Great North Run 2013

BP- I'm in red A.

RLTW- at least you'll be nicely warmed up for the BUPA 10k

OS - that's the difference in class

Good afternoon, everypeople.

Cracking effort and many, many congratulations to young OS on the sub-20 at parkrun. Fantastic achievement.

I'm just in from this morning's Gregg's Childrens Cancer Run in Gosforth Park. A 5-mile clart-fest that the younger camel calf managed to negotiate in 1:10:02 I'm so proud of her, as she's never done anything like this before.

XL- Congrats to young camel calf - great running

Well done on your 3000m track event, CC2.

Further well dones to RLTW for doing parkrun and XL and his little camel for what sounds like my idea of fun - a nice run through the clarts which was pretty much every cross country run this winter.  How I miss the mud (she says, putting on her rose-tinted memory spectacles)

Lily - good to hear the foot is better.

After an absolute stinker of a day here yesterday the weather was much better for running today so I went out earlier and did an enjoyable 10 miles at 9m/m pace which was rather faster than I intended but it felt fine so I just cracked on with it.

Now the sun is cracking through the clouds, so I might do a spot of gardening this afternoon.