Oktoberfest

[Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man]

Well done MLCM. There's only so much I can say in response to treadmill running, so it must be pretty hard to find stuff to write about it.

Yup. Like today's effort for example. Three hours slow and steady on the tready is more of a sentence than a training session, but I did it in style by watching two DVDs - U2's "Go Home" which is their 2001 Slane Castle concert, and Tom Petty's "High Grass Dogs", live from The Fillmore in 1999. Together they run just over the 3 hours, and are both excellent concerts, so I had no trouble getting through what is my longest training effort to date.

So this concludes week #3 of serious training, with this week's distance nudging 50 kilometres and a total of over 2,700 metres of ascent - not a bad effort by my standards, so all is well and on track. I did get a slight niggle from my left knee after today's session, but it literally only lasted 20 seconds, and really that's been the extent of any "injury" from three intense weeks, so I'm pretty happy, nay, very happy. Even so, I will enjoy tomorrow - being Monday, it's rest day

I've still no real idea about a reasonable target time for race day, but I do know this - I'm going to damn well enjoy it, and the time can pretty much just look after itself. If I do enough training, the time should be good enough anyhow, yeah?

But for now, I'm going to have a training beer... I might tell you more about my training diet next time