All the best for a speedy recovery Robyn!

Watch out for the one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater...

Good on yer Dave Ill be right behind you until the last 100m of course. Yes it's a pity about the Lung Run so I needed to get a race in so I've booked a 10k on the 9th April at Cotgrave country park this side of Nottingham called the 10k paws. I will probably do another Parkrun on 23rd April the week before the clubs first race which is the Uttoxeter Half Marathon on 1st May.

By that time I should be beetroot juiced up and looking like Purple Ronnie.

I was wondering where were you yesterday, Derek, then realised you'd said 26th of March! I've no race planned for that weekend, so I may well be running at Cannon Hill parkrun. By the way, I trust you know by now that the Lung Run is cancelled?

The beetroot juice was OK, but I don't think it'll become a staple. Let's see how I do next Sunday without it.

Defo the beetroot juice Dave, the pink wee comes a little later. Could be a banned substance and subject to a urine test at races.

I'm disappointed - no pink pee! I must need to drink more of it.

I recorded my second best ever 5M this morning, on a rather hilly course in cold wet weather, so obviously the beetroot juice works.

Or maybe it was the training...

Bought some (beetroot juice, not Mark's pee) - and am going to try it tomorrow morning before a 5-mile race in Dudley. I'm going to try the 'For Goodness Shakes' Banana flavoured powdered recovery drink afterwards, too (freebie with a well known running magazine).

Hey Dave,

Yeah man, I love the stuff :-)

You're not drinking that, are you Mark?

Yeah Andy, a cup a day, i usually have 500mls the three days before a race, I like my pink pee as well :-)