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  May2420124:21 p.m.

  Hi guys. How I can I start this week’s blog without talking about the best football team in Europe. Yes, that’s right – Chelsea! What a game that was to start Saturday morning off in style. Kick off for the final was 11:45am my time, so the rest of the day was spent with a big smile on my face. Secondly commiserations to any Spurs fans who will now be watching their team on Channel 5 next season! Last week also saw some fantastic performances on the track this side of the pond, the highlight being Mr Farah who smoked the rest of the field, not once but twice in the same night.

  

  First he ran 3:34 for 1500m, and then about an hour later ran 13:12 for the 5000m, having started the race as a pace maker for his team mate, Dathan. Things are certainly heating up for the Olympics. Mo and myself will be running the London 10km this weekend; he is obviously in good shape so we’ll see what happens on Sunday. I get back from Flagstaff on Saturday afternoon and then race on Sunday morning, so hopefully I won’t be too tired following the flight. I’m hoping for a cheeky BA upgrade on the way back to London.

  My training has been going well, and last week I dipped into some faster sessions than I have been used to in recent times. I found myself running 1km reps with the milers in the group. It wasn’t pretty but it was good to get some faster stuff done, just like my good old track days. We are still having some ongoing issues with our internet, which we thought got fixed on Friday. But it turns out it was only temporary. We were connected to the net for about 10 hours, and then it decided not to work again. When I say connected, it was the speed of dial up – far from ideal. We are now waiting for it to be fixed again as we go into our third week here in the house. The landlord Steve has a lot to answer for.

  

  On Sunday we were fortunate enough to be in the right place at the right time to witness the solar eclipse that took place. It could only be seen in a few states, mainly along the west coast. There was some discussion about what time it was supposed to happen, and at 2:30pm we found ourselves outside the house looking towards the sun. Turns out it wasn’t supposed to happen until later that evening. We decided to take the short drive over to the Grand Canyon to see it in all its glory. I have to say I was expecting the whole place to go dark and the moon to completely block the sun, but that didn’t happen. You basically had to wear these special glasses to even see the moon covering the sun. Apparently it was only 80% coverage, but we still got some good pictures of the Canyon.

  Everyone else had the same idea as we did and the place was pretty busy with everyone setting up cameras and telescopes around the place. Some lady there even had a welding mask to look at the eclipse, and of course Zane had to try it on for size.  Like I said, next up for me is the London 10km on Sunday and then after that I will be getting into the main bulk of my marathon build up. It is nice being away but I’m looking forward to coming back and seeing Vicky, and hopefully the weather is nicer than when I left! Until next time.

  

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