BRRC - Bring A Friend Day
Re the "Mother And Child Reunion" title of my last entry Ewen asked if I was the mother and the child was the successful long run. I never thought of that. Actually it referred to my brekky and lunch - eggs and chicken :-)
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Today at BRRC was "Bring A Friend Day" a concept devised by Clairie to boost club membership. I was lucky enough to have two friends - Toasty and Ally. On offer were 15k, 10k and 5k races.
This was never going to be a race, rather a recovery run after yesterday's 35k. I was planning to go around 5:30 pace, but did the first 5k loop with Toasty and we were just averaging just over 5 min kms. He took off after that while I just maintained roughly the same speed to get to 10k in 50:29. I was feeling pretty good and was tempted to run a third loop but thought better of it. I am supposed to be in taper mode for the Caboolture 6 hours next weekend, so what a good excuse to stop.
Big congrats to Ally who ran a PB and was second lady in the 10k. And thanks for Toasty for keeping me company and getting me to push myself just a little.
Clairie did a great job as race director, injecting a bit a humour into proceedings. To make things more difficult for her there was a shortage of volunteers. And the megaphone was broken .... not that anybody noticed :-)
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Today at BRRC was "Bring A Friend Day" a concept devised by Clairie to boost club membership. I was lucky enough to have two friends - Toasty and Ally. On offer were 15k, 10k and 5k races.
This was never going to be a race, rather a recovery run after yesterday's 35k. I was planning to go around 5:30 pace, but did the first 5k loop with Toasty and we were just averaging just over 5 min kms. He took off after that while I just maintained roughly the same speed to get to 10k in 50:29. I was feeling pretty good and was tempted to run a third loop but thought better of it. I am supposed to be in taper mode for the Caboolture 6 hours next weekend, so what a good excuse to stop.
Big congrats to Ally who ran a PB and was second lady in the 10k. And thanks for Toasty for keeping me company and getting me to push myself just a little.
Clairie did a great job as race director, injecting a bit a humour into proceedings. To make things more difficult for her there was a shortage of volunteers. And the megaphone was broken .... not that anybody noticed :-)
posted by Tesso at 2:55 PM
9 Comments:
Gosh Tess, you've bounced back soooo well after your time off. Amazing!
You looked very comfortable this morning Tess. It is amzing how you can do that after such a huge session yesterday.
I feel better now that you brought two friends, Cass was going to be mine but she reckons that she would have held everyone up if she walked the 5k event.
Have a good run next weekend, Tess. Not doing that 3rd loop was a good decision!
I enjoyed the first 5K better than the next (because of the company). I thought you wanted me to run ahead because I smelt and you were just being polite by saying you thought I should go faster.
Thanks so much for the friendship and the run today.
You could have lent a friend to poor lonely Robert Song ;)
I think somebody took the batteries out to give her normally meek and timid voice a workout.
Great work Tess with the weekend's runs. 10% rule?. jst guidelines hey. hmmm. This weekend looking good for you, albeit >10% once again :-)
oh, and i was just reviewing some silly post about ticker.....any 35-36k training run needs plenty of that huh?!
re the comment on my blog. Glad the rubber band worked for you! I too was doing water bubbler intervals yesterday...just gotta make it to the next water bubbler!
Sounds like a fun, social event.
yes, but which is the mother and which is the child? ;)
clairie - megaphone LOL!
wonder how it got broken? ;)
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