The plan has changed from meeting at Inn The Park. New plan is to go to The Porterhouse in Covent Garden, and then see what happens from there. Please come along!

The last week has been a blur! I had a LOT of work to do, and final marathon training to complete, as well as getting to London. Luckily everything fell into place on Friday, at about 2pm ... hours before I jumped on a train. One day I'll get organised.

So, the things I didn't do were:

• encourage everyone to sponsor me for running the London Marathon

  -- online sponsor form is here
• tell everyone that it is my birthday on Tuesday (I'll be 20, errr, 30), so I'm planning to have a bit of a get-together at Inn The Park from 5.30pm on Tuesday 25th April (tomorrow)
• make everyone jealous by letting you know I'm off for a mystery week's holiday

Yesterday's London Marathon was great, although I missed my target of 3h 30m with a time of 3h 44m. Whilst I'm happy with the time, knocking 14+ minutes off would have made me a lot happier and I was a 42 minutes faster than last year. Plans for the next race are already underway; a sub-3hour marathon will be mine! I must say special thanks to my parents, Hazel, Allan and Nat for coming along and cheering my on.

Over the last six months or so I've had my head down, training for the London Marathon. Here's what I've done!

2005

• w/c 14th November: 14th [2.5 miles], 17th [6.95 miles]. TOTAL: 9.45 miles
• w/c 21st November: 22nd [1.7 miles], 24th [5.8 miles]. TOTAL: 7.5 miles
• w/c 28th November: 1st December [6.66 miles]. TOTAL: 6.66 miles
• w/c 12th December: 15th [8.27 miles]. TOTAL: 8.27 miles
• w/c 12th December: 15th [8.27 miles], 18th [1.18 miles]. TOTAL: 9.45 miles
• w/c 19th December: 22nd [5.77 miles]. TOTAL: 5.77 miles

2006

• w/c 2nd January: 8th [3.55 miles]. TOTAL: 3.55 miles
• w/c 9th January: 12th [8.92 miles], 15th [4.57 miles]. TOTAL: 13.49 miles
• w/c 16th January: 17th [4.66 miles], 19th [8.46 miles], 22nd [13.0 miles]. TOTAL: 26.12 miles
• w/c 23rd January: 24th [4.89 miles], 26th [10.0 miles], 28th [9.17 miles]. TOTAL: 24.06 miles
• w/c 30th January: 30th [5.45 miles], 1st February [3.63 miles], 2nd [9.10 miles], 5th [15.00 miles]. TOTAL: 33.18 miles
• w/c 6th February: 7th [5.53 miles], 12th [10.01 miles]. TOTAL: 15.54 miles
• w/c 13th February: 14th [5.61 miles], 16th [8.04 miles], 19th [18.01 miles]. TOTAL: 31.66 miles
• w/c 20th February: 21st [5.49 miles], 23rd [5.51 miles], 25th [13.40 miles, 26th [2.11 miles]. TOTAL: 25.51 miles
• w/c 27th February: 27th [4.01 miles], 1st March [7.21 miles], 2nd [6.62 miles, 5th [20.50 miles]. TOTAL: 37.34 miles
• w/c 6th March: 7th [5.77 miles], 9th March [7.22 miles], 11th [11.60 miles]. TOTAL: 24.59 miles
• w/c 13th March: 14th [4.05 miles], 19th March [10.10 miles]. TOTAL: 14.15 miles
• w/c 20th March: 21st [5.01 miles], 23rd March [8.74 miles], 26th [13.10 miles]. TOTAL: 26.85 miles
• w/c 27th March: 29th [7.88 miles], 1st April [18.00 miles]. TOTAL: 25.88 miles
• w/c 3rd April: 5th [3.11 miles], 6th [6.23 miles], 9th [12.00 miles]. TOTAL: 21.34 miles
• w/c 16th April: 17th [8.44 miles], 19th [4.23 miles]. TOTAL: 12.67 miles

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For Christmas, my sister gave me Jamie Oliver's Italian cookbook. Following Rich's construction of cocktails 'from first principles' (name that quote, Heriot-Watt alumni), I decided to try these fried pizzas. They were *absolutely* delicious. Main course was sausages with tomato salsa on lentils, which got thumbs up too. Cooking rocks!

After something of a poorly communicated delivery of ADSL Max, my connection is showing signs of life, with 700kB/s downloads.

Drinking complete.

Self-constructed Shambles by Rich, Jams & Calder.

Allegedly we're going to get some trams firing about Edinburgh in the future. Jams found some truly terrible pictures someone has knocked together in MS Paint of the trams on Edinburgh streets. Tom has put together some brilliant edits of the photos that are well worth checking out (also on Flickr).