Well, the good old British transport system fell to pieces again yesterday and Chiltern Rail suspended the service, so I walked back home and arranged to work from home with my boss.

This could have had several advantages, nice long runs in (mostly) daylight hours if I left at 5.00 pm, do some hill training after the disappointing effort up the hills at the Berkhamsted half this past weekend, that sort of thing.  Sadly my 12.1 km run on Wednesday was so good that my knee has gone and swollen up again so i'm taking it easy on the training yesterday and today in the hope that I can get out on the scheduled 18 - 20 km LSD tomorrow or Sunday.  Will have to wait and see.

Looks like that knee op is on the cards this summer though; fortunately my company also has a private health care plan so I can sort of plan it around when I want to have it rather than wait 6 or 9 months on the NHS; that's not to knock the NHS who i've had the 'pleasure' of attending several times over the years and it's  always provided a marvellous service, but having private health care is a real benefit.

I've had to laugh recently at the number of runners out wearing hi-vis jackets etc, something i've noted that runners don't do in this area in past postings.  So either they hibernated during winter or they have decided, now that it's getting lighter in the evenings, to start wearing hi-vis clothing. If it's the latter, then to quote Homer (Simpson not the Greek Philospher): D'oh!

Having a little BBQ tomorrow night, followed by an 'explosive' chemistry experiment with the 9 year old Sunday morning involving Vinegar, sand, a cork (got to drink that bottle of wine then,  and a rocket.  Hmm, interesting.

Have a nice one.

Cheers