As Promised

In the last post, I alluded to plans for upcoming Goal Races; well, here it is. It's a 14 week plan ending with the Sydney half (which I hope I'll be able to run with tiger angel, though that's faaaaar from certain) .

25/6/06 - Woodford to Glenbrook (25k) - basically a trial run of longer distance bush running
16/7/06 - King of the Mountain (35k) - definitely only a long run, not a race. Not really sure about this one, I need to find out more about it,
13/8/06 - City2Surf (14k) - the old favourite :-)
27/8/06 - Willy 2 Billy (35k) - this is the main goal. No idea what time I'm aiming for yet.
17/9/06 - Blackmores (21.1k) - let's see if this is more fun than last year :-)

Of course, all the Striders 10k series and the CR5ks will be included as well. The main training aim over the time will be to maintain endurance while building strength - hence basically a combination of long and hills. It's a bit hard to get in much bush running simply because it tends to be dark when I train, but I hope to start hitting the bush on some of the long runs. This'll be interesting...

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Tiger angel dragged herself out the door early on Friday to go swimming (cold cold cold). Only (her term, not mine) did 1k, not fast. Felt OK doing it, but a bit joint-sore afterwards. Did a PT session on Saturday (again OK, but very weary afterwards). She wasn't good this morning and decided that after this morning's work she could only manage a walk. So we did 4k and she has rested since.

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Saturday was just too cold and miserable to contemplate running, so I found some convenient niggles to use as an excuse. Couldn't do that two days in a row, so this morning (Sunday) I, against any semblance of better judgement that I may possess, crawled out of bed at 5am to get myself to the Striders Star at Concord.

Unfortunately, the group I ran with was really too hot for me. I normally do my long runs at about 5:30 pace, but these blokes dragged it out at 4:45. I hung on until about 12k (didn't want to be running around there on my own - guaranteed to get lost), and when I finally dropped off, Orunner was kind enough to hang back and keep me company for a while (thanks Dave, much appreciated). I pretty much kept the pace until 15k, when I joined up with a group of earlier starters who were running at a better pace for the remainder. All up about 27k, giving a weekly total of 52k. See what happens when you don't run Saturday? :-)

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