Pull cord in emergency

For some reason I'd totally forgotten to report my mishap at the start line of the HPTT last Saturday morning.

I'm a bit of fidget when waiting to start - I tend to re-tie my laces, pull up my socks and sometimes re-tie the string holding up my shorts. On this occasion I was sorting the shorts, when I noticed there seemed to be an unusual amount of slack in the string. I gave it a gentle pull and the whole lot came out in my hands in two pieces.

Two minutes to go, and I'm

Within reach

Yesterday I got my 5k PB down to 26:55, down from 28:03 a few weeks ago. In terms of my training, I'm able to go a bit further and get out a bit more often than before. So that's good, everything is going in the right direction still. I'm feeling more and more confident about my first 10k in June... if I'm honest I'd run it tomorrow. My current big goal of running 10k under 57 minutes (my 2004 10k time) feels within reach already - a goal I wasn't previously expecting to meet this year. It'll

Three milestones

Things are continuing to progress well with the running, with a couple of milestones reached recently.

I completed my tenth Hyde Park Time Trial on Saturday (surrounded by a light dusting of snow) which is something of a milestone. I've gone from 33:09 in January to my current PB of 28:50, which is not far off a 5 minute improvement. Doing the time trial these last ten weeks has been such a help. It's helped me measure my progress, it's helped me push myself harder, it's given me so

Driving CAN be fun!

Fresh from my bollocking for using the DVLA...

Running again

I guess it's about time I came out with it. I have started running.

As some of you will know I have dabbled with running before. I did about no more than an hour's training in the run up to the Leeds Abbey Dash 10k in 2004, and then ran the race itself in 54:46. I ran the same event Running again

Dealing with Idiots

Bloomin' heck! It's been a while hasn't it? I'm obviously getting lazy at this blogging lark.Well actually, that's not quite true. I've been too busy dealing with complete muppets, most of whom tend to be working in some sort of "public service" capacity.The most recent of which are the DVLA.Given that...

WE HAVE MOVED!

Now at: http://iangrey.org

I'm already bored of 2008

We're now just 17 days into 2008 and I'm already bored of the following phrases:Carbon footprintCO2 emissionsFlood warningEnergy pricesFacebookData ProtectionCredit crunchI'm sure I'll think of more later.

No so bright now eh?

The smoking ban has been in for a while now...

On Strike

Today I became yet another victim of French engineering...