LSD - is that legal????
Well, its been a few days between posts - just very busy and there was no running to report on both Thursday and Friday...
Thursday was always a planned rest day and due to the wild weather I was rather glad! A big storm hit the top of the North Island and made its way south over Thursday and Friday. Northland was hit really badly with flooding and people even got trapped in their cars, homes were damaged and many people had to be evacuated. Auckland wasn't as bad, but still bad enough! On Thursday night I had to drive into the city for the annual NZ Credit & Finance Institute Awards. Despite leaving work early so I could come home and get dolled up and hit the motorway early, I still arrived late because of absolute gridlock on all of the motorways due to the weather. It took me almost 2 hours on the motorway to cover a distance that would take 30 mins any other time. I was not happy, but when I heard how much worse it was just a couple of hours north, I was grateful that at least I was safe.
Friday morning was still pretty bad weather-wise and after a very late night (but only one glass of Pinot!) the night before, I pulled the pin on a planned 6km run at 6am. I don't do this often, but it was just too much of a mission and I enjoyed an extra 50 mins in bed instead!
Sure needed it later in the day... In NZ our end of financial and tax year is always 31st March. Needless to say, the entire week at work was incredibly busy and stressful and Friday was just a nightmare. Add to that the fact that I had to be out of work on time, in order to get Courtney along to her much anticipated school disco - so I was fairly frazzled by the time I collapsed into bed.
Saturday 31/03/07:
Always wanted to squeeze a few more kms into today's run - it wasn't really about trying to make up for Friday, more about wanting to push myself a bit harder and having to run when fatigued. Why? And why go out and run more kms than I intend to do in any one event this year? Well, 1) in order to gain some more endurance and 2) to gain some experience in 'doing it tough' which I can draw on when I am struggling in tougher than expected events - be that due to terrain, picking up an injury on the course, whatever... Does this make sense or sound like the right way of doing things? I really have no idea and would appreciate any advice...
Headed out at 6.15am and met up with Rob as planned not too far up the road. We then ran together to Colin's to meet up with the group - altho due to being a bit early we did an additional loop of the block and I had 6kms on the Polar by the time we met the group. Seven of us headed off today, but again Jan and Glenys were only doing a short course and stayed at the back of the pack. Rob departed at the end of the Rotary track - he had headed out earlier with me due to having to be back home earlier. I continued on with the three other guys - which were Colin, Mark and Brett today - two of them different from last week, but as usual, all very friendly and amusing. Boys will be boys after all! The tide was in too far for us to go around the beach today, so instead it was up the SFH (stairs from hell!) and round the roads, which is a bit shorter course than the other we usually do. Of course once we got back to Colin's I still had to run home by myself and at its most direct, this is just over 4kms. I was really glad I had carried the Fuelbelt with 3 bottles of Replace - it was pretty sunny and warm by then and I was getting hungry! My legs were feeling rather tired and my hips a little achy, but otherwise everything behaved nicely.
Brisk walk warmup: 5mins
LSD run: 2hs 15min, 25.27kms, Ave pace 5.20min/kms.
Slow walk cooldown: 4mins
I was glad to see home, but also very pleased with the session - the longest run I've done in a long time. It sure helps having company, I never felt like I was out there anywhere near that long. An ice bath then a warm shower followed, then I was racing Courtney off to swimming lessons, going into work for a few hours to run end of month/year accounts and then grocery shopping. Had planned on going to a movie with a girlfriend tonight - but if she hadn't pulled the pin on it, I probably would have! Think I will sleep very well tonight!
Best of luck to all of those taking part in Run4Kids in Melbourne tomorrow, including my sister Vanessa! Go for it!
Thursday was always a planned rest day and due to the wild weather I was rather glad! A big storm hit the top of the North Island and made its way south over Thursday and Friday. Northland was hit really badly with flooding and people even got trapped in their cars, homes were damaged and many people had to be evacuated. Auckland wasn't as bad, but still bad enough! On Thursday night I had to drive into the city for the annual NZ Credit & Finance Institute Awards. Despite leaving work early so I could come home and get dolled up and hit the motorway early, I still arrived late because of absolute gridlock on all of the motorways due to the weather. It took me almost 2 hours on the motorway to cover a distance that would take 30 mins any other time. I was not happy, but when I heard how much worse it was just a couple of hours north, I was grateful that at least I was safe.
Friday morning was still pretty bad weather-wise and after a very late night (but only one glass of Pinot!) the night before, I pulled the pin on a planned 6km run at 6am. I don't do this often, but it was just too much of a mission and I enjoyed an extra 50 mins in bed instead!
Sure needed it later in the day... In NZ our end of financial and tax year is always 31st March. Needless to say, the entire week at work was incredibly busy and stressful and Friday was just a nightmare. Add to that the fact that I had to be out of work on time, in order to get Courtney along to her much anticipated school disco - so I was fairly frazzled by the time I collapsed into bed.
Saturday 31/03/07:
Always wanted to squeeze a few more kms into today's run - it wasn't really about trying to make up for Friday, more about wanting to push myself a bit harder and having to run when fatigued. Why? And why go out and run more kms than I intend to do in any one event this year? Well, 1) in order to gain some more endurance and 2) to gain some experience in 'doing it tough' which I can draw on when I am struggling in tougher than expected events - be that due to terrain, picking up an injury on the course, whatever... Does this make sense or sound like the right way of doing things? I really have no idea and would appreciate any advice...
Headed out at 6.15am and met up with Rob as planned not too far up the road. We then ran together to Colin's to meet up with the group - altho due to being a bit early we did an additional loop of the block and I had 6kms on the Polar by the time we met the group. Seven of us headed off today, but again Jan and Glenys were only doing a short course and stayed at the back of the pack. Rob departed at the end of the Rotary track - he had headed out earlier with me due to having to be back home earlier. I continued on with the three other guys - which were Colin, Mark and Brett today - two of them different from last week, but as usual, all very friendly and amusing. Boys will be boys after all! The tide was in too far for us to go around the beach today, so instead it was up the SFH (stairs from hell!) and round the roads, which is a bit shorter course than the other we usually do. Of course once we got back to Colin's I still had to run home by myself and at its most direct, this is just over 4kms. I was really glad I had carried the Fuelbelt with 3 bottles of Replace - it was pretty sunny and warm by then and I was getting hungry! My legs were feeling rather tired and my hips a little achy, but otherwise everything behaved nicely.
Brisk walk warmup: 5mins
LSD run: 2hs 15min, 25.27kms, Ave pace 5.20min/kms.
Slow walk cooldown: 4mins
I was glad to see home, but also very pleased with the session - the longest run I've done in a long time. It sure helps having company, I never felt like I was out there anywhere near that long. An ice bath then a warm shower followed, then I was racing Courtney off to swimming lessons, going into work for a few hours to run end of month/year accounts and then grocery shopping. Had planned on going to a movie with a girlfriend tonight - but if she hadn't pulled the pin on it, I probably would have! Think I will sleep very well tonight!
Best of luck to all of those taking part in Run4Kids in Melbourne tomorrow, including my sister Vanessa! Go for it!
posted by Vicky @ 3/31/2007 08:14:00 pm
4 Comments:
At Sat Mar 31, 10:26:00 pm,
MorseyRuns said…
What a great run- fantastic effort- I am so impressed with that distance, as well as the SFH!
At Sun Apr 01, 12:37:00 am,
Ewen said…
Those storms made the news here - pretty bad. Almost as newsworthy as the big Ribena bust!
The longer/tougher run does make sense - it should really help your half time. 25k (or a bit more) is a good distance, as you are pretty much guaranteed to recover quickly, which is not so with the 33-35k that marathoners do.
At Sun Apr 01, 08:31:00 am,
Anonymous said…
Yeah, that's a good run, I'd better start some of them in prep for my half in June. That is a good pace too for a "slow" run! Well, it's 6:30am, and I'm ready to run, so I thought I'd kill some time on the blogs, but yours is the only one who's changed!
At Sun Apr 01, 07:37:00 pm,
Anonymous said…
Hope you sister had a good run, it was a gorgeous day today.
I like to do the run fatigued thing to, and on top of that I like to push the last 4 or 5Kms to simulate racing when stuffed.
We are masochists aren't we LOL
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