I’m happy to report that I’m fully recovered now and back on the road, running to spread the message of safe drinking water.

After a couple of days rest following the bout of food poisoning, I’m feeling great. My recovery was capped by a very relaxing morning at our hotel in the small town of Tatarsk. The hotel had shared bathrooms and there wasn’t a restaurant in town, so we made our own “breakfast in bed”. For such occasions, we have a reserve of instant oatmeal and Nescafe.

Once we had prepared our gourmet breakfast, we set up the computer between our two small bunk beds and slipped in a movie. Just last night we discovered that Mary had been sent a packet of DVD’s from her husband (thank you, Paul!) and so we borrowed “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” knowing that we would have a few hours of free time in the morning before heading out for our 3pm run start. We sat in our beds with oatmeal and coffee in our laps and were thoroughly entertained by Audrey Hepburn’s antics. It is amazing how easily you can be entertained when you have gone without any TV or cinema for a long time.

I was a bit nervous about how my legs would feel heading into my run, having taken the couple of days off, but after a couple miles of warm-up I slipped into a nice rhythm and had one of my fastest legs yet. It felt great to be back on the road and again we had lots of supportive drivers and passers-by along the route. I even had a couple of local Russians snapping photos as I ran by – obviously they had seen us on the news beforehand.