Wow, it's been a while. I won't try and fill you in on the past six months. But the last two weeks have been very busy indeed. Firstly, I ran a marathon. And I actually ran the whole thing, too. Excuse me for being a wee bit boastful :) It was the Loch Ness Marathon, which goes along the eastern side of the loch and finishes in Inverness. 10 degrees, sunny, and crisp wintry light. It was all rather surreal by the end, when I was hobbling along at about 8km an hour. I had to choke back tears at the end when a lady gave me a banana, shortly before I collapsed against a tent and needed another runner's girlfriend to help me up again. But before that, I had a week travelling around Scotland
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