Changes

To date, this blog has been a tedious account of training runs. I haven't written anywhere about what's happening in my working life, about the various adventures that I've had on my recent travels and about the extraordinary changes going on around me in both everyday life and - even more dramatically - the business in which I work.

All of that is about to change.

Service Resumed

So what happened? It's more than eight months since I posted on this site. In the meantime, I've

• Run the Florence marathon in November 2008. 4hrs 24.
• Blown up in the Bath half marathon, March 2009. I'd aimed to run it in under 100 mins, didn't train enough and went off too hard. The result was that I had to walk a lot of it and finished the course in a deeply unimpressive 2hrs 3mins.
• Been to the Middle East six times in the last six months
• Flown to Singapore and back twice
• Rounded off all that travel with a trip to Belgium at the beginning of June.

Eleanor came home from her residential course with gifts for everyone. A notebook for her mum, a pencil for her brother. I got a bar of chocolate. Strangely, though, a third of the bar was missing...