Sunday STaR - Davidson Recreation

After heading out to the Flying Fish Cafe in Pyrmont last night, and getting to bed a bit afer midnight, I arose at about 5:20 with 5 hours sleep and a touch of a red-wine stomach. A piece of toast with some olive oil and honey, along with half a cup of coffee settled that down, and I was on my way to pick up Mister G at Chatswood and over to Lindfield for the STaR.

Set off at 6:20 in a fairly small group and the pace was fairly quicky down to a bit under 5:00 per k. The course shares sections with the Cherrybrook STaR and the landscape rolls a fair bit. I pulled up pretty well after the 10k yesterday and was holding with Sue Kelly pretty well. The course worked its way over to Castle Cove and finished with the quite technical trail from the Roseville bridge making up about the last 4-5km. Sue and I were the last of the runners of our little group and we were setting a strong pace through this section, finishing 31.22km in 2:29:36. 15 minutes longer than I was scheduled for, but a pretty good hit out. Again, no gu taken during the run, mind you I was pretty hungry for the last half hour.

Should also be noted we did an extra 1.2km or so after making a navigational error at the south west end of the course, missing a turnoff. Oh well, more miles = more strength, right?

Felt pretty strong through the run and the last 5km were quite pleasing - I was able to maintain pace despite fatigue. Certainly noticing the weight loss and extra training.

111km covered for the week, with some pretty good quality miles and a 10k PB. I was a bit sore with the inside right upper leg yesterday after the 10k but it's fine this morning. No other injury issues at the moment. Stride is feeling different and much more efficient.

Next week looks pretty similar to last week, with highlights being an 8 x 800 session on Tuesday, and an East Met 7.5km cc event on Saturday - 3 laps of the 2.5km course we ran last month.