City to Bay

[Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man]

Nearly there - 5 days to go and I'm travelling OK. A 10km run t' other day and an 8km hilly run this evening see me in OK form. Slow, but solid is how I'd describe it.

This evenings run was a bit of a brute: 1km uphill, 5km slow descent that seems flat, then 2km tough uphill to the finish. Brutish because you only ever seem to go uphill; never any downhill. And little chance of negative splits as the killer climb is at the end. As it turnbed out however, I was only 50 seconds slower on the return leg, so I was well pleased.

The half way point of the run also happens to be right outside the hospital where I found myself in the cardiac ICU for a few days back in 2004, so it's always nice to run past the place with the ticker doing its job as it should.

As I say, I'm running solidly enough but really quite slowly, so I'm not really anticipating a PB next Sunday, but we'll see what the day brings. Either way I'll just be happy to be back in a race again - it's been too long!