Wild Horse Mountain

Good finish to what started as a pretty ordinary week given Tuesday nights mini blow up.

After squeezing in the 19km yesterday morning after my failure to get out of bed, what a welcome change today to end up being able to run at a relatively reasonable time with no concerns about having to be back by a given time as Stacey turned out to be not working today after all (under the condition that the rest of my day was congested with domestic duties!).

Anyway, got to my start point by 6:20 am and headed north toward Wild Horse Mountain, not that it was my intended destination, I just planned to run 15km along trail that I hadn’t run before and then come back. I had eyed it as a convenient target for a run for a long time though and as it turned out it’s just on 15km along a very undulating (ok, hilly), mostly wide trail.

I was working hard at the end but my 10km splits were 59:50, 59:41 and 58:11 (with just over 2 minutes for an additional ½km). Very steady, very pleased.

To put the icing on the cake, got out with the dog later this afternoon and used it for a gentle 10km recovery. Very slow, very stead, little soreness and no pain. Rounded off a 92km week which is a pretty good result given that I dropped my Thursday night 21km.

Just a 12km jog on Tuesday, maybe a shorter one on Wednesday but pretty much rest all week for the 50km at Flinders (Glasshouse) on Saturday.