Racing: for Life!

On one of the hottest days of the year, three generations of Williams women did the Race 4 Life on Jesus Green on Sunday. I ran with Claire, Megan ran and walked, and Sophie and Mum walked the whole thing together. We arrived to be greeted with the sight of hundreds and hundreds of lycra-clad women doing aerobics in the blazing sunshine. A large percentage of them had clearly done no form of exercise in quite some time (oh, the cellulite!) and seemed not to realise that preceding their first ever race by jumping around in the heat was not the best idea.

Miraculously, none of us passed out from heat exhaustion (needless to say, we skipped the aerobics), but it was a close thing and only the presence of an ice-cream van at the finish line saved us. And running in that kind of heat was probably good practice for my gorilla run, which I am starting to get a little worried about.

All is now quiet in college. The undergraduates have departed and July is Jamie's month for locking himself away and writing up his PhD. Procrastination has now reached the stage where he is even considering writing his book to get out of finishing his PhD. Really quite desperate!