After a few days off work I returned yesterday only to be smashed in probably the hardest PT session of the year. It was a circuit that trashed the whole body. Squats, Lunges push ups, situps, along with heaps of activities involving weights. What tha! we are mean't to be winding down for the festive season.
Well anyway I woke up this morning very sore to say the least. My legs were soooo tender around the groin and quad region that I found it hard to walk without looking like a cowboy from a John Wayne movie.
Arriving at work today I knew the next 1.5 hrs was going to be a struggle. As 90% of the people at work are currently on Xmas leave there is not a great deal of work to be done. So to fill in time we tend to do alot of PT and sporting activities. A tough life I know but this morning I wasn't really feeling like doing much at all.
The PT session ended up being alot easier than yesterday and was helped by the fact that I actually conducted one of the sessions. The soreness did subside a little after the activites and throughout the day but I am still pretty tender.
This afternoon the boss allowed us to go to the pool, just to laze about and cool down. I completed a few laps in hope of feeling a little better, which seemed to work. We spent about an hour there before moving on for the afternoon PT session of volleyball. A nice easy casual game was a perfect way to end the day.
Arriving home, Cass had the whip out and made me mow and whipper snip the lawns, she is a mean nasty women, no sympathy at all :-)
So the last few days have been fairly hectic. Although I haven't done too much running Im hoping that the pain I have inflicted on my body has had a postive effect. I hope to get out for a jog on the weekend.
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Monday, December 11, 2006
K2D 2006
Week - 25k
Month - 58.5k
YTD - 1133k
***Warning, quite a long one***
My Kurrawa weekend didn't go exactly to plan and it started to fall to pieces before when even headed down the coast.
On the Friday the day before we were mean't to leave we had a message on our phone saying that the accommodation that we had placed a reservation on was not available over that weekend. The only thing that was available was something that was way too expensive as it was really only to save us from getting up early and driving to the coast from Brisbane on the Sunday.
So Saturday arrived and because we were expecting to be on the coast for the day we had no plans. Basically we hung around the house and veged out. No training took place, as I wanted to feel fresh for the next day.
For some reason we didn't get to bed early at all on Saturday night. There was fire works somewhere close by that were scaring the dogs and Sam was a little grumpy. At around midnight the dogs decided that they would scratch at the door, for what reason I had no idea but I wasn't impressed. I went back to sleep after telling the hounds to shut up (polite version)and within the hour Sam decided he wanted to wake up. When Sam doesn't want to sleep he thinks no-one does either. Cass and I settled him back down and finally got back to bed somewhere around 1-130am. Not too bad really until you know that your alarm is set for 245am
Waking up was a struggle and lucky for me Cass woke up because I didn't even hear the alarm go off. She said she even woke me up twice and I had answered her but I don't even remember that. Anyway 310am I crawled out of bed got dressed and realised that I was going to be pushing it to get to the Gold Coast before the race start.
Lucky for me I was running the second leg and that my partner was more prepared than I. We in fact got there at 450am and when we pulled up there was still a huge number of people registering. In saying that the race was delayed by 35 minutes.
Once the race had started I really had no idea of the course and basically just followed the stream of runners stopping every few k's and helping my partner out with drinks and food. For a person who has never run anywhere near this distance before he was going great. He made the turn around in around 2 hrs 2 to 2 hrs 5mins unsure of the offficial time.
I then set out from Duranbah at approx 7.40am. The run was going great and I was consistantly clocking between 4.30 - 4.50/k. The weather was warm however I really never felt like it was really bothering me that much. I made sure that I was taking enough water and powerade along with my gu and other food.
I passed the 13k mark spot on an hour, I continued to maintain the same pace until about the 16k mark. It was a steady hill that went beside the national park, fairly shady and should have not really been that difficult. This was were the wheels really fell off. I just lost all energy in my legs, I could feel all the liquid and food that I had consumed over the past 1hr 20 or so swishing about in my stomach.
I began to get stomach cramps and was reduced to a walk for a short time. I reached the point a couple of k's before Miami Hill where we had to run up another hill and get our number checked off. By this stage I was hurting pretty bad, my wife and running partner had met me there and gave me another drink and my last bite to eat. I felt better after a short break and began running again. I came good around the 18k mark clocking again around 4.45/k before having another bad episode.
The next 4k saw my splits increase dramatically with two in the high fives and two around 6.30, which included Miami Hill and the stairs. I had told Cass whilst my partner was running that at the bottom of the stairs I would take Sam for the remainder of the race in his pram.
Although I had nothing in the tank, I still took the pram with Sam and ploddered along, I had multiple walk breaks and some uplanned breaks when Sam lost his hat. It was pretty tough, I wanted to go quicker so Sam wasn't in the sun for to long but I just couldn't. He didn't really seem to care though and went to sleep about 5 minutes into the run.
I came up to a marking on the footpath that said 1km, I was hoping that this was for the race I was doing. I continued to follow the path and saw the finish line way up ahead. I then realised that I was not going to get there following the path so it was off the beaten track we went. It was a little on the bumpy side for Sam over the grass however he didn't really wake up until the finish line when those who had finished were cheering everyone in.
I am again unsure of the official time however the Garmin showed 25.2km in 2.06.57 with rest breaks of over two minutes bringing it up to 2.09.05.
Although I was not really interested in what time I did, I was fairly disappointed with how I ran the last 8k. I guess I can't blame anything other than my lack of training which has got me thinking about my plans for next year. I will share this at a later stage.
After the race I felt fairly sick in the stomach, I didn't enjoy the nice food on offer at the BBQ which was a shame. Cass was tired, she had very little to eat as she was helping both myself and my partner out on the course along with looking after Sam who was being a grump, he was starting to get the flu. In saying that we left not long after and headed home, it was unfortunate that we had to but we all felt pretty ordinary by the end of it.
Congrats to everyone out there yesterday, I had a tough one but hopefully everyone else came through it with great results.
Month - 58.5k
YTD - 1133k
***Warning, quite a long one***
My Kurrawa weekend didn't go exactly to plan and it started to fall to pieces before when even headed down the coast.
On the Friday the day before we were mean't to leave we had a message on our phone saying that the accommodation that we had placed a reservation on was not available over that weekend. The only thing that was available was something that was way too expensive as it was really only to save us from getting up early and driving to the coast from Brisbane on the Sunday.
So Saturday arrived and because we were expecting to be on the coast for the day we had no plans. Basically we hung around the house and veged out. No training took place, as I wanted to feel fresh for the next day.
For some reason we didn't get to bed early at all on Saturday night. There was fire works somewhere close by that were scaring the dogs and Sam was a little grumpy. At around midnight the dogs decided that they would scratch at the door, for what reason I had no idea but I wasn't impressed. I went back to sleep after telling the hounds to shut up (polite version)and within the hour Sam decided he wanted to wake up. When Sam doesn't want to sleep he thinks no-one does either. Cass and I settled him back down and finally got back to bed somewhere around 1-130am. Not too bad really until you know that your alarm is set for 245am
Waking up was a struggle and lucky for me Cass woke up because I didn't even hear the alarm go off. She said she even woke me up twice and I had answered her but I don't even remember that. Anyway 310am I crawled out of bed got dressed and realised that I was going to be pushing it to get to the Gold Coast before the race start.
Lucky for me I was running the second leg and that my partner was more prepared than I. We in fact got there at 450am and when we pulled up there was still a huge number of people registering. In saying that the race was delayed by 35 minutes.
Once the race had started I really had no idea of the course and basically just followed the stream of runners stopping every few k's and helping my partner out with drinks and food. For a person who has never run anywhere near this distance before he was going great. He made the turn around in around 2 hrs 2 to 2 hrs 5mins unsure of the offficial time.
I then set out from Duranbah at approx 7.40am. The run was going great and I was consistantly clocking between 4.30 - 4.50/k. The weather was warm however I really never felt like it was really bothering me that much. I made sure that I was taking enough water and powerade along with my gu and other food.
I passed the 13k mark spot on an hour, I continued to maintain the same pace until about the 16k mark. It was a steady hill that went beside the national park, fairly shady and should have not really been that difficult. This was were the wheels really fell off. I just lost all energy in my legs, I could feel all the liquid and food that I had consumed over the past 1hr 20 or so swishing about in my stomach.
I began to get stomach cramps and was reduced to a walk for a short time. I reached the point a couple of k's before Miami Hill where we had to run up another hill and get our number checked off. By this stage I was hurting pretty bad, my wife and running partner had met me there and gave me another drink and my last bite to eat. I felt better after a short break and began running again. I came good around the 18k mark clocking again around 4.45/k before having another bad episode.
The next 4k saw my splits increase dramatically with two in the high fives and two around 6.30, which included Miami Hill and the stairs. I had told Cass whilst my partner was running that at the bottom of the stairs I would take Sam for the remainder of the race in his pram.
Although I had nothing in the tank, I still took the pram with Sam and ploddered along, I had multiple walk breaks and some uplanned breaks when Sam lost his hat. It was pretty tough, I wanted to go quicker so Sam wasn't in the sun for to long but I just couldn't. He didn't really seem to care though and went to sleep about 5 minutes into the run.
I came up to a marking on the footpath that said 1km, I was hoping that this was for the race I was doing. I continued to follow the path and saw the finish line way up ahead. I then realised that I was not going to get there following the path so it was off the beaten track we went. It was a little on the bumpy side for Sam over the grass however he didn't really wake up until the finish line when those who had finished were cheering everyone in.
I am again unsure of the official time however the Garmin showed 25.2km in 2.06.57 with rest breaks of over two minutes bringing it up to 2.09.05.
Although I was not really interested in what time I did, I was fairly disappointed with how I ran the last 8k. I guess I can't blame anything other than my lack of training which has got me thinking about my plans for next year. I will share this at a later stage.
After the race I felt fairly sick in the stomach, I didn't enjoy the nice food on offer at the BBQ which was a shame. Cass was tired, she had very little to eat as she was helping both myself and my partner out on the course along with looking after Sam who was being a grump, he was starting to get the flu. In saying that we left not long after and headed home, it was unfortunate that we had to but we all felt pretty ordinary by the end of it.
Congrats to everyone out there yesterday, I had a tough one but hopefully everyone else came through it with great results.
Thursday, December 07, 2006
I'm not Crazy! although......................
you may think so in a second or two.
I wulod lkie to try an exepriemnt, I saw an emial decsirbnig how yuor brain prcoesosrs olny a few leettrs in ecah wrod wihlst we raed. Msot poelpe wlil be albe to raed tihs as lnog as the frist and lsat leetrs are in the crorcet postioin. I tohught tihs was perety cool and amzanig how our bdoy wokrs.
OK, back to normal, well if you call my ramblings normal I guess. I haven't done anything since Pats TT however I plan to go for probably my last run before Kurrawa on Sunday. I am pretty excited about this weekend which basically begins tomorrow for me. I have taken a few days off work so I don't have to be back until next Wednesday. Yippeeeeeee!!!! Now I can sit back and relax and enjoy my last run. I will then head down the coast on Saturday for what will be a great weekend all round.
With no expectations, no real goals for this event I just hope to get through it in one piece and enjoy the weekend made up of the stuff I love doing.
Oh, and to all my family that read this, I know what you are thinking.....Crazy Fool!
Peace Out!
Next Edition - The Kurrawa Adventure!
I wulod lkie to try an exepriemnt, I saw an emial decsirbnig how yuor brain prcoesosrs olny a few leettrs in ecah wrod wihlst we raed. Msot poelpe wlil be albe to raed tihs as lnog as the frist and lsat leetrs are in the crorcet postioin. I tohught tihs was perety cool and amzanig how our bdoy wokrs.
OK, back to normal, well if you call my ramblings normal I guess. I haven't done anything since Pats TT however I plan to go for probably my last run before Kurrawa on Sunday. I am pretty excited about this weekend which basically begins tomorrow for me. I have taken a few days off work so I don't have to be back until next Wednesday. Yippeeeeeee!!!! Now I can sit back and relax and enjoy my last run. I will then head down the coast on Saturday for what will be a great weekend all round.
With no expectations, no real goals for this event I just hope to get through it in one piece and enjoy the weekend made up of the stuff I love doing.
Oh, and to all my family that read this, I know what you are thinking.....Crazy Fool!
Peace Out!
Next Edition - The Kurrawa Adventure!
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
3k TT - The last one for 2006
Week - 26.5k
Month - 26.5k
YTD - 1101k
Working the afternoon shift today meant I could make it to Pat's this morning for the monthly TT. I haven't been for a TT for what seems like an eternity, it was actually March the last time I did a TT there so Im glad I got the opportunity to do the last one for the year.
I arrived there 5.40am just in tie to register before heading off to the start line as our warmup. I met up with Clairie and Tesso of whom I haven't seen for a while either which was good.
The atmosphere is always great at these sessions which is why it is always so popular, there is heaps of encouragement from everyone before, during and after the session. Pat had also organised two bongo drummers to play at the startline which added to the atmosphere.
Lining up at the starting line Pat ran through the course, the track had changed since last time I did it with only one turn around at 1500m whereas the last one had a few more, I think 1k loops.
Anyway, I was unsure what time I would like to come in at however I did know that with a big race this weekend that I didn't want to go 100%. The race started and for the first 100-200m it is weaving and dodging until everyone finds their place and it settles down.
I quickly settled into a comfortable pace not long after and never looked at my watch until the turn around where I got there is 5.22. I thought this was a little too quick for what I wanted to achieve today and slowed the pace down for the next half.
At about the 2k mark there is a little hill that I usually gets me especially at the BRRC runs but this morning it wasn't that bad. I got over that and enjoyed the last 1k, I stepped the pace up a little towards the end to come in at 11.05.
It was a good 30 secs outside my time done in march, but it made for a good solid session. I was certainly puffing at the end but recovered pretty quickly.
We all hung around and cheered those left out on the course, some louder than others, Clairie ;-) before heading back to the Ship Inn for a nice cold drink and fruit.
At the time I didn't realise but Tesso actually ran her fastest 3k this year, not a PB but a Season Best, so it was a good end to the year and some ominous signs for this weekend. Nice one Tesso!
****Edit****
Oh I almost forgot it was my first blogging anniversary yesterday, and I thought I would never continue to do it - It's addictive, at least it's a healthy habit however maybe Cass has a different opinion :-)
Month - 26.5k
YTD - 1101k
Working the afternoon shift today meant I could make it to Pat's this morning for the monthly TT. I haven't been for a TT for what seems like an eternity, it was actually March the last time I did a TT there so Im glad I got the opportunity to do the last one for the year.
I arrived there 5.40am just in tie to register before heading off to the start line as our warmup. I met up with Clairie and Tesso of whom I haven't seen for a while either which was good.
The atmosphere is always great at these sessions which is why it is always so popular, there is heaps of encouragement from everyone before, during and after the session. Pat had also organised two bongo drummers to play at the startline which added to the atmosphere.
Lining up at the starting line Pat ran through the course, the track had changed since last time I did it with only one turn around at 1500m whereas the last one had a few more, I think 1k loops.
Anyway, I was unsure what time I would like to come in at however I did know that with a big race this weekend that I didn't want to go 100%. The race started and for the first 100-200m it is weaving and dodging until everyone finds their place and it settles down.
I quickly settled into a comfortable pace not long after and never looked at my watch until the turn around where I got there is 5.22. I thought this was a little too quick for what I wanted to achieve today and slowed the pace down for the next half.
At about the 2k mark there is a little hill that I usually gets me especially at the BRRC runs but this morning it wasn't that bad. I got over that and enjoyed the last 1k, I stepped the pace up a little towards the end to come in at 11.05.
It was a good 30 secs outside my time done in march, but it made for a good solid session. I was certainly puffing at the end but recovered pretty quickly.
We all hung around and cheered those left out on the course, some louder than others, Clairie ;-) before heading back to the Ship Inn for a nice cold drink and fruit.
At the time I didn't realise but Tesso actually ran her fastest 3k this year, not a PB but a Season Best, so it was a good end to the year and some ominous signs for this weekend. Nice one Tesso!
****Edit****
Oh I almost forgot it was my first blogging anniversary yesterday, and I thought I would never continue to do it - It's addictive, at least it's a healthy habit however maybe Cass has a different opinion :-)
Sunday, December 03, 2006
Regatta - Mt Coot-tha loop
Week - 19.5k
Month - 19.5k
YTD - 1094k
Still had a bit of the guilts today so this afternoon I rang my Kurrawa partner and asked if he would be interested in doing the loop starting from the regatta. It is close to 15k and a fairly tough run with plenty of hills......obviously.
We arrived at the regatta about 4.45pm and after a quick stretch we headed off. A fairly sedate pace to begin with. My partner has never ran more than 12k so I thought it was a good idea for him to be acquainted with a longer distance especially when he will be required to run 25k in a weeks time.
We were chatting most part of the first section however I did warn him that the conversation will stop once we hit the hills. We encoutered the first hill near the Botanic gardens and got through this pretty well, we had a quick break at the next water tap before tackling the main hill. This winds up for about 2.2k and is fairly constant, at times the hill eases up but the last section is probably the worst.
My mate was going really well for a virgin Mt Coot-thanite he remained close to me until the last 500m or so when he said his legs had a turn for the worst and he needed to walk.
We arrived at the picnic area just after the climb, I was feeling great I had never down that climb that easy before and while I was waiting for my partner the weather took a turn for the worst. Large lightning bolts, heavy range and heaps of thunder saw both of us stuck under a shed for the next 1/2 hour. Im not keen running when there is heaps of lightning especially when there are huge Tv antenna's around.
The rain never really cleared but the lightning eased up so we headed off. It was quite cold to begin with and the wind was strong. Visibility was down to about 50m due to the low level cloud so we had to be mindful of the traffic coming up the mountian.
Due to the delay we automatically increased the pace, we were keen to get home now, we were drenched and the legs felt a little drained. We had a quick drink at the lookout before the downhill section back to the regatta.
I was pretty impressed with how my mate went, considering he hasn't done that sort of distance before he seemed to cope well. Overall the distance was 14.59k and we completed the loop in 1.14.44 (5.07/k), obviously this doesn't include our break.
This will probably be my last long-ish run before the big day, I was pretty happy with how I went today, I seemed to run that pretty easy which is a great confidence booster. I will do another couple of shorter ones, not the greatest lead up to a big race but I rather be under cooked than over trained risking injuries.
Hopefully next post I will have some pics and the story of the Go kart race. All I can say is that is didn't go quite as planned :-)
Happy Training!!!!
Month - 19.5k
YTD - 1094k
Still had a bit of the guilts today so this afternoon I rang my Kurrawa partner and asked if he would be interested in doing the loop starting from the regatta. It is close to 15k and a fairly tough run with plenty of hills......obviously.
We arrived at the regatta about 4.45pm and after a quick stretch we headed off. A fairly sedate pace to begin with. My partner has never ran more than 12k so I thought it was a good idea for him to be acquainted with a longer distance especially when he will be required to run 25k in a weeks time.
We were chatting most part of the first section however I did warn him that the conversation will stop once we hit the hills. We encoutered the first hill near the Botanic gardens and got through this pretty well, we had a quick break at the next water tap before tackling the main hill. This winds up for about 2.2k and is fairly constant, at times the hill eases up but the last section is probably the worst.
My mate was going really well for a virgin Mt Coot-thanite he remained close to me until the last 500m or so when he said his legs had a turn for the worst and he needed to walk.
We arrived at the picnic area just after the climb, I was feeling great I had never down that climb that easy before and while I was waiting for my partner the weather took a turn for the worst. Large lightning bolts, heavy range and heaps of thunder saw both of us stuck under a shed for the next 1/2 hour. Im not keen running when there is heaps of lightning especially when there are huge Tv antenna's around.
The rain never really cleared but the lightning eased up so we headed off. It was quite cold to begin with and the wind was strong. Visibility was down to about 50m due to the low level cloud so we had to be mindful of the traffic coming up the mountian.
Due to the delay we automatically increased the pace, we were keen to get home now, we were drenched and the legs felt a little drained. We had a quick drink at the lookout before the downhill section back to the regatta.
I was pretty impressed with how my mate went, considering he hasn't done that sort of distance before he seemed to cope well. Overall the distance was 14.59k and we completed the loop in 1.14.44 (5.07/k), obviously this doesn't include our break.
This will probably be my last long-ish run before the big day, I was pretty happy with how I went today, I seemed to run that pretty easy which is a great confidence booster. I will do another couple of shorter ones, not the greatest lead up to a big race but I rather be under cooked than over trained risking injuries.
Hopefully next post I will have some pics and the story of the Go kart race. All I can say is that is didn't go quite as planned :-)
Happy Training!!!!
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