August 2010

[El Gordo]

Ah yes, Connemara. Sorry, that had slipped my mind.

Eh? You have been busy
Of course, Almeria is very much on my radar too. I'm hoping to tag on a few days (usual flight issues permitting) for an Ultra training camp in Cabo de Gata. The race will be a training run (no, really, it will this time) possibly to pace someone to a sub 2 hour half, possibly not. I'm not planning on hanging onto Ladyrunner's skirt-tails again next next year - damn near killed me last time.

The training camp thing occured to me this time around when I was staggering around the coastal trails after Simon. Oh, and if that plan does bear fruit I'll be drinking a fair bit less post-race. Ahem.

Will have to make a call about Connemara a bit nearer the time.

Well running or not I'm not going without you. You can bloody well cycle along with a loud hailer and bark at me for seven hours until I break down weeping or finish the damn race.

I may well take you up on the sub-2 Almeria offer.

Might sound strange after the calf going ping again last week, but I'm feeling more optimistic right now than I have done for a long, long time. Far from being the last straw as far as my running is concerned, it was the last straw as far as the injury is concerned. I've embarked on a serious health and fitness campaign, with 10 lbs dropped last week alone, plus between 1 and 2 hours of exercise most days over the past 2-3 weeks. I'm determined to sort this problem out somehow.