Steady Steady

Finally, things are starting to progress. 30 minutes has gone to 50 minutes, and then 50 minutes went to 60 minutes. So far, the only soreness I have been feeling is that of a person who hasn’t done much running of late – so calves/quads etc. No pesky achillies or heel. Fingers crossed.

Along with upping my runs slightly, I’ve been able to get through my first two sessions in almost a month, and man does it feel like it’s been a lot longer. Tuesday night and today I have been training with Bridey Delaney, trying to get my legs moving again. Tuesday was a good shake out, a nice solid tempo for me and a good hard hit out for her. Then again today, down at the track I was pacing her for a few one lap reps of the track. Although they weren’t super fast compared to what the boys were doing, I still managed to get that lactic feeling coming on after a few reps, making me realise how much commitment and hard work its going to take to get back into 8:11/29.38 shape.

All this aside, its another step in the right direction. Gold Coast is about 11 long runs away, and here’s to hoping that by then, at least 8 can be of 2 hours or more, and along with 3 hard sessions a week, I can be in top form when it comes to my first real competitive half since the Melbourne Half Marathon in 2008.

And whilst I'm out there struggling to break 60 seconds for a 400m, Nipper and Roffy are looking great coming up to the National 1500m next weekend, and Jeff is finally back into training after his 2:13 marathon at Beppu in Feb.  Hopefully it’s only a couple of weeks before I can be clinging onto the back of them again in training.

Also, a BIG shout out to Marc See, who I hear ran a big PB over 1500m in Perth at the recent National Series Final. If every distance guy down in Perth took the lead of Marc, by turning up to Helena every weekend, consistently putting session after session on the table, and not missing a run for anything, the standard is well on the way to lifting. I’ll be looking forward to seeing the results from the ASICS Bridges Fun Run.