What was I thinking....?

OK, so maybe doing 3/4 of a lap of Quarry Rd was not the ideal reintroduction to running. :-) The next day I felt like I'd just run a marathon. Quads ached, I didn't want to get out of bed, all that sort of thing. :-) Anyhow, by Wednesday I was ready to go again. Alas, my planned 40minute stroll through the bush turned into an hour, courtesy of a wrong turn, but at least it showed me that 10k was possible without problems. Added to that, we had a great session at Run Club on Thursday night - a hills/tempo/hills sandwich - which had me looking forward to a 'long' run on Saturday morning with surprising anticipation.

We have a loop from home which is a pretty good approximation to the City to Surf. 14k (of course) and a good mix of short, sharp hills and two long grinding ones. I carefully avoided looking at my watch and just ran on feel, keeping things nice and aerobic. I had the advantage on the longest hill of a particularly complex Santana song on the iPod; by the time I had worked out the rhythmic structure, I was at the top! :-) Anyhow, I was really pleased to be home in 72 minutes without getting overly stressed.

Tiger angel's training continues its gentle upward trajectory as well. It's really lovely to see her doing what she wants, when she wants, instead of being limited by injuries and medical conditions as she has been for so long now. This week included PT & swim squads on Tuesday, Run Club Thursday, PT & swim squads (again!) on Saturday, and then today we rode out along the M7 for 70 minutes. I've decided that tiger angel is someone who benefits from a warm up, as we did the up-hill return half faster than the down-hill outward half! Lovely ride, lovely day, but my numb bum tells me that no way is this little black duck ever going to do long tri's. I'll stick to 6ft and leave the HIM's to TA. Seems fair :-)

Gnome