went out on a steady run last night

was running down unlit roads, thought i'd be ok, until my headlight battery went half way through the run, so i couldn't see where i was going! this was along a 60 mph road, so it was a little bit scary really but thats not going to be enough to put me off. training tonight at coombe dingle, don't have any idea what the sessions going to be but i'll go up there for a nice hard run out. i get annoyed with my self though because i always seem to save my best performances for training and i can go in to a race feeling just as fresh and not perform. why? well if i had the answer to that i wouldn't be sat here typing this but worst of all it seems to affect the races where time matters as they represent the best chance of gettting a fast time. i'm still anoyed with my self for this sunday as within a few minutes of the coughing fit coming on i felt fine again. but then if i had finished the race i would have done a shit time, just for the sake of finishing, which to me is not the objective of shorter races like 10k's or 5k's. marathons or half marathons yes, but not shorter races. looking ahead i will run weston on thursday evening which is a race very similar to brighton only it is 5 miles not 10k and it is a 2 lap course not one. there will also be a 5k on tuesday and a 4k cross country on sunday (did i mention this yesterday?) i'm cramming these races in now because shortly every thing will be winding down for the festive season and then there will be nothing til the traditional boxing day races in clevedon apart from the avon and somerset cross country champs on the first weekend in december, where hopefully i will repeat my gold medal winning performance of last year. that was the team gold not individual which seems a long way off at the moment