slowly but surely...

Another decent week out the road, which leaves me feeling a bit more confident about Sunday week's Half Marathon @ Burnley. Not PB-confident, but more confident and certain of breaking 80 minutes than what I was three or four weeks ago after a shocker at Sandown. I'm still doing all the hard stuff on indoors, ensuring I get in some quality work (and it's helped), but the everyday work and the long easy stuff has been out and about with mother nature. Estimated kms about 80, 3 days of quality work and a 24km cycle to work along the Fed Trail has just buoyed the spirits a little.

I acquired a new pair of kicks - the New Balance 903, on sale as part of Rebel's Father's Day promotion. They are a genuine lightweight stable trainer (288 grams for a 10.5 US) and have a significant enough road feel to warrant doing the half in these rather than my Gel-Bandito's, which are only 20 odd grams lighter. 24kms straight out of the box this morning and I'm sold on them.

A big week of school this week, hopefully I get get in some decent kms without dealing with work fatigue and grumpiness.

another week, tiny signs of progress

Yeah, another week down, and with two races to go the focus is solely on good results in these two races, so there'll need to be an emphasis on both speed and recovery. I'm not expecting PB's in either race (Half mara & lap of Tan) but it would be good to get some confidence going into track season, and start a 6 month assault on the Christchurch marathon in May 09.

A later than hoped start today (8am rather 6) meant missing out on Kew Boulevard and settling for a local run of about 26 kms in 1:50. I've been doing my speedwork/tempo indoors and my longer stuff outside and slooooowly, things feel like they're coming together.

Approximate k's for the week 80.

A reasonable week...

Got through a long run, or more specifically, more than 2 hours on my feet. It was very easy speed-wise, probably just over 5 min/km pace, but it was in a group training for the Marathon so to get that time on my legs, along with some solid speed/temp work for the week has been a bonus. Still only 5 days of running for about 70kms, which isn't enough, but to seize the opportunity to get out and run is a bonus.

Three weeks to the Burnley Half, which means two more long-ish runs and some more tempo running at something close to what i'll run on the day. If only work doesn't get in the road...





In other news, Jeffrey has doubled his body weight in 3 weeks of "Spotswood" living. JEFFERS!!!

injury....hmmmm

Had a stack this morning going for a quick workout in the Newport Lakes.

Ran down a hill, slipped going around a corner, went Arse over tit, got a few grazes and belted my knee. It hurts like all hell at the moment, let's see how it is tomorrow. Way too early to know what it is...it might just be jarred...I hope!

Brewed my Brass Balls Brew today...it's kinda strong and very nice, and consuming beer in the morning after an aborted tempo/effort run isn't really the stuff of Mensa candidates, is it?

On the tramcar restaurant for Jen's birthday tonight...should be good!