Good news on the run MLCMan, I know pulling out was a big blow.
Yes, the enforced rest stops may prove beneficial, especially as you've been a bit off in the last week.
Speaking of being a bit off, I appear to have fallen off life's treadmill rather heavily this week. Lunch at Langhans featuring two pints of Guinness and three bottles of most agreeable Aussie Pinot with a customer on Thursday followed by a Mayfield Golf Society committee meeting fuelled by a monster curry, gargantuan G&Ts and several bottles of vino last night. Rounding the week off nicely today with my bro's FA Cup Final BBQ.
Not so much as a dog-walk in sight and a fully race-fuelled Moyleman waiting to drag my bloated carcass over the sweaty Sussex hillscape tomorrow morning
Good luck tomorrow, enjoy the day and the memories.