Good things!
Aug. 13th, 2018 11:28 amI'm feeling considerably more cheerful than I was a week ago. I'm now a lot more excited about coming home to London and getting to see more of ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
obandsoller and robert_jones and other friends, and a lot less sad about my contract ending. I've put out some feelers for jobs in London, and the market looks pretty buoyant.
On Saturday I ran the Pride 10k, along withthemidnightgirl and a bunch of chaps from the LGMC. I signed up for it a couple of months ago with lots of good intentions about training, and then the heatwave happened and I basically didn't run for two months. I had two targets originally; 50 minutes for my "I'll be quite pleased with this" time, and 45 minutes for "astonished and over the moon". Considering the complete lack of training, I'm in fact very pleased with my result of 49:38, and I've signed up for another race on the same course in early October, to see how much better I can do if I actually do train. I don't think getting down to 45 minutes is going to be realistic in that time frame, but 47 feels like it might be a plausible stretch goal.
Afterwards Robert had to dash off to a poker game, but I went to the pub with the chorines, and caught up with some of the gossip from my season off. On Sunday evening Ramesh & I went to "Songs of Gays", a short concert by the LGMC Ensemble (a small group of the strongest performers who do a bunch of extra concerts), and had to be careful not to join in with the singing and choreography of the songs I knew. It really brought home how much I've been missing singing, so I'm incredibly excited to be getting back to rehearsing tonight. And of course making that less logistical is another big bonus to my contract in Birmingham ending.
obandsoller and robert_jones and other friends, and a lot less sad about my contract ending. I've put out some feelers for jobs in London, and the market looks pretty buoyant. On Saturday I ran the Pride 10k, along with
themidnightgirl and a bunch of chaps from the LGMC. I signed up for it a couple of months ago with lots of good intentions about training, and then the heatwave happened and I basically didn't run for two months. I had two targets originally; 50 minutes for my "I'll be quite pleased with this" time, and 45 minutes for "astonished and over the moon". Considering the complete lack of training, I'm in fact very pleased with my result of 49:38, and I've signed up for another race on the same course in early October, to see how much better I can do if I actually do train. I don't think getting down to 45 minutes is going to be realistic in that time frame, but 47 feels like it might be a plausible stretch goal.Afterwards Robert had to dash off to a poker game, but I went to the pub with the chorines, and caught up with some of the gossip from my season off. On Sunday evening Ramesh & I went to "Songs of Gays", a short concert by the LGMC Ensemble (a small group of the strongest performers who do a bunch of extra concerts), and had to be careful not to join in with the singing and choreography of the songs I knew. It really brought home how much I've been missing singing, so I'm incredibly excited to be getting back to rehearsing tonight. And of course making that less logistical is another big bonus to my contract in Birmingham ending.
