7th post in a year, I bet you think you're pretty clever, don't ya boy?

So it's finally come to this. Six posts since this time last year. One every two months on average.

In truth, the only reason I'm back here is because some auto-spambot has been posting comments under my most recent (e.g, written last March) post and, faced with emails telling me that the twentieth attempt to do so in a couple of days had just taken place, I started to get increasingly ...

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Reading Half Marathon

Two years ago as part of the attempted fund-raising build up for the Mongolia Charity Rally, I took part in the Reading Half Marathon. In all honesty, I'd entered because my mates were, rather than as a deliberate attempt to get sponsorship - just as well, really, as I think I attracted naff all as a direct result of my hour and 56 minutes of effort.

For reasons lost to the mists of time, but ...

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first 10k of the year coming up...

...and my body's in shocking shape. It would appear that my smoke free lungs have enabled me to run like the wind without noticing - with the result that my knee and foot have both capitulated under the pressure.

I'm annoyed and frustrated; have been training since the beginning of January and anything more than a slow jog causes my knee to scream in pain. My foot joined in for good measure last ...

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Smoke signals

Well, I've done it. Barring any catastrophes between now and around 11am tomorrow morning, I will have gone a full month without booze. Well done me.

I do actually feel a bit healthier today - typical. There's an extremely strong chance that I will dive headlong back into the world of alcohol consumption on Friday evening, thus ensuring I'm back in the land of hangovers by Saturday morning. To ...

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Welcome to a new year

And trust it finds us all in fine fettle?

Big news here is that I'm nearing the end of Day 20 of no alcohol after an impetuous (some would say rash / foolhardy / deranged) decision to have a month off the plonk after New Year.

It's led to being inevitably lumped in with the annual January abstainers and meant I've been subjected to numerous rants outlining the health risks of stopping and then ...

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