Drained

I continued to do some solid exercise sessions at work since my last post. I completed a Hill interval session followed by a push and heave (chin up) circuit on Friday. Saturday was my second Park Run and I must say that the week had taken a lot of my energy out of my legs. I started well with the first 2 km run in 7.40, 3 km in 11.50 but after that the combination of the humidity / heat and fatigue took it's toll. I felt really drained and just plugged away pretty slowly crossing the line in 21.11 for 5 km. I don't think I have ran that slow in a race type situation for at least a decade so a little disappointing I still managed to come second overall and again 1st in my age group.

This morning I planned to attack Castle Hill goat track. I have ran this numerous times but have always had a little walk to catch my breathe or stop the legs from burning so much up the last 100+ stairs at the end. This time I got the pace right and managed to conquer this without stopping to walk and finished the climb in 10.40.

I will be having a day off tomorrow just to recover a little. Not from the running but the body weight exercises do fatigue you quite a bit.

Anyway that's all for now. Happy Australia Day!

Cass, Sammy and I at the top of Castle Hill

Surrounded by Motivation

Well I have started back at work this and have found that many people had let their fitness slide over the Xmas period and are now trying to get it back. This means that there is quite a bit of motivation around which makes it easy to think about my own training.

I completed an adhoc interval session yesterday afternoon of 4 x 800m with a 400m walking recovery between each of them. Felt really good for the first one and completed that in 2.42. Beyond this however they became a struggle although my times didn't reflect it they were all pretty tough I must say. The remaining ones were finished in 2.39, 2.45, and 2.48.

This morning I arranged for my workplace to run a 6km run. What we term LSD (Long Slow Distance) Although 6km is not long it was extremely humid this morning and I must say after the intervals 12 hrs prior I did feel quite fatigued. The pace was not fast and was completed in 28.50 or thereabouts.

Tomorrow I have a Tabata session planned, just a body weight circuit to get the legs fresh again for another hit out later in the week.

2014 - A change is hopefully in the wind

Lets try this again, over the past 8 years his blog has been on a steady decline of approximately half the amount of posts from the previous year. Given that I only posted once last year I would find it difficult to write half a post for 2014. Therefore I aim to get this up and running again so to speak. If I can manage a post a week then that would be a good result.

This month my wife, her mother and a friend have vowed to undertake a fitness activity every day and so far this has occurred. I have been conducting fitness sessions for them everyday in an attempt to get a regular routine instilled in their daily activities.

They have been doing very well with a combination of circuits, walking, interval training and obstacles courses. My wife entered her first ever event after never really running at all and achieved a sub 44 min 5 km time. After 18 days of continuous training this is an outstanding result.

Anyway in regards to my training I have completed quite a few regular training sessions in addition to what I have been running for my wife and counterparts. More recently I have done two 10 k runs and a couple of shorter jaunts around the local area. Today I also entered my first Parkrun at Riverway Townsville and achieved a 2nd place on time and scored an age group record. I ran pretty comfortably aswell so the 20.35 I recorded was quite a bit slower than what I am capable of at the moment. I will try and slowly bring this down over the next few months. Pending work I hope to keep this intensity up throughout the year and enter my first paid running event since Melbourne Marathon in 2010.