Raise it. Run it. Beat it.

Today I ran the Hopetoun House 10k for Cancer Research with ‘Team Mairead’. We managed to raise almost £10,000 including Gift Aid supplements by the end of race day, and more donations are being made. I am so pleased. It was amazing to see so many of Mairead’s friends and family out supporting her fight with cancer – and people who you haven’t spoken to in a few years donating online. Thank you to everyone who contributed to the team’s fundraising.

I spent last week down in London with Mairead, as she is is recovering from an operation to remove the tumors. It’s incredibly frustrating to want to help someone so much, but to not have the power to fix things there and then. Time has been pretty strange for the past few months. Sometimes things go very quickly, sometimes painfully slowly. Mairead is very brave – she really is an amazing, wonderful and strong person. I hope that the recovery goes quickly, and as well as it can.

Coming up

Sorry for being so quiet on this blog recently – our Internet was disconnected at home, and there is a strange problem preventing me from authenticating with WordPress on mobile broadband.

I’m down in London for most of this week visiting Mairead who is in hospital. Next weekend I am running 10k for Cancer Research – you can still sponsor me and the team.

Over the next few weeks I’m putting together a few tech-related things which I have been working on over the past month or two… so watch this space.

Great Scottish Run: Glasgow Half Marathon

2:00:44 – 4407th

Phew! I really, really hurt. This is the first half marathon that I have ever done. Good experience though – next time I’ll break 2 hours!

1898: Great-great Grandad on film

My Great-great Grandad was golfer Willie Fernie. He won the Open Championship in 1883 at Musselburgh Links.

One of the first known film of a golf match features William Fernie. It was shot in 1898, and has now turned up on YouTube:

Glasgow Sunset

A quick timelapse of the sunset last night, taken from my new flat: