Oh the irony. I can currently cycle much better than I can walk (once I've warmed up) and I'm not likely to be running for a week or so. Naturally, today my RunLondon race pack and this month's issue of Runner's World turned up.

RW are having a "sex special": aiming to shed their "running geek" image or just plain tacky? Better was the letter in 220 that suggested a rule-of-thumb for training sessions: if you can't give your loved one a good seeing-to alf an hour after getting home, you're training too hard. File under "positive feedback system".