More ouch ... but improving.

This has been a tough week so far but there's light at the end of the tunnel.

Tuesday
21km on Tuesday was really tough. I was so sore (following on from Friday) but felt it would be ok when I'd warmed up. I set off at a very sedate 6:00min/km and pretty much stuck to that all the way but it was hard going. With about 4km to go, pretty much all I wanted was to get home. It wasn't pretty.

Wednesday
More of the same, just the 12km but still hard work. Not as bad as the night before which wasn't all down to the distance.

Thursday
Light at the end of the tunnel. I was sore, but I felt I was actually running a bit as opposed to making it. Getting there. Can't wait for a run on the trail on Saturday.


Got up this morning and went out for a scheduled 20km on a new route. The day off on Friday (core session at the gym, NO LEGS!) had served me well and I took off ok. This route heads down toward the beginning of Steve Irwin Way through the state forest on the eastern side of the Bruce Highway. I'd been planning to head this way for a long time and map a 25km+loop toward Donnybrook. Anyway, 20km out and back this time, 4km bitumen, 5km compressed gravel road and the remaining 11km was nicely 'undulating' fire trail.

A bit of a niggle now some five hours later but pretty happy. Back it up with something similar tomorrow with the same results and I'll be looking forward to next week.