God damn, over a week?!?

Sorry about that - things have been a bit hectic.

Monday Jan 31 - 25 min 5k recovery on the treadmill at the gym

Tuesday Feb 1 - Couldn't get up in the morning, so after riding home from work did 3 laps of a local hilly cycle for a total of 5.1k in a touch over 25 minutes. Ran with a HRM for the first time in ages, peaked around 166-167.

Wednesday Feb 2 - Ran to and from work for a 54m5s 10.7k in the morning and a 49m10s 9.6k in the evening. It pissed down through the morning run, only to stop 5 minutes after I got to work. In the evening, a wild storm came through and took out the power and a heap of trees through Gladesville, making the last 1.5k of my run an obstacle course worthy of army training. This, after getting drenched in the first ten minutes of the run.

Thursday Feb 3 - Day Off

Friday Feb 4 - Day Off

Saturday Feb 5 - Start of the Striders 2005 10k series at Lane Cove. Good solid sensible run for a 38m32s, 14s outside my PB but a solid PB for the course. 30s negative split for the first and last 5ks, and a sub3m40 last km.

Sunday Feb 6 - Berowra STaR, saw some familiar ground from the Fat Ass run in January. Missing my GPS (see below), I held on to my map and ran with Action and Cam after falling off the back of the 6:20 group. Very tough run, could have done with a second GU, and the last 2-3k were a real battle - who put that friggin' hill there?!?

Monday Feb 7 - Feeling pretty bashed up. Recovery 5k on treadmill at lunch

Tuesday - Attempted 5 x 1k repeats with 90s standing recovery at Timbrell but blew up on the third rep. Ran another two km and called it a morning.

Looks like the double dose of rain did the Garmin no favours. It switched itself on sometime on Thursday and wouldn't respond to any commands. I've mailed it off to the guys in Gladesville who support Garmin in Australia. We'll see how it goes.

Feet are healing up. Seem to be making progress getting used to the orthotics, and hip seems to be improving courtesy of Mr Horne.

Got in touch with Sean of Sweat Sydney about training post-Canberra. Could be interesting.