DH likes to read nerdy books about improving your brain power etc, and once told me that actually you can train for a marathon by just visualising pounding those streets.
So I am sitting here visualising my run - down the lane, round the blind bend, up the big b*tard hill……….into the woods, oooh it's muddy here, ooh look a fallen tree, through the snicket, turn right along the lane, over all the stiles, across the golf course, down the big hill - ooh slippery - cross the road, back up the really really steep hill with the bunny warrens - dragging the dogs here - back to the top of my road, slow down for last half mile, in the gate. Phew, a few stretches and I'm done.
There. Pure brainpower. And I didn't spill a drop of tea 