Back in Bris-ness
Wednesday morning was a 5.30 start, meeting up with Clairie and Toasty at The Regatta. As much as I love going away it felt good to be back in the old routine.
We ran into The Gardens and they both stopped and stretched and did push-ups while I ran hill reps for about 5 minutes. Back at The Regatta I figured if I did another few minutes it would bring up 12k for the morning. I ended up doing just a little more to make it a total of just over 14k.
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Tonight is the 5.13k Cool Night Classic. Its crowded and the paths are narrow, its impossible to hit out unless you are really really fast and start at the front. I thought it would be more useful to put in a solid training session at Pat's this morning and then just cruise tonight.
At West End we did 4 mins hard, 30 sec jog, 4 mins hard, 30 sec standing recovery and then turned around and ran hard back to the start (over 8 mins). I was happy at the end of the second 4 min knowing I'd gotten a bit further than last time we did this.
Coming back I had 2 goals -
1. Not be overtaken until at least halfway - I wasn't :-)
2. Pass more people than those who passed me - I did :-)
After such a solid session it will be interesting to see how I cope with another run today.
We ran into The Gardens and they both stopped and stretched and did push-ups while I ran hill reps for about 5 minutes. Back at The Regatta I figured if I did another few minutes it would bring up 12k for the morning. I ended up doing just a little more to make it a total of just over 14k.
*****
Tonight is the 5.13k Cool Night Classic. Its crowded and the paths are narrow, its impossible to hit out unless you are really really fast and start at the front. I thought it would be more useful to put in a solid training session at Pat's this morning and then just cruise tonight.
At West End we did 4 mins hard, 30 sec jog, 4 mins hard, 30 sec standing recovery and then turned around and ran hard back to the start (over 8 mins). I was happy at the end of the second 4 min knowing I'd gotten a bit further than last time we did this.
Coming back I had 2 goals -
1. Not be overtaken until at least halfway - I wasn't :-)
2. Pass more people than those who passed me - I did :-)
After such a solid session it will be interesting to see how I cope with another run today.
posted by Tesso at 1:51 PM
9 Comments:
What you mean you are going to miss Bold and the Beautiful???
good luck tonight tesso - enjoy!! and its good to have you back :)
Welcome back.
not often when you can say you achieved 2 goals in the same run :)
nice to have you back Tess.
(oh, and I have a bone to pick with you about these bl**dy taper things again)
A double training day - now that's serious! Hope the CNC was fun. 5.13k? Is it a Garmin sponsored race?
Good training session again. Hope you have fun at the Cool Night Classic.
How far is it from Ballina to Brisbane!?
Hope it all went well at the Cool Night Classic. Thursday is the day I do 2 run sessions - the morning one is an easy 10-12km and then I go to track in the evening and try not to kill myself!!!!
Has that Toastie finally cracked?
Good solid day of training there for you yesterday Tesso. First a hard core at Pats and then another hard 25mins of running (well including the warmup).
I still am giggling over your rendition of the cop going off his rocker at the race. Ha! what a laugh. He is probably still red in the face.....hee hee.
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