ahead of the pain that will come tomorrow and the chaos that the result of the strike will bring on monday (hopefully) although i did rear in a communication that there had been developments in talks between the union and the top bods at royal mail. they didn't elaborate on what these developments were though.
today though sees the first time the english schools championships is televised and there are several local athletes of note attending including rich peters who should be one of the favourites to win the 1500 meters providing that his legs can hold out if he has to run heats and emma reed (sister of gb international kate reed) in the senior girls 1500m. its televised on sky sports this year so its a real opportunity to showcase some of the talents that will(hopefully) be medal contenders come 2012.
as for myself i can for the moment only dream of being that good...maybe i will be a lot better but unfortunately i think where my strenghths lie eg road running is only an olympic sport at marathon level although there is a seperate world championships for the half marathon. but i'm not even good enough to compete at midland championship level let alone national or international. thats just a home truth that i have to face up to difficult though it can be. silly though it may sound, it can be quite difficult some times to remember that your levels of natural ability aren't your fault, they are just some thing that you are born with and you have to like it or lump it and just make the best of what you have got and try not to think about what you haven't got.
i decided to ditch the idea of running a 5000 meter race tomorrow after consulting with mike about it. we both agreed that i haven't done long enough intervals on the track to make it worth going for. but i know what will happen now i'll have to make a point of turning up after the start so i don't get conned by the team manager martin davies into doing it "for he club" as he puts it...
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