According to the Hal Higdon training plan this week should be the week when you run the most mileage compared to any of the other 17 weeks. So, typically it is also the week that Europe decides to have it's coldest week since records began. The question is not "can I run the distance", but "can I run the distance without getting frostbite". As if this program of self induced masochism wasn't difficult enough without wind from the Polar ice cap threatening to derail the training. The only small mitigating factor in all of this is that in April, around 7 weeks time, I'll be on the start line (all being well) at FLM standing next to someone who has been through exactly this as well. Whoever you are, I look forward to meeting you and moaning about how cruel the weather has been to us elite athletes......KB has decided to take an early career turn and has now decided that she wants to be a fashion designer (bit like a young lad wanting to be a footballer I suppose). Anyway, to her total credit she has infact made contact with Next in UK and they have emailed her and asked her to send her designs in to see what they think!! That's a far more promising reaction than I got years ago when I wrote to QPR and asked them if I could have a game. So, in future when you are shopping and Nike and Ralph Lauren look a little out dated, maybe you will skip along to the KB range of teens-wear. You might be pleasantly surprised. Almost forgot. Ran a pace 40 mins last night (no HR monitor as I couldn't be bothered) but a pretty fast time. Off to run 85 mins tonight - watch out Paula!
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