Ralph's Health

Achieved 36:01 this afternoon.

It is fair to say that I have been struggling with a few things recently. Since Christmas I've been suffering from stress from the situation at work, and the increasing pressure of running out of cash due to contracts not happening when they should have. I'm pleased to say that from a business perspective at least, things are starting to go in the right direction again, with the award of a new contract, and other opportunities that have come in. But the deterioration of the business which started in about May last year has taken its toll: 1. I stopped running an competing regularly, and I also stopped training with my running buddies. This started slowly with loss of motivation around the middle of last year, and ended with me not really competing much at all as the year progressed. 2. my weight started to go up, partly as a result of not exercising enough, partly as a result of eating too much because I was stressed (especially chocolate) and partly because I started t