an easy weekend by the seaside

or at least i slept two nights by the seaside in brighton as abase for going to watch the tour de france in london and kent. hyde park was where wed decided to gop and watch the race on saturday afternoon with the aid of the big screen. there were around 1 million people in the park alone i think all hoping for a victory for local boy bradley wiggins but he had to make do with fourth after a remarkable performance by fabien cancellara gave him a 13 second lead going in to the next day.

canterbury in kent wasn't so good in terms of the racing but was a far more delightful town than london and we were even shown a ducking stool which witches were put on trial on in medieval times. they were dunked under neath the water and if they drowned they were inocent and if they lived they were guilty. a very primitive form of justice a which sounds more like an excuse to kill people thenany thing else.

as for the running this weekend it was very much a case of less is more as i stuck to a diet of shortish steady runs, which was probably just what the doctor ordered after the beasting my legs have taken over the last week or so. i didn't even bother doing a long run this sunday, oh well missing one of them wont hurt too much just don't make a habit of doing it! my legs certainly feel much better after doing some thing easy.

time is nigh that i started planning my winter race schedule. i wont be saying anything about what i will and wont be doing untile i know for definite but what i will say is that it will be roads with the odd bit of cross country all over 5k and 10k with a 10 miler and a half marathon chucked in for good measure...but thats for the future and this is the here and now. next race is the cheltenham midsummer games open mile onwednesday, which will mean missing training on tuesday evening and doing hard stuff two days in a row quite possibly. this will be followed by a 5000 and/or 1500 meter race at a league meeting at yate. i am quite looking forward to doing some more endurance related stuff at the moment as out and out speedwork/speed endurance work can be rather painful at the best of times. endurance training for 1500 doesn't involve any thing ;ike the same amount of discomfort that you would get either for 5k/10k work or marathons, even so its still tiring, but you don't get to that point at the end of the session where you just curl up in a pathetic heap gulping for air, with lactic acid coming out of your eye balls (yes i've pushed my self that hard some times folks and it hurt)