Just out of the shower after my morning run. The weather is so different from yesterday, colder, grey and starting to rain where yesterday was overwhelmingly sunny, not a cloud in the sky uplifting morning. Whatever, I feel good today too, positive effect of switching to running in the morning. The downside is that it feels a bit harder, particularly the morning after a gym night (mind you the gym is harder after a morning run than an immediately preceding one too). Could be something to do with stepping up to 3 gym visits a week, with a 5000m row; I never was any good at rowing, but I seem to be getting the hang of it, mostly.

The reason for the morning running (other than a couple of nice sunny mornings) is that I'm stepping up work on my thesis. Saves time and gets the day off to a well. Still lots to do, going well at the moment but currently looking like I will finish in December. So if you don't hear from me, that's why...

Back to the running, we're now 3 weeks into the 2nd half of the year, and my logs tell me in the first half I ran 944km (586 miles) in an inconsistent fashion (some longer weeks and off weeks). Minimal goal for the rest of the year is 1000km, or better to hit 2000 for the year, with a gradual build-up and more consistency. Anything else is a bonus.