What a difference a half year makes!

As is immediately obvious from the content and date of the previous few posts in this blog, I am pretty good at self-deception! I sound enthusiastic and ready to train then ... zip, nada, nothing for seven months! Truth be told, I reckon that I knew I had had enough of running for a while and secretly planned to have a couple of months off. About the time I was thinking of starting again I got the news that I had missed out on the London ballot again and all enthusiasm melted away. I did do a few runs in November but never logged them here. So, after a seven month break, when Christina tempted me out for a run today it came as no surprise that I was out of shape. After just a couple of miles I felt like I had run a marathon. It has been a wake up call, and I have resolved to get my fitness back. I would not mind loosing the 5 kg of fat round my middle either.