Desperate in December

[Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man]

A quiet weekend for a change enabled me to get in two runs: consecutive runs have been a rare occurrence of late, so things are looking up.

I followed yesterday's intervals with a testing 4km hill climb today. An average 6% gradient today combined with a dearth of hills in recent times meant this was quite a tough session for me, but I felt great afterwards and got through it without too much of a look in from the grim reaper.

So right now I'm feeling confident about gearing up for a serious crack at a sub-2hr half next year. Maybe some other stuff as well. We'll see. Have to get my base fitness up though as the hot weather starts kicking in soon and just coping with the heat requires a fair effort.

TdJ: U2's Magnificent (Dave Aude Club Remix) - After EG's comments about this band I felt I had to stand up for the lads, and this is the perfect track to do it with. A tremendous song (one of my all-time U2 favourites), and a great running song in its own right, but this remix makes for splendid running, particularly when coping with a really tough 10% gradient as I was struggling with when it came on the iPlod. This song is definitely on my all-time running song favourites list.