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Thanks running people for all your kind wishes and things, in wake of my recent announcement.

(For those of you who weren’t hanging on my every word last week, you may have missed that I was getting married. As you might expect, by this stage I need to scratch that word “was” and replace it with something like “am married” or similar.)

It all went pretty well. The day dawned clear and bright and a little on the warm side. “A little on the warm side” soon developed into baking, stinking, boiling hot. Something like the surface of the sun or the depths of hell, only with marginally less fire and brimstone.

By mid morning I was unceremoniously booted out of the house, so the blushing bride could don the veil, dress, garter and other mysterious female things, and also inhale a goodish portion of champagne.

I adjourned to the pub to drink a sensible lemon squash and then slip into a dark suit, tie, flowers and other things. It was slightly less than comfortable. All of a sudden, I was nervous, for some ungodly reason.

At the anointed hour, I shuffled up to the church, then stood around for about 45 minutes, making small-talk with various friends, family and extremely distant relations from the in-laws.

The bride turned up v. late, but looking cool and beautiful. The ceremony was hot, but generally pretty good. I remembered my lines (we do, I will, etc, etc). By about 3:15 the deed was done, and the only thing left to do was stand around for yonks having about 3 million photos taken.

The reception was in a pub nearby. It was the usual sort of thing - bad singer, 3 courses, cake, terrible dancing (mine), embarrassing drunks (not me), bad speeches (mine, again).

Running
I’ve kept running going, although the schedule has had to be shifted around. I did last week’s long run yesterday - about 32 k, including the last 4k at a faster speed. Oh god, I felt every step of that last 4k.

The Sri Chinmoy people have finally updated their website, and you can now sign up online for the marathon in Williamstown this May. That’s a weight off my mind. I’ve been training for this, and it’s unnerving not having any information available on the website.

I’ve also signed up for the Run for the Kids thing. I did it last year and quite enjoyed it. It’s 15.2k this year, and the course seems to have been reversed. I guess the challenge this year will be to go under an hour. I should be able to do it, what with the current level of training I’m doing.