Seventeen weeks have run by, another seventeen weeks to go. I have trained through 50% of a 34-week build-up but I'm only feeling 15% prepared. No, it isn't false modesty. The past few weeks have been simply horrid - lost training days, plethora of aches and pains and now the hills I have run up countless times are feeling harder.

It wasn't the original purpose of this page for it to become an outlet for my moaning and whining. So for today, bye.