A good excuse for not blogging (Running)

Thursday 27 October 2011 09:27PM

I’ve not written anything since the Tre-Rifugi race at the end of August. Life has got very busy with preparing for the arrival of our baby. Nine months feels like a long time but Aaron finally made his arrival on Saturday morning. His mum was a star and we’ve spent the week in a hyper but blissful bubble of new-parenthood.

I’ve managed a bit of training around all the nappy changes and even did a race the day after he was born. This would ordinarily have been fairly surreal on so little sleep and after such a life-changing event, but it was doubly so as it was a race up a 30 storey hotel in the centre of Brussels. I think I was a very dizzy third (running up staircases you feel like a cat chasing its tail), but I’m not sure as I left before everyone had finished running (it was a time trial) to get back to my new family in the hospital!

Autumn is lovely here, and running in the forest with the low sun shining through the golden trees has felt a really special way to adjust to being a dad.