Training Update

I've been keeping up my training schedule pretty well the last few weeks, running 10km's around the local park a couple of times a week. Training here is really pretty hard - I run at 5pm in the evening, but it's still 30 degrees and 70% humidity. When I get back i'm literally soaked with sweat, and it's desperately hard to cool down. Even with the aircon cranked and standing under a cold shower, your body continues to pump out heat like a radiator. Anyway, the theory is that training in this heat should mean i'm super fit when the cool season (and the race !) come along in December. I've been managing 10km in a pretty consistent 46mins - when I was 18 I used to do 40mins (in a cold climate) so it's not too bad as I haven't run seriously for years. I just need to keep up the running, and up the distance to 15km over the next few months and I should be good for the race round the temples.

On a tenuously related note, I was out buying a yoga mat from Emma this morning. She'd had a tip-off from a work colleague that the local stationary shop sold them upstairs. This is the way so much shopping works here...expats swapping tips and secret locations as it's so hard to find many things and they usually aren't where you'd expect. Anyway, I was very surprised in between the yoga mats and table-tennis bats to find nunchuk's for sale. They really looked like they'd do some damage.