Literally!
The past few days have been quite hectic, I have been on a course for the first half of the week where I have been learning to drive vehicles using night vision equipment through bushland. This has unfortunately ceased my opportunity to do any training as obviously it needs to be night time to conduct the course. It has been late nights so no early morning training which also destroyed my birthday as I had to work late that night aswell :(
I am now writing this in Gladstone where we have travelled up for a wedding. Cass is a bridesmaid so we had to get here early for all the stuff that is required to be done in that position.
Myself however have no ties and have found out that there is a Gladstone road runners who conduct a 2k and 5k handicapped event on Thursday nights. So that's the plan for tonight go down and stretch the legs out, at the moment I dont feel very energetic but I will still give it a go.
So that's about all I have to say at the moment, will post again when something more exciting happens :)
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Saturday, June 17, 2006
Spectrum Fun run
Week - 29k
Month - 49k
YTD - 570k
This morning was the local fun run, held at Bray Park. I have only been living out there for 4 months and it is great to see the community organise an event like this. I woke up this morning not really feeling like a run but I knew that if I piked that I would regret it later in the day.
Time flew this morning and before I knew it I was still at home 20 mins before registration closes. So we quickly loaded up the car and drove the 1k to the start of the race. I registered and then went for a quick warmup, about a minute into this my shorts felt funny I looked down and noticed that they were on backwards......IDIOT!! I quickly ran into the shops to the toilets holding my arms low so no one noticed and put them on properly.....pretty funny, well it is now.
There were some familiar faces around from the Run Inn and I was quite suprised at the turnout, apparently over 300 people this morning.
The race started at 8am, I really didn't have a plan, I was unsure on my fitness as I have not been doing alot over the last few weeks and what I have been doing has been at a slow pace.
So we were off, I started close to the front behind the speedy's and took off pretty fast. The first km is mostly up a slight hill and was very suprised to reach the 1k marker in 3.36. The next few km were pretty much uneventful I maintained a similar pace. I reached the 2k marker in 7.20 and then 3k in 11.12.
By this stage I was thinking had I gone to fast and eased up a little, I knew the course pretty well and the second last k is an incline so I needed some in the tank for that. The km markers kept coming quite quickly which I was very happy about. I was starting to tire and reached the 5k marker in 19.12, I had maintained 4 min k pace for the last 2k.
I tried to increase the pace a little but was getting pretty puffed by this stage, the 6k marker came around but I can not remember the exact time 23.xx. I started to slow alot and knew that the next km was going to make or break me. By this stage I knew that I could break the 32 min mark so I just tried to hang on.
A bloke that I had past at the 5k mark past me at the 7k marker just after the hill and slowly pulled away from me. It was quite good having someone close Im usually all alone in runs so I think this helped alot in getting a better time.
I reached the 7km marker trying to put a brave face on for those spectators lining the roads but I dont think I was fooling anyone, I was hurting and noticed I had 4.30 to run the last k in to break 32 mins. I upped the pace and felt a little better now the course was flat again, I couldn't catch the bloke in front and just tried to hang on to my position.
I crossed the line in 31.13 which works out to be 3.43 last km. I was pretty happy with my result given my last few months of injury. I am unsure of my position but the results will be on the website later on this afternoon.
Month - 49k
YTD - 570k
This morning was the local fun run, held at Bray Park. I have only been living out there for 4 months and it is great to see the community organise an event like this. I woke up this morning not really feeling like a run but I knew that if I piked that I would regret it later in the day.
Time flew this morning and before I knew it I was still at home 20 mins before registration closes. So we quickly loaded up the car and drove the 1k to the start of the race. I registered and then went for a quick warmup, about a minute into this my shorts felt funny I looked down and noticed that they were on backwards......IDIOT!! I quickly ran into the shops to the toilets holding my arms low so no one noticed and put them on properly.....pretty funny, well it is now.
There were some familiar faces around from the Run Inn and I was quite suprised at the turnout, apparently over 300 people this morning.
The race started at 8am, I really didn't have a plan, I was unsure on my fitness as I have not been doing alot over the last few weeks and what I have been doing has been at a slow pace.
So we were off, I started close to the front behind the speedy's and took off pretty fast. The first km is mostly up a slight hill and was very suprised to reach the 1k marker in 3.36. The next few km were pretty much uneventful I maintained a similar pace. I reached the 2k marker in 7.20 and then 3k in 11.12.
By this stage I was thinking had I gone to fast and eased up a little, I knew the course pretty well and the second last k is an incline so I needed some in the tank for that. The km markers kept coming quite quickly which I was very happy about. I was starting to tire and reached the 5k marker in 19.12, I had maintained 4 min k pace for the last 2k.
I tried to increase the pace a little but was getting pretty puffed by this stage, the 6k marker came around but I can not remember the exact time 23.xx. I started to slow alot and knew that the next km was going to make or break me. By this stage I knew that I could break the 32 min mark so I just tried to hang on.
A bloke that I had past at the 5k mark past me at the 7k marker just after the hill and slowly pulled away from me. It was quite good having someone close Im usually all alone in runs so I think this helped alot in getting a better time.
I reached the 7km marker trying to put a brave face on for those spectators lining the roads but I dont think I was fooling anyone, I was hurting and noticed I had 4.30 to run the last k in to break 32 mins. I upped the pace and felt a little better now the course was flat again, I couldn't catch the bloke in front and just tried to hang on to my position.
I crossed the line in 31.13 which works out to be 3.43 last km. I was pretty happy with my result given my last few months of injury. I am unsure of my position but the results will be on the website later on this afternoon.
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Fit for the Queen
Week - 14.5
Month - 34.5
YTD - 555.5
Well after Sundays decision to give West end a miss I lounged around all day inside. Good decision I think it was pretty cold outside when I peeled myself from under the doona to get the junk mail.
Monday, Queens Birthday, I think I like her majesty's birthday better than mine, at least you get a day off work for her's. After sitting around for most of the day procrastinating about if I should go for a run or not I found myself pulling the runners on and heading outside at 5pm. There is a fun run this weekend in my local area which I will do just as a training run, so I decided to give the course a once over before then.
It is an 8k course apparently according to the entry form through the streets of Bray Park. Not a bad course mostly flat with a few long gentle inclines that keep you honest. I ran the course in reverse so I didnt get the real feel of what it will be like, the reason for this is that I am relatively new to the area and dont know it very well along with the fact that I have been told that the park this run goes through can be quite dangerous at night.
Overall I ran about 4.30 pace and assuming I ran the correct course totalling about 7.5k. I then added some to get back home to round the day out with 7.87k in 35.48.
Back to work today which was very deserted, most people are out on exercise which I love. It makes my work at lot more pleasant when I dont get annoyed with little things throughout the day and can concentrate on what I need to do. The morning PT session comprised of myself and a mate so we decided to hit the trails on the barracks. There are alot of good runs through the hills and a pretty tough 7k cross country course which we completed today. We took it very easy, chatting most of the way around besides one section that took our breathe away even at 7min/k pace. After we had completed the course well most of it we continued on to see out 40 mins, which gave us a total of 6.74k.
Tomorrow is my physio appointment aswell as a dentist appointment, I dont know what posessed me in making these on the same day but all I know now is that I am in a world of hurt.
Month - 34.5
YTD - 555.5
Well after Sundays decision to give West end a miss I lounged around all day inside. Good decision I think it was pretty cold outside when I peeled myself from under the doona to get the junk mail.
Monday, Queens Birthday, I think I like her majesty's birthday better than mine, at least you get a day off work for her's. After sitting around for most of the day procrastinating about if I should go for a run or not I found myself pulling the runners on and heading outside at 5pm. There is a fun run this weekend in my local area which I will do just as a training run, so I decided to give the course a once over before then.
It is an 8k course apparently according to the entry form through the streets of Bray Park. Not a bad course mostly flat with a few long gentle inclines that keep you honest. I ran the course in reverse so I didnt get the real feel of what it will be like, the reason for this is that I am relatively new to the area and dont know it very well along with the fact that I have been told that the park this run goes through can be quite dangerous at night.
Overall I ran about 4.30 pace and assuming I ran the correct course totalling about 7.5k. I then added some to get back home to round the day out with 7.87k in 35.48.
Back to work today which was very deserted, most people are out on exercise which I love. It makes my work at lot more pleasant when I dont get annoyed with little things throughout the day and can concentrate on what I need to do. The morning PT session comprised of myself and a mate so we decided to hit the trails on the barracks. There are alot of good runs through the hills and a pretty tough 7k cross country course which we completed today. We took it very easy, chatting most of the way around besides one section that took our breathe away even at 7min/k pace. After we had completed the course well most of it we continued on to see out 40 mins, which gave us a total of 6.74k.
Tomorrow is my physio appointment aswell as a dentist appointment, I dont know what posessed me in making these on the same day but all I know now is that I am in a world of hurt.
Saturday, June 10, 2006
Sat 10 Jun 06
Not very imaginative today which is the reason for the boring title!
Firstly a quick update on Samuel. He is doing well, his sleeping patterns are pretty good. I cant really complain about anything that he does, he seems to be the most chilled out baby that I have been around. Apart from his flatulent, grunting and wierd face pulling personality he doesn't embarss me at all :) His weight gain has increased dramatically over the last fortnight due to him sucking his mum drier than the Queensland outback. He has almost reached the 4kg and quickly growing out of his jumpsuits.
Back to training
Today was supposed to be 4k however due to my rebellious nature I done 5k instead. I have been plodding about for ages so I decided to blow the cobwebs out. I had a sleep in this morning so the run didnt happen till 4.30pm. The day had been overcast with a slight drizzle of rain but as soon as I decided to go the heavens opened. I didn't mind the weather was relatively warm and it stopped about ten minutes in. The plan was to do a slow 1k to get into it then 3k fast then a slow 1k to finish. I haven't done a very simple farlek session like this for a while and it felt good, although the lungs didn't thinks so.
I really had no idea where I was running but what seemed like a good idea before I started didn't actually eventuate. I was going to run 2.5k out ie the 1k slow and 1.5k fast, then turn around continue back for the other 1.5k fast and finish back at home with the slow 1k. Instead it happened like this 1k slow 3k fast in a direction that saw me get further away from home then I turned around ran the slow 1k back which still left me with 3k to get home. Stupid!! Well it made for a nice stroll to cool down :)
The splits ended up like this
1k - 4.44
2k - 8.25 (3.41)
3k - 12.06 (3.41)
4k - 15.59 (3.53)
5k - 21.00 (5.01)
I was quite happy the fast 3k ended up being 11.15, on a slightly undulating street course. Not that I am allowed to but like the physio said I know my body better than her so I am going to West end tomorrow for the club meet. Well Im hoping the calender on it's website is correct because I haven't heard anyone talk about going this week. I suppose I will find out when I get there.
Stats
Today - 5k
Month - 20k
YTD - 541k
*edit* 11 jun 06
Well I woke up at 3am for Samuels feed and didn't feel the greatest, I wasn't sore but I could tell that I had done something a bit strenuous the day before if that makes sense. Therefore I didn't get up for the club race this morning. I didn't want to risk hurting the foot again, it is coming along nicely and I want to be fit for the C2S.
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Forced Absence
Week - 15k
Month - 15k
YTD - 536k
The combination of work and upgrading my internet to broadband has caused my absence to the blogging scene. Well that and I haven't particularily done anything exciting to write about either.
I have been also quite slack in reading everyones blogs besides the quick peek at some to see how they went in the major events that have been taking place in the past fortnight.
To get back to the training , over the past fortnight I have been a bit paranoid about the sore foot, the physio who I have been seeing for the shins said that it was just a bit of inflammation around a joint. I have some pretty potent anti inflams that have done wonders and saw me get back into it this week. I have been allowed to do between 20 -25k a week but have cut it down to below 20 until I see the physio next week.
Yesterday I went for a slow test run I felt pretty good however it is sooo damn cold now and I dont like it. Overall just a casual 25 minute run with some stretching.
Today I decided to go for a run at work with a mate who has been getting into the training lately. No real plan and just took it as it come. He set the pace as he was monitring his HR and didn't want to go above his aerobic threshold. We ended up running for about 56 mins and am guessing that it would have been approximately 11k at the pace we were running.
It was then off the physio for some massage which hasn't changed it still hurts like hell but is working wonders.
At this stage if all goes to plan I will be visiting my parents in NSW in August which turns out to be the same time the C2S is on, fancy that :) This will be a goal race where hopefully I will have some pretty good training under the belt and be able to run a respectable time for a change.
Well that's about it I am not allowed to run until the weekend and that is only 4k and another 5k on Tuesday before my next appt. The physio said I will then be able to increase it back to 25k and then gradually build from there.
Until then...
Month - 15k
YTD - 536k
The combination of work and upgrading my internet to broadband has caused my absence to the blogging scene. Well that and I haven't particularily done anything exciting to write about either.
I have been also quite slack in reading everyones blogs besides the quick peek at some to see how they went in the major events that have been taking place in the past fortnight.
To get back to the training , over the past fortnight I have been a bit paranoid about the sore foot, the physio who I have been seeing for the shins said that it was just a bit of inflammation around a joint. I have some pretty potent anti inflams that have done wonders and saw me get back into it this week. I have been allowed to do between 20 -25k a week but have cut it down to below 20 until I see the physio next week.
Yesterday I went for a slow test run I felt pretty good however it is sooo damn cold now and I dont like it. Overall just a casual 25 minute run with some stretching.
Today I decided to go for a run at work with a mate who has been getting into the training lately. No real plan and just took it as it come. He set the pace as he was monitring his HR and didn't want to go above his aerobic threshold. We ended up running for about 56 mins and am guessing that it would have been approximately 11k at the pace we were running.
It was then off the physio for some massage which hasn't changed it still hurts like hell but is working wonders.
At this stage if all goes to plan I will be visiting my parents in NSW in August which turns out to be the same time the C2S is on, fancy that :) This will be a goal race where hopefully I will have some pretty good training under the belt and be able to run a respectable time for a change.
Well that's about it I am not allowed to run until the weekend and that is only 4k and another 5k on Tuesday before my next appt. The physio said I will then be able to increase it back to 25k and then gradually build from there.
Until then...
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