Cheers fellas!
Funny you should mention the 10k road race G'man, because this morning I ran literally smack bang into one. On my morning run I passed through Lane Cove National Park to find one of the
Sydney Striders 10km handicap road series races in full swing. The Striders would be Sydney's biggest running club (and I note with interest their sister club is the Heartbreak Hill Striders of Boston) and they always have a strong presence in any race, but this is the first time I've stumbled across one of their regular runs. According to their web site, this race should have been run three weeks ago, so I don't know what happened to their calendar.
Anyway, it meant that the park was unusually full of runners this morning, and some relatively unhappy cyclists who for once were well out-numbered by us runners.
It also made me think I should watch out for their next race in my borough and maybe participate.
But back to the run. Today's effort was fairly brutal. It had everything from deafening highway to muddy, dank off-track gullies and pretty much everything in-between, including a 2km hill-climb. In all I covered a tad over 20km, and while I failed in my wishful-thinking goal time of under 6min/km pace for the entire distance, it was a more brutal run than I had anticipated so I wasn't unhappy just to finish the damned thing without suffering a coronary.
It also rounded out a 52km week of running for me, and in that number lies another little (positive) story. My days of extraordinarily long shifts at work are over. Management decided in their wisdom to cut us back to 9.5 hour shifts which means I can far more readily incorporate training into my work schedule, and significantly,
no more 4 a.m. running!
Actually, I'll probably genuinely miss the early runs...
Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Feeling good, feeling on top of it all. What's next? Oh yeah, the half mara.
20.31km 2h07m
YTD: 588.4km
Track du Jour: With apologies to those doing it tough at the moment... your day will come, be assured and keep running!
A word to the God of running...
Or you could try this one:
Or
this one might suit some of you better (I'm looking at you, Sweder)...
Orange Silver April
