Walk a mile in my shoes!!
By any standards its been a tough weekend of training. I’ve had a whole week of morning 12km runs and 300kms of commuting to work and back on the bike in total for the Monday to Friday. Yesterday , Saturday, I put in a tough effort on the bike with the group ride and had Richard Kelly in some form. Shortly after the ride I put in another 12km run. I wasn’t looking forward to today. I have to say my time trial at Champion Lakes was pretty atrocious. I put in an effort of 32min39sec but this was a way off my best effort of 30mins flat. Some days are diamonds!!
I knew I had the 36km run ahead of me and this played on my mind somewhat. I’ve done it now and at around 10kph. And it was a tough day out. There was a group of young guys along Ranford Road near Waratah and across from the service station. They were good enough to play ACDC riffs as I ran past (and I ran past 6 times) and it felt like IMWA I have to say. They had a sofa out on the lawn near a brick wall and one of them was pretty well spot on with his ACDC riffs.
Mentally, it’s ok putting in the first 12kms. I’d completey forgotten to take my carboshotz gels though. Not helpful! The second lot of 12kms was harder (a couple of minutes slower). The third lot of 12kms was very hard, particularly from kilometre 30 to 36.
I have an aim of doing this marathon in 4hrs. It will be a very tough task indeed and I don’t even know how hot it will be in Busselton on Sat 5 Dec at around 1.30pm to 2pm.
I weighed in at 80kgs at the start of my run just then and I have just weighed myself at 76.2kms. It just ended up making my wife jealous. It alarmed me but it doesn’t surprise me.
The women doing the ATTA time trial at Champion Lakes did very well today it has to be said. I recall Sarah Kent putting in a fast time. I think recent World Junior Champ Michaela Anderson was also there.
Anyway, our team cyclist was also there at the ATTA event. Liz wasn’t overly happy with her 20km time but she’s training for a 180km effort…….so really its a different effort.
Life’s short…..train hard!! I have the 10km track event, the John Gilmour State Champs at AK Reserve to look forward to on Friday. Must go better than 45mins.
Cya
CHRISTO