I ran a half marathon..and a bit

This has been a fun weekend, I told science to bum off for the whole weekend, we had a party and today I ran 13.2 miles (there's the bit) and we went to the cinema. A free weekend, you don't get many of them in your third year of a PhD but I took one. It was great, no guilt at all because I am being shown a new bit of equipment tomorrow so I can do any other work because I won't have the time and as such could not prepare anything over the weekend.

The run was actually fun, I felt a bit rough for the first couple of miles, two beers last night and not enough water in the morning will do that to you. But thanks to my water belt kindly provided by Kay's Mum and Dad at Christmas I was back on track soon enough. Kay suggested a great route and I ran that and the same ish route as last week to up my milage to 13. It was tough but nowhere near as tough as my procrastinating til 2pm would suggest. I was even singing along (Out loud, oh yes!) after 11miles and ran my fastest mile on number 13 to get my best time ever over the half marathon distance off 1hr 58mins. As Phil said on his blog the other day, it really is nice to have something in reserve at the end and really go for it. However, does that mean I'm not going fast enough? We'll see in a couple of weeks when Phil and I run around Silverstone. One thing that I have been wondering about that run. How long is the circuit? Will be have to run around 4 times? Nevermind.

I promised to post some photos of the party but my knees are too tired to get me up and get the cable (which I have, unlike Phil :-P) so I'll do that tomorrow. If you were wondering about the wine situation, we now have three extra bottles, I love having parties, people always leave booze (boo for us to get ripped pp on). And the cinema, we saw Good Night and Good Luck. A great film but a bit unsettling. It's good because it does make you think about how you think about things (esp. security issues) and it's bad because it makes you think about how you think about things ( I have too much to think about already!) It is also good because, by the use of the phrase "Pinko commie" (I have no idea to what the pinko bit refers to, can some educate me?) it made me think of this silly Bush bashing election silliness. Please sit through the stupid trailer, it's worth it.

For some totally unrelated silliness, especially knowing how much you liked magical Trevor, here is a bit of culture from the Opera Rigoletto (which I have seen in the Roman amphitheatre in Verona :-P). From this site I also like Mark Llama and all the animations which are mean to a certain ginger singing Man U fan, See Simply Red or Holding.

Also, I absolutely and totally did not steal the counter idea from Phil and in response to his accusation I say BUM OFF. I was researching at work way before he even posted his!