I repent! I repent!

Owing to my shameless worship of the rum and decadent food gods while I was in Cairns I am now being smacked about mercilessly by the running gods.

Monday
Still up north and I just couldn’t face another hot and humid run on the very flat and uninspiring streets (a bike path right next to the Captain Cook Highway ranks pretty low on my “great places I have run” list). By the time the sun was low enough in the sky someone had opened a bottle of bubbly and unwrapped the brie, somehow that seemed like a more enticing option.

Tuesday
6am flight out of Cairns so I was up at 415am

After collecting an extra hour as I flew over the Qld/NSW border I finally made it home at 230pm, phew, totally buggered and it was heaps hotter back home that it was in Cairns. I had a bit of a kip and when I woke up I figured I had better go do my interval session because I was feeling horrible and lazy.

Ughhh, here is where my punishment began, 4 by 4 minutes with 3 minute recovery, normally one of my favourite sessions but I struggled through the whole thing.

1 – 943 metres @ 4:16
2 – 964 metres @ 4:09
3 – 912 metres @ 4:23
4 – 919 metres @ 4:22

Yuck

Wednesday
Rest day, got my exercise putting together a flat pack shelving unit. Owing to my stubborn insistence on doing everything myself I visited an injury upon my back trying to haul the box into my car, a chivalrous gent did stop and ask me if I needed a hand but I’d pretty much shoved the box in the car by then. By the time I’d finished wrestling a pile of veneered chipboard into something resembling a shelving unit my back was seizing up on me.

Fortunately I had a massage booked for the afternoon and by the time that was done it felt heaps better. A hot water bottle and an anti-inflam was the best course of action but it wasn’t really hot water bottle weather so I just settled for the anti-inflam and a glass of wine.

Thursday
I’ve been handed a get out of jail free card, despite my not bending at the knees crime of yesterday and woke up with my back feeling fine.

Before the sun became too fiercesome I went out for a 6km run, for an easy run it felt pretty crappy, still being punished for last week I suppose

Training again tonight, hopefully feeling more spritely by then.