Jack

Good, despite the fact that it bangs on about Morgan mainly playing it safe with the ball, not trying long diagonals or telling passes going forward? Rubbish article IMO.

Riviera Maya, Mexico was really good. Decent value too for trans-Atlantic. Further South the better as its further from Cancun. Tulum and Playa del Carmen were great. Beautiful beaches, good food and drink. I'd go back. There were a fair few Canadians, but mainly French ones. There were lots of cases of them topping up their personal beer coolers at the bar rather than having it out of a glass like everyone else, but we didn't let it bother us.

I've got a spare race number too after getting injured. If anyone wants it, let me know. Mehball - you can't get away with that. It's chip timed, and you'd get picked up at the finish if not well before, it'll be well marshalled. Not to mention it's a ****ty thing to do when everyone around you is paying for the privilege

Haha yes, that'd be quality. I don't know any Palace fans but it'd be worth suggesting it to them. They love a banner/flag.

There were Pardew out campaigns after pretty much every defeat, they were always on his back.

I love that they've fallen apart since Pardew left. Palace will surely finish well above Newcastle now which is funny. Got to feel a bit sorry for them they way Ashley is and runs the club, but they were stupid to hound Pardew out like that so the sympathy is limited.

I got a ballot place for London with my first attempt too! It's so rare though. That was for last year, didn't get in this year so ran Barcelona instead, highly recommended. I'll be in the ballot for London again, if not I think it'll be Manchester or Brighton, unless I get talked into another jaunt abroad for one. Some sound advice there from Jason, I've been guilty of not doing the slow stuff slow enough. I've never used HRM but believe I now get into the right zones. Good luck everyone running this weekend.

Was it bad on Saturday? I wasn't there but was at Everton, it was disappointing there.

Great effort. I've got 2 marathons under my belt, but both have ended up with me being injured. My next target is sub-3 but I really need a few months solid training without time out injured. Barcelona was a month ago and I'm having trouble with my knee so won't be running on Sunday. Gutted.

This.

Yep. C*nt.

I'm going to start getting on the bike now after getting my latest marathon and recovery out of the way. I'm working nights for the next couple of months so will have some nice afternoons to get out and about and plan to start building up towards 50+ mile weekend rides. Decided to cycle down to Hill Head and Lee on Solent today as the weather was so good. Nice ride for my first one in a while - 39km, 27.5 kph ave. Minuscule mileage compared to some of you guys, but got to start somewhere. Only my second ride since putting the clipless pedals on, makes such a difference.

Pretty amazing to be talking about this with 6 games to go. We'd pretty much have to win our next 5 to give ourselves the chance on the final day, and we're not playing well enough for that sort of thing IMO. Still, if we can run city close then we've got a great chance of finishing ahead of Spurs and/or Liverpool

Excellent composure from Morgan. Get the **** in. Hope Villa can hang on

How many more times are we going to **** around with it and play backwards to men under pressure. Dross. In better news, backed Saint Are e/w in the Grand National and he came in 2nd so won a bit. We need a 2nd from Saints here.

Can't beat the press again. No ideas or confidence.

Why are we turning down every chance to move up the pitch quickly when Hull commit players? Giving them time to reorganise every ****ing time. Davis has been woeful so far, needs hauling off IMO

Seeing the replay - brilliant save but a top striker just rolls that through his legs.

Pelle just doesn't look up for it. Got to score those as well. Keep it on the deck and it's probably in.

Nice one, cheers

Pap - any recommendations for somewhere that'll have the football on? I assume the Wetherspoons won't. City centre would be the best bet I guess?

Looking forward to this. Engineering works at Euston over the whole weekend means it's £430+ for the 4 of us on the train, and the journey is something like 5.5 hours. Not happening where we've got the hotel to pay for too.

I am too, it'll be great to race in Southampton. Just keep slowly increasing your weekly long run and you'll do fine. You've got 4 more weekends before you ease off so I'd say ramp it up by a mile or so per week, if you can get past double figures in training then the buzz of being in a race will get you through the rest.

You don't get the fitness benefit from training until a couple of weeks later, so aim to run your final long run a fortnight before. Then yes, reduce your mileage but not necessarily the intensity over the next week then the final week you'll want to just keep things ticking over with easy/steady runs. For a half marathon you don't need to spend days stuffing your face with carbs, just be sensible. I usually go for a decent helping of pasta the night before, then porridge and a banana in the morning. I find porridge takes ages to go down though so I always have it 2.5-3 hours before. Don't try something for the first time on race day, it's all about trial and error and what works for you so try it before long training runs. Save the beer and cakes for afterwards, it's excellent post-race fuel! Barcelona marathon for me this weekend. Training hasn't been great due to an injury in November, and I've come down with a cold so not even 100% that I'm going to run it. Still, a week in Spain should be fun.

Trains are out of the question for Everton away too. Engineering work is closing Euston completely so the cheapest I could find was £110 return. Scandalous. You can fly for £120.