Sunday out at Ourimbah

Satyed up at mum's at Newcastle last night as I was massaging the Melbourne hearts soccer team up there until 10pm so by the time I got to bed it was pretty late. Alarm went off at 5:30am...grrrrr! but thought I gotta get up...so that's what I did.
Left Newie around 6:15am and got to Palmdale right on 7am. Was about 8-10 runners there. Mostly trotters. Ran with Mick & Ian to the hill then I just kept up a steady pace to the top. Slowed down and waited for someone to catch me. Mick caught me & we ran a nice pace to the green sign. Got there in 59:45 which was much quicker than I thought we were going. My legs were tired and that right groin was getting tight. Mick turned around there & I kept going to the tar road. Stopped for a quick stretch there then made my way back. Stopped again near the green sign just to have a quick stretch then just before the roundabout I saw Steve Guest. We had about a 5min chat which I didn't mind at all. Found the muscles stiff to get going again after stopping.
Not sure how long it took but I think we left around 7:10 and when I looked at my phone for the time (which was about 5min after I got back) it said 9:48. So I guessing it took about 2hrs35min give or take a few min.
After that I went to the gym for a stretch and to use the steam room. Muscles came good not long after that

Trotters....Charles Kay TT

Legs felt the best they have felt in about 5wks so I thought I might have a good race.
Ran with Ian & charlie for the first 2.5k then Ian started to drop off & Charlie got a bit of a lead on me. Was still feeling good at 6k but at 7k the hill starts. Half way up I almost vomited. Good fast downhill finish. Came 2nd in 38:46, 14 sec behind Charlie. This was one tough race.
About 14k all up with the warmup & warmdown
Leg was tight at the end but came good

Friday's easy run

Went around 6:30am for an easy 12.2k. I ran the 10k time trial for tomorrow going up Charles Kay. With the extra bit running from home it was 12.2k. Think it will be a good tough course.
Legs felt great for the whole run which made me a very happy runner!

Missed a bit of blogging....Lazy!

Ok I'm back. I'll get my act back together and blog away again. Wasn't too sure if anyone was reading these blogs but after almost a month of non blogging I get people asking me to blog again. So I guess people do read it after all. I have been keeping a log of what I've done in October but it's been too much for me to write away on the computer. So I'll start with today. Now I've had a bit of groin pain in my right groin for around 5wks now. It happened out on the GNW course when I slipped and did a bit of the splits. I've been running ok & can feel it most of the time but it really hurts driving the bloody car.
Well anyway today I ran from home up to Kincumber mtn over to Kincumber & back. 20km total. Felt really tired and low on energy

Tues 5th Oct Mingara 2k time trial

Am just did a easy 10k

PM was race night. First ever 2k for me. Managed 6:27

Sunday in Canberra

Did 2 laps of the 15.6k loop on Lake burley Griffin. 31.2km all up. Ran really easy. Plan today was to do easy long run & recover a bit from the heavy km of late. Still got that tight right groin but have my girls this week so will back off this week

Sat trotters Avoca run then 1500m

Ran a moderate pace but comfortable at trotters. 11.5km in this

At 9am I made my way to the track for the 1500m. Went hard and finished in 4:47. Thats only 2sec off a pb! Right groin still tight after 3weeks. Seem to be able to run on it but do need to be careful.
6km all up at the track

Fri

Easy day. Just a 10k easy from Terrigal to Wamberal and back

Later did a cycle class