Although we had gone up there for the Belle and Sebastian gig, we went up a little early in order to have a look around and to have dinner. One thing we wanted to do was to check out the route of The Great North Run that we are planning to run in the Autumn. It has a reputation for being a little hilly, as half marathons go. It didn't seem too bad to me though. It did seem a little boring in parts though... there's a good bridge at the start, the sea at the end and mostly motorways and big main roads in between. At least they will take the cars away on the day (or so I'm told).
The way we checked out the route was to drive along it in a car. This took longer than expected because the traffic was quite busy at times. Whilst I won't suggest it would have been quicker for us to actually just run it yesterday, it might have been (but it wouldn't). So now we've checked out the land, it's time to get back to training. I'm up to doing around 7 miles at a time at the moment, so I think I should be fine for a half marathon by October. Unless I break my legs whilst skiing. Or whilst drunk. Or whilst skiing, drunk.
Later on we arrived at the Carling Academy, Newcastle. Seemed like a reasonable enough venue apart from the rather slow bar service upstairs. B&S came on and started with The State I Am In, still one of my favourite of their songs after all these years. It gave me the little shivers (a good thing).
The set was pretty broad and had songs from most of the old albums as well as the new one (which is excellent btw).
A great night :-)
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