Too tired!

Wednesday I headed out for a jaunt around the neighbourhood, the legs felt fresh so I decided on 10k for the afternoon. I dusted off the garmin which I haven't used for some months and set off. Nothing out of the ordinary went on, the weather was a little humid with a slight drizzle of rain every now and then. After about 5k it began to be a tough slog and there was a battle going on in my mind to cut it short at 8k. Not sure why I felt like that must have been the lazy festive days catching up with me anyway I continued on and clocked 10k up for the afternoon.

These are the splits for the run:

4.34, 4.23, 4.23, 4.28, 4.23, 4.31, 4.30, 4.33, 4.36, 4.43. = 45.04

Today I was planning to go to the Fatass run at Mt Nebo, I did it last year and it was a good run. The weather was forecasted to be average but I was still going to venture out. I had all my stuff ready for the early morning and went to bed. I had trouble getting to sleep so I began watching TV hoping I would begin to feel tired. It worked, however after I nodded off the little man decided he didn't want to sleep in his bed anymore and wanted to sleep with us. The night continued in a downward spiral as Sam rolled around all night keeping me awake, the neighbours then decided to start screaming at each other around 1 am and then some bright sparkes set off fireworks at 3am sending the dogs crazy.

My alarm was set for 3.45, I'm guessing, but I dont think I had more than 1.5 hrs of unbroken sleep for the night so the last thing I felt like doing was running 24k. To my disappointment I couldn't drag myself out there.

Change of subject I found a cheap running pram on the internet the other day, it is new so hopefully it is not too dodgy and I will be able to take Sam for a few sessions with me. I have been looking at buying one for a while but didn't want to spend a whole heap of cash and find Sam hates it. It should arrive next week so I will have plenty of time to trick it up and make it fast while I am holidays :-) Here's a pic.

Merry Christmas

I have been lying low for the past few days, I began my holidays as of last Thursday and dont return back to work until the 29 Jan 08. Wooohoo!

We are having a small family gathering for Christmas which seems unusual as it is usually quite hectic. In saying that I will have plenty of time to get my arse out the door and make 2008 a better year for training.

I haven't set goals yet that will come in a later post but I want to complete a marathon in 08.

In the coming few days there is the Fats festive fatass run at Mt Nebo, I would like to do this but my wife is working, unless she can start work 15 minutes later to drop the little man off at daycare this will be a non event for me. Fingers crossed.

Anyway just a quick post, Merry Christmas to everyone, hopefully everyone got what they wished for and more. Stay safe!

Post Kurrawa

Suprisingly I wasn't that sore after Sunday and was actually capable of running 5k the following morning. This week I have just taken it easy as I don't want to get stuck into serious training too soon as I will get injured. So this week has been three days of running, approximately 5-7k each session.

This morning I went to the gym and ran 5k on the tready in 20.44, then done 15 minutes on the spin bike and rowed 1500m on the rowing machine. It was quite tough and with no air con, just the fans that the larger bodied people hog, it was like a sauna.

Anyway I got through it and went back to work for a few hours and knocked off at lunch. I like the time around Christmas plenty of early days.

Sunday I have my 2nd Christmas function for work and we are all heading to Bribie Island for some water skiing and relaxation on the bay. Should be a good day, however before I head there I was thinking that I might venture to BRRC, apparently there is a 15k run being held, I might even try and drag my Kurrawa partner there aswell.

Last thing before I go, the results are up for the race last Sunday and we actually came 5th out of 47 teams. Very happy with that result in an official time of 3.56.24 for 50k.

Kurrawa 2 Duranbah

I got through it is one piece today, I am somewhat tight but very suprised as to how good I am feeling, I was expecting a grim afternoon.

Anyway we didn't hang around for too long after the event, the early morning start and the hot day in the car for my pit crew takes it toll. I wanted to get back so Cass can get a power nap in before going to work. I will catch up with some of the Brisbanites probably at Mt Nebo later in month.

As I said in the last post I got the first leg, 5am start with great weather, towards the end of the stint I found it rather hot but alot easier than last years 2nd leg. Prior to the run I had a good breakfast which I feel helped alot throughout the race as I only had 1/4 of a banana and a few sips of powerade to see me through.

With no idea what I was capable of I set off at a easy pace, I remained relaxed and was sort of shuffling, keeping the feet low to the ground. I found this help in keeping the legs from conking out too early however they did give up around the 18 -19 k mark. From there onto the finish I done the walk / run thing, I didn't want to but I had nothing left and after a 30 sec walk I could set out at a decent pace for 5 minutes or so until I needed to rest again.

It seemed to work, and with about 40k of training in the last month, I managed to bet last years time by 6.30 crossing the change over point in around 2.02.30

My partner set off a cracking pace and by the time I hopped back into the car and drove looking for him he had already covered 6k. By about the 15k mark the heat was taking it's toll but he battled on and continued to run fairly strong. He has been training well for this event but not much prepares you for a 25k run in the heat. He wanted sub 1.50 but managed 1.53.48 which means that our total time for the event came under 4 hrs, at around 3.57.

We are pretty happy with result as we beat last years time by around 14 minutes, hopefully we will be able to run this again next year with both of us achieving sub 2hrs.

I think I am in Trouble!

And no it is not because I have been absent from blogland for 3 months.

I have been in Vic for the past 2 1/2 months and whilst I was down there I received an email from my mate who was going to be relay partner for kurrawa. He said in the email that he was unable to go now as he has just been told that he was going to be deployed to Afghanistan.

I thought okay no worries I will give it a miss as I hadn't had much time to train anyway. Anyway only three weeks ago I receive another email from the same person saying that he's back and is not being deployed and that he is keen to give Kurrawa a crack again this year.

Shit!

I had dropped my bundle weeks ago and have only been doing enough training to keep the ticker from ceasing up.

I arrived home last week and 3 days after I returned I ended up catching a viral thingy that caused me almost 5 days of grief, to an extent that I was sent home from work.

Therefore my training has been pretty much this week only with 3 runs under the belt that have been above 10k. Yesterday I ran for an 1hr covering 13.5k which was my last one before the big race.

My partner has been training pretty consistantly for the past few months and is hoping he can go under 1.50 for the 25k. Myself on the other will again let the team down and will be glad to just finish. Fortunately it is my turn to do the 1st leg so the heat wont affect me as much this year.

It will be interesting and I think I will be one sorry customer come 7am or thereabouts Sunday morning. If anyone can send me some fitness it will be appreciated :)

Peace out!