Jumpin' Januarys ... it's 2013 already!

[Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man]

Two more runs in the log book this week and it's beginning to feel a lot more like a training campaign. Still no great shakes in terms of pace - all these runs have been fairly pedestrian but it's kilometres banked and I'm feeling stronger and fitter.

An 11km hilly street run two days ago went quite well, and then this mornings run was a beauty... on the road by 5:30 am to beat the heat, and headed out to the Lane Cove National Park run for an 18km jaunt which has become something of a regular in recent weeks. Very few people about today, so I had the park pretty much to myself and it was a magical run, with a caucophany of birds greeting the dawn as the sun broke in mottled fashion through the canopy of temperate rain forest. Peaceful and wonderful.

I continued my experimentation with Gu gels, today's menu featuring the "Lemon Sublime" concoction which tasted OK-ish and certainly (I'm sure, this time) did its job. Even the scariest hills were tackled with a legs-of-steel confidence, and two in particular which had reduced me to a "never again" quivering, heaving mess in the past today gave me no grief at all. How much I can attribute to the gel and how much is just down to plain hard training I can't say, but I like the feeling!

11.1km 1h06m (Friday)
18.1km 1h53m (Sunday)

YTD: 39.3km