Mr Steve's firstest post

Things that I have learnt over the past few weeks:

1.
If Dr Cath goes for a training run and, whilst she's out, it starts raining a frankly ridiculous amount, I need to be waiting in the porch when she returns with a washing basket so that her running stuff doesn't drip all over the hall carpet.

2.
I should check Dr Cath's running timetable so that I'm aware of which days she needs her running gear washed by. On a related note...

3.
Our washing machine lies. When the countdown timer says there is one minute to go, there are still five minutes to go.

4.
No company has ever made tastefully-coloured running gear, and probably never will.

5.
Ron Hill and Ken Wood are similar.

At the moment I'm avoiding being long-suffering, I think. Attending the training races that Cathy has been on has been quite pleasant, especially the summery one at Market Drayton that netted us a free tray of "Muller product". Yum.

Even the "Christmas Pudding" 10-mile run that Cathy did just before Christmas wasn't too bad. The bitterly cold conditions were tempered by the hot chocolate that the school canteen were serving.

For the time being I'm safe from inclement weather in that regard. Cathy's next training event should be a half-marathon (location unknown as yet!) in March, followed by the Asthma UK 10k in April.


Which takes me back to the last Asthma UK 10k, last year - an amazing event in which every possible adverse weather condition occurred in the same place within the space of one hour. Snow, hail, sleet, driving rain, gale-force wind, and even some sunshine. This year they're apparently planning a tidal wave, an earthquake, and an eruption of the long-dormant volcano on which the Eton Rowing Club built their new clubhouse. After the hour mark they're sending in a plague of locusts to hurry up the stragglers, and the whole complex will explode in a spectacular and expensive fashion if people are still running after 90 minutes.

Or it'll be quite mild and sunny. One or the other.