Monday, December 06, 2004
The short and the long of it
4/12/04
Nice short slow run of 7.5km just to turn legs over in preparation for long run tomorrow. Lovely twilight run with Belinda where we maintained a nice consistent gentle pace. This is giving Belinda a lot of confidence in preparing for her runs with MTG. She is now looking forward to a 20km hitout tomorrow with confidence. I will be making my debut at the Striders 6.10 group running 22.3km.
5/12/04
Lovely day for a long run today. Sun was shining, wasn't too warm with a gentle seabreeze to help cool proceedings. Set off with 6.10 group which had 7 of us including Cool Runners O Runner, Spud and Redback.
After all the kerfuffle about pace recently, set off at a nice pace. Considering the hilly course we had confronting us, I was glad that the speedsters had gravitated towards a 6.20 start. Ran for about an hour when we had to turn off for the shorter option of 22.3km. O Runner, Spud and Adrian were going on to do the 31.6km option. Bid them farewell before we turned up quite a steep windy hill that took us back to the main road and back towards where we started. Caught up and overtook 6.00 group at around 18km mark before finding a very steep hill that just seemed to keep going and going. We reached it then did a nice trail section before coming back to main road before we had to climb another long but not as steep hill before turning off to the finish.
Finished in around 2:10 but could not confirm this as stopwatch stopped working after HRM had given up the ghost 2 days ago. I think it needs a new battery.
Felt really good at the end and certainly felt the benefits of doing all those hills throughout the run.
I am looking forward to a nice swim tomorrow and the start of another week's training.
Nice short slow run of 7.5km just to turn legs over in preparation for long run tomorrow. Lovely twilight run with Belinda where we maintained a nice consistent gentle pace. This is giving Belinda a lot of confidence in preparing for her runs with MTG. She is now looking forward to a 20km hitout tomorrow with confidence. I will be making my debut at the Striders 6.10 group running 22.3km.
5/12/04
Lovely day for a long run today. Sun was shining, wasn't too warm with a gentle seabreeze to help cool proceedings. Set off with 6.10 group which had 7 of us including Cool Runners O Runner, Spud and Redback.
After all the kerfuffle about pace recently, set off at a nice pace. Considering the hilly course we had confronting us, I was glad that the speedsters had gravitated towards a 6.20 start. Ran for about an hour when we had to turn off for the shorter option of 22.3km. O Runner, Spud and Adrian were going on to do the 31.6km option. Bid them farewell before we turned up quite a steep windy hill that took us back to the main road and back towards where we started. Caught up and overtook 6.00 group at around 18km mark before finding a very steep hill that just seemed to keep going and going. We reached it then did a nice trail section before coming back to main road before we had to climb another long but not as steep hill before turning off to the finish.
Finished in around 2:10 but could not confirm this as stopwatch stopped working after HRM had given up the ghost 2 days ago. I think it needs a new battery.
Felt really good at the end and certainly felt the benefits of doing all those hills throughout the run.
I am looking forward to a nice swim tomorrow and the start of another week's training.
