Post Yule
Haven't updated for a bit as I've been feeling pretty ropey since before Christmas. I've had a mix of cold and cough, but it's mainly the cough that's been bugging me - it's very dry and it just seems to have been going on forever. It was keeping me awake for several nights, but I've now discovered the wonders of Cough Nurse (ie like Night Nurse but for coughs) which seems to have just taken the edge off it.
So apart from sickliness, what else:
- Christmas itself was good - we had duck for lunch, with a bottle of Chateau Musar (my favourite wine). Lots of presents were exchanged, with Mrs F particularly pleased with my getting her the DVD of Miyazaki's animated film of Howl's Moving Castle.
- Then the 28th was E's birthday, so we had a few people over (there would have been more, but it seems we're not the only ones who are ill) but it was really nice to see Jay, and Guy + Susie and family again - Ella loves playing with their older boy Gabriel. I don't think E could claim to have been hard done by for presents, given the proximity of her birthday to Christmas.
- Yesterday we tried to go out - we thought to go to St Ives, but the weather and traffic were against us, so we ended up having a rather disappointing lunch at Bella Italia (which has previously been quite good).
- Today I managed to go for a run for the first time in over a week. Possibly I could have gone before - it's hard to judge when running will make you feel better rather than worse when you feel a bit off colour. Anyway, I did about 6 miles, so I shall treat that as the run I should have done last Saturday, and treat myself as just a week behind on my schedule. Of course I didn't think about losing time in the training schedule when I started running, so I haven't left any spare weeks to catch up the time I've lost. Hopefully I can make up the distance on some of the later long runs, but I think there's a lesson there for another year.
That'll do for now. I want to do some end of the year personal round up type stuff, but I need to think about that a bit more.
Posted by MFreestone at December 30, 2006 04:13 PM