Taking a blogging break

I am going to be taking a blogging break for the next few weeks/months. There is too much going on at the moment to focus on this and to be honest I am lacking heart at the moment. All will be revealed in the fullness of time but for the moment, as I say, here comes a break

Keep on running

Wasn't there a song called Keep on running? Anyway, I am now 4 weeks into the Hal Higdon training plan and have missed only a couple of sessions. Ran a cracking 21 km on Sunday as the time flew - I was thinking about goodness knows what but I can hardly remember much of the run apart from the fact it took me 1:55 and I felt fine.

Off to France for a week's holiday later this morning. The schedule is bound to take a bit of a battering but balanced with swimming and the like I should be able to keep up the fitness levels.

I have to be totally honest and say that after running Rotterdam in April I feel that I may give marathoning a break after Amsterdam - by a break I mean the training becomes so monotonous that I may need a new challenge. I am still planning to run New York in Nov 08 but I need something to do between October 07 and then. I have an idea but won't distract myself yet.

Back in the groove

Well a sort of little groove in that I ran 10km on Saturday at race pace, 13 km yesterday at anything but race pace, and can you believe it, got on the bike in the clippy little shoes and cycled about 20km. I just needed some exercise as I had been at the PC all day and did not want to run.

I am still way off race fitness (or even any other fitness) but the good news is that I have keep it all going. And the sun came out.

What a week...........

No details I'm afraid but I hope I don't have a week like this again for a long while. Just about everything I have touched has gone wrong - and even those things I haven't touched have gone pear-shaped. If bad things come in 3's then I have had about half a dozen this week.

Remarkably, I have still kept to my running schedule. What a drag, but on the other hand, quite theraputic (not sure I can spell it but I know what I mean).

and it's still raining.....

Roll on next week - QUICK

Lack of blogging but no lack of running

OK,OK, I have not been at my blogging best recently. Thanks to those who have kept in touch by email etc.. you know who you are and I really appreciate it.

The running is back on schedule, however so is the eating and drinking, so it is a net:net for my body weight. Long runs are going well but would be a whole lot better if I could have just 2 hours when it didn't rain. I think I have been rained on at least 80% of the runs I have made in the last three weeks.

Last week I found myself running through a storm to get home and a bolt of lightening must have landed pretty close as I was sort of "blown" across the road a few metres. I didn't fall or anything but felt the power alright. Then someone who knows tells me that if it thunders etc again, just make yourself small and curl up - don't stand under a tree etc.. Yeah sure, so I don't get hit by lightening but get run over by a driver who thinks I am a kind of large, very wet, hedgehog?

My advice is just to run like hell, as fast as you can, back home.