One quick test run the week before, which exceeded my "15 minutes minimum running" goal by 15 minutes made me realise I would be able to do the yoga run on 14th September after all. It felt really weird, taking part in a event without the support of my family, but still, off I trotted.

I arrived nice and early, spent some time finding my way around, and then set about the warm up. Hoola hoops. For some reason, I cannot do this anymore. As a kid, I could do it for hours, but as an adult, well, let's just say "epic fail". However, I can hoola hoop on both arms (at the same time, no less).

I managed to meet my friend from yoga training, although we lost each other at the start. A quick shot of Prosecco and we were off, two trips around Battersea Park. We're very lucky in London, we have some amazing spaces in amongst all the buildings and humdrum. It was great to see plenty of marshalls, mostly with giant hands for silly high fives. There were a few serious runners there, but most of the people seemed to be yoga enthusiasts who also run.

Having a glass of Prosecco between the run and the yoga probably wasn't the best idea, but it was fun. The yoga was pretty tough, I'm not used to Ashtanga and I had signed up for the intermediate/advanced class, forgetting that knowing the asanas and being able to do them at speed are two entirely different concepts! Despite this oversight, I had a great time, the yoga felt great after the run and then we were able to slosh back a couple more glasses of Prosecco, along with a beautiful sushi lunch and a natter.

I really enjoyed the event, I met some lovely people, had a chance to catch up with my friend and just generally had a great time, I can recommend it for next year.

It's always the same, every summer holiday ends with a round of washing, cleaning, shopping and preparation for the coming term and return to work. Today's "To Do" list is really more of a wish list, a bit like the 'what I would like to achieve during the holidays' list I had vaguely written in my head at the start of the summer (more of that later). So as I started to think through my list, I realised that I cannot do everything myself. I must delegate where possible (great, that is the rabbit off the list!) and just do the things I actually need to do: prioritise.

For example, do I really need to 'prepare' for going back to work. I've been away for 2 weeks, and actually, catching up on my emails is something I should do in 'work' time, not at the end of my holiday in preparation for coming back. A second item from my list, hurrah. I realised I didn't actually register properly for Palace to Palace run this year - much as I love doing this event, I have so much on that maybe I could just make a donation of my registration fee, to salve my conscience and free up all that training and chasing people for sponsorship time for the other things that I actually 'need' to do. Number 3 down. I have plenty of food left over from the weekend barbeque shopping, so let's not shop after all. I don't really fancy cooking on the barbeque, so instead I'll invite a friend over who loves to do that, and we can have a good catch up at the same time, and I can potter in the garden, trimming and weeding (it wasn't on my current to do list, but on the summer wish list). I'm losing count of the things I no longer have to do. Wonderful.

So, as for being brilliant and superwoman, through the art of delegation and prioritisation, they are no longer required. Another two things bite the dust.

A quick shake and repack of the sleeping bags, washing in the machine and a sunny day to dry it all. Oh, I really don't know why people complain about having so much to do, it's easy when you know how!