back down to earth with a bang

after thinking my winter training programme had got off to a reasonable start guess what? i've had my first bug of the year already and we've hardly got started. but this time i've been in work due to the new manager we have at portishead delivery office who to be honest truthful and straight is a cunt. he has already docked several colleagues pay for calling in sick and put them on statutory sick pay even for just one day. i can't really afford to lose a days pay even if i will get it back some time a bit further down the line. several people are also owed money for thins like door to doors, and overtime and people are being put on conduct code like my self (3rd time already) for honest mistakes or refusing to do over time as we're not being paid for it, rather than what it shuould be used for which is deliberate acts of dishonesty, eg stealing mail or bringing mail back to the office without informing management prior to commencing delivery. we've all been emailed a copy of the letter that the union sent to him and his manager following a crisis meeting where people could air their grievances that the manager didn't turn up for, although one suspects it was more to do with him not wanting to face the music over the scandalous way he treats people. any one who wants to have a read of this is welcome to as i still have it on email, i will send it on to you. thats my work rant over

i think i picked this bug up after training on tuesday on the downs, i felt rough afterwards, whic is nothing untoward, but the evening afterwards alarm bells started to ring when it took me 60 mins to complete a course i would usually do in 55 and it got progressively worse from there on in until i had a sore throat etc and all the other classic cold symptoms. i'm still giving consideration to my future as a runner though by the way, especially the course i will take through the summer season as i wont be running track this yearonly training on it. i've been doing a fair bit on the concept2 rowers, which has helped to keep a bit of variety in the training though and as i get more competent i may enter some competitions, it just depends on how things pan out. but the first priority is to get this bug out of my system before racing begoins in earnest, which for me will either be the portishead 10k or the clevedon road relays btoh on the 28th of september, just depends which one takes my fancy. take care, bye