March too much.
The last day of March saw me complete another steady 15km easy run. Gad I love being able to say that ... imagine, an
easy 15km run! This is progress indeed, and saw my total distance for the month reach 152 kilometres, which for me is quite a respectable return after a period of ... slovenliness.
I had plenty of time during this run to consider in more detail my plans for the rest of the year. There are eight or nine races marked on my calendar, requiring a considerable contortion of training scheduling more resembling a four-dimensional matrix beast from some 1930s sci-fi flick rather than anything remotely scientific. It will, in any case, be fully flexible/dynamic as work and other outside factors will largely determine which races I can or can't enter.
So instead I created in my head a bit of a running bucket list and had a poke around inside it and my own head to see if any of it could be fitted into my crazy schedule this year. Well, erm, no, not really, as I have pretty much lost control of my own schedule. Hence the need to remain at least half-marathon ready in order to be able to ramp up to full race mode given the few short weeks I would normally have to prepare for a major race once I actually know that I can safely enter. But, for what it's worth, my bucket list currently consists of:
- bringing my marathon PB to under 4h30m
- bringing my Point To Pinnacle PB down to 2h30m
- running the Moyleman... sometime. Somehow.
But this is all getting way too far ahead of myself. First, there's the small matter of the local 10km fun run next Sunday. I now have two full rest days before that event, which will be nice (the rest days, not the race which is a brute), and then a week later it's the Canberra half marathon. After that I will be better positioned to work out what I do for the remainder of the year.
In the meantime, I just keep on running, trying to keep the runs as long as possible without pushing myself too hard (and thus getting injured), whilst mixing up long easy outings, tempo runs and hill reps to keep me in some sort of decent shape.
Ciao!
Track du Jour: Urthboy "We Get Around"
This is a beauty ... if like me, you have a grudging respect for hip hop, it'll be because local hip hop hits you in a way that foreign hip hop doesn't .. er, I mean for example, I like Australian hip hop but not so much American hip hop for reasons I can't really explain other than that the local content resonates with me ... like folk music, maybe perhaps. Anyway, I
love this song, and not least of because it's a local band and even the film clip (shot in the streets near where I work) is brilliant.
I guess this means it won't actually mean that much to any of you. What the hell, give it a shot. I love it! And it's a great track to run to ... and it shows the area where I work. It even has a cameo from a jogger or two. Cool stuff!
Long March Rocket
