WEEK - 53K
MONTH - 105K
YTD - 322K
After track the other night, and a short but tough PT session at work, yesterday was a run free day. This meant that to crack the illustrious 50k for the week I had to run 3.8k today.
A while back a work mate of mine asked if I would drive one of the cars he had for his wedding. His wedding was this morning, a small gathering of family and close friends. I was very surprised he had asked me to be part of this occassion, I have only known him for a little over 12 months so to be asked was very nice. Anyway this meant that my run would have to be late afternoon.
I arrived home about 3pm after driving and waiting around for the photos to be taken etc. It also meant that I was in the hot sun for a good part of the day with very little opportunity to eat and drink. By the end I was starving and had a bite to eat and chilled out to watch the womens triathlon I recorded earlier that morning. Awesome, Emma Snowsill she makes it look so easy. I actually dozed off a few times and at 5pm it was time to take Cass (wife) to work.
This I thought was a good opportunity to get some gear packed and head down to the track, the intention to do more than 3.8k to crack the 50. I also had ideas of doing 14k not only get 50k but crack 60k but that got squashed when I eventually arrived at the track at 6pm.
By the time I started running the sun was almost down, running around a bumpy grass track in fading light is tough, you cant judge uneven ground that well. I took off slow for the first k until the body was warm and gradually increased each k after that for 5k. I felt comfortable and actually finished in under 21 mins. I had a quick drink from the water bottle and had a 400m walking recovery.
It was quite dark by this stage but I thought I would do another 3.8 to finish the week off with 55k but after a lap or so I decided to cut it short and stopped at 1.8k in a time of around 7 mins.
This has been my biggest week for as long as I can remember, and in fact has felt like one of the easiest. Next week I will try and incorperate a long run in the schedule, I need to get the distance in my legs if I want to improve on my Warwick time in May and maybe do the GCM. My decision on the GCM will be made in the next two weeks, Im 80% sure that I will try the full. Please someone talk me out of it :)
3 comments:
Can you enter for the day for it? I'm finding the beauty of entering on the day at the moment, if you're sick before you don't have to follow through.
You've been doing good mileage, but before you enter ask yourself why you're doing it. If you can't answer it maybe you should be doing the half, which still has many challenges of its own.
You post had me thinking, if you did 24k then you would crack 70 for the week. And if you did 34k then you would crack 80. And if you did .... :-)
You know you are asking for trouble when you mention you are thinking about GCM! Ha ha, as if we are going to talk you out of it. We're not gonna let you not do it now ;-)
Congrats on your big week Shane i didn't quite reach that high but it was my biggest ever also.
I have been thinking marathons in the last week or two also but im still not sure...hmmm
anyhow cheers R2B
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