I ran a PB last night, the first one since last year. Yay. But before I get too excited, I have to point out it was for a distance I’d never run before: 3.5 miles. I had been persuaded to run the JP Morgan Chase Challenge for work, which is basically an enormous corporate jolly.

Some 13,000 runners from over 300 companies took part in a run around Battersea Park. And, not surprisingly, it was incredibly crowded, but it was nice to do my first race in London. Most of the people that took part were banker, hedge fund managers and the like (and actually they did seem vaguely normal), and were enjoying the corporate hospitality in their marquees in the ‘hospitality village’. We, on the other hand, had a picnic and congregated round a tree - not that it mattered.

I ran a fairly comfortable 29.54 - still a lot slower than I was running last year, but probably a quicker pace than if I’d run around the Heath. Congratulations to one of our execs Jonathan who got a top ten place, coming in in around 18 minutes.