no more pissing about

no excuses now. its time for me to start knuckling down and get serious about training in order to get my self fit for winter. i've two weeks off work nowe and i plan to be out running twice every day apart from saturday sunday and monday due to travel arrangements. i did the wiltshire 10k yesterday mostly as a training run, but ran an exceptionally hilly course in 40:19. it sounds slow but the hills were probably worth 2-3 minutes alone and you didn't make the time up on the down hills. in total there was probably 2.5k worth of climbing, including some sections of the course where the gradient must have been 1 in 3 or 4. this is a bit of a wake up call really though that i need to get my act together. i've already been for an 8 mile run this morning and will do another 4 or 5 tonight. that will be the staple diet through the week and next week as well. of the rowing machine now got too much going on running wise to allow for distractions. i've been trying to find the date for the bourton on the water 10k, but even though it is supposed to be in february or march next year they still haven't advertised it on the bourton road runners website. this is the course that consistently comes up along with the leeds abbey dash when people talk about courses with pb potential and i have missed out on it for tha last two years because i got the information too late and i am determined not to let that happen again