Counting down

I spent the better part of this week in Delhi and consequently missed out 4 days of training. Of course this is inevitable and I had planned for this to happen several times. Getting back to home base today I look at the calendar with a slight tremor which begins at the base of my spine and somehow works its way all the way up to make my lips curl into a determined smile.

I have 2 Sundays in January where I am going to do light, easy runs of 10 K to stay fresh. Which leaves me with 4 Sundays this month. Looking at things as they stand, it is clear I am physically nowhere close to running a strong marathon and thoughts of negative splits (running the 2nd half quicker than the 1st) are but pipe dreams. I can think of a 100 things I should have done and another 50 I should have done differently over the last 6 months. But it's too late for recriminations. The 4 Sundays in December have to be used for 30 K plus runs. That much is clear. If I were brutally honest what is also crystal is that I need to touch the 37 K mark. 37 K...damn. :-)

Vamos.