16th October 2011

Another hard week of training,( I must remember to thank Phil for this idea of running Baikal Ice Marathon )

A good week of training with weights, followed by 4.5 miles with a client Friday morning, then 9 miles on Saturday morning and then a 10K race at Blenheim Palace today with another client.

Good to be getting the miles in.

Back to today’s race, Phil was also at Blenheim as I had suggested that he did it as his training run this weekend. He gleefully accepted as it was a shorter run then he was meant to do…….

There was a lot of talk from Phil that he would be a lot quicker than me and my client today, and although he set off a lot quicker than us (we also had to stop and help a lady who had tripped over my clients foot and gone flat on her face) QUESTION:- when in a race, when you overtake people why is it necessary to cut directly in front of that person as soon as possible…. I just don’t get it..

Sorry for the ramble, back to the race, around half way we found that Phil was only 40/50meters in front of us at this stage I don’t think he knew we were there, so we just quietly closed the gap over the next few K, until he could hear me, after a few words of encouragement from me (something along the lines of “move your arse you should be further ahead” Phil speed up.
Although at this stage my client got a second wind and we caught Phil up, with only 250m to go.

At this stage Phil swore at me and said that I was not passing, not very friendly I thought…., So with 50m to go I thought I would ease pass him, I’m sure I heard a few rude words being uttered under his breath… Maybe they were congratulations????

It was a great race, Phil did have a good run, although beaten by me, with my client 1 m behind him (she did amazingly well)

So far with training the weather has been very kind…..

I thinka glass of wine is deserved tonight and then the training starts again Monday morning at 6.00am

Speak Soon

Trevor