sorry its been this long

the last time i tried to update this space the computer went balls up and that was that. i'm slowly but surely getting back to something resembling the shape i was in last winterbut it feels like a long hard slog. on a more positive note my times on the concept 2 rower are getting quicker and i am definitely in the brighton 10k. 6:41.3 is the latest time for 2000m meters. if it gets much quicker than that i will definitely be taking up rowing or sculling. i'm only running once a day at the minute, but thats a deliberate ploy. twice may get you fit but it also burns you out if you're not careful. maybe once the brighton 10k is out of the way and we are heading towards christmas and the less important races i might use that time to put in a bit of mileage but certainly not before then. trained at coombe dingle last night and again tomorrow and twice last week. in fact it seems that all of our sessions have been on the grass rcently and whilst that may be better for your joints just running laps of the same circuit all the time isn't good for your motivation. hopefully i will be staying with jon and rosie before the race in brighton in a couple of weeks time all being well. the latest update on ewan and kellis baby from scotland is that he has now started attempting to eat people! i am also laying down this challenge to jon martin and scott to enter the brighton 10k-if the entries are still open

having a hard time

i've been working hard this week, probably too hard but its all good fun. my schedule this week has included a long run of about 16 miles, where i had a proper bink. not the sort most of you would think of, but its where you're body starts to feel tired due to lack of energy and it makes you feel temporarily tired and nauseous. i have also done a hard 2000 meter effort on the ergometer (down to 6:49 now) which was preceded by a steady state run of about 7 miles, twenty minute threshold run last night and tuesdays session was 4x1 mile at aztec west which were all under 5:40. the quality of the group i am training with is definitely getting better with a lot more people attacking the front of the group, but it is almost exclusively a male group now, so there's no body to take my fancy romantically unfortunately. and it also means i'm now near the back of the group despite running faster times than i was running 2 years ago when i was at the front of the middle, if you can make sense of that. although i don't feel as fit as i was this time last year i still feel some pb's over the longer distances, hence the reason i have attempted to enter the brighton 10k although i don't know if it has been accepted as the cheque hasn't been presented yet and i did leave it a bit late. some people i know would be able to get elite entries but i fear i'm not quite at that standard-yet.

tonight will be a hard effort on the ergometer but no running, possibly followed by a game of snooker with one of my work mates. we're starting up a mini league for pill spdo of about 4 or 5 people. my snooker skills need polishing though and i have no pretensions of being the next rocket ronnie. finally our previous manager has been moved on from portishead as his lies and slimy behaviour have finally caught up with him. i was one of the first to find out and i had an urge to remind him that what goes around comes around as he packed his bags and left. i'm sure you all recall this is a reference to his many failed attempts to get rid of me, but i resisted this as i thought if i did say it it may come back to haunt me. he's now at bristol south delivery office in hartcliffe where if he behaves as he did in portishead, not only will they string him up, they'd queue up to kick away the stool, so hopefully for his sake he's learnt his lesson!