New year, woo hoo!

This is the year that good things are going to happen! A few of them are happening already, although I wish they'd calm down and space themselves out cos it's all a bit too much! All the stuff I was putting off until the New Year suddenly needs doing! I started my new job on Tuesday, and it's going well, though it's a bit intimidating. And we need to find a new house QUICK cos the dogs are finishing their sentence in 6 weeks! In a strange twist of irony I am now indirectly working for DEFRA, the mean people who made me leave my doggies in France for 6 months. I don't like 'em, but hey, if they're paying my wages who am I to judge!?!

Anyway, new job is 1:30 - 1:45 commute each way, which needless too say has put a damper on my training. As did the cold I woke up with on New Year's day. Sniffle!

On Friday, as promised, I rode to Guildford, but the route I had planned was too busy so I had to buy an atlas and plot my own (somewhat longer) route as I went. It was 57km, which I figured was quite far enough, so I caught the train home. Ahhhhhhh......

And that was the last time I exercised until this morning. Unless you count the bike rides to and from the station on each end of my commute. I'm probably spending about an hour of the 3 hour commute on my bike, which isn't bad, I suppose. Anyway, this morning I dragged myself out of bed at 5am and got in a 6km run. Took me 42:05, which is not very good, but I blame a) not having run for a week b) just recovering from a cold and c) various other reasons.

So, until we move I'm not quite sure how I'll get my morning runs in, but I figure that if I can manage to get out 2-3 morning a week and get in longer runs over the weekend, I should be OK and then I can pick up my training schedule again once we move.

Not sure how much time I'll have for posting here since I don't have much internet access at work, so please forgive sparce entries until things calm down.