May As Well

[Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man]

It's all uphill from here.

I may have overdone things just a little. Today's 20km long run was completed at a gentle climb, but given the distance it was still quite a demanding slope. In all I ascended 400 metres over the 20km run, which is just about a third of the climb required for the Point 2 Pinnacle, but as I discovered, it's still a testing work out at this stage of my training.

That it was tough work was abundantly clear after just a few kilometres, and it took a grim determination and multitudinous visits to the memory bank of why I'm doing this to stick at it. But stick at it I did, and it puts me in a confident mood for the Sydney half marathon ten days hence. My legs however are silently screaming at me, telling me to calm the heck down and not try anything quite so silly again. Well, that remains to be seen, but for now the compression skins are doing their recovery job and all should be well within a day or two. Overall, I feel fine, but the legs are tired and I am tired and I have to question whether that was just a tad too tough at this stage of the game.

Never mind, it feels great to have completed another hard 20k-er. If I am to run the P2P again this year, then it's not a bad position to be in still six months out from race day. But race plans will have to wait until after the Sydney Half. I'm not making any decisions until after then.

So there.

This girl is not a reasonable facsimile of how I looked (duh) or felt on today's run.