Spent the day in a long meeting from 10 till 5. It was a scene setting meeting for out strategic planning in ten days time, so it was interesting and worth going to. It was long though, and my backside went to sleep at least three times.
Again the weather was superb and running in and back was lovely. I’ve been running slower this week than last, so I guess I’m fighting off an infection or similar. I ran back my times route in 29 minutes 35 secs, which is a couple of minutes longer than my best time. I did do it mainly staying under my target heart rate of 148bpm though (25 minutes under this heart rate is better then I normally do).
I spent half an hour on the phone to Christine to catch up on all the Easter gossip.
Watched Samurai Jack, the episode we watched wasn’t as action packed as normal—but the graphics were still stunning.
Lovely weather today and I really enjoyed the run to and from work in the sun. My hip is bruised from roller-blading but it’s the other that hip is sore for running?
Rebecca worked on 2005 page budgets today—it’s the sort of job where you can get almost any answer you want, predicting how many pages we’ll publish next year, based on submissions, rejection rates, special issues, article lengths and the trying to relate that to colour pages too.
Went straight to the gym after running. This was a challenge! In the future I’ll leave a bit of a break to stop my getting too exhausted. It as a night of chores, hung our some washing, ironed a shirt and them watched some more Blake’s 7.
Where has my energy gone! I managed to run to work and back, but almost everything else has been a struggle. I blame it on everything we packed into the Easter weekend. We’ve now got a lot of chocolate eggs and a lovely bag of loose chocolate from Adam’s parents. Probably enough to keep us in chocolate until next Easter.
Smelt the first barbecue of the year coming from a garden along the towpath by the river. It was 15°C so borderline for us to wheel out our barbecue—I wonder if the burner head is a heap of rust after the winter?
Spent ages getting this GBlog up-to-date after Easter.
I felt a little rough after all the red wine, gin and curry. The home-made hot cross buns finally got eaten for breakfast and were much more edible toasted. We watched about half an hour of Supergirl with breakfast—it was dire! So dire it was fabulous! Supergirl goes from blond to brunette and changes clothes as she walks thought a wood, with a major transition behind every tree and the seventies set that the film opens with is fabulous.
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Skipped breakfast at the CrossRoads hotel and headed off straight for Bicester to pick up Elisabeth and then took her to Michael’s brother’s. There was a big egg confusion in the boot of the car; eggs for various people from Elisabeth, from us, from my family, all mixed together in the boot. I really had to think to work out what was going to whom.
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Visited Christine and Adam in Rugby today, loaded down with chocolate and hot-cross buns. Mum and Dad were there, but David had gone to Birmingham for the day to visit an Internet friend that he hadn’t met before. I’ll need to find out how that went!
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