Sunday 5th saw my first 1.30 club run. Trying to get more miles in the legs for Nottiigham. we covered approx 10 miles so still some way to go for me.

Tuesday 7th – Speed session of 12 x 350. Good training for the Belgrave TriandRun 5k coming up on Sunday

Thursday 9th – HBB, Parson’s Choice, Gem, Deryn Du, Shefford Mild, BeWyched……then the memory get’s a bit hazy. You’ve guessed it. It was the Beer Festival at Earls Court. Usually I find this a bit too busy but it wasn’t that bad. Accompanied by that well know firm of solicitors, Wolfenden, Knight, Schroeder & Jackson much fun was had by all. My favourite was Gem from Bath Ales. Least favourite was the round we got from the Welsh Region. Jackson retaliated by buying a bottle of A over T for Tim. At 9% it wasn’t what was needed. He took it better than me.

Despite being a member of the Striders since November last year I finally, this morning, managed to make a Sunday morning club run. This is the first part of my new strategy to run long slow runs, leading up to the Robin Hood half-marathon on September 16th. Pretty good turn outs by the look of it with the 90-minute crew looking as if they might even be increasing this time as they work towards Autumn marathons. I’ll stick with the 60-minute gang for the time being. This morning we passed an information point for Bramley Bank. The good thing is that the calf/achilles I tweaked at the Dysart Dash last weekend didn’t complain too much.