Shoddy update

I am a bad blogger – barely a couple of weeks in and already I am neglecting this. My excuses are numerous. It’s my sister’s fault – she visited this weekend, thereby distracting me and I had a drink in the sand bar which turned into several and work has been extremely busy and so on........
The lost plot has lost out on my assistance the last two Sundays – the first for Chinese New Year which turned out to be on this weekend, so I had to miss it again. Just as well as it was freezing cold – big fat snowflakes fell all over the dancing dragon – which the Chinese compere called a lion, before being corrected by the girl next to him. Then they had a lion and unicorn dancer which he carefully explained was a traditional dance at the Chinese New Year and symbolised, ummm...good luck – with a cheery chat show host grin. It all went very well with street food and generally cheerful crowds although I did regret my choice of long Chinese dress and fishnets – tights with hundreds of holes in them – what is that about?
Running – I did manage to fit in a three mile and a two mile last weekend, the first round Chorley park with Laura who is training for the Manchester 10k and involved more walking than running to be honest – although Laura made a better showing than I did the first time I did that course when I had to miss out the middle lap to stand wheezing and gasping like an asthmatic fish out of water for ten minutes. Then I did a four mile on Wednesday night – I quite like running in the dark so long as it’s not raining and don’t buy into the general nonsense view that rapists and muggers are waiting around every bush and alleyway for suitable victims. It was great and I thought I’d got the whole running thing nailed - until this morning and a two mile stumble which was agony and even stretching afterwards did nothing to stop my legs seizing up and making me walk in a lurching, stiff-jointed marionette kind of way with a twitching grimace of pain at every step for the rest of the day. Repeated applications of deep heat seem to have helped.
Next week – five miles and three miles.