We had a bit of a discussion at work this morning because we were told last night that we all had a meeting today with the MD of our company.  We all thought this was a bit worrying considering our company recently bought another company that does that same things we all do!

My colleague who works with me was telling me to be “positive” and that it might not be that bad.  This goes against my (so-called) cynical view which is to expect the worst and hope for the best.  Personally, I believe this is also the realistic way to view a lot of situations or potential out-comes.

Scenario 1:  I think that if I go into a meeting expecting to be made redundant (but hoping otherwise), then if we get the bad news… I’m not surprised.  If we get good news (anything other than redundancy) then I’m on a high instead.

Scenario 2:  If you go into the meeting being positive that everthing will be fine and you find out you’re being made redundant then you’re on a big downer.  If you get good news (anything other than redundancy) then you’re just… the same.

All-in-all, I think my scenario (1) is the best way sometimes and it was what I did today.

We were all told officially in a meeting this morning that the company is “restructuring” and we are all facing potential redundancy.  Overall, 9 positions of about 30 will go but there could be more (or less).

So, not a good day at work…

As for running, I can’t post my splits from this morning because Garmin Connect is down for maintenance or something.  So, you’ll have to take my word for it that I did 400m repeats with 400m recovery in between.  I did four of those with 1600m warm-up.

Tomorrow I’m off to the gym to do some exciting cross-training…

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I got myself pair of Asics Kayano 15s and I wore them this evening to running club.  I did my interval training in them and they felt pretty good.  It was nice to have the cushioning again; something that is missing from my Adidas shoes.

The Kayano’s were reasonably priced at £85; which isn’t that bad considering they are usually £115 – £120.  They’ll be coming out with Kayano 16s soon so that probably explains why it is possible to get the 15s at a discount.

Running club (Reading Roadrunners) went well.  Me and my mate Tony (yes, I’ve mentioned your name again) went to use the track for the first time in months.  We have been going to where the club meets the past two Wednesdays, however the track wasn’t open because it was being renovated (looks good now).

I took Garfield the Garmin with me and we decided to try out one of the workouts that I put on it.  They were 5 x 400m repeats with a 200m recovery inbetween each.

It was hard (according to Garfield) for us to maintain a steady pace during the intervals.  We knew this because Garfield kept beeping everytime and a message appeared on the screen saying we needed to slow down.  Us?  Slow down?  Jeez, I would have thought speed-up instead!

I’m happy with our 400m paces because they are all close to 5 min per km and they got progressively quicker (5:12, 5:06, 5:03, 5:01 & 4:55).

Overall a good run.  Tomorrow morning I’m off to the gym again and I’ll do some cycling and a bit of weights.  Friday will be a steady run and then long run on Sunday again.

I’m thinking I’m going to need to re-adjust the days I am running because at the moment I’m only able to run 4 days a week and that isn’t enough.  I need 5 days! 

Running club is great, however because it is in the evening it messes with my overall weekly schedule.  I usually run first thing in the morning and my long runs are always on a Sunday.  Before I went back to running club I would run on Tue, Wed, Thur, Fri & Sun.  Now, since going back to running club I can’t really run on Thu mornings (can I?) because I had running club less than 12 hours previously the night before.  This means that going to running club is actually reducing the amount of mileage I am doing but adding more quality.

I am now going to have to entertain the idea of running on Sat mornings.  Probably not until after christmas though.

Time for a cup of tea….

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In total I covered about 6.70km because I ran for a bit longer at the end just because I felt like it!

On another note, I was thinking about The Fat Runner whilst running this morning.  The Fat Runner has posted their starting weight and current weight on his website.  My concern is that he refers to himself as the “Fat” runner whilst weighing 101kg or less.  I weigh 101kg! 

Perhaps I should look at purchasing thefatvirtualrunner.org?

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