The Running Man...

I ran over six miles today - which meant running for an hour! So I'm a bit chuffed with myself, and I'm on target for the distance - in fact I'm halfway there - demanded by the Great North Run in October. At just over an hour though (1:01:11) it looks like I wont run it within the two hour mark, but that was never my goal. Maybe next year. The jog was followed by two hours rotivating at the allotment so the only word to describe me rhymes with nackered (clue: there's a silent k in the other word).

I received an interesting, actually quite shocking letter, in the post yesterday (I've put a copy of it up below) from the Student Loans Company. The total amount I owe them is over £10,000! The thing is, I have two years to go - I think we'll be over the £15,000 mark in debt before the course is over, so given I don't have to start paying it back until I earn £15,000 a year - will they take my first years wages from me? ;-)

I can't recommend the Carl Sagan documentary "Cosmos" enough if you haven't seen it; even the music is heavenly: so much so that I've ripped (extracted - the theme used by Cosmos begins about thirteen minutes into part one of the Vangelis suite from which it was taken) and uploaded it here.