Quick update

As it's Sunday and I am taking a break at my mum's between red wine and post-dinner g&t, I felt the time was right to give a quick update on where things are in general.

Half marathon - ran 17.25km on Friday night, largely unintentionally but was aiming for 15 and mapmyrun.com is apparently not overly concerned with accuracy. Pretty chuffed, and barring any major mishaps or attacks of laziness over the next month, I should be sitting (definitely sitting) with a grin on my face this time 4 weeks, reflecting on a job done. I even managed to get wolf-whistled by a Fiat 126 at a set of traffic lights as I trotted along the South Circular - I am not only a running machine, but apparently an attractive one.

Rally - not progressed much since the joy of getting the first donation faded into the mist on Tuesday. Was out on Thursday and running on Friday, and have been at my mum's house all weekend hence not much going on. I'm reasonably comfortable that we know what needs to be done and in roughly what order though, and none of the other teams appear to be that much further progressed than us. Looks like we're going to have to find about £700-900 for the van; work couldn't help (unsurprising in the current climate) and to be honest I can't see any other company being in a position to help out. Just need to keep saving and hoping and asking!

Other shizzle - our friends Pino & Stella managed to buy a flat last week, which is brilliant news; not only do they get somewhere they can call home to raise their young family, but their rented place near the park might be available to a plucky young Irishman and his lovely girlfriend. Fingers crossed I may have some exciting home related news soon.

Apart from that, apologies in advance if you don't see many updates over the next few weeks - got a 'mare of a fortnight ahead work wise (including a week-long course next week, for which I have to do 20 hours of pre-reading - either I somehow shoehorn in 4 hours a night from Monday to Friday, or I have a very boring weekend ahead of me. Given I'm taking a half day on Friday to go to the England vs Ireland Legends game at the Stoop, I'd really rather get the bulk of it out of the way during the week. I also have to fit a couple of 10k runs, some rally publicising and a visit to check out the aforementioned flat around it. Bring on mid-March!