Training - Day One!

Thank you to everyone for my birthday wishes yesterday. It was a normal working day for me but in the evening we went to the monthly wine dinner and there were two of us with our birthday's on the 4th! I dragged Stuart along, who is still unwell, and I have agreed I owe him 2 million brownie points! And he even drove, which was lovely. I wore my new cowboy boots and got lots of oohs and ahhs from the other girls :)

It was a struggle to get up this morning as it was after 1am before I fell asleep - I am near the end of my book and it is getting good :)

I did the first run on my 12 week training plan for the half marathon! It was pretty dull on the treadmill but I certainly wasn't alone as all the New Year resolutions have brought everyone to the gym. No doubt by February the numbers will be back down! I also took my new cycling shoes with cleats to go and practice getting them into the pedals before spin class at 5:30am. For my parents, you have a small arrow shaped plate on the ball of your foot that clips in to the pedal on the bike. Stuart explained the principle to me but it took me a little minute before I got it. But then t comes to releasing it - twist your foot outwards. That was not too hard. I only got to actually cycle with them for a few minutes (a class was about to start) but they felt really good and comfortable with lots of power because you can pull up the pedal as well pushing down.

We took down the Christmas decorations this evening but I notice the Christmas tree at the end of our street is still up I assume it will come down sometime tomorrow?!

I just have to make a little addition to the blog to tell you of our little electrical surprise this evening. I was sitting on the sofa when I could hear a funny noise from the kitchen. When I turned around I could see the plug socket (with nothing plugged into it) was sparking! I had noticed at the weekend it was a little lively, but this is just ridiculous. I had to get Stuart off his death bed to help. I sorted turning off the power and he discovered there was lots of fluff behind the face panel and one of the screws was lose causing the sparks. It appears to be fine now!! I should reassure you that we have a number of smoke alarms, that are all working.