Australia Day!

The big day has finally arrived ... not Australia Day so much as the Queensland Beer Mile!

I doubt that I’m going to run it but I’ll be popping down to the Clem Jones oval to take look see at some drunk people running around the park for a while. Having said that, if it’s as warm as it has been the last few days, a few cold beers would go down really well!

Of course, this is dependant on how long we (Stacey, Rhys and I) wander around ‘Chinatown’ this afternoon. Even with it being Chinese New Year today, it’s difficult to get excited about it as a spectacle having seen the scale of way they do things in Chinatown, San Francisco a few years back.

Had a pretty poor run with AT on Saturday and was really badly hit by the humidity. Not sure why really. I’d had a good training week but nothing over 13km but even after three or four km I we were both feeling it. It was a bit crazy as we’d started out at 5:30. Andrew got it together ok but I never got into it and took a walk break at 10km and it got worse from there. I wasn’t nauseous or anything, I just had no gas. What didn’t help was AT practically running on the spot alongside me and at a point later on running ahead for five minutes then coming back to me looking like he’d just started off. Not bad for a guy who’s run nothing over 15km for a few months.

Anyway, what I thought was going to be a nice early morning trot around the state forest turned into a real workout for me and I was glad to get it over with. Driving back home we noticed the temperature was already 28 at 7:30 am. The biggest positive for me is that I was hugely disappointed that I hadn’t had a good morning as I’d been really up for it which would suggest that I’m a damn sight keener than I have been for some months.

I canned the planned outing on Sunday (yesterday) and will keep to a scheduled rest day today. Will hopefully have a solid few days to Friday before a short (too short) taper for Dusk ‘til Dawn. Hopefully, the humidity will die down a little through the week as it’s been in the 80’s the last few nights so not only have the days been ‘sticky’ but sleep’s been non-existent.

Anyway, we’ll see.