MeanPete

Hello I thought I better put up an entry to say a big hello and assure anyone out there who has missed me, yes all two of you, that I have not been abducted or anything, but i have been a little busy.  I don't want to keep you guys up all night so I'll fill you in on just the recent activities.  Last weekend in keeping with my new years resolution to get out more I attended an lac meet up in London and had a great time catching up with some old friends and meeting some new people too, everyone was fantastic and I only felt a little bit funny about being the oldest person there, well I suppose some one has to be.  Last weekend I attended a sa

It's been a while since a last did an update so here goes.  Last week I ran my second half marathon in Birmingham, this time hauling my ageing frame over the requisite 13.1 miles in 1 hour 45 mins.  I'm crediting this performance to a rather desperate sprint over the last 4 miles as I attempted to overtake some old guy dressed up as a banana, I did manage to catch him and pass him but it was a close run thing, after all there is no way I can consider myself any kind of fit if I end up getting out run by an old fella in fancy dress, even if I did nearly cough up my own kidneys with the effort, I think my legs are currently voting for a change

The day I've been whining about in my last post arrived and with it the dreaded assault course.  There I was with the rest of wave 8 standing around in the drizzle uttering my favourite battle cry, 'What the hell am I doing here!?'  when suddenly we were of charging down the field and straight at the hey bail scramble which was quite a bit easier than I though it was going to be.  That was a good start I said to myself as we all went dashing along side the river for the next two kms, even the second round of obstacles, scaffolding, raised walkways made slippery with the rain were more scary than anything physically demanding.  From out of now