The rest of 2011 - between marathons

[Sweder]

What has your experience been in previous road races?

Sound observation I'm sure. I have no scientific evidence to suggest hard top running will help, it's just a feeling I get. Racehorses are walked on the roads around here as part of their 'conditioning'. I'm more of a carthorse in the running stakes and yet there seems som reason to this.

My legs are always mullered after a road race. Knees, hips, back ... far more so that on offroad races. Steyning Stinger and Seaford Half do much less damage than the equivalent distances in London or Almeria. I won't be adding a vast amount of paved running to my agenda, just enough to get the taste and prepare my body for the damage to come. In fairness its unlikely I suffer enough during a marathon to affect my performance. The aftermath, however, is brutal.

Just back from a cheeky hillside five miler in my FiveFingers offroaders. Conditions were perfect; slippery, damp, cool yet partly sunny. More on this over at mine in a bit. Well, I didn't mean I'd start road running right away ...