Monday, 28 January 2008

Got to bed early last night but still couldn't drag myself out of bed until after 9:00 am. Luckily the littlest one slept late too

Pro meet at Sandringham today and got there nice and early. Did a 15 minute warm up along the beach where I was lucky enough to cop a perve at a topless sunbather as she was leaning over to chat to her boyfriend. Awesome!

Got back and was doing my strtching when I realised I had only minutes until my race. I was in the backmarkers 1600, probably for the last time. So it was nice to be the absolute frontmarker with five other guys on the 140 mark. If I get a lift that will probably push me into the frontmarkers mile at my next event, from where I will start from the back

Got a good start and through 800 was still sitting third. Wasn't able to maintain my cracking pace and finished mid-field in the end. Still, I was pretty happy with my performance and I think the un-scheduled rest day yesterday really helped

Then I had twenty minutes before my heat of the 400 metres, where I unsurprisingly finished a long way last. The distance handicapper - so funny in pro's that they consider 400 upwards a "distance" event - laughed right after I finished and said I really should have had an eight metre lift in that event. Yeah, no shit sherlock. Don't really enjoy that event anyway

Went for a twenty minute warm down run, before retiring to the bar for a couple of light ones updstairs at the footy ground. And then scored a lift home with the Marsh family

All in all, not a bad day's work. AV Shield tomorrow, then tossing up whether to go for a run on Wednesday. Really feel like I ought to be fresh for the Region Final on Saturday. Better discuss it with the super coach Brian Delaney

TOTAL DISTANCE = about eight kilometres including warm up and down (not including the kilometre walk from the bottle shop run I did after i got home ;O)