Ok, so I never actually really run, more like jogging....ok, more like putting one foot in the other at a marginally greater pace than when walking. Nobody ever said I was designed for running. I have short, heavy legs which generate a surprising amount of speed for their length (are they proportional? I don't know, I'm not a sport scientist!), but which do not seemed designed to cover great distances. My feet regularly object to being pounded into the ground by my own body weight, despite investing in new supportive trainers designed to stop me over-pronating (uh-hmm, uh-hmm, yeah I agree), and my cardio-vascular endurance comes a close second to that of a hippo on sleeping tablets.

But, I have had enough of staring at my computer screens (note the plural - I am showing off to my inferior colleagues by displaying my work on two different monitors so I look incredibly productive....or something) and I have a banging headache, so getting out into the fresh air may be starting to look a little bit like the better option. Added to which, I've sort of set myself the aim of doing some exercise everyday, without making excuses like I'm tired, or it's raining, cos I'm always tired and at the moment it's nearly always raining! Trouble is, apparently you have to do at least 15 minutes of exercise for it to be beneficial in a cardio-vascular sense, and there's no way I can run for that long at the moment - my quads are still recovering from Monday's expedition, and that was a pathetic 5 minutes before I felt like dying!

I'm wasted on cross-country! We dwarves are natural sprinters! Very dangerous over short distances - just like Gimli, son of Gloin!!