Easy Friday

Only 6 of us out today for a nice easy Friday run. MC, Indrajit, Ray, Brendan and another guy headed out of the Monday course and I dropped off at the Opera House after 13.5 kms at 4.35 pace. Very happy that calves felt all right today and thinking that I might try out my 2XU calf socks for a hilly Sunday run, if all is well. Stats for today are at http://connect.garmin.com/activity/205723789 and really looking forward to Ben St Lawrence in the 10,000m on Sunday morning - he is mates with a number of the Hurts squad and comes out when he is in town.

Sore Calves

Not sure what is going on but every time I run just now the bottom of both calves gets really tight and sore - very strange and perhaps it could be time for a new pair of shoes. Out today for the 4x2kms after a meeting over lunch stopped me getting a long one in yesterday so will have to try and make that up over the weekend. Big crowd including Tucks, MC, Adam, Hamish etc which meant we were split ino 4 groups. Adam only did three but flew on all of them managing about sub 3.40 pace for his sets. I managed a 3.53, 3.50, 3.57 and finshed on a 3.49 and the stats can be found at http://connect.garmin.com/activity/205723789. Started to feel ok on the last one but not that confident going in to the C2S. Adam will smash 60 this year and I'd be suggesting a sub 57 for him - could be a very interesting race.

Good Start to the Week

A large crowd out for the Monday run and serious kudos to Ray who did a 2.42 in the M7 marathon yesterday and backed up with a training session today - nuts. Adam, Dave, MC, Indrajit among the usual suspects and Tom joined us just after Mrs Mac's point. Nice easy recovery run pace today and was determined to do the whole set - so 15.6kms at around 4.33 pace and felt strong for the last 4 kms - must be the Olympics atmosphere. So pilates tomorrow and then Hurts sessions for the rest of the week as my last big build up for C2S. Today's stats at http://connect.garmin.com/activity/204653712

Catch Up

Out both Thursday and Friday for the Hurts sessions and finally starting to feel like I am over this chest infection. Did the gate to gate session on Thursday with Adam and baout 20 others and just managed to hold 3.50 pace for the last 6 and very happy with that. Stats for Thursday at http://connect.garmin.com/activity/203523698 and it looks like the hear rate monitor wasn't working properly - otherwise I have some issues. Friday's session was good although the last 3kms didn't feel quite so hot after Terence announced that he was upping the pace at Shelley Street and promptly took off. Four of us weer left for dead although still doing 4.15 pace back to Circular Quay. Stats for Friday are at http://connect.garmin.com/activity/203523689 and a good finish to my first week back. All up about 35 kms.

Last Corp Cup of Series

Headed out for the last run of this series and knew it wasn't going to be a fast one but wanted to see how I was feeling after Monday. Met Dave from Hurts on the way across, as Adam did and early start, and he ran the course with me. Adam had a good result with 24 minutes flat, so a sub 23 will have to wait until next series and I managed a 24.57 which wasn't too bad on my second run back. Felt strong on the way out but faded a bit over the last two kms and was struggling a bit with cardio.
Stats for today are at http://connect.garmin.com/activity/202919372 and it's the 8 x gate to gate tomorrow, so should get a good indication of how much time I have lost over the last couple of weeks. Last run out for those I was sitting at 3.45-3.50 pace.

Back

Well a very poor return from holidays with a chest infection that laid me low all last week - nasty little criter it was and the anitbiotics killed my apetite - big upside in that I weighed 74.2kgs yesterday morning so have lost all the holiday excesses.
Headed out for the Hurts run with the intention of only doing half the course - thought that was going to kill me after about 2 kms. Adam was out as well, fortunately he had a cold all last week so his C2S traning has been hampered as well. I pulled up at the end of Hickson Rd having got rid of my own body weight in snot and phlegm while Adam turned and went ot pick up the crew to get back to Circular Quay. Stats for yesterday are at http://connect.garmin.com/activity/202569753 and pretty happy with 4.45 average pace given the state of health. Did Pilates at lunch today and gearing up for the last corp cup of the series tomorrow.

First run back

Got home yesterday after a fantastic week in Fiji with a little too much of the good life in me and a chesty cough from the kids which has been around since mid last week and which I can't seem to shake. Managed a fair bit of swimming and one 1km run along the beach just to have a Garmin entry for Fiji. So Corp Cup today was never going to be good and it didn't disappoint with a 27.31 and over 4 minutes slower than my pb. Meanwhile Adam is killing it - a sensational run at the Sydney Harbour 10km last weekend gave him a new pb of 38.39 gun time with his net time being 38.30 - will need to let Tom adjudicate on that one - and then he pulls out a 23.14 for the corp cup today. He is going to nail the C2S this year and is now even talking about the half in September. Need to get my running mojo back. Stats for today are at http://connect.garmin.com/activity/198045192 and here are some links to Fiji swim/run and some fishing trips - http://connect.garmin.com/activity/197706014, http://connect.garmin.com/activity/197706010, http://connect.garmin.com/activity/197705980.