Over-weight, Under-run

[Nigel]

Good to see that your pseudo-intellectual socialism levels are improving nicely with the training, Sweder. Well done, comrade.

Meanwhile, what's all this tommy rot about a 10k or two after a marathon forming some sort of easy carrot-shaped panacea for the too-easily-deflected-into-the-pub-and-chocolate-cake crowd ?

Despite having one half decent 10k last year (well, in my entire life, actually), I don't see the 10k as any sort of soft option. It's torture of the highest order, and whilst you can lope along with a fair amount of impunity at longer distances, the 10k just never seems to be any kind of a forgiving distance to me.

I think I'd rather run a half marathon. Any time. Or give up altogether. Which is, er, yes, what seems to happen to Sweder every year. Maybe I can understand how it happens then, after all....