Keep on running, or you know, start again

No, not a post about Singapore. But it's coming. Soon. Just as soon as I write it.

Instead what I'm going to write about it is about my renewed interest in running again. Remember I ran around the lake? Well, earlier this year I was running in the gym (on the treadmill, not like round the corridors), not far, just the 'warm up' and then the next visit while about to put in my Nike+ transmitter thing to my Nano (affectionately known as piePod) I lost it. I turned round and a second later it was gone. Like vanished. Karen and I looked high and low and I even asked in lost property, but to no avail. I even decided a woman that had been hovering around me had stolen it. I know, the shame, because, can you guess where this is going?

Yes, that's right, I found it. How I found it is quite surprising. I was doing washing after France and before Singapore and after having put the load in the washing machine, taking it out and putting it on the radiators, I then put the stuff (towels and the like) into the tumble dryer, you know 'to soften them up a bit'. It was when I was taking the load out of the dryer (which included the towel I had in my gym bag for swimming) that it fell out and landed beside my feet. I don't know how it managed to get there and neither do I know how it manages to still work, but it does. Win.

So now armed once again with Nike+ I decided when I came back from Singapore I would start running. But running outside. I thought it best to approach it like I did the lake - have a route in mind to be able to run all of it. So I've done that and let me say it is way more challenging the the lake. Although it's about the same distance it's got way more uphill. Heck, part of it is a cliff face, albeit with steps. But seriously, it's steep!

I thought that if I blogged about it, then I'm much more likely to be able to do it because I won't give up because I know when I see you, you might ask me about how it's going and it'd be embarrassing to say that I haven't done it in weeks. Actually, I'd probably try to lie and say I was injured or something even though I'm not a very good liar. And now that I've said that if I do actually get injured now you won't be believe me. Dammit. So let's just say that if I haven't done it I'll be honest.

Unless it's a really long time since I ran I might mention about how I once spotted UFOs on the route and I'm too scared to run there now.