Elliot: bike's great, doing a feature for londoncyclesport that should be there next week.
Maria: my knee is feeling fine now thanks, I was lucky not to have damaged it much and I think the physio helped too - I only lost about ten days training, and the race is next weekend on 27th - so should be ok.
Doing lots of uphill running! (up and down Selsdon / Sanderstead). I'm gonna go for the whole distance - your alternative plan sounded good though.
Getting psyched up with coverage of the xc ski World champs on UK Eurosport today (from noon) ...