And then there were three

This is the best picture we could find of Gareth. Honest.

I promised a big announcement so here it is. Dr Gareth Murphy will join the STIG for CF Ireland team for 2007.

Gareth suffered an ankle injury similar to the one that put me out of action for three months, just a couple of months ago. Like me he tore ligaments around his ankle, causing a whole heap of pain. Gareth's chances of participating in the marathon looked slim at that stage and the problems would be compounded in September. Just a couple of mornings before the half marathon, which was meant to be his first effort at training after injuring himself, Gareth managed to stab himself in the foot by stepping on his big shiny belt buckle while getting out of bed.

His PhD may be in Cosmic Physics but he'll be earning a professorship in pain come the 29th of October. Under normal circumstances Gareth would slaughter both myself and John. He's barely over 10 stone and tends to keep in good shape. This time though he'll be heavily hindered as his ankle still hasn't fully recovered with the marathon being the first test of it since the injury.