Easy Stuff

Just over 10km yesterday in 45:37, felt good and easy. Looking forward to pumping out the training next week.

2 x 3km, 3 x 300m

Felt solid coming into training last night. Came day with some rough havefever on Monday, the good weather always brings it on, so wasn't expecting anything special from last night. The first 3km went well in 9:56 but definitely a bit sore after that one. Then struggled through the second 3km in 10:14 but needed a dump the whole way through so I reckon that added 20s to the time maybe more. Took my dump then got on the track. Did a 300 with nick doing his last one. I hit 45 on my first and after the bathroom break , 45 felt cruise. Then another 45 before finishing off with a 42 so really happy with the 300's. 10.5km all up. Also have that same 24 hour race as last year on Friday, but we are not trying to set any world records this time around, but I'll try and pump out a run in there somewhere. This means not a lot of training this week or weekend because I will be truly exhausted from it. But will definitely put in some quality work these school holidays with the squad.

So many k's

Started off the Sunday pumping out 18km in 1:22:08. Felt great and pushed the last 2km hitting 4:10 for both of them. Then played an 80 minute soccer game before another 40 minute Futsal game in the evening. Pretty exhausted by then and quads were quite sore.

Hills

Went to jells park this morning with another squad within the same club. I really enjoyed the switch to be honest, everyone was a bit less serious, but still pretty good. The squad was run by Trevor Vincent who was an Olympic steeplechase back in the day so the session was quality. I did 7 x 310m hill and did a float recovery back down a different longer path to the bottom of the hill before starting again. About 700m loops. Started off right at the back as I had no idea what was going on, but soon moved to the front once we began. The 2 leaders Sam and Bo pulled slowly further and further ahead of me as we ran across the entire session, but I held onto third. Really tough session to be honest so much lactic. The hill started off really steep before flattening out but still going skyward, then steepened back up towards the end. It was rough but apparently it's always much worse the first time you do it. Really happy though, just over 10km all up.

District Athletics 2014

Had the next round of the athletics today and was just running the 1500m. Up against the kid I lost to last round ad the guy I lost to last year in the same race. Felt pretty good, but I was really nervous because I had to take it out hard. Fast start but it slowed right down early so I went outside and around the leaders to push it on faster. First lap in 68s or so. I was in the lead for the rest of the race and just kept on pushing the pace so nobody was on my tail in the last 100m. Time was 4:30 so okay but nothing special at all although I do feel like I could go much faster if someone was with me. I won though which was the main thing. First win in more than a year so that felt good.

Taper sesh

Got down to the windy and cold training tonight. Nick and I pumping out the Taper for the race on Thursday. Because it was windy the km was slow in 2:50 but it was alright. The 600 was cut short to 510m because selfish netball parents don't look when driving out of the car park that cuts across the track, but so we had to cut it short to avoid being run over, but not without some abuse being shouted towards to the oblivious distance running haters, who deserve no better. Time was 1:17. But the highlight was definitely the 300m where I managed a miracle and pulled 41s out of the hat which I am stoked with. 5.4km all up. Going to be a very short week.

200's

Did 9 x 200 by myself tonight in the rain, pretty rough but trained well. Did the first 4 off 30s recovery so they were a bit slower then the next four off 90s then last one off 3 minutes. First 4 were 29, 32, 30, 29. The 30 seconds recovery made it hard but felt good. Then the rest were all in low 28's which I am happy with. A bit of speed is always good. 7.8km all up with warm up and cool down.