its been a long time since we spoke

due to the fact that the 6 o'clock starts are now here which means that i am rarely able to get to portishead library before it closes, so as you can guess a lot has gone on in my athletic life since then. we have trained twice at coombe dingle since then once at bristol zoo and i have had a 5 mile road race at weson super mare where i ran 29:42. i have also been asked out by a woman, who changed her mind as soon as i said yes, giving me a lesson in why women can be the biggest head fucks in the universe.

last night at the zoo we did a session of long lap, medium lap short lap x2 and my times were 3:45, 2:55, 2:15, 3:50, 2:47, 2:17. i still fel a bit 'leggy' from tuesdays sess at coombe dingle so it was quite pleasing that i was able to equal the sorts of times that i would have ran last year only if i was feeling particularly good. it was annoying though that some upstart students decided to turn up and take my place as leader of the chasing group (self appointed by the way) behind the county and international standard runners/duathletes/triathletes.

for those of you who never thought that in their life time they would ever bear witness to a miracle, well now you have. my cross country career, which i had once given up the ghost on is now restarting on sunday with a run in the new south west league. the standard isn't expected to be as good as the gwent league but the distances covered wont be anything like as far (8.2k for the blokes) which is far more suuitable for me than the 10 or 12k races that they have at the gwent. they say that the course has some hills in it which will suit me even further. rather than trying to win the race outright i have a few people in my mind that i want to beat and i'll just settle for doing that afterall it would be madness to try anything special after so long away from the brown stuff!