Toral de los Vados 2007. The training starts today.

[Riazor Blue]

MLCM, regarding time, at the moment I'll have to see how the training goes. Two years ago a similar training plan yielded 3h13. Looking back I probably ran quite conservatively and given my level of fitness, could probably have run 3h09 more or less. Last year on a complete shambles of training, ie no speedwork, the vast majority of training done as 6.5km runs to and from work, I managed 3h18 . The interesting thing about last year though was that I ran hard.

What I'm looking for this year is a fitness level somewhere near to two years ago with proper training and then to run the marathon at the same intensity as last year. With luck and good training I'm hoping to be around the same as two years ago.

As an aside MLCM, there is a tiny little bar here in Coruña called El Inglés. A few years back I gave the owner a couple of bottles of London Pride. One he drank and the other was put up on top of the bar as decoration. Two owners on, the bottle remains in it's place. The two previous owners went into parnership and opened up a new bar called The Dog's Bollocks. The owner, to my surprise and delight told me the other day that as from April they will be having London Pride on tap. ... Can't wait!