The Future

Hello all. The main news this week is that I am running again! It's only a light week but I'm pretty pleased with what I've done and feeling quite fresh again.

On the last blog someone called Jim T asked me about whether I'll take my education one step further by doing a masters in maths and if I'll drop the running for a bit. A masters is quite a big deal so if I do one the running will have to take a back seat for a while. Well, it's no secret thing's haven't been going so well since Jordan and I thought to myself, do I have a future in the sport? Is it worth putting a lot of time aside and getting down about something I'm not really going to achieve in? Is there more to gain in life by putting the maths first? I thought long and hard about these questions and their answers and I've decided to not take running as seriously anymore. I'm not going to train as hard as I do and just race and run when it suits me, just to stay generally fit, not sports-specific fit.

I joke! I didn't have those thoughts, I'm just having a bit of fun! To be honest Jim T I haven't thought about that stuff. Since I was 11 school work and running have gone hand-in-hand, not just running, sport in general. For example, take 1 day out of my week as a youth. Until I was 14 I would run in the morning with the group at Ealing just because I could, I didn't see it as training. In the afternoon I would then blast out 4 hours of football and in the evening, rush to do the homework due in for Monday morning. I've always been able to do both, and I suppose that's how I think it will go in the future. Until education/work throws something at me which is really time consuming, I don't see any reason to stop the running yet. Around exam time I see a lot of people giving up stuff to revise, not me, I just keep running and revise when I find time to fit it in. Admittedly I could have done better in my exams, but I've got to where I am today ok and I'm doing alright now, so I might as well make the most of what I've got. Steve says anyone can go out and get a degree, but how many of them can say they've done what I've managed to do. It would be horrible to look back in 30/40 years (if I'm still around) and look back at what I achieved and think what could have been. I think it would be a struggle to stop running anyway. The routine of running and then doing everything else is built into me now, it's something I just do. Now I think about it, I swear Steve is turning me into a robot; sleep, eat and run all the time.

Speaking of Sharpy, I carried that guy through his session the other day. I went down to the track on Tuesday just to do his warm up, drills and strides because he instructed me to so 30 mins in the morning. Part of his session was to do a hard 800, and when he got to that bit he decided to be a pussy and reduce it to 600m because he was tired; that was the sort of attitude which lost him the sprint finish to Simon Jones at Sports City. Anyways, it just so happens I had my racing flats in my bag and me being the generous guy I am I opted to take him through the first 400m to help him out. He had to do the 800 in 2:05 and wanted to go through 60. After just coming off a mini break and running in flats I took him through in 59/60, spot on. Not only that, I carried on to 600 in 1:30! That's commitment. Managed to do that even though prior to it I was sitting on the side of the track with Maria chatting about how slow he looked during his session. If I don't get a mention in his training write up this week I am going to kick up a massive fuss. By the way mini-cock (Steve), I still need a session for Saturday, get your ass in gear.

For those of you who follow my training diary I know I haven't updated it in a while and will put up the last couple of weeks tomorrow, many apologies.

Goolab xxx