back in the swing

iwas feeling tired and demotivated this week. coming off a few weeks of heavy mileage, reducing in time for the cardiff bute park 10k next saturday morning. i feel as though a pb is in the offing for this, providing that i can hold my self back in training over the last couple of days before the race.

my previous race was a bridge inn 5k where i ran 17:40 ish, don't know exactly what my time was as i accidently re set my watch crossing the line. i tried to post here about it on tuesday but the computer played up and that was that it wouldn't (and still wont)let me publish. the conditions on tuesday night were very windy with the worst of it being in your face up the slope. disappointed really as i thought that i was in shape to have a crack at my pb, 17:33. you will have missed my comments on my tuesday about the forth coming year for athletics. the jist of it is that the majority of our medal prospects are on the females sidewith there being the potential to take all three medals in the marathon, but paula being athsmatic could struggle with the pollution and humidity in beijing unless she wears one of those pollution masks. jo pavey will be in the mix in the 10,000 and the 5,000 if she recovers in time, whilst there are some promising girls in the 800. mo farah is the singular british hope for male distance runners with any chance of getting a medal this year such is the way standards have dtropped in the past 20 years.