Recovery and stuff

To say I’m having a purple patch at the moment would be understating it.

After the GC Marathon on the weekend, I had two rest days in my schedule followed by 12km on both Wednesday and Thursday before ramping up again on the weekend. I wasn’t going to be able to get time to run on Thursday because of family commitments so I shifted everything forward a day and figured rest day’s on Thursday and Friday would have to do.

I went out on Tuesday for a very steady, very comfortable 12km in about 5:40’s. Legs were a bit heavy toward the end but no surprises there.

Last night however was fantastic. I’ve had little soreness all week so I decided yesterday afternoon to go and run my staple road half in the evening. Still little or no soreness and a very steady run in just over two hours with almost an even split (5:43’s).

Also, got my pictures from GC today. Self-indulgent I know but I couldn’t resist as I had a good picture coming across the finish line with virtually no one else in the frame apart from a few guys finishing the half marathon in the background.

Two days off now and maybe a few beers this evening too. I'm really looking forward to getting back on the trail for back to back long runs this weekend (20 and 30km respectively) and building up to the 50km at Flinders (Glasshouse) on the 26th.

In other, more important, news, good to note that mates are doing well.

Best is that Rachael (a good friend of M1’s) is running again after her stress fracture. Probably too much too soon if here backbone is anything to go by but definitely light at the end of the tunnel

M1 seems to be getting stronger, really putting a lot of work into her recovery with deep water running and some speed work and it seems to be coming off. She took a stroll on Sunday in the GC Half Marathon and trotted in nonchalantly at about 1:54 ... ho-hum.

M2 (Michelle Lake) came at 1:46 in the same race which I believe was at least a three minute PB.

What else … oh yes … Looks like Glen (Hendry) isn’t going to the US after all and will be toeing the line for the 100km race at the Glasshouse 100 in September. Interesting times ahead

AT (Andrew Townshend) is chilling out in Portugal giving a presentation at a conference before heading to Switzerland. Apparently he’s surrounded by nubile young exotics … bit of a chore but I’m sure he’ll get over it!