January 2015

[marathondan]

Interval session before breakfast this morning. I think "shorts and t-shirt, January, 6am" tells us all we need to know about global warming. It had been raining all night and was still going fairly strong, but I decided to go around the field anyway. A few metres in and I bailed out, skipping over the verge and onto one of my old road routes instead. Over short distances I'd rather pound my joints than slip and pull something.

As sprinting in the dark and rain at 6am goes, it was pretty good, 5 of the 8 intervals (90 sec) coming in under my target of 7 min miling. I know it's not all about the numbers, but... for me it's all about the numbers.

Just noticed that my Asics Gel 1160s will need replacing before race day. They're coming up for 3 years old, although I've had two light years (I could, of course, tell you exactly how many miles they've done). It seems that the current replacement is the GT-1000 (the 1170 has been and gone in the meantime) and they're currently available in everyone's favourite discount sports retailer, Sports Direct.