british athletes on the up-including me

a good session at the zoo on thursday night. it was the same session that we usually do alternating between long and short circuits, 4 of each. i managed 2:53, 2:49, 2:55 and 2:57 on the longer reps with 2:12, 2:17 2:08 and2:15 on the shorter reps. i left everybody for dead on the 2:08 of the shorter reps leading one of the older guys to comment that he thought that i had the speed of a 400 meter runner. not sure about that one my self, but i certainly feel that i have questions to answer over the shorter distances, i feel that i have more potential than i have demonstrated thus far in my career. eventually, i would likee to do sub 55 seconds although it probably does seem a long way off looking at the pb's on my profile, but you have to remember that was done 1 hour after running a 1500 meter race at a league meeting.

talking of 400 meters, the commentators were fast running out of superlatives to describe the performance of young nicola sanders at the european championships. i wont use any myself but i will say that she ran the 5th fastest ever 400 meters by a female, indoors or out, on an indoor track, missing the european record by afraction of a second, with nobody on the track near her at the finish. 50.05 seconds was the time. mo farah ran well in todays 3000 final but he looked as though the fall he took in yesterays heats took some thing out of him when you consider the ground that he had to make up, especially when you lose your bearings when you get up and run the wrong way! surely jo pavey must one day win a major international title, but i fear that she is somewhat lacking in form from what i saw of her when she set the british 2 mile record a few weeks ago, when her legs were so tired she was wandering out in to lanes 2 and 3 in th straights. as for lisa dobriskey the other brit in the final i do wonder about her attitude when she came out straight after the birmingham race saying that when she was on jo's shoulder, she held back because she was aware that jo was desperate to break the world record. nice of her to be so considerate, but it doesn't get you very far in the harsh world of professional sport.

back to what i'm doing it'll be the team bath 10k tomorrow and i'll certainly be having a crack at my pb. if my previous 5 mile races are anything to go by it should be under serious threat. at the very worst it will be a good hard run out before the relays begin in ernest in 4 weeks time. i have never come away from a 10k race feeling that i have paced it perfectly, i have always falagged towards the end of the race, so hopefully i can get under 37 minutes. i read the other day in runners world about some guy who had done 100 10k races under 40 minutes. now thatt would be some thing to aim for! any way i'm just off for a run now, but i'll be eating plenty of pasta and rice tonight to give me plenty of energy to burn