So I let the blog slide for four days. At least I didn’t write about running!
So, Healing and Wholeness went well.
Monday morning I had a mediocre run, heavy legs and a slow pace. Tuesday was only a little better.
Yesterday morning when I sat at my desk and started putting my trainers on, I realised that I had the midweek Mass at St Helen’s, so I needed a homily on top of making the handout I had mostly ready for the (yesterday’s) Introduction to Reading the Epistle of James session. Midweek Mass went fine, then Staff Meeting, then a pastoral conversation, then ran to the bus stop (but just missed the bus), caught the next bus to Didcot Parkway, train to London, strolled from Paddington to the church (passing Ian Hislop on the way), arrived in plenty of time for Exposition and Mass before dinner and my talk — all of which went marvellously. Fr Alan and I nipped out for a pint after the talk; that was lovely as well.
Today I had a bit of a lie-in (for me), left the vicarage at about 8:00, navigated to Tottenham Court Road and Paddington, hopped aboard the local to Didcot Parkway, and settled in at home. That’s two days, now, without running — we’ll see how my legs feel tomorrow morning.