Supposed to be my long midweek run (5 miles). Curtailed to 3 and a bit, and that was a stop-start 3 and a bit. That other bloody chest pain again. It doesn’t hurt a lot at all, but it just prevents me from running for extended periods. Beginning to have my first serious doubts now about whether I’ll make the London race. Should I go for a longer slower build-up by making Chicago October 2002 my first, then following up with a deferrred London in 2003? I’d really like to run the London marathon: it could be my only chance to whip that Haille Gebrselassie’s ass good and proper and show him what the Brits are made of…
(A man’s reach should exceed his grasp,
Else what’s a heaven for…?)
