It’s less than three weeks to go to the London Marathon, for which I have been training since November. This should be the start of my tapering, but I’ve actually been on a sort of involuntary tapering programme now, for the past 3 weeks, due to mashed knees.

I’ve decided to transfer most of my remaining training sessions to cross-training in the gym, to try and give my knees a chance to heal in time for the marathon start. I’ve also read on the internet that aqua-jogging is supposed to be quite good as well, so I went and spent 30 minutes jogging on the spot in the local swimming pool this morning. It’s like a poor man’s equivalent of Mo Farah’s underwater treadmill. It does feel quite silly.

I hate going to swimming pools, mainly because of the logistics of it all, and the having-to-remember-stuff that goes with it. There’s always something I forget, be it towel, trunks, goggles… Today it was 20p for the lockers, which I had to scam from the lifeguard. So humiliating.

Anyway, here’s a quick sketch of me attempting to aqua-jog. Please sponsor me here: https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/JamesMerryTenMillion (if you haven’t already!) 🙂

Last night at the disco

New Crittur on Hana Videen’s Medieval Modern Bestiary! Yay!

The moon-head (quasi-caput-luna)

Rubbish animation, but this is just 30 minutes into using Autodesk Sketchbook. I didn’t know it could do animation before! It’s quite nice too. Responsive, pared-back interface, nothing but the timeline, onion-skinning and brushes… hasn’t crashed yet… not too expensive either… (I might hate it by next week)

More catch-up. I have really had no time at all for drawing this month until now, so I’m trying to draw these as fast as I can. Some of these drawings might be a bit messy and tangential.