just have a read of this

the following is a link to an article written in the bristol evening post about the recent postal strikes, by one of the cities most high profile businessmen peter hargreaves of financial services firm hargreaves lansdown.

http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/homepage/Bristol-businessman-Blame-management-postal-chaos/article-1330765-detail/article.html

i wont ruin your pleasure by divulging details of the article but you can probably get the jist of it by the title. again i would be interested to hear some feed back from some of you who read this blog, as i never expected union style criticisms like that coming from a captain of industry.

on a more lighter note i managed to procure a late place in this years bristol half marathon and succeeded in running 1hr37 minutes. due to the fact that the person whose place i was taking is to be honest not in my league as an athlete, i was forced to start in the second wave half an hour behind the first wave. by the time i reached the first mile point in a ridiculously fast 6 minutes 16 seconds (and it felt really easy) i was well and truly in no mans land and that was the way of things until about two or three miles when i started to catch back markers from the first wave. for the next four or five miles this wasn't a problem but as i had to dodge and weave through people it became more of a problem. that and it was hot and humid and i was dehyrating even though i was taking water on board and energy gels. progressively i started to work harder until i hit the notorious queens square cobbles. ouch. 7 minute miles quickly became 10 or 11 minute miles as i was reduced to a pathetic jog, even though i was still catching people in their thousands from the first wave. finally dehydrated exhausted on the verge of fainting i crossed the line wondering what i have put myself in for doing edinburgh. ten bottles of lucozade and half an hour in the medical tent later i finally felt fit enough to get a massage done and go home, via the pub with a few friends from portishead running club, before i retired home to lunch followed by a dark room before i felt fit enough to show my face with familly visiting. felt ok the next day did a steady 8 miler followed by one of mike downs speed sessions on bristol downs the next day. i'm probably doing stroud at the end of next month so im doing a 16 miler tonight so its time for me to sign off again for the while

happy reading

pete