prom run tonight

legs are still a bit tired from the time trial i did on tuesday night, but may be thats not such a bad thing as most of my bad races have been run on fresh legs. a bit strange really but true all the same. i remember the last time i did one of these races i was knackered at the start from having to sprint round my round in the morning to get to bristol in time for my mate jocks funeral, but i still finished within 4 seconds of my pb! then on sunday there's the bmc 4k cross country championships on bristol downs. this is the second longest running cross country race in britain behind 'the national' and used to attract quality fields to match a race of such history. however since the iaaf decided to do away with the short course race at the world championships interest has declined as people have decided to concentrate on the longer event in order to secure their place on the team for that. sad really but thats the changing nature of the sport in which we compete and we have to go with it or the sport will die. i have huge doubts over the competitive benefits for the sport of mass participation marathons etc as they have produced a generation of joggers who aren't interested in competing properly and are only looking to get round. but the problem is money talks but london marathon and great run, the two big race organising companies aren't interested in re-investing in the sport that sustains them and this is one of many reasons why gb is struggling to compete against the top european nations let alone the likes of kenya and eithiopia. aside from that we have also produced a generation of youngsters in this country that are frankly bone idle and expect things to be done for them and they're too frightened of hard work