2007 - October

[El Gordo]

Bad luck old man.
All my 'damage' is self-inflicted at the moment. It's horrible; I can feel all the efforts of a hard working summer ebbing away as I give running the slip week after week. I guess one's true colours are revealed when one ditches the Jog Shop Jog - about the finest race in the South East IMHO - for a long weekend on the lash in Dublin with SP.

You know your own bod better than most, but I'd recommend a bit of physio. My calf-knack lasted from March (post-Steyning) through TOM to early May. Might be best to give it a good bashing early on.

A long weekend in Dublin, including the televised rugby World Cup semis (not to mention England in the Euros) isn't something to lightly pass up. You've made the right decision.

Why not just think of it as the last of the summer wine, or Guinness, and resolve to knuckle down properly once you get back? Mid-October is as good a time to start anew as any. Weather cool but not cold, and a few weeks of steady fitness building culminating in the Brighton 10K, before the more serious marathon training (if you're planning on a spring mara).

You may be right about the physio. The pain has gone but there's still a threatening tightness there. I get free physio through work I believe, so I should take advantage of it.

Cheers.