My neck is finally much better.....

When I sat down in the evening after the Bath Half and the temperature chilled, my neck muscles began to ache extremely badly. For the next few days if I wanted to move my head I had to use both hands to help! Anyway, although I still have a slight ache it is much better today and although I have been running and cycling etc since - it has not been fun.

Her is another blog that I am following on sustainability:

http://www.petermcmanners.com/html/blog_2009.html

I thought I would paste it in here as it resonates well with the ethos behind Temi. I have included it in the 'Look here.....' section.

Bath Half Marathon

On a gorgeous Sunday morning I drove across the Somerset Levels up through the Mendips and into Bath for this year's half marathon. As you can see from the picture below it was clear blue skies, sunshine and a slight cooling breeze. You couldn't ask for more for a run around one of the prettiest of cities.



At the start it was difficult to make out who there were more of- spectators (above)......



...or runners. Including fairies.



The start was delayed by half an hour but eventually we were off. I have no idea where this was apart from not long after we got going.



This was crossing the River Avon for the first time - the Bath run involves two laps of the same course. Here we ran just outside the town before turning east and back in again.



Runners everywhere and spectators everywhere.....



This is the top of what is apparently a hill.



This is crossing the Avon for the second time and carefully observing the speed limit. Note the Telly Tubby - can anyone tell me which one this is?

The Telly Tubbie is 'Po' (Thanks Jenny!)



Finished at last - although it was a lot easier than fiddling about with the photo's on this blog.

From some runs in the snow and ice....

Back in Somerset this is Crowcombe Hill under over a foot of snow. A good slog but not runnable. Thank heavens! The sign is for an escape lane - presumably for the snowboarders who had also been playing barflies into the slope at the right! I joined them for a bit of a cool-off.




At the end of nine miles I was rewarded with some sunshine. A beautiful day to be snowed in!



The snow here is pretty frozen but every footfall was accompanied by a deeply satisfying, crisply cryogenic, crunch. Heaven on the knees and suprisingly effortless.

A day after it snowed it froze. This lane in Oxfordshire was like an ice rink and impossible to run on. I did manage to stay upright but I did feel like getting down on all fours at times.

I came across this bovine behemoth shortly after the snow started. He stands over six feet at the shoulders but thinks at an appropriately glacial pace given the weather and his kinship with the Pleistocene megafauna. You can see that he is quite perplexed by the snow which has, cunningly, hidden all his grass!

They say there is nothing like a charging pachyderm to concentrate the mind - so it did and so I ran.

Actually, he's a big softy - albeit with a tongue that could sculpt concrete!

A clean pair of heels......

It was sunny last weekend - so I thought I would record that event as it might be some time before it is again.

Photographs from Temi

Here are some photographs from the Christmas celebrations at the Temi Community.

Wednesday 15th january

Rather than do the things I should be doing I have run around and ensured a booking for the Paris Marathon and making sure the required medical certificate is in place - a piece of admin that is miraculously falling into place. That an attempting to set up the link between this blog and the Temi Community in Georgia.

And there it is under 'Take a look here.......'

Another triumph!

Better go and find those envelopes now.