Mid-week bash

Haven't done much since Sunday's run. Back's been a bit angry, probably as a result of smashing the downhills in my vain attempt to catch my training partner. Did some exercises on Tuesday which seemed to help.

Also started carb-loading as per the AIS plan, and feel enormous. And gassy. So very gassy.

Finally got out for a bit of a run around my 8k or so course around the back of Mt Coot-tha. I'd meant to go yesterday, but forgot my runners. D'oh. Finall got out there this afternoon around 4, in very pleasant conditions.

My little course starts at the Bielby Road entrance to the Mt Coot-tha west trail section, and heads west along the Bellbird Trail to Gap Creek Road Reserve, through the everpresent dust cloud that covers Gap Creek Road and into the trail complex there, towards the Boscombe Road exit where you pick up the Curlew Circuit Trail and then head immediately left into the Ironbark Trail, which you continue to follow north until it dips into a little bridge over a creek and cut left up the hill on to the Coucal Trail which takes you to the northern most part of the gravel section of Gap Creek Road. You follow the now sealed Gap Creek Road up two particularly nasty hills into Highwood Road and then hook left into the 1 mile predominantly downhill Quail Trail which plugs into the north end of the grassed section of Gap Creek Reserve. You run south through the reserve, resume the Quail Trail except now you're heading east, back to Bielby Road.

The Garmin typically reads around 8.2k or so. It has some good climbs, but is runnablem, and indeed I 'ran' the whole lot of it tonight. Managed a little under 44 minutes tonight, which is my best time around there, but I haven't done this course since before Kokoda.

Truth be told this was kind of a conscience thing - I was feeling a bit guilty about not doing that much in recent weeks. So we're going okay, just a bit concerned about what the back 15k or so will be like at Glasshouse on Saturday.