Day 131 Thursday 10th May 8.9 miles : miles to date 883.2 I'm not entirely sure that was a good idea tonight. Thursday club runs have become a quick, higher tempo cross country affair. When I am not er, knackered, they are one of my three staple harder runs of the week, along with faster speed work on a Tuesday and longer run on the weekend. The trouble is, I am still tired from Oxon and the following days run and I just dont have any energy. The reality is that not every run can be a corker and I probably should be tapering and cutting back. The normal likely lads were present and after a mile or so, I settled into a slower run with the amazing marathon mile muncher that is Paul Barton. Now, I like my marathons and ultra's but Paul is an out and out dedicated long distance specialist, having racked up a 100 marathons in a very short space of time and currently well on his way to the 200 mark. It was quite a sight to see the both of us miles off the pace in such a short distance and so far back that we thought that by the time we got back to the car park, everyone else would have left. I owe Paul one for dragging me around on what was a hard, slow and muddy run. Luckily, as I wasn't further up to help with the route, Phil Clarke managed to take the lads on two unscheduled detours so we weren't last! I even had time to take the mick out of Martin Beare and Terry Stanley for not running fast enough, despite the small fact that they both blasted around Silverstone 10k last night in amazingly quick times.