21 Weeks to go

A better week plus a full day skiing on Saturday. Did a flat long run on the Sunday and went through the half marathon distance at 1hr39mins and felt good not sure I have another 9 mins in me but another 3 weeks of training to go.

22 Weeks to go

Better week last week we forced ourselves to run in the snow that was beginning to thaw, and has mostly now cleared from the paths. Times are slow mixture of ice/snow and lack of speed. Need to do sprint training. Sunday run the watch died as I had not charged it most of the week so finished the run at 22/23 Km. Also skied both Sat and Sun.

23 Weeks to go

Too much snow and ice and a large sprinkling of lazy made for 3 runs last week. 2 * 13km then the prom classic 10km race yesterday, embarresed to say it was 44 mins but in my defence I didnt get time to warm up (lazy problem again) and over the past 3 weeks I ate most of the christmas cake myself! Aiming for a fast Semi in mid Febuary.

24 Weeks to go

Pain in my left foot, turned out to be an ingrown toenail and the beggar is deep. Will have to dig it out. Its from the big toenail I lost last May after the Mercontour assault coarse.
Anyway I did not do much this week, other than eat drink, ski and walk the dogs the runs I did do were all slow. Looking to ramp up over the next 5 weeks to a fast semi in Cannes.

6 months to go

Just after the marathon I was ill for 3-4 weeks (possible piggy flu but more likely man flu) I have been struggeling to find my legs and get back into it. Got out a few times in the past couple of weeks but there is no speed so a fast time in the January prom classic 10k is out the question aim for as close to 40mins as comfartable.

Here is 2 weeks ago:



Here is todays run its around the forest track hilly and uneven.(Yes I know it looks awfull I have my work cut out)

Here we go again!

Just had the conformation of being accepted onto the 2010 WHW race. 3rd time in a row so the target again will be sub 24 hours need to put in some more long training runs than last time and work harder on my refuel strategy.
Did the Nice-Cannes marathon 3 weeks ago in 3:32 so I should be in reasonable shape for starting training at 30k long runs at the weekend but Im also keen on a sub 1:30 half marathon in February in Cannes so will need to find a balance of speed and distance untill feb then ramp up distance to the 60km+ runs.

Finaly found some pics

The Green Team at the start informaly known as "Free the Snugs"



The non running photographer thought taping the nipples was a step too far



You get some pretty weird spectators in this race not that the runners are that normal.



Dario presenting the goblet at the end of race as I couldnt make the presentation this year. He will be sadly missed.



A mysterious finisher looking amazingly like my support runner with what appears to be my Goblet. I was giving blood for the medical trial while this was taken.