How old are you?

This new Goggle inspired blog making program is pretty good. The only thing they seem to have not quite cracked yet is getting the age of the blogger correct.

I see in my "complete profile" that I am 250 years old. Even if I say so myself, I am looking pretty good for someone of so many years. Roll on my 251st birthday in February.

Patches after a long run

I know how she feels.......

Welcome back Patches

I have now moved this blog to the new format Google-inspired template. So if this blog disappears in the next few days then thanks to everyone for tuning in and I will be back. If it survives then please be assured of more running stories in 2007.

Anyway, so far so good for my Rotterdam training. I have religiously kept to the schedule but of course Hal Higdon does not recommend that each night over Christmas that his runners try and drink a bottle of wine. You see that's where his schedule and my will power become at cross purposes.

Nevermind, no point in having a New Year celebration if you cannot make a few resolutions (that you can break in early Jan) is there?

Forgot to mention that our new temporary family member Patches the Dog turned up over Christmas for her festive break with Bedders and Co (more Little Bedders, KB and CB than the author of this blog). But if you ask me, it Iooks as if she needs a few long runs........

All that hard work

Two days of Christmas eating and drinking and the weight goes up to above 80kg for the first time since.....last Christmas. The good news is that I have been able to complete a good two weeks of training so training week three, which is by chance a step back week is going to have to be a step up week for me if I am going to get rid of the excess.

Garmin update. Just when I need it it dies on me. Completely dead. So it's going back to Sweatshop in Reading to hopefully be exchanged for a new one. It irriates me somewhat that reading the Runners World threads on this topic, that Garmin seem to know that there is a problem with the 305's - but in true fashion, are still selling them without so much of a word of warning. If I thought about this too much I would get quite angry.

So I won't. Instead I'll go for a long Boxing Day run.

Not a happy bunny

A bit down at the moment but there is such a lot going on (more later) that I am struggling to focus on running - in fact, struggling to focus on much at the moment apart from work . The fact that Christmas is only around the corner is only another additional thing to distract me. And I love Christmas normally - the run up being the best bit.

As if my lack of motivation is not enough of a problem my Garmin decided to pack up today. After 800 kms of working well since May, it decided to black out at 9km today - lucky I had turned on a 16km out-and-back other wise I would still probably be running to make sure I did not short change myself. All the same, very frustrating.

Having had a common cold and deep cough all week and been out and back to Dubai on business, I think that what I need is a rest. But this is week 2 of the Rotterdam training program. Still if I can put in a good LSR today feeling as I do there is not much wrong really.

A one day Marathon Training plan idea

I am being offered to switch to the new Google blogger but have this fear that I will loose all that I have written. If anyone has done it, hassle free, please let me know.

Next week I begin my Rotterdam Marathon training program. Next week also probably begins the sub zero temps, wind and rain that seems to accompany such training plans. Oh well, nothing else for it but to out later tonight while it is still reasonably fine and run 900 km and do all the training in one go. That would get my weight down.