The nice thing about 1/2 term is that you don’t have to do the school run, so in theory you get a bit more time in you day. Time, I thought, to up the training and get some more miles under my belt.

Nice theory! My three children are aged between 11 and 14, and they had other plans. It was eldest son’s birthday, and he celebrated becoming a teenager, by organising two sleep overs with equally smelly, hormonal, teenage friends. I am not sure why they call it a sleep over, they stayed up most of the night eating pop corn, watching movies and chatting!

Daughter and eldest child organised to sleep over at a friends house (that was the sensible option with so many boys around!). But rang at 11.00am the next day to see when Mother would be picking her up; unfortunately she had to rearrange her schedule to fit with mine, as pick up was much later that afternoon after I had finished work.

Not to be left out youngest son, organised for his mate to come and stay. This was a much more civilised; but probably not for much longer.

In-between sleep overs and work I seem to spend all my time in the car, driving children from A to B and back again. I did manage to up the miles during half term, but unfortunately they were mostly in the car and not so many for my training. I must do better this week!

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