54 days to go

Motivation is low right now, which is a shame cause I thought that with about a month and a half to go I'd be all gee'ed up and not need any extra motivation. Slept in Monday morning so had to run longer in the evening, slept in this morning too so brought kit to run lunchtime and will run long this evening to get a decent day in. Have finished the book I was reading (Bel Canto - read's like a Spanish soap opera, which I think might be the point, but I didn't take to it that well) - and have started The Greatest: The Haile Gebrselassie Story by Jim Denison - and I'm hoping all of the talk of him running himself into the ground will inspire me to get up and out and train myself silly for the next 40 or so days. London is so close. I really need to stop faffing about.

I also need to read the sections in the running books about peaking; which workouts I should be doing etc. how often I should be doing them; how much I should run myself into the ground and how much I should leave something in tank.

I was looking for a race for this weekend to try and make up for Sunday's poor showing, but there's nothing local. Looks like I'll have to wait until the St. Paddy's day 10k to try and make up for it. Hopefully I won't be rubbish there too. Gloom and doom. Whinge whinge whinge.