The title gives it away really. having done the burnham prom 5k series on thursday evening in an awful, pathetic 19:15 (iknow it was windy but my split time at the clevedon 10k was quicker than that though for gods sake) mike richards, my sisters ex boyfriends step dad offered to pace me round after i found out that you could enter on the day. so i made the same journey down to burnham on sunday morning. the first couple of miles were very easy as you would expect running only 6:45's. half marathon for me usually means a sub 6 minute first mile and agony for the rest of the race. this was the first time in my running career that i have managed to run the same pace for a whole race of any distance apart from mile 10-11 where we went over a railway bridge and lost about 4 seconds. i started to feel the accumulation of fatigue albeit gradually from about mile 3 onwards and miles 8-10 were the bad patch that every one goes through in long distance races but i still hit the same pace. mentally the final mile gave me that second wind and i pushed hard until the line and even managed a sprint over the last 2-300 yards and i staggered over the line in 1 hour 28 minutes and 36 seconds, which made up for the disappointment of thursday night. after the warm down and a sunday lunch i wasn't in the mood to do much else apart from lie down on my bed taking some well earned recovery time. its been easy runs since then and the same tonight although i may try and do a speed session later on this week depending on how quickly my legs recover from the beating that long distance running gives them.
nothing much to report at work apart from fridays strike almost turned in to a disaster for the union because they called it at short notice (how is it they managed to inform the company last week and only tell us on the tuesday) and we had an informal union meeting at work where we finished the meeting more confused than when we started it as we talked about a work to rule instead but when i said i didn't think my conscience would allow me to cross a picket line it seemed to turn more people in favour of striking and we ended up letting peoples consciences decide what they should do. the next strike for delivery is on october the 12th and this one i think will be national if its a yes vote-results this week and it probably will be. although they're talking at the minute i can see this dispute lasting for a few months yet
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Another 2 minutes needs to come off that for a sub 3 hour marathon. You also need to update your PB's on the right of your page.
I've heard that 11 people have died as a result of the recent postal strikes as they didn't receive letters telling them they had cancer in time to get it treated. How do you postman feel about having their blood on your hands?
there's no blood on my hands. we have been forced in to a psoition where we had no option but to do this. the blood is firmly and squarely on the hands of adam crozier and his management team
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