turning up the heat

its starting to get hot and summer is well and truly upon us. the pollen count is unfortunately rather high at the moment which means that i am sneezing rather a lot but hopefully that means that when it all clears up i will be running faster. we still havn't done any thing remarkably fast yet no real out and out speed and to me the fact that i am running pb's without having done that demonstrates that a i am in pretty good shape and b i can still get a lot faster. you can never really tel how much faster though until get there, when people ask you how good you will be its like the old proverbial question about 'how longs a piece of string' which you can never truly answer until you get to the end, you can only prophesize about it. i will be happy with what i have done at 800's and 1500's if i get close to 2minutes and 4 minutes respectively but thats a long way in the future for now. i intend to make the most of all the speed i can get out of the shorter distances before i think about new challenges that lie ahead. i do feel as though my strength lies in middle distance road races rather than on the track as i feel as though i lack the speed to be really competitive at 800 meters. the thought of doing a duathlon (but not a triathlon as i can't swim) has often been at the fore front of my mind and maybe its some thing i could become good at who knows?

a hard week

but it was sure worth it. started with a 1500 meter pb at exeter and a hard session on thursday after the heaviest day at work i can remember outside of christmas, thanks to about 60 odd inch thich catalogues from boots and the national trust (strange how it came through the day after the deadline for strike vote) thursdays session was 2x800 and 4x400 all with short recoveries the 800's were both 2:27 and the 400's were 69 68 69 and 70. was abit annoyed about the last one as they would all of been under 70 for the 1st time this year if it wasn't for that. running on the grass seems to be working as the old knee lift is coming back