Who ate all the (American) Pie

When you plan to spend Saturday night watching football and to disappear early on Sunday morning to run the Northern 10 Miles you are a bit vulnerable to the comment that its a long time since we've been to the cinema.

When you go over a year without alcohol, have a few weeks drinking too much but without a drop of bitter, you are a but vulnerable to stopping off at the Woodbourne for a pint of IPA on the way home.

Its a long time since I've been able to write about pies and pints in the same post.

With no long run in the morning and cottage cleaning deferred until mid day, I might reply to a few emails in the morning.

Just a quick tidy up on the website tonight.

Hope everyone enjoys the Race the Sun tomorrow, if there is any.

Isle of Man Bank in Kirk Michael

News that the bank in Kirk Michael is to close gives me a chance to raid by late father's collection of bus photos. This one is taken outside of the bank which was probably the largest building in the village and I suspect not very long built at the time. 

As a child I remember playing, along with other kids in the village, in the garage below the bank with the manager's son. That particular manager's position was then taken by the father of a long time Manx Radio employee. Ring any bells?

Happier but dizzier..

Feel like I've had two bottles and not two glasses of wine after watching Peter Bradley's on board camera of last night's fell race. Great stuff.

Carraghan Fell Race 2012 - p.o.v. rear facing cam from Peter Bradley on Vimeo.

Before I got grumpy again

After three hectic nights of website dominated stuff, I made it a priority to go for a walk with Marie tonight. We went from Kewaigue past Middle Farm and the old cross country course to Quines Hill, Port Soderick just above where our holiday cottage is (and back).

It really is an underestimated country track so close to Douglas and at this time of the year is particularly scenic, with rolling hills, lambs, bluebells and trees in full bloom. And so close to Douglas.

My main target on the website was to publish the article about Gail Griffiths' wonderful run in Glasgow which I only learned about last night. Thanks to her husband David who provided me with all of the information I requested and the photographs. Well done Gail.

To make room for the above I had to move the Parish Walk analysis to a new page on parishwalk.com  and I found out that the numbers had changed again. In running the programme to find out the differences between the previous list of names and the new list I found that some of the entrants had added extra words between their forename and surname which is really unhelpful when you are compiling statistics with thousands of names. With tiredness kicking in I was glad when everything was back in place.

There are lots of others things that I would like to put on the website but I've had my fill for tonight.

Sunshine in Ballasalla...

...so some of the things I was going to do can wait until this evening. Going for a walk.

From A to about T

I'm hopeless following a film plot where they start in the current day and go back and forth between old times and current. I much prefer to see a film that runs from A to Z.

But I have to say that it is a bit boring to show every bit of every runner that I film for my videos and I try to do something a little bit different every time. Tonight, in my video of the Carraghan Fell Race I included some extended footage of winner Lloyd Taggart but then stopped there. So I took my film from about A to P.

I've added some extra film here which takes the story to about T. Time for a cup now,

One mountain climbed another to come

I've been through all the Parish Walk finishers with the organisers and I'll be adding another five to this list at lunchtime and maybe taking a couple off.

Charging batteries for Carraghan photos tonight.