I’m going to be glad when the North Pole is over. Less than two weeks and from a personal preparation point of view things could be better. I feel run down and exhausted; There is much still to do; and having got over my achilles injury, i know have an inflamed knee tendon (apparently another very common running injury according to the physio…great, i’m just ticking them all off) which is very painful when i run and is preventing me from training. All in all, not great. Time to get out the violins me thinks….Still on the bright side, i have a stupid amount of new arctic clothing to be worn, some ridiculous snow shoes are in the post (i’m sorry, how exactly do you run in those??) and it’ll soon be over, and normal life, or rather life, complete with beer and wine and all things fine will return.