Cross, but not hot

The sun is going down earlier these days and as if on cue the weather has taken a wintry turn. We have been training the last couple of Tuesday nights in lovely Indian summer conditions, last night it was chilly and a little windy with the occasional refreshing burst of near horizontal rain.

It’s at times like this that a training group comes in handy, without the motivation of meeting others to run I dare say I’d have been on the couch with a blanket and a bottle of red wine for company. It was an easy recovery session last night, a very cruisy 9.5km or thereabouts as a group at 6 minute Kms, followed by a few strides and then a short cool down. My ITB had tightened up a little after Sunday’s run, fortunately it behaved itself yesterday so the niggle was probably just chucking up some death throes.

With the end of daylight savings a new training venue was required and with a new fun run training series starting on Tuesday nights a new training day was required, so speed work has been moved to Monday nights which could be a bit tough after a Sunday long run. Alternatively I could move my massages to a Wednesday night and get out to Berwick on Thursdays for training, bit of a drive though, Hmmmmm, what to do?

For a great read from an athlete who competed at the recent World Cross Country Champs in Jordan have a look here , Marilyn was part of the Canadian Women’s team, make sure you read the days leading up too. This girl can really run and I get a heap of inspiration from her blog.

I am having a rant about hot cross buns, what’s with all the messed about with alternatives? I fancied one for afternoon tea yesterday so I popped out to the Bakery,

Em – one hot cross bun please
Bakery Chick – Mocha or choc chip?
Em – sorry, was after a hot cross bun, not ice cream
BC – they are hot cross buns
Em – I just want a normal one
BC – we sold out of those this morning
Em – Umm, bye

Marketing 101, if at lunch time you have sold out of the normal hot cross buns but have oodles of the new fangled ones left going begging here’s a hint, make more normal ones!

I went to an independent non franchise bakery today and joy of joys that had a big pile of normal hot cross buns fresh out of the oven, yum!!!