2012 Here I Come!

2012 should be a good one. Has Paula Radcliffe got one more fast marathon left in her legs for the London Olympics? Can Haile Gebrselassie turn back the clock and put the young pretenders in their place?

My personal target for the year is Berlin. Whatever you do in 2012 have a good one!

2501

The Athens Classic Marathon is run in memory of Grigoris Lambrakis every November.

WANTED

DEAD OR ALIVE

For the betrayal of voters, students and crimes against the climate.

Tim's adventures continue

Read all about the perfect race. Slightly too much information in places but another good post from Tim Sander.

Sport's Holy Grail

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0105ymz/The_Sub_2Hour_Marathon_Sports_Holy_Grail/

Sub 4

Marato de Barcelona by bryangreenatkinson at Garmin Connect - Details

Cruise intervals

Cruise intervals by bryangreenatkinson at Garmin Connect - Details

Tales of mountaineering and bee keeping

My mate Tim has started blogging from the Canadian wilderness.

http://smilinghills.blogspot.com/

Guy Fawkes 10 by bryangreenatkinson at Garmin Connect - Details

Guy Fawkes 10 by bryangreenatkinson at Garmin Connect - Details

Amsterdam Marathon by bryangreenatkinson at Garmin Connect - Details

Amsterdam Marathon by bryangreenatkinson at Garmin Connect - Details

Last minute nerves before the start of the Amsterdam Marathon

Quote of the week

“It’s the Tories who have been putting the ‘N’ into cuts.”

Sandi Toksvig

2011 and all that

I’ve still got a couple of races to complete this season but already my thoughts are wandering to what races I will enter in 2011. Annoyingly some of the races I want to enter fall on weekends I’m not free.

I’ve already registered an interest in next years Great North Run, even though I said this year would be the last. Despite its many faults (over priced and over crowded are two of them) I did still feel genuinely excited when my race number dropped through the letter box this year. The best solution would be if the Great Langdale Marathon were to be held on the same weekend as the GNR. That would give me the perfect excuse to bugger-off to the lakes for the weekend and avoid GNR withdrawal symptoms as well as the Metro queues.

I’ve wanted to run the Great Langdale for a while now but haven’t been fit enough. Having recced some of the course last weekend I realise I’m still not fit enough! But I could be in eleven months time. I live in hope…

End of week report

Posts have been a bit thin on the ground due to time constraints. My training this week has consisted of the Great North Run on Sunday, a relatively easy session on Tuesday and a 20 mile run yesterday. I’m feeling a little bit stiff today!

Down with this sort of thing

The BBC takes up the story.

Careful now!

Burn in Hell sinners!

Assclown?

Respect to Brian Paget for introducing the phrase "Tactless religious assclown" into the lexicon.

Read all about it in the Gazette.

Look North!

O. Ivar Lovaas RIP

“If I had gotten Hitler… at the age of 4 or 5, I could have raised him to be a nice person.”

Obituary New York Times

Summer Holidays

Finding time to train and blog in the school summer holidays is always a challenge. This week I’ve managed to squeeze in a 400 X 12 interval session and a 16 mile run. The last one-and-a-half miles of the 16 miler were very tough going.