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Thought I'd give a wee running update....

Last night I went for my first run since the marathon. My back of knee/hamstring problem didn't seem to bad but it was a wee bit sore. I'm going to take it easy for a few weeks and hopefully it'll go away. If not, I'll have to bite the bullet and get some physio.

I'll go for a wee easy run again tomorrow night and then watch Ukraine vs Scotland. Can the dream continue????!!

I'm a happy chappy! Never been so nervous/excited/happy/worried at a game!

Wow. It's the first Saturday morning in ages that I've got to laze about in bed! I usually am dragging myself out the door for a long run. I haven't done any running since last weeks marathon - a combination of pure laziness and letting myself recover. I've had a pain behond my knee for ages so I'd love to let it heal properly. Next week the cross country season gets underway so I'll be back running then.

School is still going fine, although I've had to give out a few punishments this week. A couple of classes are getting a bit familiar and think they can ignore me when I ask them to stop talking. As per usual, I should probably have been harder on them to start with. Sorry to the ladies reading this, but my my problems seem to be with the girls. It seems that alot of teenage girls would rather whisper and giggle than do anything else, and then they get upset when I give them into trouble. Ho hum.

SO today I'm off to watch Scotland v France. I can't say that I'm confident. The game kicks off at 5pm, and I'm meeting my friends in a pub at midday so I might be in such a state that I won't know if we've won or lost! Anyway, I'd better get my kilt looked out...

Ran the Loch Ness Marathon this morning. Finished in about 12th or 13th place I think (out of about 2000 entries) in 2 hrs 39 mins! I'm well chuffed (and also well sore). In case the distance wasn't enough to cause pain, torrential rain decided to fall for the last 10 miles of the race! In the last mile the road was flooded so we had to run through ankle deep watre a few times, which made my trainers feel like lead weights. Glad to be home and have a nice cuppa and some toast. I might have a beer now, followed by a weekm (or maybe 2) off running to try and let all my wee niggles heal.

Luckily I don't have to teach tomorrow - I'm on a course for probationer teachers. Hopefully I'm allowed to sit down all day!

Sorry for not being about! Did anyone notice? Anyway, my broadband modem went on the blink, but now all's well and I'm a wireless blogger.

So what have I been up to? Well, teaching is still going great - I'm really enjoying it and the time is flying by. Can't belive I've been back at school for 5 weeks already. And today was my first full pay day! Yippeeee.

So this weekend I'm off to Inverness to run the Loch Ness Marathon (which is also doubling as the Scottish Marathon Championships). Wish me luck. I think I might need some luck - I've had a bit of a problem with my knee for a couple of months, which I've been ignoring as I've been determined to run this marathon, but it seemed a bit sorer today. I'm hoping it's all in my head and averything will be fine on Sunday morning.

Anyway, I suppose I must have a few blogs to read...

So that's my third week gone! Things are still mighty fine. A couple of my classes decided that the honjeymoon period was over and started playing up, but after handing out a couple of punishment exercises all was well again. It's been pretty busy though - I thought I was to have a lighter timetable as a probationer, but with helping out at learning support and some team teaching, my time table is actually pretty full! Can't somplain though - I'd better get used to it!

Running is still going mighty fine - last weekends half marathon was finished in under 1 hr 15 mins so I was well happy. Tomorrow morning, I'll be heading out for a 22 mile run as training for my next marathon, so I'm off to bed!!!!

See ya.

Well, I never thought I'd see the day when Scotland scored 6 goals in one game, even if it was against the Faroes. Why does it have to be the Glasgow half marathon tomorrow???? I should still be out in Glasgow with my kilt and Scotland top on, dancing to the Proclaimers. Oh well - I'll save that for next month when we put another 6 past France!

...teaching and running is all I sem to do! Oh - there's plenty of eating and sleeping too, but right now I'm sitting down with a nice cuppa and doing some blogging.

My classes are still going well - still no real problems. I'm sure the kids are waiting to pounce, just when I think that everythings OK and I start to relax.

Running is going good too - I'm running as well as I ever have I think. Got a half marathon to race on Sunday morning and I'm hoping I should get about 1 hr 15 mins, which I'd be delighted with.

Anyway, I best go - I'm expecting a phone call from a lady...

So tomorrow is the start of my 2nd week of teaching. I don't have any classes tomorrow - as a probabtioner teacher, I get a reduced timetable so my school have given me Monday's free for preparation work. I think I'll observe the Higher Chemistry class (about the same as English A level maybe? not sure), and get my lessons for the week prepared. I'm still soooooo tired - early to bed for me tonight I reckon.

The weekend was good - Friday was a quiet night in, Saturday morning's 20 mile run was quite enjoyable (well, as enjoyable as running for 2 hrs 20 mins can be!). On Saturday night I went through to edinburgh to meet a girl I used to work with, but went home to Portugal for a few months. We had a good blether and the night finished with some smooching. Dear oh dear.

Anyway, I hope you're all feeling mighty fine!

Well I survived my first week of teaching! It seems to have flown by. And my Head of Dept gave me a bottle of red as I left this afternoon as a wee 'well done' for geiing through the first week! He says I've not to expect it every week though.

I've just had a not-very-healthy dinner of pizza and oven chips and am having an easy night in as I've got a 20 mile training run tomorrow morning. Well, after 1st October the LOch Ness Marathon will be over and I can put my feet up for a couple of weeks.

Have a good Friday.