Life must go on

I was truly shaken by Thursday events and was worried for a little time until all of our London based staff had been accounted for. Fortunately they are all safe and well. I may be shaken but I will not allow it to change my life, if I did then the bad guys win and I won't let that happen.

So on with life.

After a good start to the running week it fizzled out. I managed to get out for a loosener on Wednesday evening and lost Thursday due to work commitments. This brought around Friday. Some people in the office are doing the Relay for Life on behalf of Cancer Research in a couple of weeks time. To publise this and raise some extra money they set up 2 treadmills in reception and had people running on them all day. One treadmill had the customer team, the other had the prime contractor team (My bunch). Although I'm not taking part in the relay for life my presence on the treadmill was requested by one of the bosses. Senior boss on site clocked an impressive 4.17 miles in his 30 mins, now he is a kind of competative sort of person and it would be a few weeks before we heard the last of that if it was the top run of the day. A couple of the junior bosses decided to make it worth my while to beat it. So I did recording 4.42 miles in my 30 mins. Those of you with a nervous disposition may not want to look at the following table, the numbers get scary (or they did scare me!)

Mile	Time	HR
1	7:21	155
2	6:47	168
3	6:41	172
4	6:32	177
4.42	2:38	183

Didn't run at all for the rest of the week, due to a curry on Friday night with the lads and an Open air prom Concert on Saturdaymeant I ate too much bad stuff and felt like a beached whale for the entire weekend.

Made amends today with another tempo run ( or more accurately a progression run ) for 4.4 miles this time in a slightly slower 35 minutes.

Oh one last thing been to see the chiro a couple of times my hip problem is rapidly sorting itself out, but he suspects I'll need orthotics. So some good news to carry forward.