To Blog or to Sleep

Sleep won. I try for a min. of 7 hours a night so blogging sometimes misses out. So here is the readers digest version for the last few days.

Thursday 26/5 - Run Club (see sfg's). Tim gave the Halfers photo awards. I decided after the Half I should try to run with group 1 even if I'm at the back. My 200's are usually 44secs - tonight they were 40/43. It was really hard but I think I need to try and persevere. Stuck our award on the fridge!

Friday 27/5 - Upper body wts. I got to the gym at 6am to find it closed and everyone waiting. Apparently the girl slept in. I decided I'd give her till 6.30 and she got there at 6.25. Cut the session to just upper body. Pec deck dropset was probably my best yet. Increased wts on seated row and lat pulldown. Late night and yummy dinner out with friends at the Banjo Patterson restaurant:-).

Saturday 28/5-PT with Tim. (No CR5k today as I had to work.) Today we were running. Correction - I was running and he was on the bike because of the flu. The session was a 5k course at 5min/k - steady flats, slight backoff on hills and make up the deficit on the downhills - and the return journey(4-4.5k) was steady with 2 lots of 3x30sec firm/30sec backoff thrown in.

The 5k was tough. When I first started running a couple of years ago and wanted to stop I'd ask each body part if it was really hurting and eventually learnt it was mostly the mind complaining. Today I felt crap and every part said they did too but the brain said 'stuff you lot we have to keep going!' I thought I had about 500 to go but Tim said pick it up for the last 200m so I did and then he said oh it's a bit further so pick it up again. I did my best but had to stop when I couldn't decide to spew or wet myself:-(. Luckily we had covered 4.98k in 24.40. I felt wrecked but once we got going again for the return journey I felt better.

We finished the session with one set of upper body wts and Tim said no abs because of the run. Stupid here said but I thought you were meant to do them when fatigued. NEVER TEASE A TRAINER - it's like a red rag to a bull. Good session :-).

Sunday 29/5 The plan said an easy 60mins and no more. It had to be done early to fit it into our day. It was a 2 shirt morning and we got into a rhythm after a couple of ks. About halfway thru we decided to go home via the bush.
Bit cold in there but nice running. Took us much longer than expected and I began to worry about getting to work on time. We emerged from the bush with still 2ks to get home. Actually ran for 80mins (naughty) and was only 5 mins late for work.

Monday 30/5 I really had to talk firmly to myself to get out of bed today. It was freezing outside and I had 8k of hard hills and rolling in between to do. Everywhere out here is hilly - the trick is to pick a course to suit the session. I took the hills hard but sometimes struggled in between. I don't think my body liked backing up for 3 runs in as many days

On a personal note we had a guest preacher at church last night. After he spoke he challenged us to pray and ask God to help us become an 'extreme' christian. God laid a couple of things on my heart and then this guy came around and stopped at me. God gave him a vision of my life and confirmed things only I knew. God is good but I'm not sure yet about Cambodia...