January 2012 - Here We Go Again

[Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man]

It's four in the morning and what's more the dawnin'
Just woke up the wantin' in me. - Hank Snow

When it's too warm to run after sun up and you're working loooong days, what do you do? You check your sanity at the door and get up at 4 a.m. to get your run done.

04:11 and I'm out the door determined to get a quick 10km in before I have to leave for w*rk. There are two main benefits to running at this time of day. The principal one being that it's relatively cool - a mild 20C and little humidity; the second is the relative lack of traffic which meant I could run alongside the much flatter and well-lit Pacific Highway for 5km and back rather than the hilly but quiet and dark back streets. And the negatives of running so early? Well, I think you can probably work that out yourselves.

The result however was a pleasing 10km in under 57 minutes, with reasonably even km's of around 5:41 and I even managed negative 5km splits. At fo' in da mornin' I'm happy wi' dat.

And then I fell asleep on the train.

10km, 56:47, moderate.