Things are continuing to progress well with the running, with a couple of milestones reached recently.

I completed my tenth Hyde Park Time Trial on Saturday (surrounded by a light dusting of snow) which is something of a milestone. I've gone from 33:09 in January to my current PB of 28:50, which is not far off a 5 minute improvement. Doing the time trial these last ten weeks has been such a help. It's helped me measure my progress, it's helped me push myself harder, it's given me some consistency in my running... I doubt that I'd be in the position I'm in now without it. Not only that, but I've met some nice people there and I have some fabulous and free running shoes from Sweatshop as a result of winning the monthly prize in February.

Another milestone came this weekend in bathroom. Since starting out in January, I have now lost a full stone in weight. I still weigh in at 16st 7lb so I've got a long way to go, but it's a definite milestone.

Finally, this morning I went for an hour's run and ended up doing 10k (in 69 minutes). I know it doesn't sound like much of a milestone, but in fact it's only the third time in my life that I've ever run that far. I did the Leeds Abbey Dash 10k in 2004 and 2005, but never actually ran the distance in training for those events. I didn't even do a total of 10k in training for those events, never mind in an individual run. So it's pleasing that I've been able to do this distance in training for the first time. This is something I would have really struggled to do even just a few weeks ago.