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In summer 2005 I set myself the target of running a sub-40min 10k and a sub 1:30 half. Over the years my enthusiasm for this has waxed and waned and the closest I have ever gotten was about 40:30 and 1:32 about eight years ago.

15 years have passed since I set those objectives and now I find myself on the wrong side of 40, so if I am ever going to hit these times it needs to be this year. Is this at all realistic?

Edit: today's run for some context of how I am going at the moment.
https://www.strava.com/activities/3042408028

Boris has pulled off the republican culture war tactics. For American flyover states that are poorer and very pro republican you have post-industrial northern Britain.

The Democrats are heavily a party of the coastal elites. Labour is a party of metropolitan elites.

First set of mince pies were brought into the office today. Disappointed I cracked before Dec.

Sounds like Dennis should be happy then.

Is the ineos kit any good though? At last year's tour there was a lot of mocking around these parts of ineos' decision to buy a load of lightweight wheels, the general view being it was a damning indictment of the quality of the frames they had.

This is true.

If you have the heart and lungs of a club cyclist and you suddenly take up running you will be able to put a lot of power through your legs for a sustained period of time. But that creates a problem. The supporting muscles around your knees, ankle, calf will not be ready for it. Over use injury is likely, especially if you are older than about 25.

Why has no one even bothered to put down a motion calling for a second referendum? It's now or never.

Sure it's nice. But 1.5 million is hardly in the reach of the average guy on the street. You would need to be earning mega bucks to get a mortgage to cover that.

100k solo break is not messing around.

It is very nice. Sadly too large for my emaciated cyclist's arm though.

Very nice. Which model?

Echoing everyone else, that Concorde is immense.

Will be difficult unless Jay has some kind of mechanical trouble. Jay has about 100k left now and is 100k ahead of James.

Indeed.

We are used to seeing people swapping into cycling at the top level in other situations.
Rowers become Olympic track riders.
Roglic moved over from ski jumping.

Maybe Jakub is simply one of those people. If he has done multiple mutli-day foot races and had prior mountain bike skills why shouldn't he do well in this race?

How does scratching work in this race? I assume that in something like the TCR people ring the organisers to tell them they are dropping out then cycle to the nearest town with a train station. In western Europe that will typically be 30k or less. Absent a very bad injury (broken bones or the like) that is doable.

But in this race is there anyway to drop out other than riding to either the end or the start, whichever is closer? That could be hundreds of Kms across very tough terrain.

Am a bit surprised he is posting on Instagram. Surely phone signal in remote, rural Kyrgyzstan is poor and data fees astronomical.

View is certainly stunning.

James now up to fifth. Powering along nicely.

Nice find. One wonders how many other ultra cycling events he has done.

Anyone know much about the background of the people ahead of James?

The guy at the front appears to be a mathematician.

Looking forward to seeing him at Flanders next year.

Why not dance around across different disciplines? He'll likely win more, prompt loads more articles about being the greatest, sponsors will continue to flock to him and he will be paid more.

Sounds much more appealing than being someones teammate, fetching bottles, in a race he cannot win.

If only brailsford had copied some of movistars excellent tactics then ineos wouldn't be devastated tonight at having lost out on the team prize to landa and the rest by 10 seconds...

Bernal trying to win the tour today. Imagine if sky end up with the top two in Paris. In a 'bad' tour for them...

Kwiatkowski has been invisible this tour after having been immense in previous years. What's happened to him?