Happy New Year!

[marathondan]

My sympathies are with you on the terrible weather conditions!

Regarding the 16 days' work fitted into 8 days, I guess you have a couple of options:

1. Try and fit in a couple of short looseners as and when, to keep ticking over, and treat it as (another) step back week.

2. Set aside a couple of hours in your diary, and really concentrate on getting one quality long run in - arrange your sleeping, eating etc etc on the adjacent days with the sole focus of achieving that one run. Perhaps this is the better option, as the long run is the most sacred element of the weekly cycle of devotions. (However, if you're under pressure at work then it may nearly kill you...)

You can do the math - I reckon you won't be able to manage any more than one of those options without going insane.

Anyway, good luck - sounds like a tough enough week without having a marathon to train for on top...