This Saturday is round 2 of the Might Contain Nuts series that Andy and I entered with our friend and team mate Chris "Jenks" Jenkins. Its a 40 mile potter over the mountains of the Brecon Beacons National Park and is set to be a toughie with finish times ranging from 6.5hrs (for the winners) to 22 hrs (the stragglers). I would pitch myself somewhere between the two and estimate a finish time of around 9-10 hours. On a good day. But I don't think Saturday will be a good day coming off the back of a head cold that is insisting on hanging around and has already cost me a weeks training.
For those that have read my previous blog you will remember that I had invested a fair bit of time and money into developing a specific training plan for 4 Trails and Transalpine. Sadly, a 40 mile run with a taper and recovery period meaning yet another weeks training gone by the wayside isn't really fitting in. So after some deliberation and with a twinge of disappointment I decided to give the 40 miler a swerve and focus on getting my training right for 4 trails. I will still head up to the Brecons with the boys for our planned weekend of jelly babies and banter and I will start the race as planned and simply leave them to make my way back after a couple of hours.* So really I get the best of both worlds - running with team 'Single Leg Sqwhat??!' and not being too frazzled after it to do any structured training the following week. A perfect compromise methinks.
* I say hours but me, alone in the wilderness that is the Brecon Beacons, it could be more like a couple of days. If no one hears from me by Monday, ring mountain rescue as I will probably have run out of Mrs Crimbles by then.
