Eat My Dust August

[Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man]

Not far into July I abandoned my spreadsheet and just sort of started "free running" - no watch, no GPS, no idea basically. While it was very "freeing" in a hippy kind of air-headed way, it did remove the discipline from my training and left me short of the kms I should have run.

Never mind, a step-back month was probably a good thing. I've still given up on the spreadsheet (being both too tedious and too bossy) but now have to focus on a few race goals. The first is the 14km City to Surf on August 14th, which is now fully subscribed with something over 85,000 entrants (good grief Charlie Brown)... being the first time I've run a 14km event I have no particular time goal, which is probably just as well as I have done precious little speed training. So, just another training run ... along with 85,000 other people. The fight for the buses back to the start line will be interesting.

A few weeks after that is the Sydney Half marathon, and then it's a very serious two months of intensive hill work ahead of the Point to Pinnacle. Gulp.

I said at the start of July that it had to be a serious month of training. Well it wasn't. This month must be better. I'm still on track (just) but there's still a lot to do. Here we go.