This weekend we’ve got Riot Runner, the latest in our series of off-road runs, with just Horseplay in March to finish the muddy part of the running season. It’ll be good to get a race in after having a bit of a quiet start to the year exercise wise. I haven’t dared get back on the scales, but know that all the good work from trekking in Morocco has gone straight back on the waistline.  Ah well, if it can come off once, it can come off again.

Last weekend was pretty poor on the running side (just a 4 miler to our name), but I did manage to go to the climbing wall for the first time in… well, years. I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with climbing, due to be crap at it and scared of heights, and generally find climbing walls boring. But that all evaporated when went to the Castle in London for the first time with K, who was down from ‘the North’. OK, it was the novelty factor, perhaps, but I definitely enjoyed the feeling of aching arms and the satisfaction of climbing that’s very difficult of explain.

I might even go again, although not at the expense of running, which is much more accessible and better for calorie off-setting.