I’ve never been good at being the ‘tortoise’ but when your body starts to tell you its joints and ligaments aren’t what they were, I’ve set myself a long term challenge: to be able to run 5k again. It’s no biggie for many folk, and I used to do it just to shake out the stress.

Now my morning ‘run’ is 1 min walking, 1 minute jogging for 25 mins and then sitting on ‘my’ bench by the river to watch the tide come in…

And if it takes a year to be able to reach that 5k goal, so be it!