A more reasonable run

With the weather much improved from yesterday, R and I went out for a run in the warm summer evening. Starting in Newtown, we wound our way through St Leonards, took a turn around the river and came back. When we got to bridge, I asked if we were doing the long loop to Countess Wear or whether we were going to start back. Faced with a wobbly lower lip and a very sad expression, I correctly concluded concluded it was time to set course for home.

In the end we managed completed 10.5K in around 55 minutes — solidly in keeping with a mid-twenties 5K time and in line with R's current 10K time.

Fauré and Poulenc

Not particularly convinced by Fauré`s Shylock suite in tonight's prom, but I suppose it fits this year's Shakespearean theme. Poulenc's Stabat Mater was more to my taste and the sound was suitable beautiful, but the tempi seemed a little bit on the slow side — the quando corpus was a solid minute longer than most people take it — but the performers were good enough to keep it together.