Sunday, February 15, 2009 (LSD -26km)
Rained all through the night and when I woke up it was still coming down in buckets. Feeling tired from yesterdays run it would have been easy to pull the pin on today’s run but I know that when I am in agony at 35 km in 7 weeks time I do not want to reflect back on all the runs I missed and wish that I had made the effort. This time there will be no excuses. So Mike and I got up without speaking and quietly went about the ritual of getting ready for another morning of hitting the road in the dark. Despite the horrid conditions this morning there were about around 60 runners milling about for the 6 am start of the Striders Airport Adventure Sunday long run.
With such a large group it made it hard to have a conversation and stay out of the way of any oncoming cars. By the time it got light the rain had stopped and the wind had got up as we made our way along the western shoreline of Botany Bay. 
I was feeling pretty comfortable till about 15 km when both hips started to feel a bit loose so I decided not to go the full 30km but cut the run short. Also taking this short cut were Clarissa, who is training for her first marathon and Lisa Anne who says she may not run another one. Much more pleasant way to run than the largish group which by the time we turned off had already splintered into a much smaller group of runners. We ran 26km in 2:18 which averaged at 5.26m/km. Very pleased with the pace but I did struggle through a few patches. I found that chatting distracted me from the discomfort and the miles just clicked over. The watermelon tasted sensational at the finish. A cold wind was blowing around the breakfast table at the end, such a contrast to last Sundays run, where we were sizzling in the heat.
Rained all through the night and when I woke up it was still coming down in buckets. Feeling tired from yesterdays run it would have been easy to pull the pin on today’s run but I know that when I am in agony at 35 km in 7 weeks time I do not want to reflect back on all the runs I missed and wish that I had made the effort. This time there will be no excuses. So Mike and I got up without speaking and quietly went about the ritual of getting ready for another morning of hitting the road in the dark. Despite the horrid conditions this morning there were about around 60 runners milling about for the 6 am start of the Striders Airport Adventure Sunday long run.
With such a large group it made it hard to have a conversation and stay out of the way of any oncoming cars. By the time it got light the rain had stopped and the wind had got up as we made our way along the western shoreline of Botany Bay. I was feeling pretty comfortable till about 15 km when both hips started to feel a bit loose so I decided not to go the full 30km but cut the run short. Also taking this short cut were Clarissa, who is training for her first marathon and Lisa Anne who says she may not run another one. Much more pleasant way to run than the largish group which by the time we turned off had already splintered into a much smaller group of runners. We ran 26km in 2:18 which averaged at 5.26m/km. Very pleased with the pace but I did struggle through a few patches. I found that chatting distracted me from the discomfort and the miles just clicked over. The watermelon tasted sensational at the finish. A cold wind was blowing around the breakfast table at the end, such a contrast to last Sundays run, where we were sizzling in the heat.
No comments:
Post a Comment