Random Thought Generator

Watched thoroughly enjoyable IAU World Trail Champs on C4 at weekend. The Canadian runner impressed me with how he manages to blank things out of his mind during a run - he gets in a "running trance". I tried something similar today. Anything to take my mind off sore legs and a never-ending climb. When you are trying to keep thoughts out, it's amazing what random thoughts actually do pop in and out. I tried my hardest to keep all of them out, Apart from one. What does your favourite soup taste like then?

Slack.

Whoops- been a bit slack recently. Holidays have contributed. They were nice though:). Anyway, back to t'hills and this morning I tackled a loop of the Wrekin and a climb of the Stompers' spiritual home, the Ercall. The old legs began to suffer on the descent back to Wellington but I got back in good order. Lovin' it :)
Anyhow, the picture somes up agony & ectasy of doing hills. Dave is clearly wishing he was somewhere else, while Andy only needs a skipping rope and his run is complete :-) (pics by Al Tye - thanks for the wonderful service you provide to runners )

Friends of the Wrekin

big up for this website it tells it like it is regarding the Wrekin hill :)

Road running

It gets a bad press as not being as sexy as the hills, but done properly, it's hard. As much as I like mountains, hills etc. You need to run paths and roads to get a sustained level of pace for a decent amount of time. So I'm on a sabbatical while I build up some road miles. In August heat, this is hard work.