Holiday's

I have had a busy old couple of months, I have been on holiday in Mexico in which we had a fab time; Mexico is a long favourite holiday destination for me.  I love the food, love the drink and love the sun! So when we booked it last August for the 1^st two weeks in July 2012 it sounded a long long time away! However before we knew it we were heading off in to the sun, it has been a tough few weeks for me at work, a lot of long stressful days and this holiday I was really looking forward to!

The holiday was everything I was expecting and more, the only downside was that it was the start of their rainy season so we had a couple of days when we had a shower or two, but other than that it was great. We had a romantic meal on the beach.

Took a trip to Coco Bongo , now this is one place you should go to if you ever make it to Mexico, it’s a great show and the dancers where amazing, something truly to behold. But one of the funnist things was watching the girls who thought they were all that dancing on the podum inbetween the shows, and every so often they would send up a jet of air and the poor girls skirt would end up around her ears! Fortunately all of the girls were wearing knickers, but they would never learn, after the jet had gone off they would carry on dancing without a care in the world and then of course the jet of air would go off again! Needless to say I didn’t get up there…no on wants to see that!

We loved Mexico so much that we are going back next year, but with all of the training I am going to have to do next year we are going to have to wait until later on in the year, probably around October or November, which is ages ago!!

Cheese !

Keep on rockin'

As well as Mexico I am just back from the Rewind 80 Festival in Henley which again was fantastic, it was a little quieter this year, as it was just me a Sean, our friends had to pull out a the last minute, but have promised to be back next year.  The weather was fantastic, which was a shock considering what the weathermen were saying in the run up to the festival; we had 3 days of wall to wall sunshine.  Every year this little festival gets busier and busier, we arrived a lot earlier than anticipated and there quite a few in front of us, however by the time we got in there was a load more behind us.  As far as festivals go for us this was a quiet one, early to bed but very early to rise, still didn't take my trainers (3 days off running!).  All in all we had a good time and yes we will be back next year! 

You would think that I have not had much time for running but you would be wrong, since coming back I have been in three races Meerbrook 15k which was pure evil!! Staffs Knot 5 and  Dave Clarke 5k which was not so bad, didn't break any personal bests or any major records. I have got my mileage back up to around 40 miles a week which was my plan when I got back from holiday.  I would like to try and keep it up there and maybe a little higher I am not sure why but it would just seem a shame to drop the mileage again, after working so hard to get there.