Bierzo Baggie Wrote:Keep up these kayak reports MLCM. Where do you paddle? Is it a river, a reservoir, the sea..?
A river, BB, the Cowan River to be precise, a major tributary of the Hawkesbury River, north of Sydney. It's really an estuary, tidal and brackish, with loads of fish and birdlife and a great place to paddle.
Not so great was my run this morning. It was simply ... awful.
It began as a planned 10km, but as I headed out the door I mentally cut that back to 8km. After 1 km however I felt so buggered I nearly abandoned, but battled on until a tad over 6km when I threw in the towel on what was probably the slowest run I've ever undertaken. Not sure what was wrong: I didn't feel great, but then I didn't feel awful either: I just had nothing in the tank.
Oh well, I've learned (after many crap runs!) to be philosophical about them: I've yet to experience two lousy runs in succession, so the next run should be a relative beauty, so I'm already looking forward to it.
Given today's bad 'un, I think I'll do 2 or 3 more 5km runs before upping the stakes. I figure once I'm again comfortably handling 5km runs, then 10km is just a step up. A few 10kms and then 20km is again perfectly feasible. Three or so 20km runs and I should be able to squeeze in a couple of 30km+ runs before the marathon in just
- gulp - 12 weeks time. It seems impossible given my condition today and my inability to stick to the schedule thus far, but there's no point giving up. Three months is still a fair whack of training, so here's hoping. :o
I ran first thing this morning (rather than my usual evening run) as I have two night shifts beginning tonight (6:30pm to 7am). Which is even more disruption than usual (there is no such thing as routine in the MLCM household), and then on Friday morning I head back to Adelaide for a week.
That will be interesting: 43 degrees C there yesterday and a top forecast of 44 today. If that weather continues, the only hope for any training is to jump back on the plane and fly the heck out of there. When it's
that hot it generally doesn't get below 30 even at night, so tricky conditions for training.
We'll see how the next few weeks pan out, but in the Chinese calendar this is now the
year of the ox, which is my year, so I'm expecting big things in 2009.
Here we go again.
