Week interrupted (pt 2)

...so on Friday night we settled down to a nice quiet night in, with the kids off at a weekend camp. The plan was for a tempo 10k on Saturday, and then a long run up around Bathurst while visiting my sister on Sunday, but a phone call changed all that.

The call was from our eldest (Macro) to tell us that Micro was on his way to hospital, having dived into a too-shallow pool and hit his head. This completed the trifecta for us, as both Macro and Angel have in the past been taken from camp to hospital, in each case while skylarking during night games. Hence, I guess that Micro was pretty much destined to take the same journey :-)

Anyhow, the news is fine, and although he ended up with a night in casualty for observation (while I attempted - and failed - to sleep on the concrete floor beside his bed), the only real damage will be the possible loss of a patch of hair. (Oh, and that pink line to the right of the main damage is where they glued him back together! Who needs stitches?? )



I eventually made it home at about 10:30, and with the heat (and the fact that I was exhausted), I didn't even entertain the idea of doing my 10 tempo. Yet another run down the drain. Micro did go back to camp, so tiger angel and I were free to head off up to Bathurst.

Sunday morning bright and early, I headed off towards Mt Panorama. If running up it gives you a new respect for the way the drivers throw the cars around getting up there, running down does even more so. The drop down through 'esses' is sheer lunacy. From there I just wandered around the town, ending up getting lost and running through the only hilly part of the place (Llanarth and Windradyne) - it seems that my body is drawn towards hills, no matter how much I try to resist :-). All up, it was 26k at a 6 minute average - a fair bit slower than a normal Star run, but I was pleased to be still feeling strong at the end of it all.

So, I'm now left with a bit of a conundrum. This coming week is supposed to be my one-in-four easy week, but with the interruptions of the last two weeks (weekly totals of just 39 and 32k respectively), I think that I've just had my easy week(s). Do I stick to plan and take yet another easy, or just start the next cycle now?. I'm pretty tempted towards the latter...

Gnome

p.s. There's not been much mention of TA's progress in the blog of late, probably because she continues to improve slowly but unspectacularly. She's been working on re-conditioning her body, and is carefully starting to get back into the swing of things. Hence, tonight she entered the RTA Spring Cycle (50k from Nth Sydney to Homebush), which will be her first time back on the roads for about a year (there's been plenty of wind-trainer work during the reconditioning, so it's not total madness - I know what you were thinking :-) ). Here's to much more steady and unspectacular progress!