There Are Some Things You Just Have To Do

 I have returned from my week in the mountains. I am sorry that this blog is the first for sometime. I was able to get an internet connection but it was so slow that posting a blog would have taken so long. I did manage to read some of your blogs but posting comments was again a long and laborious task.

I promise not to bore you with all the exploits of running, at least one blogger has told me not to dare. I would though like to post one blog to put the whole week into a context and thank you my blogging friends.

Some time ago I posted a picture of me running in a marathon. Susan made a comment that day about not imagining me looking like that. I really should have been honest and admitted that at that point of time I was not. I had before me a picture of me standing in a little Spanish village, looking a long way from that picture. Another blogger had been watching me paint on webcam and commented on my ever growing tummy.

When I stood on the scale it told the same story. I was also using in halers to help my breathing; using them to such an extent my doctor was getting concerned.

So a challenge was required and I had to get back to that picture Susan commented on. The challenge for me was to run and get my weight down to a point where I could consider running up mountains again.

So here we are. I have run my mountains. I have got my weight back to where it should be 34 lbs less than it was. I am running without the aid of an inhaler and considering the maps of mountains once again.

I need to thank you all who gave me the encouragement and incentive to get here. I think I am back to that picture if not maybe even fitter.

I have put both of the pictures on this blog. This was not an easy blog for me and now I will get back to my normal blogs as of tomorrow.

Now as one or two of you have been telling me it is time to get back to the art. I will.  More of that on my other blog.Pencil Factory