Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

10x1 min (more like 63-64 seconds) in the unpromising surrounds of the university car park, that being the only place above water I could find decent light before sunrise and enough room to run hard for a minute without crossing any round. (Going to the university did provide the opportunity to confirm that by now it did have electricity).

The forecast last night promised atmospheric Armageddon; it seemed overdone (not the first time that an underdone forecast for an extreme event has been followed by an overdone forecast for the next vaguely similar event), and although it was my first wet run of the trip, the rain was only light and didn't cause too much trouble.

The session itself was a bit of a token-gesture speed session, certainly not at the level I was at last week. Blister starting to settle a bit but still annoying.

Warm-up and down from this session, partly contemplating the possibilities of something I'd read before going out, about how in the event of a unilateral Catalan declaration of independence the new state would have no legal obligation to take on any of Spain's debt. That's probably why it won't happen - even if the Spanish government decided to let it go peacefully it's doubtful that the military (the civilian control of which is more tenuous than in most Western democracies - it's only a few years ago that rumours of a rebellion were taken seriously enough for a general to be placed under arrest) would be controllable in such a situation. (The nationalists who did well on Sunday want greater autonomy within Spain, with only a fringe party campaigning for outright independence).