlak not only on my work, but on the master's student I've been helping to supervise too).