The Joys of Farting

Well I'm feeling much better now. My elbows aren't so chaffed and the medicine seems to be working. We've also be out quite a bit which helps. The master has discovered something called Fartlek, which is less worthy of a schoolboy snigger than first imagined. Apparently it is Swedish for a training technique which consists of intense bursts of running, followed by slow, gently paced activity. Well he's got half of it down to a fine art. All he needs to do is concentrate on the intense piece. Actually it is apparently quite useful.
So the Master was reading the Daily Telegraph spread out on the floor the other day (that is, the paper was spread out rather than the Master) and whilst I was standing on it (supremely irritating apparently) I noticed a picture of a runner or two. Being a clever dog I can obviously read so I took a deeper interest and perused the article. it was by a Mr John Inverdale, a sports journalist, who had just completed the Great North Run (a half marathon) and the main tenant of his article was that there ought to be a similar race for owners together with their dogs. Well regular readers of this dog-blog will know that the Master and I suggested this to be a good idea many, many months ago. I can only assume therefore that Mr Inverdale is a reader of it as well. So welcome John. Congratulations on your sub-2hr.
See ya. Woof Tom