I promised myself I wasn't going to do this.  "There are plenty of perfectly good 10k races in my local area" I said. "It's silly to go all the way to Manchester" I said.  And yet somehow, I just found myself entering the High Legh 10k for next year.  Damn and blast the insidious publicity machine *shakes fist*.  Now all we need is a TISM shaped marshall and we shall be good to go

Anyhoo, it occurs to me that a post weekend update is in order.

Saturday morning - awoke and legs did not work.  So decided to roll over and sleep in till about 11am, when they seemed more than willing to get out of bed and potter about the flat with me atop them.  A nice lazy day - rest is important y'know.

So on Sunday I was left with the prospect of the Bolt, followed by an LSR. Yikes.

Met up with the team and headed up to Wimbledon for the Belgrave Bolt.  We arrived at about 9.15 - it was nice and cool.  But ten minutes before the race started at 10, someone turned the heating on and it was ROASTING.  Before we knew it, we were off - straight up a challenging hill  then it was along, down, past the finish and off for a second lap - up the hill of DOOM.  It wasn't any more fun the second time round I can tell you!  But all in all it's a nice little run - got over the line in 28:04, which I think is a 5k PB - mainly because I've not done one since I staggered around a Race for Life as an enormous fatty.

I was planning on heading straight out for the LSR on arrival back at my car, but discretion is the better part of valour and it was ruddy hot, so decided to head home and go out again in the evening.  So 6pm saw me head up to Grayshott - a local village where I've found a nice little 5 mile loop.  Set off slow and steady - there are a few ups and downs on this route!  Finished the first loop in just under the hour (slloooooow!) and stopped off at the car for a drink.  Then headed off on the second lap.  Decided to extend it a little, and in total ended up doing 19k - so a daily total of 24k including the morning race.  I'm quite happy with that!

Yesterday was a rest day, so I rested.  Was thinking of going for a nice swim, but felt hungry all day so decided to eat a giant bowl of chilli instead .

That'll do for now, except to say a MASSIVE well done to Tina on yet another great performance - she'll be lining up at the front with the elites if we don't keep an eye on her!

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