I am a marathoner

At 5 hours and 10 minutes, not the fastest one that you will ever meet, but a marathoner never-the-less.

But I’m getting ahead of myself.  When last we met, Easter had been and gone and I was (1,150) excal in the red.  Since then, I have:

• travelled to Fort William on the Caledonian Sleeper
• hunted high and low for Nessie
• discovered a wonderful guest house in Strathpeffer, just north of Inverness
• eaten at a great Indian restaurant in Dingwall
• wandered around Thurso
• been hailed on at Dunnet’s Head, the most northerly bit of mainland Britain
• visited John O’Groats
• explored Wick
• gone grave hunting nears Bonar Bridge
• run the Inverness parkrun
• completed (run is possibly too strong a term) the Lochaber marathon
• travelled back to London on the Caledonian Sleeper.

I’ve also eaten sticky toffee pudding in a lake of cream, icecream-filled chocolate eclairs and more shortbread than you can shake a stick at.  So on the viceathon stakes, I’m going to cheat and say:

April 9 – 16
Chocolate in: nil
Puddings and biscuits in: loads – call it 1,450 pudcal = 2,900 excal
Exercise out: one parkrun = 300 excal, one marathon = 2,600 excal
Viceathon total b/fwd: (1,150) excal
Viceathon total c/fwd: (1,150) excal

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