April Showers

Phew, I'm really glad I'm tucked up safely in the office today, the weather is grim!

I must open with the results of David's wonderful effort in the London Marathon and a huge thank you to everyone who sponsored and supported him. He raised just over £700 for Cancer Research UK. He managed to finish, which was amazing in itself after his recent ankle injury and completed it way ahead of his previous finish time in 4 hours, 15 minutes (and 11 seconds!). He ran the Marathon in 2006 in 4 hours, 39 minutes, so it was a great improvement. He was a little disappointed not to beat the 4 hour mark but all things considered (his ankle, complaining knees, the inhospitable weather and lack of rest!) I think he did very well. For those who might be interested, his finishing position overall was 15378 but, within his age and gender group, he was placed 1,685 - not bad out of the 30,000 runners. He's already submitted his application to run in next year's marathon (which proves conclusively that he is mad) and this time is aiming for sub 3 hours, 30 minutes!!!

His enthusiasm has made me think that perhaps I ought to make more of an effort and, despite the fact that I haven't run since school, I have entered this summer's Race for Life in Barnstaple. It is a lowly 5k (3.1 miles) which I think is achievable and I have already embarked on my training so we'll see how I feel nearer the time!

So anyway, although it's raining outside the Explore Braunton project continues to have a very sunny prospect. The multimedia content is now finished (hooray!) and we are waiting on our suppliers to finish off the graphics (such as menus and screensavers) before they upload the entire content onto the system. We will have several devices for testing during May and are still on target to launch at the end of May. My time is now devoted to preparing all the content for the web-site and making sure the web-designer has everything he needs to make a stunning site. I'm also catching up with the myriad of other things that need doing and replying to people who have so patiently been waiting for replies to their emails, etc.

If anyone has anything they think would be useful for the web-site please do let me know. Until next time!

Katie