Jump Out of Your Skin

I chaned the theme today as I thought the previous one was too cluttered. WordPress is handy with that. Drupal does it easy as well but Joomla I still haven’t gotten my teeth into and it is the one I use for www.frmathews.net.

I am going to revisit Drupal soon and play around with it a bit more but like most of the CMS out there the documentation is scrapy.

Ran on the beach over weekend but only once but for 40 minutes so not bad. End of summer now arriving. Had best intentions to run more after last week getting it together but threw in excuses to make it not happen. Thursday 28th August now will run this evening for sure and get routine back again as the Autumn nights arrive and routine of boys back in school helps. Marathon plan now looks out the window really as with 6 weeks to go there isn’t a chance.

However I am going to run the schedule till then and see where I end up.

I would say I have run the cross Douglas Road loop from my house over 200 times in the past 10 years and tonight I did it again. 4.5 miles in 40 minutes. Afterwards I was glad I did it as I nearly opened the bottle of wine and scratched my ass in front of the Olympics. But now a couple of hours later (still opened the wine but run under belt) I realise that I need to up the ante and change the route a bit as I ran the route on auto pilot and that is not good running. So I am going to hit MapMyRun to find a few different 4-5 milers.

I still have to run up that bloody hill every time for the last half mile but my next stage is to get faster and not slob along like I normally do.

Watch this space…

I downloaded some podcasts today and loaded them up on my phone and they sound OK. I might just put up with the ugly headphones and start listening to the podcasts and some music on it. I found my USB cable for my phone and I am going to spend the rest of the week loading up music and podcasts. Will stuff the headphones in my pocket and see if I actually listen to the stuff.