All Running has switched back to barefoot, with the longer ones with the Fingens tucked in the back of the shorts. Barefoot for me seems to work much better as that pleasant meditative therapy that running ought to be right now - it's way slow, and it's gentle.

The running became a bit aimless for a while (the LA marathon plan disappeared with a surprise trip to Hawaii!), but it is starting to pick up again, as an escape from the focus of work. This year is a year of change and decision - with business, with life, with home. The change will only come with freedom, though, and that means paying off a shedload of business debt, so the night shift is alive and well, with an occasional midnight patter around the neighbourhood tossed in to clear the head while the Kid snuffles peacefully.

Tonight is about to receive one of those - short - maybe only 4 or 5 k, but soft and silent and totally alone on the paths. Stuff falls away.....