Update - (22/1)

What happened to the last few weeks !

Very little racing as this was a conscious decision as part of my my London Marathon training for 2009 - last year I raced 12 times in 12 weeks which with hindsight was probably 6-7 races too much.

So far this year I have run the Derbyshire XC championships where Stockport Harriers men's team got Bronze medal and several of the team through to represent Derbyshire at County level including my daughter Amber.

Training has been hard and steady with 70 mile weeks for the last few weeks - with only one 'overtraining' issue last week which was soon resolved.

Next race is a five mile road race at Alsager next weekend and I'm looking to beat last years time of 31:17

The new job at Capgemini is everything I could have hoped for and hasn't yet (?) had an impact on training !