Looks like Everton are playing Man Utd at Wembly on the same weekend as Franco's wedding in Italy, it is time to start working on that cloning technology.

I ran 1hr 36.

I should have prepared better but in the end it all came good.  After drinks Friday with my apparent secret affair and then food in Borough, getting lost on the buses or London and ending up with food in Putney, the big race day was upon me.  The MK half which I ran in 1hr 53 last year is the Milton Keynes half marathon which is a Nike event that is a good testing ground for those with a full marathon in mind.  I was supposed to be running this with a few people but most retired injured.  Anyway the weather held and was sunny although windy as the race started from the Open University.  OUt into the streets of MK the first few Km's are a mix of 4.15 to 4.30 minute times, winding through what is actually a very picturesque area with small little villages and local pubs making up the outskirts of MK.  At 6km it is intoo a local park and round a lake and then back round into aa head wind.  10k split is 43 minutes which is my usual 10k time.  Onwards from here is a slog as you hit the new housing of MK and the roundabouts and underpasses start with frequent rises and dips in the road.  I'd like to think it is a breeze and the second 10k is a negative split as Steve calls it but it is a hard slog with a bastard bridge climb at 20km and a tough inward run as I hit the wall and a headwind.  I usually take a breather but manage to carry on with my time slowing to 4.45's.  I am pretty impressed that it never got to 5 mins a km.  The final few Km's come to and end and it is a sprint to the finish.  Photos courtesy of Steve are on Facebook.  Thinking a few more beers are the way forward before the a run - actually maybe a few less and a sub 1.30 time is the next target!  The best finish to the day is a sunday dinner at the Vic in hitchin and the sofa.  An all round good weekend.

I am a thief, apparently anyway to a petty minded work colleague.  Everyday the kitchen is filled with an ample bosom of milk for tea for the day.  I tend to eat my breakfast at work and so fill up from the ample bosom each morning feeding my dry cereal.  Anyway it seems that this is not allowed as the milk is only for tea or so i am told by a fellow if work colleague - who claims security cameras ensure I dont steal milk for cereal.  One problem is that I drink black tea.  While one cup is probably not good enough for cereal I have enlisted my work pals who dont drink milk to boost my bosom quota to cereal proportions.  I now have a signed post-it note with which to show said colleague next time she complains about my cereal suckling that my work pals have given up their milk for me.   Thanks work pals!

Well it is one year since Barney died and it is hard not to look back at everything Barney represented, he was the union between me and Steph and with him really died our final link which is sad, if I could go back and change so many things from then i would do, the whole relationship break up was wrong -in how it happened at least (only when she left with a final hug did everything clear).  Would I go back and change what happened, how some events now haunt me, yes.  Would I change my life since, no.  So many good things have happened since and it is hard to imagine things the other way anymore.  Did I think Steph was the one, yes. Could things have been different, maybe if I had talked more but so many things had gone wrong and it became too difficult to talk.  Anyway, today is a day of reflection.  I am sad neither of them are in my life but I need to move on...