Ralph's Health

John managed to get me looking very la-de-da in this. It looks like I'm hardly moving, but probably doing about 12/15 mph of this final downhill.

I've run a couple of races recently. Reasonably happy with my performance in them given the heatwave we have right now. I did the Bollington Nostalgia hill race last Sunday and achieved 1:04:00 which is a bit slower than previous best but still good considering how hot it was on the day. Wednesday on the Macclesfield Forest Five was better, did it in 47:36 which is almost 1 minute faster than last year. this is the first time I've beaten a previous time this year, so very please with that. Diet wise the hot weather is taking its toll, far too much lager being drunk at the moment. My weight has now stabilised as about 82.2kg which I'm happy with.

Ran 42:36 on the Kerridge ridge 4.9 mile run last night. Almost 30 seconds faster than previous PB set in January 2012. Tonight attempted the Middlewood Way and was 2 minutes slower than PB. Here are details for PB run last night. Good thing is my heart average was not too high.

I raced on Saturday, a bit slower than last year but faster than 2010: 2010 - 59:41 2012 - 54:29 2013 - 57:41 The field was much bigger this year with 246 competitors, and there was an additional stile wait at the beginning which slowed me down by a couple of minutes. Next race is Bollington Nostalgia. I've just checked my time for last year which was 1:01:17 so that is the time to beat this year. Having a fast day today after visiting Alton Towers yesterday, following by Ronnies.