Saturday Long Run

A stunnning Sydney winter morning - about 14C when I headed out around 7.30 for a 3 lap run of Centennial Park. Start of the new training routine in the run up to the marathon hopefully- only going to get longer from here on in! Tookit very easy on the first lap to try and keep down around marathon pace and failed miserably at 4.45 average. Picked it up for the second lap to about 4.30 pace- although interrupted by a nature stop where I wasn't confident I would make it to the toilet block in time! Came back for the third lap and dropped the pace again for the first couple of kms to 4.13 and then down a bit more for the last 1.5kms - good city to surf training although a pretty flat course. So all up about 30kms this week but a different blend of fast and long stuff and legs feeling good. Run stats are at http://connect.garmin.com/activity/96167475