I didn’t manage any runs this week due to having a horrible cold – the worst cold I have had for several years – which laid me low and kept me off work and off the streets. This was quite a worry as I look ahead to various longish races I have booked into for March and April. It was not pleasant looking forward to a ‘hillish and hellish’ 10 mile run (Looe 10), an 8.5 mile off-road run on Bodmin Moor (5 Tors) and my first ever half-marathon (Plymouth) and knowing that my fitness levels were dropping fast…