100th Post

Wow 100 posts didn’t think I had it in me but there you go I have done it feels like an achievement in itself.

Did a 42K ride this morning had a little bit of the freak out on Sunday night cause I realised that Tri season is here again and my first Tri is now only 11.5 weeks away so yes will once again need to step up to two training sessions a day but hopefully everything will work itself out. Went up the M2 with Pebbles this morning was a nice ride but our lights went out at about 5:50 and we still had about 20 minutes of darkness so was a little scary there for a bit but we survived. All in all it was 42K in 1:46:54 so quite a bit faster than what I was 6 months ago and since I haven’t been on a bike for a while I was quite happy with that effort.


1K PB: 4.28
4K PB: 23:47
5K PB: 29:15
7K PB: 48:20
10K PB: 70:39

Last Run: 8
Week: 8
Month: 55
Year to Date: 296
Life to Date: 681

Hot air for a cool breeze?

Did my long run yesterday in the streets around my house because of the Bay run being on didn’t want to face the crowds that would have been at the bay. On the plus side I did do the planned 60 minutes on some pretty serious hills so that is going to help come C2S time. Which I realised this morning is now less than two weeks away so really not as prepared as I would like to be but still I know I’ll be in for at least a twenty minute PB if I just run the whole way at my slowest pace so far. So it’s going to be a good day either way.

1K PB: 4.28
4K PB: 23:47
5K PB: 29:15
7K PB: 48:20
10K PB: 70:39

Last Run: 8
Week: 8
Month: 55
Year to Date: 296
Life to Date: 681

Cold comfort for change?

Sundays run was the first really hard run I have had in a while but mostly I think I can put it down to my shoes. Its time for a new pair and I have been a little cheap of late and have been trying to hold out till after the C2S but I can no longer wait that long so its of to the shops for me on the weekend. Other than the sore feet on Sunday it was a nice run I managed 12K before I had to pull out but I decided to run in the afternoon so it was a very nice time of the day but it was a little crowded at the bay but I managed to survive still have trouble maintaining an even pace my splits are all over the place but hopefully that will just come with time.

Ran to work this morning was a nice and easy 5K decided to take it easy cause I’m going to attempt to run home from work tomorrow so wasn’t trying to break any PB’s but ended up doing it anyway 5K in 36:10 which is my slowest 5K ever not sure if I should be proud of that but I am hopefully I’m finally learning that every time I run doesn’t need to be fastest than the last. I can just slow down and take it easy when I need too.

1K PB: 4.28
4K PB: 23:47
5K PB: 29:15
7K PB: 48:20
10K PB: 70:39

Last Run: 5
Week: 12
Month: 41
Year to Date: 282
Life to Date: 667

And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?

Have been a little of this week after my long run on Sunday always happens when I fail to do a recovery jog on the Monday always throws me out. Funny how not running actually makes me worse of than running. So headed out last night for a nice and quick run down to Weight watches normally takes me around 20 minutes or so but last night went a little to hard (think I was trying to punish myself for missing the recovery jog on Monday so ended up walking the last 1K so only ended up doing 2.15K in 15 minutes (I did the 150 meters that I missed on Sunday to even out my numbers).

1K PB: 4.28
4K PB: 23:47
5K PB: 29:15
7K PB: 48:20
10K PB: 70:39

Last Run: 2.15
Week: 19
Month: 19
Year to Date: 260
Life to Date: 645

How I wish, how I wish you were here.

Wow will ran longer and further than I ever have before and damn am I tired.

Headed out to the bay yesterday morning and arrived at just on 5:20, I had realised half way there that I had left my breakfast at home back decided to forget about it and just focus on the run. Was planning on making my first attempt at a 2 hour run and was meeting a friend who would join me for the second lap and hopefully carry me across the last 15 minutes. Headed out at a nice easy pace for me 7:30min/k and was going strong and even averaging 7:10min/k I added in the canal in the first loop as my friend only wanted to do 7K unfortunately at the 5K marker near all that loose gravel I did not see a small rock on the path and ended up flat on my face with gravel imbedded in my hands and a perfect key shaped bruise on my right hip (had my card key in my pocket). Luckily no one was around so just got up dusted myself off and keep running made it back to the start and meet up with CR Pebbles and we headed of for the second lap. Now Pebbles is a little faster than me so I got a little scared when I saw our first K time was 6:30 but decided to just stick as close as I could and see what happens. So I managed to hold on and we averaged under 7min/k for the rest of the run and ended up doing my fastest loop of the bay ever so was pretty happy about that. All in all ended up doing 16.85K in 2:00:04 (unfortunately I didn’t look at the distance until it was to late otherwise I would of finished of the last 150 meters to hit the 17K marker. Splits follow

7:21
7:21
7:17
6:54
7:00
7:33
7:22
7:02
8:12(Effects of the fall I think)
6:30(Joined my friend here)
6:35
6:49
6:50
7:00
7:02
7:24
5:43(last 850m)


1K PB: 4.28
4K PB: 23:47
5K PB: 29:15
7K PB: 48:20
10K PB: 70:39

Last Run: 16.85
Week: 16.85
Month: 16.85
Year to Date: 257.85
Life to Date: 642.85