Truck Festival and LEJOG writeup update

I forgot to tell you that we survived our LEJOG cycle trip. And it was damn good fun.
I've been down with a cold (or possibly the flu?) all week since attending Truck music Festival last weekend (I'm not convinced the two aren't related).

Truck was pretty good fun, but one night camping mistakenly in the 'Party camping' area of Truck (read: 16 year olds throwing raw bacon on our friends tents at 4am) wasn't nearly as exciting as our three week cycling and camping trip the length of England and Scotland. The trip report is one edit away from being publishable, so if you're like to live vicariously through us instead of cycling more than 1000 miles yourself you may well be able to do that in the next few days. No promises now.

Better places

three things that are getting me excited:

- ran for 42 minutes around the neighbourhood this morning. And in howling freezing wind. Can definately run to work I reckon (should be the same distance). Next Tuesday maybe... stay tuned.

- Read a profile about retired Russian chess champion Gary Kasparov in the New York Times supplement on the weekend. I guess its old news but how interesting, and appropriate that the strategy game and politics are so intermeshed...

- Doctors appointment at 11am so long morning at home. Yah!