in search of lost time..

so.. it's been a while. and i didn't mean a bit of it. Wednesday morning was supposed to be a relaxed affair, involving me getting up early enough to get out for another quality run around Stanford campus leaving time for me to blog again before heading over to company offices for a couple of meetings, then the flight out. however, a number of things popped up when i checked my email before setting out and from that point there was no time left to run or write. then came the flight through Wed night and Thu morning and the subsequent jet-lag (which i'm still recovering from i think) and work on Friday. then off to visit family in Frinton (Essex) across the weekend.. and now it's Monday. and here we are..

didn't note that on the Tuesday morning, although i didn't feel so great as the morning before, i did get out for a decent 4m at 7:10. likewise, when i got back to work on Friday, I managed 6m in 40min! don't know where that came from! i included a few spurts of around 6:00 pace throughout, but i hadn't realized that i'd gone out so quick.

meant to run yesterday, while down by the sea, but the jet-lag hit me when i woke up at 7am and i pretty much had to go back to sleep for a little while - and missed my chance.

back to it today, in full fettle, with a jog to Green Park and 6 x 200m as fast as i could manage. by my watch the 200m sprints were taking around 60s. now that either means in my blurred state i was reading the watch wrong or the distance we have pegged as 200m is nothing of the sort. i'll have to download the splits from my watch later and see if i can discount the former.

now have under three weeks to prepare for this 10k, and i'm about 7lbs over weight from all the eating in France and the US. i'd like to say i didn't go overboard, but i doubt all that fresh bread, cheese and fantastic wine was really that good for me.. got a good tan all the same, though.

was odd running through those Palo Alto streets looking at the tanned, healthy-looking people and then realizing i probably looked something similar to them myself. felt pretty good to be honest. that and two people at the conference thinking i was ten years' younger than i am.. that is always going to be great to hear, eh..