With the New Year comes the very real challenge of commencing training. The first task has been to design the 9-week serious schedule which. This is now compiled and set out above. In order to have any chance of being able to meet this training programme my level of fitness needs to improve and quickly. I estimate that I need to start by running around 15 miles this week, and increase this by approximately 3 miles per week so that by w/c commencing 4 February 2008 I am up to 30 miles. Of course this schedule will be completely blown out of the water by one night of a few too many pints down the Red Lion; however the schedule has been nailed to the mast and is there for all to see.