It is with a great deal of pride, pleasure and muscular aching that I can annouce my successful completion of the Leeds Abbey Dash. I managed to complete the ten kilometre (6.2 mile) course in just under an hour - far, far quicker than I had hoped for, especially given my training hiccups over the last month or so. I'll find out my actual time in the next few days.

Update: my official time was 57 minutes 46 seconds.

As I wrote previously back in September, I'm taking part in this year's Leeds Abbey Dash. Since deciding to take part, my training has not gone very well to say the least. I've been ill twice, been away from Leeds a fair bit, been distracted by film festivals and generally not kept up the pace.

I've got until the 28th of this month to get myself in a fit state to run. I started to get things back on track today by cycling to work - something that, somehow, I have managed not to do for nearly a month. Having cycled today it is a relief that I don't feel as though I have lost any fitness, but I am still going to have put lots of time aside for running between now and the race.

Not that difficult a task on paper, but life is never that simple. I have an absolutely mandatory night of drinking in Leeds this Friday (the fabulous Milk comes around once again, where I'm DJing next month!) and then it's down to Swansea for a housewarming party the next day. Although there's a fab weekend coming up, as far as training goes it's a write-off - the punch at the housewarming alone will probably take a few days to recover from, going from past experience!

At least I am still on target with the overall goal. I've lost two-and-a-half stone in the last six months without resulting to a mentalist diet or too much time spent working out. I just need to keep things up. Wish me luck.

I really like my employer's new website.

Tomorrow I'm swapping the Film Festival for Hancock's Whole Evening on Radio 2. Despite being far too young to be around for Hancock first time around, I've seen a couple of episodes and I'm a bit of a fan.

I saw the episodes over in TV Heaven at the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television in Bradford. The museum is great, but TV Heaven is fantastic - if you've never been, you really have to go. As it says on their website "over 900 programmes can be viewed free of charge in our unique gallery". There's a searchable database of the programmes they have available, take a look. I went with a friend a week or so ago and it turned into a children's TV fest (Rainbow/Bagpuss/Button Moon/Rentaghost) - a pretty cool way to kill time before the start of the Franz Ferdinand gig we went to see.

As for tonight, I think I'm just going to stay in and chill out.