changes afoot . .

just whilst I'm changing the title and appearance of my blog, time to add a few words

in the last 10 days or so I've been pleased to have been invited to cover the Arkendale 10k in North Yorkshire, on Sunday 28 March, and the Folkestone 10 mile on Good Friday

both as a result of emails from me which received a positive response . . they're miles apart of course . . one is a fairly new event staged by a team of personal trainers and fitness advisers who have got into organising a couple of races each year . . and the other is an event of long-standing held by a traditional running club

and I think it's great that both approaches to race organisation can flourish in our sport. I'm looking forward to them both as I'm bound to know some of the runners at each event, plus the trip to North Yorkshire will give me an opportunity to catch up with friends at Leeds parkrun . . which is always nice

also this week I passed up a great opportunity to take photos at a 10k race with 4-5,000 entrants. I was thrilled to be offered the chance, of course, and had 2 or 3 people lined up to come and help me with the photography, but the more I thought about it, I came to realise that I wouldn't be able to manage the post-event service of selecting images for display, getting them online and hopefully selling some of them. Well, I could have managed it, but it would have taken a few weeks by which time all the runners would have forgotten about that event and moved on to the next one!

it's all very well hearing that *kerching* sound between your ears but I need to cut my coat according to my cloth, so I'll stick to the kind of smaller event that I can manage on my own for now

that's all for now . . if you've been here before you'll notice I've changed the appearance of this blog, and included one of my favourite photos (taken at the Ferriby 10, by the way, in the East Riding) in the header, and from now on I'll be blogging more often and putting down my thoughts on all sorts of things that are affecting me . . my interests, my job, and my health . . maybe in that order, maybe not . . let's wait and see shall we . . but whatever, I'll try to make it not too run of the mill

goodnight!