tonight i will be skipping the session with mikes group in order to just do a steady run around portishead, then i will be playing squash afterwards. this is all in aid of ensuring that i am completely fresh for the race in cardiff on saturday (i've just looked at the maps on the net the park is right by the millenium stadium) i don't know which bright spark thought of that but it does sound like a recipie for people getting in the way and generally being a bit of a nuisance. never mind i've entered now so i might as well make the most of the opportunity.
my final hard day before the event was yesterday. i ran twice, 4 miles in the morning, 6 in the evening, with a gym session in between times. going by the times i ran at aztec west on tuesday i think it would be worth having a crack at 36:30. thats 3:39 per kilometer, well within my capbilities. my long term goal for 10k is to get down to under 35:00 then i will reassess my progress with a view to either going even faster still or having a crack at the marathon, but thats a long time off. i have always said that i will not go for the marathon until i have got what i think i can from the middle distances and shorter long distances because once you have made that step up you lose all the speed you have developed running on the track and cross country very quickly, even though it is very important to have that back ground if you want to be a successful marathon runner. some people have tried to coax me in to doing one now but if you look at all the great athletes of now and past they all bided their time and waited for the right moment before they tackled the big 26.2 miles, and you can justify it by the times they ran and the records they broke
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