races and longruns

It's now been 6 weeks since Tarawera and I feel I've got back into the full swing of things. I took a good 3weeks off after Tarawera to get my mind and legs fresh again and feel it was the right thing to do. I've been back 3weeks now and with 3 weeks to TNF100 I'm hoping I'll be in good shape for that.

This week was pretty big. Got 100km running in by Fri and a total of 160km in for the week. The only issue I've had is my right foot which has a lovely bunion and a hammer toe has been giving me some pain on the ball of my foot.

On to this weekend which will be my last big weekend until TNF
Sat was a day of racing. First with the Trotters Charles Kay. Had a goal of sub 40min (this is a tough 10k with nice massive 1km hill thrown in there) I got 38:56 for that effort and came in at 4th place.
Second race in the Arvo with the cross country club held out at Matcham pony club. What was meant to be 6km was more like 6.5Km. Ran that in 24:24 and placed 6th.
Sunday was waking up at 4am to have a good solid run with the trotters on the GNW course starting at Congewoi and finishing at Cedar Brush rd. (33km)
I packed my running pack with all the gear I'll need for TNF and reckon I had about 5kg on my back. I just ran a nice steady pace running with Mick to the top of the communication tower (well Mick ran it and I walked) and Clarke. Mick and Clarke passed me on that hill but Mick stopped at the top to wait for Jess. I caught up to Clarke and we ran together for a little bit then he must've got bored with the pace and he took off. I was happy to just go my own pace and not kill myself.
Finished the run in 3hrs24min. Clarke the mad man finished in 3hrs01min and Darrell came in at 3hrs28min. All in all a good weekend of running but feeling pretty tired now!