Feel the Wrath

From the website of the Cape Wrath Challenges (2008):

"We apologise to Margaret Turnbull and Frances Arrowsmith. Due to an admin error Margaret's age was listed incorrectly and Frances was awarded the over 40's ladies prize. Frances was the one to notice this and the prize was given to Margaret. We apologise to both ladies."

Fans of Hot Fuzz may get an extra chuckle out of this.

The run of the (tread)mill

My mate Paul writes to say:

"Yesterday I managed a 45 min session in the gym and rounded it off with the 1.5miler in under 10 mins... on a treadmill."

I must confess I've been pretty lax on my fitness this week. Yesterday I ran up Tower 42...


























and only spent about seven minutes on it, at that.

[Thanks to PC]

Running gags

On Sunday I ran the adidas Silverstone half marathon.

This is not a picture of me.

A literary exchange

As transpired this lunchtime, via text message:

Dominic Hilton: I think I need a lesson in how to organise all my notes into something semi-coherent. Any tips?

ASH Smyth: A metal bin, and a match.

Try this on for size

Running past Tesco today (for health reasons, you understand, not by way of a nervous reaction), I realised there was rain-water coming up into my shoe.

Turns out the crux of the new Adidas Climacool system is that essentially my trainers have no sole.

Fitting, I thought.