Monday, November 06, 2006

Milestone reached!

Week - 13.5k
Month - 13.5k
YTD - 1000k

I have finally done it, cracked the 1000k for the year. Woo Hoo!

I headed out today at 5pm after finishing work, for what I thought needed to be a 13.5k run to pass the 1000k mark. Setting out around the neighbourhood the weather was still and warm which quickly heated my body up. I was running a very easy pace but was really feeling it. So much so that I eased up on the pace even more just to make things a little more comfortable.

At around the 8k mark I was close to home and decided the 1000k target would have to wait until next run and would call it quits at 10k.

I was happy to finish, I was hot, sweaty and quite tired. Apart from the fatigue caused by the lack of training I got through the session with no niggles in just over 53 minutes. I even happier when I realised that the 10.5k was enough to get me to triple figures.

Off the subject;

Today I asked my work mate if he would like to be my partner in the Kurruwa relay. I am in no condition to get involved in being competitive for this event, so to pair up and run with someone who has never ran that sort of distance before would be a good option. He hasn't agreed to it 100% but he will come around, the only thing I haven't told him is that I have two days off work after this event and he doesn't :) I might tell him on the morning of the race ;)

4 comments:

Ellie80 said...

yay! no niggles?? that is ace! and that 1000k milestone is very nice indeed :)

Clairie said...

Shane you are naughty! Don't tell him on the morning....tell him halfway through. ha ha.

Actually you just reminded me to get some time off too. Be nice to relax a bit and not rush of anywhere.

Tesso said...

Congrats on the 1000k Shane!

You lucky bugger, I actually have to work the night of the race :-(

Anonymous said...

Congrats on a 1000. Nice round figure.