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RE: April Powers
Bad dog run!
After two weeks of night shifts, it takes the body a while to recover. And so while I had a long run scheduled for today I wasn't convinced it was going to be easy or perhaps even happen at all. So much so that when my occasional running partner Next Door Andy suggested we tackle the Lane Cove River run today I declined as graciously as I could.
It turned out to be wise thinking. Up very late this morning after a less-than-wonderful night's sleep, I took to the treadmill, feeling underdone and uncertain as to how much of my scheduled 21 kilometres I was going to actually manage. At the five kilometre mark I had to take a phone call. Thereafter I could only manage one more kilometre before caving in to the inevitable.
Reminiscent of my disastrous 2009 Canberra marathon campaign, I lay down on the floor right there and fell into a fitful sleep, such was the state of my exhaustion despite completing only six of the scheduled 21 kilometres. Unlike that awful, calamitous effort of seven years ago however, this is just one unsurprising bad run on the back of two hellish weeks of killer shifts, and not a knife in the back of my training. The occasional bad run is an inevitable part of race preparation and nothing to get too alarmed about. I'll have to rework the schedule a bit to get back on track, but I will get there.
Short as the run was, I do have a wonderful TdJ for you. It's not widely known, but Tiny Tim, he of ukulele and tip-toeing through tulips fame, recorded an album of rock classics many years ago (here in Australia, as it happens), including this one that popped up on random play near the end of my run. Enjoy, it's a little (tiny bit?) different!
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April Powers
