Thanks to everyone who took the time to read and to comment on my last post. Your comments really did help loads. I’m now feeling more positive about the future and about my new job.

As my mentor once said:

“Forget past. Focus on the future. Aim to do the best at whatever comes along.”

Now all I need to do is to find somewhere to live…I’m trying not to let the fact I could be living in a tent next month stress me out. Fingers crossed someone responds to my Spare Room messages and I find somewhere to live sooner rather than later!

Although I haven’t blogged very much recently, I’ve been running 3-4 times a week. My Garmin is still ‘playing up’ so I’ve not been able to record all of my runs. For a statistics and numbers geek, I think that I’ve coped reasonably well.

My next target race is the Cambridge Half Marathon in March. After my last half marathon attempt didn’t go to plan, I got my old running coach who knows I have incredibly fragile feet and a temperamental right knee, to write me a training plan.

My new and improved half marathon training plan contains a few quite challenging looking speed sessions. I’m hoping that I don’t fall to pieces. It also includes strength and conditioning sessions and cross training. I can’t wait to get started later this month.

I know that I sound like a repetitive, broken record but I’m determined to complete the Cambridge Half Marathon without walking. I don’t care how slow my time is, I just want to run the 13.1 miles. I’m hoping that running somewhere completely different will help as I like having ‘stuff’ to distract me while I’m running.

I’m thinking about writing weekly training updates again. I know that a few people find training updates slightly dull, but I’ll admit that I’m quite nosey and enjoy reading about the trials and tribulations of training for long distance races. I also need to get back my writing mojo back ASAP before I start my new job.