Since my original post on trying to get fit, things are still on track. On Good Friday I ran the Maidenhead Easter 10. Managed to do the 10 miles in 1:32…. nothing too exceptional, but at least I know that I’m on the right path.

This is a new years resolution. So far so good – I’ve been managing to run 3 – 4 times a week since Christmas! Feels great. I can’t believe I have managed to find excuses all these years not to find the time to fit in a spot of running into my life.

This morning was a bit slow – managed 8km in just shy of 50 minutes. But it is early days still….. last time I did any regular running was in 2006 I think.

Target is to beat my previous best of 1:45 for a half marathon and eventually to run a sub 3:30 marathon (my fastest marathon so far was 4:15 in Warsaw a few years back).

Wish me luck

Mobile tyre fitting can be a great time saver, but if things go wrong it can be a real pain to get it sorted out. Recently I experienced some pretty poor customer service when I complained about badly fitted tyres.

About 3 or 4 months ago I had four identical tyres fitted to our family car by Tyrefitdirect. Since then all four needed to be pumped up about twice a month. Clearly this is a bit of a pain and quite annoying.

I eventually got arount to calling them up today as this is clearly a problem with the way they were fitted – all four tyres leak and the previous set never needed to be pumped up.

All I got was – “not our problem” and “you took too long to let us know”. No effort at all to provide anything even remotely resembling decent customer service.

Clearly this was the last time I dealt with this lot. Hopefully this post will save you some trouble when shopping around for new tyres.

Update 01 Oct 2009

I had the tyres re-fitted at Maidenhead Tyre and Exchaust. All that was needed was to give the rims a bit of a clean, re-fit and re-balance the tyres. Total bill £46.

Two weeks later and tyres are still at full pressure. I’ll be sending the invoice to Tyrefitdirect. Not holding my breath, but I’ll update the post again if they refund this.

Ok, my wife got it, then our daughter and then finally our baby son and I. My wife called the local NHS  number to get Tamiflu for herself. Easy peasy, no problems.

By the time I got the flu the National Pandemic Flu Service was ready to spoil my day!

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Open source is just the best thing since sliced bread! I know that I am stating the obvious, but I have some time today and am in a bit of a writting mood.

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I can’t wait for the new Palm Pre phone to become available in UK. As long as it keeps all the things I used to love about the Treo, I’ll be there with my cash, ready to buy!

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This is so exciting. I was planing to get myself a blog for a few years now and never found the time. It took all of 15 minutes to get WordPress installed…..