Is this the start, or just a passing fancy...

This blog is basically about our running and the people that we meet through running (and the muscles that we pull by running :-)

So why start a blog now? After all, nothing's much different to what it was yesterday, and not much different to the day before that. Still, things keep happening, so now's as good a time as any to start this, and who knows what'll happen??

The current focus is the striders 10k at North Head next weekend (and the Mothers Day classic with the whole family the following day), and then the SMH half marathon two weeks after that. That's a long enough horizon for me.

Yesterday was CR5k time trial (24sec PB for tiger angel and a totally new benchmark for the Gnome) followed by a pleasant 5k jog back to the car (and breakfast). This set us up for a long run today - somewhere I read that a few weeks before a half, you should do a medium run one day and a long one the next to boost the endurance, so that's what we did.

We decided on a 2 hour run, as that was the longest that either of us had ever run, and it also hopefully will be about the time that we run for the half (not bothered if it's longer though). I (gnome) also wanted to run through bush, as the last time I did that it was lots of fun and a break from pounding pavement. However, about 1 hour in, I started to get archilles pains (never had them before) so we doubled back to a recently-noticed exit path and re-entered the world of concrete and bitumen. Archilles pain disappeared so I guess that it was just the less stable surface that was causing it. I'll have to keep trying it to strengthen that area without pushing it too hard. Anyhow, got home pretty much spot on the 2 hours, feeling challenged, but quite confident that we'll handle the half OK (albeit slowly :-)

sfG