humidity!

Two runs in today. First was an fartlex/interval session. 10x3min hard 1min recovery. 10.4k in 45min.

Second run was bloody hot! Easy run that was tough! 10k down at Umina on the flat in 47min. Went from that to my massage

Sunday in Bouddi!

Tough running is all I can say. Bouddi will definitely take it out of you. Very humid at the start (6:20am) Ran from home to Putty Beach then a lap of maitland bay loop then down to little beach, Macmasters beach to sth Kincumber the back home. 3hrs55min for only 35.5km. Like I said...very tough running.

This week
Mon easy 5k
Tues am - Intervals 12.2k
pm - Trails 14.3k
Wed am - 21k
pm 10k
Thurs - 22.1k
Fri am - 10.2k
pm - 12.1k
Sat 22.1k
Sun - 35.5k
TOTAL about 163km!

Now it's taper time!

Sat long warmup and a race = tired!

Up for trotters and with 3 weeks to go I decided to run into trotters 12.5k and then the the Charles Kay time trial. Legs were pretty heavy and tired for whats been a big week of running for me. Took 56min to tun there.
I wasn't at all botherd how I would go in the time trial since I've not done much speed work so I set off at what I thought was a hard pace. By 3k I knew this wasn't going to be fast.
I was actually feeling in the lungs ok just didn't have any spring in my legs. Got to Charles Kay hill and I reckon if a motorist saw me running so slow up that hill and the grimacing look on my face they would've thought I was one unfit guy!

Finally after 41:52 I crossed the finish

Thursday nice moderate run!

Up early to get a good descent run in. Left in the dark around 5:40am. Felt great in the legs and just kept an easy pace at the start then slightly picked it up as the run went on.
Ran from home at Bensville to Davidstown and back going via Dunlop hill and back on the bike path
Did roll my ankle about 17min in the run and developed a friction blister at 44min. That caused my left Peroneal to be sore all day

In the end I ran 22.2km in 1hr45min

Back on track

It's been a while since I've ranted away on this thing. I guess when I have time away from running I lose the motivation to write about my training. Kind of depressing knowing that I'm forced to rest. In saying that it also gives me a chance to get more swimming & cycling done.

It's been almost 7weeks since Narrabeen and I guess I started running again 3 weeks ago. In that time I've been nursing a sore right foot. Getting better each week but it's still there. Hasn't stopped me from logging in some big km just slowing me down.

From week 2 in Feb I got 122km in and last week 146km. 47km of that was on the Brisbane water bash course last Sunday.

Knowing that I can still do the big km's gives me hope for a good run in 3&half weeks time when we travel to NZ for The Tarawera 100k

So far this week
Mon easy 5k
Tues am - intervals 3min hard 2min easy x 10 12.2km all up
pm - easy trail run from Erina Fair to Bensville 14.3k in 1hr10min

And today
AM - easy to moderate trail run around Bouddi and kincumber - 21km in 1hr57min
PM - a nice easy 10k

I must say that after todays effort my foot feels the best it's felt in ages. The one thing I've learnt though is today could be feeling great...tomorrow it could feel like crap.
Lets hope tomorrow it's feeling great!