So I’ve just been for my first run in over a year. Not that I haven’t done any running since last year, just not this particular type of running. London is very strange in that the early hours of the morning are always bright and sunny and incredibly misleading for how the rest of the day will shape up to be (I’m talking weatherwise here). So I woke up relatively early this morning and decided now was a good a time as any to start my fitness regime. The weather was inviting which always makes that first step easier to make.

We’ve got less than 6 weeks to go before the Corporate Games, which is basically a money making organisation that brings together teams of all types of sport from any company within the UK (there are other corporate games for Australia and the Americas I think). Damn I’m unfit. It’s not so much the distance I ran (roughly 3 miles) it’s just the continous nature of the run that isn’t what my body is used to. The basketball court doesn’t work that way. However like I said I’m really unfit and as I’ve got to run the court it’s prudent to get fit.

The Arup Basketball team will be there this year like we were last year. The difference is I guess that we now know what to expect. We’re less the new kids on the block. Having said that we’ll probably still be the ‘smallest’ team on the court. These guys are MASSIVE. Seriously. But you know the saying, the larger they are the harder they fall. In case anyone was wondering I’m the playmaker, or the point guard, I’m a towering 1.70m (5.5774278 feet apparently, I don’t do Imperial).