Warm and Fuzzy

Distance - 8.1Km
Time - 42:50
Avg HR - 77%
Avg Pace - 5:17

A nice tempo run today as run leader. Normally I look after the slower group but I was feeling good so strode out today with the lead pack. When we got to the 4Km point where the groups split there were only 4 people heading back for 5Km so I left Carol (one of the other RLs) to look after them and I went on with the 8Km group. This was quite a big group and split into 3 sub-groups pretty quickly so an extra run leader came in handy.

I loved my run today, everyone is getting excited about the various events they have entered and I love that the 5Km group is dwindling because I have seen a heap of beginner runners gain their confidence and step up to the 8Km group and speed work. We had a prize pack to give away to a runner in each group, we had 2 for our group because it was so big and I LOVE giving away presents. There is a particular girl who is very quiet and started in the 5Km group, I have watched her get more confident and today she very comfortably finished the 8Km at 5:30 pace so I gave her a prize pack. She was stoked and couldn’t believe she was getting a prize for running, she even gave me a hug

So back to back runs, one easy, one a bit quicker and my legs are feeling fine, the ITB hasn’t niggled again. Tomorrow will be a rest day and I have a massage right after work.

And you know, I was even going to have a little rant today, but I don’t wanna harsh my buzz man, so maybe another time.

I came home to a nice surprise in the mail today too, somehow I have been given a spot in the preferred entry zone for the Melbourne Marathon 10Km, can’t imagine how that happened

There was a questions and answers thingy doing the round of some blogs a few weeks ago, one of the questions was name 5 songs you know all the words to, funnily enough I head 2 of my songs (besides Happy Birthday) today -

Killing and Arab - The Cure (trivia for the day, this song was based on a book called The Outsider by Albert Camus)
Mercy Seat - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

I wish I could only name 5 songs but I have a freakish ability to recall song lyrics.

Thanks for the link JH, no that isn’t the call centre I work for, we allow our agents 2 second break between calls, however thanks to catheters and Nicobate we have successfully phased out both toilet and smoke breaks, now if only we can get them to stop eating……

I did end up watching Apocalypto last night, top film, I enjoyed every second (OK, perhaps the not the human sacrifice bits). Seriously, I have a habit of falling asleep watching films, or getting bored half way through and wandering off. Once a film starts lumbering clumsily towards it’s inevitable conclusion I give up. This film had me riveted right to the end, I loved it and if you get a chance give it a watch. For anyone not familiar it is the film Mel Gibson made recently, it was set at the very end of the Mayan empire and was a good old fashioned ripping story.