i run therefore i am

May 22, 2008

Starstruck

Filed under: Uncategorized — emruns @ 9:29 pm

There were 2 runs yesterday afternoon.

Run 1
About 8.4km recovery pace, nice and easy along the Yarra. Thinking back this was a lovely serene run, the water was high in the river, I took it easy and spent some time with my alone with my thoughts (granted probably a rather scary prospect).

Run 2
About 45 minutes later I was backing up to lead the medium paced 5km group. We all ran together for about 4km then the 10km group split off and I lead the smaller 5km group back to the Adidas shop. It turned out to be closer to 5.5km at a tiny bit over 5 minute Km pace, I love that I can back up after an earlier run and knock out this pace without a worry :-)

Afterwards there was some activities going on at the shop so I hung around for a bit of a look. Wandering around I found myself face to face with Kate Smyth, I was a bit taken aback so I just stumbled out with a smile and “Congratulations” (she ran a great marathon PB recently and has been selected for the Olympic Marathon team). Turns out she is a lovely women and she very tolerantly listened to me prattling on nervously for 5 minutes or so and when I drew breath she even managed to get a few words in edgeways :oops:

Today was a rest day, I did about 3.7km this morning warming up with the group I train (and boy did we need it this morning, 4 degrees!), but it was pretty gentle and this afternoon I was off for my fortnightly massage.

Got a bit of an update on the training plan for the rest of the season after running (boom boom) it by Tim, but I will leave that until tomorrow.

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