This sport is important, but it takes something else to show you that it's not life and death. This something else was when i was over in Dublin on sunday and a text from my wife saying 'please phone, a car has just hit the house'! I couldn't believe it, so was just so happy that Alex and the dog 'pre' where both ok. It turned out a 'banned' driver lost control at 60-70mph and hit our front door, as alex was walking up the stairs. The dog was asleep in the front room and if the house was not so well built it would have ended up in our house. It only would have taken alex to be walking out of our front door and she would have been dead. It was luck no one was hurt, apart from the driver who tried to run off before being stopped. The sad thing is he has no insurance and will cost us money and time. Thats the sad thing in life and makes you so angry, but just happy that my family are ok. Now just waiting to see how bad the big cracks in the house are and what will happen. 

I was in Dublin for a reunion, this was for team SAAD, who i run for in Bahrain each year. The reunion was great fun and the black tie dinner was amazing, it was great to catch up with so many friends. Also we got a chance to take part in a fun 20 mile relay with 5 in each team. I needed to run it as a session, so had to work out the 16 x 400m with 5mins into a session that would help at the moment. So i ran the first 3 as warm with jogs in between. Then did drills and strides for the next three, before hitting the next 6 as fast as possible. Weather was tough and was tired but run 56-57's which was ok, before settling down for the last 4. My team took 2nd and it was a close race even after 20 miles, which was great credit to Ian Wilson- as he really knows his stuff.

Training is now progressing, with a good session on the road tonight and then will be on track wednesday before the welsh 5km saturday.

Cheers james