Great Manchester Run: Across The Pennines

Today 10s of 000s were pounding the streets of Manchester in the annual 10k. Normally I'd be with them and was putting together a good series with 37, 36, 35 until last year where I ran unfit with a bad cold for 42 minutes.

This year I took Tarus to Sheffield for the Half Marathon instead. Alas, one of his Shakespearo fellow Kenyans escaped the gravity of the GMR and T was only second, still comfortably his best race at the distance.

Our "run" across the Pennines meant several hours of dipping in and out of Radio Five Live. The great CCTV debate, yawn; jocks taking steroids, yawn; and William Hague on the necessity of a General Election.

"Oh" said Julian Worricker "But John Major didn't have one when Margaret Thatcher resigned. Why should Gordon Brown?"

"Oh" replied William "18 Pops" Hague "But that's different. Margaret Thatcher had no intention of going early."

Yeah, right! But Tony Blair did? Hoist by own petard.