My colleague Andy ran the race though, along with 29,000 other people. Amazing given the atrocious weather conditions. After nearly perfect weather, we had gale force winds and driving rain. Andy said it was so bad at one point he ran past the same tree three times.

As for my personal goal of running the City to Surf that is still on. I have started back at the gym and ran properly for the first time in a couple of months. And it felt good. better than good in fact to know that the strength, flexibility and lung capacity had not left me entirely during my flu'ey absence.

Not running the race this year has made me even more determined to get race fit for next. Hopefully there will be a couple of races in the meantime and I can start to train properly...but in the meantime I have other projects to get on with, especially as it is winter, cold and summer seems a LONG way off.

MMM1