I do apologise for folk who perhaps visit this website expecting apple-fanboy posts, or why being a humanist is a positive way to lead your life, only to be confronted by lots of posts about how much I’m currently enjoying running. Of course, folk reading it for the running might be in for a bit of a shock when my interest radar veers off in one of those directions 
Anyway, just an addendum to my previous post about half-marathon training, and that’s that I’ve discovered and signed up for, another 10k. This one is quite literally “around the corner”, as it follows one of my own long training routes I started using recently. In fact it goes practically past our house! (We’re on that little ‘J’ shaped bit of road in the bottom-right of the map)
The 2nd Men’s Health Forum Scotland 10K for men is on the 17th June. It was a successful event last year, and it sounds like it’s going to be even bigger this year. My friend Keith, who I met up with on Tuesday, is running it, and a lot of his colleagues at work are taking part. It should be a lot of fun, and it can’t get more convenient/familiar than this, so a great way to start ‘proper’ running events.
Of course, it’s not a picture of perfection. The 17th June is Frances’ birthday, so not entirely sure she’s particularly enthusiastic at the prospect of my getting up early and disturbing her birthday lie-in…. But it is for the great cause of raising awareness of health issues in Men, and one very closely related to the cause I’ll soon be raising sponsorship money for: The Prostate Cancer charity
June 15th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
[...] The Broads were wonderful. Weather was great to start with, and passable - if rather overcast - for the last few days. We saw lots of ducks, you’ll be surprised to hear. Plus a lot of other delightful wildlife. After our week, we had a dreadful drive up the east coast, but a lovely cottage awaited us in Staithes which worked out an absolute treat, and a great base for exploring the coast. I even managed to get a good amount of running in too, much to my relief (The Men’s health forum 10k is this Sunday). [...]
June 17th, 2007 at 11:19 pm
[...] pleased to say that the MHFS 10k went very well, and that I managed to get around in a reasonable time. I’d been hoping to [...]
September 17th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
[...] I went along to take part in the inaugural Barrhead 10k on Sunday morning. After my recent good times on the 5k distance, and the half marathon a couple of weeks before, I had started to have vague aspirations of breaking through 50 minutes. However, the weather forecast and reputedly hilly course, as well as my legs feeling somewhat stiff and tired, I’d pretty much given up any hope, but was still hoping to slightly improve my previous PB (00:53:56) set back in June at MHFS 10k. [...]