.................................................................in an airport departure lounge waiting for a flight to amsterdam that has so far been delayed by about 1hr 30 mins. great fun. not, but they say that the best things often get off to slow starts so maybe thats a sign of things to come.
i managed to squeeze in a run this morning of about 45 minutes or so at a relatively brisk pace but certainly not too quick. the miles have started to come back up in training recently. thats not a conscious thing and not some thing that you should be doing in the summer, but then does this feel like summer at the moment? there is a distinctly springish?late winter sort of feel at the moment with all the rain that we've been getting recently,
i read in the bristol evening post that rich peters who i think i mentioned in my last post got in to zagreb (not budapest as i originally stated) at 3:30 in the morning after rather hellish delays at heathrow, which makes his feat all the more commendable. if its a slow racehe has as good a chance as any one of gaining a medal with the flat speed he has. however every time i see him race, it seems quite apparent that he hasn't learnt the lessons of past races namey that he doesn't have what it takes to go with the tougher guys early on in the race...but the pace always seems too slow for him and he goes to the front tries to run the legs off his opponents and ends up hurting himself more than he hurts the opposition. of the three brothers that train with us he unquestionably has the greater natural talent, while older brother craig has the dedication and the commitment. younger brother matt is a good cross country runner and some thing of an enigma and seems to lack the concentration skills, but he is still growing and developing at a quite frighteningly fast rate.
as for the the tour de france, well what can be said about that that hasn't already been said. whilst machael rasmussen hasn't failed a test, the evidence of him cheating is quite damning if not conclusive although he has responded by saying that the entire case about him lying about his whereabouts was based on one person saying that he recognised him on a training ride in italy when he had told the team thathe was supposed to be in mexico, his winter residence. we shall see what we shall see on that one although several riders said in inteerviews today that they "knew" or were "convinced" that he had done some thing naughty. as for alexandre vinokourovs protestations of innocence claiming that having two different types of blood globules because of the crashes, and that he was being "stitched up", well change the record please mate its broken. the sooner they start jailing these people and treating them like the criminals they are, the sooner they'll start thinking twice before they break the law. they are depriving the hard working innocent cyclists whoo are prepared to put themselves through pain in search of glory of the income that they rightly deserve above these scumbags that cheat.
i am looking forward to exeter on tuesday night where it looks, weather permitting, as though i will be running a 1500 meter race and the target time that i set at the start of the season was 4:30 but i would take 4:32 now considering the difficulty that i have had in finding races. still got to sort out transport for that one that will be done at about midnight on monday!
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