A gentle bit of trumpet blowing… (!)
http://www.scouts.org.uk/news/archive/2008/april/240408.html
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Haute Cuisine in Glasgow
At the very top of one of the teaching blocks in Anniesland College, Glasgow, is a very small training kitchen and restaurant. In it, the college’s catering and hospitality students practise the skills and techniques they hope they’ll be using for the rest of their working lives. If the lunch I had today is anything…
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Spot me on film as I cross the finish line…
Amazingly, you can watch me running (sort of) across the finish line. It’s a bit like playing ‘Where’s Wally?’, only you get the added benefit of seeing me in various stages of suffering… I’m the one in the black lycra with the baseball hat, sunglasses and ‘John’ written on his front!
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Official time from the Paris Marathon organisers…
My Garmin did a good job… 4:59:41, confirmed on the Paris Marathon website this evening. Just sneeked in under the 5:00 hour barrier, then. Which means I came 26245th out of 28844! There were an awful lot of people in front, but at least there were over two and a half thousand behind me!
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Paris Marathon 2008
The headlines are pretty simple. I am the proud owner of a finisher’s medal and tee shirt for this year’s Paris Marathon, having achieved a personal best by scraping in at 4 hours 59 minutes. Or at least I think that’s my time. My Garmin tells me that’s the case, but I’ll have to wait…
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The slow train
A lot of people have been very rude about First Great Western in the press recently, describing it as slow, inefficient, poorly managed, etc etc. I cannot comment on very much, but I can confirm that it is very slow. I am currently sitting on a train from Swansea to London, just outside Reading, where…
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Coffee with Lord Baden-Powell
He looks just like his grandfather. Same height; maybe slightly broader shoulders; but the eyes and nose are distinctly those of a Baden-Powell. Today, Chris James, editor of Scouting Magazine and I travelled down to Surrey to talk to Lord Baden-Powell about his views on modern Scouting, in preparation for a forthcoming article comparing his…
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The Oakley 20
It rained. The wind blew. I ran. In the right weather, today’s 20 miler could have been quite fun. An undulating course took us in two loops (one of 12 miles and one of 8) through country lanes and pretty villages around Bedford.But the weather today was far from right. I knew things were going…
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