Green Shoots of Encouragement.

Over the past couple of weeks I've been getting back to something approaching regular running. Only sort of 8-10ks but maybe three times a week, and at increasing pace. So far the muscles have remained okay but I am aware (or is it all in my mind?) of a tightness on my right thigh (the opposite one to that which was giving me trouble a couple of months ago).

I did a reasonably fast 10k on Saturday with Andrew (who had just returned from mountain climbing in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco and was feeling very fit) with no resultant injury. Triumph! By reasonably fast, I mean about 53 mins.

My brother-in-law, George is coming to stay with us for a little while, either a few weeks or a few months depending on the job. He is an Ironman Triathelete so I'll enjoy doing a few training sessions with him. He's a fitness fanatic and I'm sure he'll give me a kick up the backside for slumping into inactivity because of my muscle problems.

On a completely different and rather random subject - my son, Christopher, is doing rather well in his band and seem on the verge of a real breakthrough. If you want to listen to some of his stuff then go to www.livan.co.uk.