Muscle and blood and skin and bone..

Well that was that then.  My initial ambition, for 2012, was to run two marathons instead of one and to up my mileage to 50 miles on hard weeks.  I ended up running a BM a BL, two marathons, and three ultras one a  50km category A.  I am very glad that I did (though I still have no confidence in my ability to do it).

I achieved the fifty mile hard weeks for the most part, but for all that my annual mileage was probably less than in the year before. This was due in part to illness and injury, though that happens every year.  The real reason was that from June to the end of the year I was either tapering for an event or resting after one.

I don't do new years resolutions, however I do intend to train harder this year.  Though I am of Sputnik vintage, the last year suggests (two PBs) that there is still more to be had from the old body.  Mileage will increase with my 50 mile+ event aspirations, but I think it is time for some speedwork too; faster, harder, longer, ooer missus.

Some folks say a man's made out of mud
A poor man's made out of muscle and blood
Muscle and blood and skin and bones
A mind that's weak and a back that's strong

We're not made out of mud, but for most of 2012 it certainly looked like it.