Australia Day Fun!

I had a pretty slack week running wise due to a stomach virus that hit me during the week. After last Sundays 25k at Quarry Rd I swam for an hour on Monday for recovery but suspect I was starting to get the virus because I felt very average indeed.

Tuesday I was starting to feel really crappy and I had a constant nauseous feeling, which I thought was dehydration. I didn't run because of all the smoke from the bush fires so I rode on the trainer instead for an hour and a half. This left me totally wasted but I managed to drag my sorry self out for an 18k in the rain on Wednesday afternoon. This was made easier after a phone call from a friend who's enthusiasm towards his training for 6ft totally inspired me - easy!

Thursday was an easy 6k but the legs complained after running the night before. Friday was the 10k at Penrith for Australia Day. I caught up with the girls (Owly, Jen_runs and Ellie80) before hand and set off with the 10k slog around the lake x 2. Ended up with 2 sec PB of 45:56. Still that sub 45min 10km eludes me. One day!

Hot, Hot, Hot!!

Another week of training done.

Monday: Rest

Tuesday: 10km recovery run / 1hr swim

Wednesday: 19km Kellyville Ridge - M7 - return

Thursday: 10km including 10mins 100m sprints with 50m floats

Friday - Cycle - 1hr

Saturday: 8km Hilly run with Joggers group

83km for the week

Sunday: Quarry Rd with 11km Hornsby extension. 25km all up and totally, ridiculously hot!! Had a very cool runner join us this morning too : )

Weekend Review

"The Team" Don, Me, Peter, Martin, Graham and Rob after our 6ft training run on Sunday.

Sunday was my first trip to the 6ft track. I absolutely looooved it! We ran approx 36km from Megalong down to Cox's River then up to the Pluviometer and return. An encounter with a red belly black snake made things a little interesting. Saw Kit and BernieG on the track and later on ran into Blue Dog, Razor, Deanne, Sarge and a few others.

Great training run and I have recovered really well. I'm pretty happy with how the build up has been going so far and look forward to the 10th March.

Pumped out an easy 10k recovery run this morning. Felt great! Cycle to the pool for a swim this afternoon.

Still here..sort of!

Yes I am still alive. What has been happening?

Well I have been really busy and haven't had time to Blog or to read Blogs but here's a brief summary of where I am up to and what I have planned for 2007.

Lots of training for 6ft track and going out running most Sundays with a lovely group of guys that I have become very good friends with. All of the runners are from the Hills District Joggers and we have so much fun, you could hardly call it training.

Did the Black Stump run on New Years Day - That was a tough one but a great run.

Lots of training ahead still for 6ft and I am looking at doing my first Triathlon early in February. I have been swimming and cycling a fair bit but mostly concentrating on running and lots of hills.

Some target events for this year are: (Subject to change)

6ft Track
Warwick
PMC !!
C2S
Rottnest Is. Marathon
W2B
FFFTM

Phew!

A solid week of training...

Monday - Swim for 35mins

Tuesday - Run 5km (Doms had me slow down a bit)

Wednesday - Swim and cycle 1.5hrs (not km's miners!!)

Thursday - Run - 12km Quarry RD

Friday - Rest

Saturday - Cycle - Hills 1.5hrs

Sunday - Run 16 -18km? The garmin dropped out for a bit in the bush. Ran with the HDJ's. A great run through Baulko and into the Cumberland State Forrest trail then back out again. Silly me tries to keep up with Grahame, who has ran 35 sub 3hr Marathons, on the downhill back to the finish. Won't do that again!

Next week won't be anything too flash in preparation for the CC Half.

Missing In Action...

Yes, I know I did say that I was going to go to SMC today but basically I had a better offer. Sorry to those that I said I would catch up with but I really need to concentrate on trails and longer distances right now. After a late night phone call I managed to get out to Quarry Rd this morning for a 6am start with some of the guys from Joggers. There was about 8 of us all up who are planning on doing the 6ft track and these regular training runs will now become part of my training regime.

I felt great this morning. Using the walk the big hills strategy and run the flat and downhills seemed to work really well. There was a group that started at Hornsby Heights and there was us who entered the track from Quarry Rd. Gee it felt great to back running trails again and pain free was even better.

The guys are all a lovely bunch and we chatted and laughed most of the way around. The run was a mixed bag of trail, steep climbs including alot of rock jumping, downhill, roadrunning and some walking : ) I loaded up my fuel belt for the trip and had 2 gels and 2 glucodin tablets along the way. It was great having the opportunity to refill the water bottles before the long steep 6k back to the car.

I had decided that this run will be a great base builder for the upcoming 6ft training and will give me something solid to work on. I was totally shattered at the end but recovered surprisingly well especially after 2 bowls of porridge and a strong coffee. I was ok up until the 25km point where we bid farewell to the Hornsby Heights guys then the last 6k just stripped me of anything that I had left. I was absolutely fried.

All up we completed about 30km in approx 3hrs 40mins. I am really glad I went along and I'm looking forward to the next one in two weeks time. Apparantly the guys mix things up a bit so it's not always that distance or the same track that we took today. I joined them on the hard day.

The rest and recovery plan is now in progress and I will venture out for a few slow run this week along with a couple of swims and maybe jump on the bike. I forgot to mention - I did 1.5hrs on the bike yesterday - HILLS!

Edit: I have just realised that I was in the company of an absolute running legend today - Awesome!

The Week

The week so far....

Monday - Run 45mins - slowly
I felt ok after the Sunday 18k run and I have noticed that the legs feel much better when you run slower : )

Tuesday - Run 20mins warm up then 4 hill reps at a slow pace and a sort of tempo run on the way home. Nothing too flash to report here. Swimming for 35mins in the evening.

Wednesday - Run 1hr, slow pace.

Thursday - Rest

Friday - Cycle - 1hr and swim 35mins and a visit to the Chiro.

The plan is to run some hills tomorrow and to do the SMC Half at a slow pace on Sunday.