Listen to the Radio

Tuesday night and after a tense day a bit of light relief in Victoria Park, Hackney with Radiohead. Not really an outdoors concert sort of person, but a great show was put on by the grown ups from Oxford.

Its always a joy to listen to good music and drink overpriced fizzy alcohol out of recyclable containers, shame they didnt think about all the paper fyers that were littered all over the park by the end of the night!

London doesnt seem to be able to cope with the volumes of people that such an event generates, tubes and buses overloaded and entries shut so we ended up walking back to Liverpool Street and beyond before we found a cab with a yellow light.

Anyway lots of fun had by all and the weather behaved itself, quite something given it is Wimbledon week.

Running

I read this great article in Saturday's Guardian, terrific stuff.

http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/wellbeing/story/0,,2284358,00.html

I connected in my small way to what he was saying, I realised how much i use my running and cycling as a release mechanism. What was also cool was that I sat down with my chum Tony F on Sunday afternoon, having rushed around Wimbledon with our kids and no mums, and started talking about this article. Tony has read several of H's novels and could also connect to what the article was saying. We have been running together since last October and competed in around six 10K races, Simon and I also took Tony up into the Italian mountains on a bicycle last May.

With this all gushing around my system I rode the Brompton into the office this morning and then adorned my running shoes and went out along the Embankment and over Westminster Bridge. What a great start to my week. Finished today off by lapping Battersea Park with my girls in the evening sunshine - magic.