Back into the groove

I capped off a good week with a decent long run this afternoon, I have been a bit slack with the long runs since Trailwalker and needed to get back on the bike, so to speak.

Stacks of stuff to do today, housework (ughhhh, considering how little time I seem to spend at home I still manage to make a hell of a mess), stacks of laundry to fold and put away and some clearing in the yard because the landscaper is getting started next Saturday. Finally at around 230pm I was ready to head out for a run, fortunately the weather had decided to clear at the same time and although it was cool there was no rain.

As per usual I mapped out a course in my head and decided that 15km would be a good start back. Despite yesterday’s efforts I was pretty comfortable and was enjoying the workout, no music just my thoughts and grateful to have some quiet alone time. I ended up with a little more than planned, 17km in 91 minutes. This has rounded out a 71km week, yay, finally a decent week of training, I have not run over 70km since I was injured and that was a year ago now!!

Off the back of yesterday’s 10km McMillan’s running calculator gives me an estimate of 1:41:37 for a half marathon, this means I still have a bit of work to do if I want to hit my 1:40:00 goal in September. The prediction for 15km is 1:10:46, as it happens on 1 June I have a 15km AV race, so I can put Mr McMillan to the test, though I do know that this course has a big hill and we have to climb it 3 times

Still feeling pretty good after yesterday as someone said to me afterwards “it is a good start”, it is and better things are to come. I really needed a successful hit out to help me regain some confidence in myself.

Mmmmm, I have a Vegie Tagine cooking in the oven (have a look at the page entitled Food if you want the recipe) and my house smells fab right now, it is the perfect cold Sunday night comfort food. I have also decided that I deserve a treat tonight, Cookies and Cream ice-cream for desert should hit the spot I actually bought this last night but funnily enough I didn’t feel like it.

PS - just saw Stu’s comment on yesterday’s post - nup, don’t mind you saying at all because I reckon you are spot on, especially as you saw me on the first two laps. On reflection I was feeling just a little bit too good and the great negative split is a testament to the fact that I probably had a little more to give yesterday. All told I am still very very green at this racing business and am still on a pretty steep learning curve and welcome any and all advice