CelticRunner - the Ashdown Forest is lovely. Eat normally in your taper, maybe shift the balance to carbs not meat, and keep the vitimins going. Fibre is said to be lower priority, but without it you will end up in trouble. I'm a great believer that most of us interpret "carbo loading" with "eat too much then some more".. so that by race day we feel stuffed/bloated and have a poor run.
Craigerrs - why do you want to run 10 miles a day? What is your target/goal, what are you training for? Most high mileage athletes will mix up track work with long and slow runs, interval training, cross training, etc etc. They are also likely to run twice a day or more so many are not simply banging out endless repeats of 10 miles or more. You need to do this if you are going for an ultra, although frankly even then I wouldn't bother. 70 mile weeks are something that take years to work up to - diving straight into them is a sure way of developing an excellent relationship with your local physio and sports masseuse. Eat after running - you need a mix of carb and protein within half an hour of running. A glass of semi skimmed milk is perfect recovery fuel. Then cereals/toast/fruit to set you up for the day. Take care....
Chappers - welcome to the nut house.
It's pi$$ing down so I am going to go swimming. It's going to be horrible as I haven't been for a year. So already looking forward to some massive micky taking from my old masters buddies... 
Will run later.
Morning all..... and good luck to the racers. How is Kate feeling?
