The Blyth 10k

On Saturday night I went to a champagne party.  It was lots of fun and as well as drinking a fair amount of champagne, I also ate a hefty chunk of brie, and it was good brie.

The party hosts said that they were planning to run the Blyth 10k at the end of April.  I ran the Watford 10k in 2008 and whilst I think it's probably going a bit far to suggest that it was enjoyable,  it was certainly satisfying to complete it.  In the process of getting fit enough to make it to the end, I lost something like 2 stone (which I have unfortunately managed to find again) and felt generally healthier and good.

I would like to lose the weight and feel healthy(ish) again, so I decided that I should do this run in Blyth so I booked my place on Sunday morning.

The scary truth is that I weigh 17st 1.5lb (or 108.6kg) which makes a BMI  of 34 (Obese).  It's no wonder I have so little energy.

So the regime is in place, 3 training runs a week (last night's was worse than I hoped but better than I had feared), no more cake, no more double carbs at college (they have a passion for serving pasta with chips - genius!) and we'll see whether I can make this in 10 weeks time...

What have I gotten myself into!! 

The search continues

So, I'm still looking for a title post into which I will be ordained in July.

There are a number of things that make the search quite difficult. In particular is the fact that I am quite shy until I get to know people. This is definitely a problem when interviewing for jobs because (as a million people have pointed out) first impressions are massively important.

I'm currently looking at a post. It was the first post I noticed way back in September and I have a strong feeling that this is where we will end up. There have been a number of people look at it so far and they have all said no. I'm not saying no, but they aren't sure (based on a two hour visit when I was on the way to somewhere else) that I'm the right person for the job.

I'll persevere though. There is a second visit on the cards and I won't say no, I'll keep saying yes and see what happens!!