counting down the hours

its sunday morning here in old portishead, the rain is pouring down and i feel about as useful as a non catholic nun in a brothel. still i'm back at work tomorrow ready in anticipatin of the annual christmas rush and i can't wait for it to get some over time done (thats just inevitable at this time of year) and to get some semblence of routine in to my life. its amazing how having one week off can recharge your batteries and get you away from the drudgery of nine til five or in my case six til two. by the time i've had my run today i will have done approximately 66 miles this week plus a 43 mile bike ride to priddy and back, which is right at the top of the mendips, which i really enjoyed in the cold and wet, thos mendip hills as martin greenwood correctly pointed out have a real reputation in the cycling fraternity, because some of them are steep, and it is a bleak desolate landscape up there, nothing for miles and miles apart from maybe four or five houses and zero shops or pubs. oh and the mendip race way that me and my brother used to frequent when we were much younger, for banger racing.

so the route i took for the ride was portishead-clevedon then along the b3133 to langford, then up the b3134 up rwoberry hill to priddy, before turning right towards cheddar down the famous cheddar gorge really strong headwind, then back to langford over shipham hill before going back the way i came.

thursday i did a quality session of a hilly 4 x 1.1 miles when i was averaging about 6:30 per rep around eastwood in portishead one of my favourite running places because its just so quiet and peaceful and you have the sound of the waves crashing on to the beach which adds to the atmosphere