I am writing more to say hello than tell you about exercise I did.

10 days ago I was on the furthest Canary island, El Hierro for the weekend. It was really good and I did a couple of walks of about 2 hours. Unfortunately the gradient was extremely steep (downhill) and even though it wasn´t difficult for my lungs I still managed to do damage to my leg muscles. I had genuine cramps for 3-4 days.

I´ve got myself out of the habit of working out for the last 10 days. I´ll have to get back to it quick smart.

There are 8 inhabited Canary islands and I have just visited my last one that I hadn´t been to. There are still two others, which even though uninhabited are accesible for the day which I have to get to.

Those little unimportant challenges which keep our minds ticking over....