AV Shield Round 5

Huh?! Geez, it just isn’t my week, my get up and go has most assuredly gotten up and gone.

Thankfully it wasn’t 35 today, but it was about 30 when I got to the track and if you are a distance runner that is more than enough thanks. I keep having to remind myself that it’s still spring, it’s been over 30 for 6 days in a row now.

I also got to the track in time to be pressed in to a 4 by 400 relay team yeah, my problem is I am a sucker and if someone asks me to do something I pretty much always say yes, I am an accommodating lass, but don’t let that get around ok! It was an inglorious race, I ran second and in the space of about 50 metres I took us from first to stone cold motherless, by the time I was dragging my arse down the straight for the handover I was apologising to the third runner I was rather helpfully asked by a team mate if I was being paid by the metre, tres amusing, if you want me to run an event that I patently have ZERO talent for you can keep the smart alec comments to a minimum, ahh, but ya gotta laugh hey, points were still scored and the only thing damaged was my poor delicate ego

The event I was there to run was the 5000 but just not feeling my usual self I decided not to flog myself in the heat, like Mr Roger’s says, you gotta know when to fold ‘em.

I folded ‘em and finished in 24:11.

Just not my week, there is a heap of racing coming up and it’s going to be a full program for me in the lead up to Christmas, with shield events and 3 fun runs as well. My main goal is a 5km PB attempt in early December so I’ll be choosing carefully which shield events I have a proper crack at and when I just need to run for points and not for glory. I’ll leave the 5000 PB attempt for early in the new year.

Oh yeah, I add sheepishly, I also ran just over 9km run leading this morning, not something I am doing every week, it’s just an occasional fill in thing. Was not a get out of jail free card, I would not have run any better this afternoon had I not run this morning.