Hello again, Oliver here,

it's that time of year once more when I put my body and soul through pain and grief on behalf of other people's bemusement and amusement. I've just ran the Birmingham Half Marathon, 13.1 miles of sheer joy in just under 2 hours. The experience was pretty amazing, especially running through the underpass onto Broad Street... the longest 800m of my life I think.

And this friday I will running the Beacon Hill Skeleton trail run in the dark wooooooohh just to put my hips through more suffering.

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