5.74km short of 3 weeks

The homeless lollipop man headed out again today in the knowledge that he needed to run a few km's to firstly continue to break in the new trainers and secondly just to do it with the up and coming Wokingham Half coming round far too quickly. Considering I only did my first run in 3 months 20 days ago, I'm delighted to say that I managed to do 15:36km in 1:21:44. That's a pretty good pace of 5:20 m/km (8:33m/m) for me. Even better when you consider it was on the standard kind of route you get in Surrey. i.e. Hilly. Profile of today's route

Then we had George's swimming class which I had missed last week due to playing around in the mud and he certainly seemed to enjoy it although being up an hour and a half earlier than normal this morning meant he was a bit tired and didn't enjoy his dunking quite as much.

 GEORGE FELT MORE COMFORTABLE HOLDING ONTO THE BEARD FOR STABILITY

The beard is also staying for now as it'll take more effort to remove it than to keep it and I reckon with a little bit of effort, it could be like the beard belonging to this fine upstanding citizen.

OPIE. NICE GUY, GREAT BEARD

Work on the dismantling for Mrs HMC's new bike is also underway. It's going to be a beauty when it's finished. Now I just need some light evenings to get on with it. Hmmmm