Forest is back

January 23rd Saturday - First 5km time trial in 2 years at Wimbledon, had forced quick tempo run down there in about 30 minutes and was blowing pretty hard when got there, but was on time. Not too cold which was good, legs felt a little dead when I got there but once started race felt really good. Conditions were pretty awful to run well, boggy as fuck and certain parts of the run very slippery. Went through 1/2 way in 9:10 feeling pretty good, on 2nd half had only one guy ahead of me so just moved up on him slowly then when had about 500m to go really put the hammer down and finished v strongly, 18:15 - but probably more in the tank than I realised. Easily in sub 18 shape since ran 8kms or so to get down there, plus muddy conditions probably cost 15 seconds or me. Very happy! Walked to Tibbets corner then ran home so another 6kms or so, 20kms all up and legs fine. Sub 2:52 is on, maybe had a fleeting moment on the way home that could push the boat out and try to break 2:40...will see how the next few weeks go...

January 22nd - Ran home from work, forgot inhaler so horrible frustrating run as asthma kicked in quite early which makes it stressful, raining and shit conditions, legs quite tired but ok. 10kms

Weekly total about 96kms - happy days