The Day After

Today is the first day I have access to update the blog. We have a had a great couple of weeks that include San Diego, Las Vargas, Death Valley (and yes I have now ran on the "Bad Water" course), Lone Pine, Mt Whitney, Yosemite, Reno, and of course the pre-race fun at Truckee.

The WS states experience from a spectator was unbelievable, the Aussies did us our proud and of course Blue Dog brings home a buckle.

I have kept a travel diary and will provide a full report when I can.

We're Leaving on a Jet Plane!

Well the last couple of days have been pretty hectic with all the last minute preparations, packing, finalising travel arrangement, meeting with the house sitter, dinner with friends......

Yep, running still happening and I am really excited about my training plans while we are away. This will probably be my last post for a while. We leave on Saturday, however my mother undergoes major surgery tomorrow so I will be at the hospital all day with my father and sisters.

Will try to update the blog while away.

How do you define "cruise"?

This morning was not an easy call to drag myself out of bed after what I define as late night at Virtual's house crunching some numbers for "Team GBH" in preparation for WS100. I was relieved that I only had to "cruise" through the fartlek session today. I did a decent warm up with Dazza K and then did the usual drills and strides. I really didn't pay too much attention to the instructions for the session, thinking I'm only "cruising". However, I ran past Sean on each lap, he would give me a few suggestions that clearly did not fall into the the definition of cruise. I finished the session with 4km with an average pace of 5:06/km. Kerry and I then cooled down to finish with a total distance of 11km for the day.

Holidays and Head Spins

31 May 2007

After a strict diet of clear fluids I was actually looking forward to just getting to the hospital and getting into surgery. I had to be there at midday but didn't get to theatre until 5:45pm so it was a really long day. The good news I got the all clear and a resting heart rate to be proud off.

1 June 2007

Rest day and my last day of work for six weeks.

2 June 2007

Another rest day, but had volunteered to assist at the Striders 10k race with registrations and time keeping. Razor was awesome and Blue Dog is definitely in great form.

3 June 2007

Today was my first post-surgery run. I still didn’t feel 100% but as usual I was getting itchy feet. I had arranged to meet Katie at the Striders STAR with a plan to run then walk the shorter STAR option. We ran for just over 7km and then walked approx. 8km, it was really nice but unfortunately we missed the spectacular scenery of the “10 Brigades STAR”.

It had been a while since I had been to STAR and today reminded me just how good they are, there are some definite plans to get back into the routine of running them regularly. Lots of good wishes were received today for our pending trip to the USA and Blue Dog’s forthcoming WS100 mile race.

4 June 2007

Today is my first day of Annual Leave, but I was out the door at 6.30 am from my run. As I was getting dressed for my run I still felt a little light headed so I thought I would just take it easy. During my run I felt like I was just going up and down in the one spot, however I did manage an average pace of 5:30/km for 11km (a little too quick than the suggested program). I now feeling really flat, and Blue Dog has pleasantly reminded me that I should still be taking it easy.

Today I am off to the RPA with my mother who will undergo some tests, prior to her liver surgery this week. It will be a pretty anxious couple of days.