2 April, 2007

I had a fairly eventful Saturday this weekend and managed to squeeze in a few necessary activities before flying out to the States this easter.

I started off Saturday with my mandatory poached eggs on toast and a quick Soccer AM session. Then it was on to Battersea park for a skating session, my first since last year, I was a bit rusty but hopefully by the end of this year I’ll be able to do a few London Rollers!

My knees are still sore from the half marathon the week before so I decided to head into East Sheen to a store called Up and Running and have my gait and running style assessed. I ended up leaving the store with a pair of brand (damn expensive) new Brooks Trance 6. The owner Chris was so confident of his diagnosis he told me if the new shoes don’t fix my problem I can take them back and get another pair!

So we got back to Carla’s place (she had also purchased some new shoes) and the three of us went for a run down to Hammersmith bridge and back. I realise my knees were still too sore to run too far so I only did 6km’s. Suitably cream crackered after the run we got dressed and ready to rock out with Zomes and Hayley in Putney. Downhill from there on really, met up with Dave, Wiggy etc. and only got home at 4am!

I had a killer hangover yesterday, which was only slightly improved by a Sunday Roast at the Sun in Barnes and the thought that in less than 5 days I will be in Chicago hanging out with Denise and Heather watching the White Sox taking on the Minnesota Twins!

Bring on US Cellular Field

The results of the SA Blog Awards are out. The Missing Link guys aka Jo’blog have put up a video of all the winners on the night and it looks like great fun was had by all. I missed out, got drilled by the Hollywood Reporter in best overseas blog category and out of nowhere Steve Hofmeyers blog walked away with the best political blog. Congratulations to all the winners, there are some really good ones in there and a few surprising results by  some newcomers. All the blogs on there make for interesting reading and I have certainly found some new ones I’ve added to my feed reader!

Bring on next year, and hopefully in the interim we can all have our say in improving the format. I believe the awards should be judged only by panel judges in each category and they should be guided by criteria applicable to their category.  I think the winners may have been slightly different, but, on the whole the outcome is good enough.

I wish I could have been there ‘cos I definitely would have won something, my foosball is smokin hot right now!