breaking double figures

i have achieved a milestone today in my come back. i have run further than ten miles for the first time since i started my come back covered the distance in roughly 73 minutes so there's room for improvement. 10.2 miles is the exact course measurement to be precise. the conditions were hot and sticky and that made the last few miles ahem rather interesting. i will probably do it again by the end of the week as i am thinking that if i do decide to continue running then i might do a half marathon or may be...no i'm not even gonna mention a thought that stupid on here, its a crazy idea, but its a must do thing for any distance runner. not training tonight as i have a golf lesson down at tickenham golf club with one of my work colleagues. golf will only ever be for fun with me but i'm still determined to have a go at it and see how far i get

oh and another thing

sorry just forgot to mention its my bitrthday tomorrow

just running the miles and having some fun

thats all i'm doing at the minute. nothing fancy no speed work, but there's no pressure and quite honestly my calfs don't feel like they could stand up to the pounding that running fast would give them. they will get stronger over time but its also a question of whether or not i still have the desire to run competitively once my rehabilitation is complete. a the moment i definitely have the desire to compete as a sports person but i am still very much keeping my options open in that regard. i still think that rowing and/or sculling would be the best option for me competitively, but the fact is that i am in love with running as a sport. in fact it goes beyond being a sport for me-running is a way of life. i run nearly every day so to that end it is even more routine than going to work or getting out of bed in the morning. put simply if i could be an olmypic or world champion in any sport i could choose it would be as a runner and if had control over my genetics i would choose to do it in the marathon. why choose that i hear you say when you could be either usain bolt or michael johnson in a much easier discipline? well the answer to that is that it simply is the distance runners distance. or maybe cross country if that ever makes its way back on to the olympic programme and i think it should because cross country races are the greatest test of a distance runners ability. every competitor in one race every competitor faces the same challenge, the same obstacles and there can be no saying that some one had it easy because some one else wasn't in the same race.

but life is about making the best of the hand that you're dealt. i've long ago accepted that i'm not going to make it as a premiership footballer and make millions out of sport, but a lot of those guys in the premier league are big headed arrogant twats and if they produced the same standard in any other sport as they do in football they would never even of been heard of outside of their clubs certainly non of them are driven by the pursuit of excellence like the world leaders in other sports are. like the great rower tim foster said recently on the boat race coverage "winning an olympic gold medal made me a lot of money but it didn't make me a better person or a better rower". michael johnson was some one who was continually striving to improve standards even though he was yards ahead of any other 200 or 400 meter runner of his generation. football is a sport that is totally driven by the desire to possess material objects whether that be medals or vast sums of money that people like my self admittedly are stupid enough to pay to watch these prima donnas.