July 2020 Update
Every time I come close to putting together a new blog post things have moved on so quickly that it becomes out of date before I've even published it. At the same time, training continues and is just a case of knocking out the mileage week after week, hoping, rather than expecting things to change for the better any time soon. I'm starting to come to the conclusion that almost all racing will be off for the remainder of the year at the very least, other than perhaps the odd local race. Whilst at the time of writing the rescheduled London Marathon is still on for early October, I think it is only a matter time before it is cancelled. Most other big races have already gone - Berlin, Chicago, Boston, Great North etc. that I simply cannot see it happening. I'm even starting to think that it is not an impossibility that most bigger spring races may no go ahead either, depending on whether the much talked about 'second wave' of Covid-19 actually happens. In an ear