Beautiful...

If you like tall ships, take a look at these pics of the Lady Washington (scroll down the page to see them). Breathtaking.

Thanks to raggedrose for pointing these out.

Have just realised that it's only 2 weeks now until I go sailing again - not a tall ship, this time, an 18-berth Bermuda ketch, but getting to sea is what matters. And my evening class (the navigation and stuff) starts tomorrow.

I need to take my runners head off and get back into sailing mode :-)

Running

I've signed up for another half marathon, St Neots in November (well, I've sent in my application). I enjoyed the Great North Run, but we ran it soooo slowly. Now I want to find out what I can really do.

I'm trying to push my speed up a little before St Neots, in an attempt to not be last! (Seriously, this half has a time cut-off, so I need to be confident I have the pace.) I got some good advice from a runners message board, and as a result have decided to run long on Sundays (increasing my mileage beyond the half distance), recovery on Tuesdays, speedwork on Wednesdays, and recovery on Fridays. (What this actually means is that I get 3 enjoyable runs and one b*gg*r per week.)

So today I went out for my first speedwork session, running alternate kilometres easy and hard. It wasn't exactly comfortable, but I knocked a whole 3 minutes off my 5-mile time, and I feel great now :-)

Guess some of that fairy dust rubbed off on me... *G*

Oh, and more pics of us fairies here and here.