So, what’s been going on lately?

Ran-walked 3.5 miles on Sunday afternoon with Mrs Try. I didn’t bother with the stopwatch – it wasn’t important. I know a guy at work who’s so driven by his desire to compete, when he plays Scrabble with students five decades younger than him to “have a break from normal lessons”, he even plays for them when they think they can’t put a word down, or when they put one that is worth few points down. I left the minutes-per-mile me at home.

I ran another 3.5 miles on my own this evening. I'm terribly glad now that the days are getting lighter for longer – I come home from work and it’s still nice and inviting to go for a run. A few weeks more and I might even go for early morning trots. Mrs Try calls me Solarman – when the sun’s out, I’m up because I can’t sleep any more. In the darker months, I’m as limp as a shrimp.

The plan for the next few weeks is to at least get some long runs in – just to illustrate the idea of relativity, by “long”, I mean anything from 5 miles onwards. I’ll also try some longer fartleks - run/jog at 1K intervals or something like that. I have goals I want to achieve, and while I know it is important, I don't want to tie myself to a fixed training schedule. I make it up as I go along. That makes the running fun. I’m happy to just trot along at 8 minute miles for 20 – 30 minutes; anything else is a bonus, although I still haven’t lost sight of that experiment to run a sub-4 marathon on less than 13 miles a week.

I heard it through the grapeswine that March / April is the blogging transition period. One traditional train of thought is that bloggers, fresh from achieving their winter goals, find they have nothing more to blog about. Another is that bloggers pile on more engagements – work, social and otherwise – in the spring when the weather is nicer and hence have less time to blog. A third believes that bloggers get bored staying in front of the computer screen when the weather is better and decide to head outside. Are any of these you?