Wednesday 16 January

Well last night was certainly interesting! Everything went according to plan. Had my dinner, was settling nicely, almost to the other end of Star Trek Next Gen and I start getting a little droopy. Fell asleep on the couch and woke up at 12:45 am, turned off the television and went to bed. But had left the computer on, in which time Jo F and Danny Hawksworth had both left me MSN chat messages. Oops, sorry guys!

So you'd think I had a restful night after that. Nope! Madeleine woke up at 2:20 am and wouldn't be put back down until she had a feed. Kylie was up and down about three times before she gave up. And in the half hour it took to feed Madeleine, Amelia got out of bed thinking it was time to be up. She went back down surprisingly well. Then at 6:00 am, Madeleine again woke up but she could thankfully be settled back to asleep - again by Kylie. Then at 7:00 am this morning Kylie's alarm went off. Not a great night's sleep

The plan was to go for a nice easy recovery run with Shane and Scotty today at lunchtime. Met up with the boys outside the Town Hall. Shane's mate Dave joined us. Nice easy run to the Tan where the plan was to do two laps. After the cracking pace of Monday a week ago we did a very pleasant 5 mins per kilometre for the first lap. Poor Dave who hadn't run for a month quit after the first lap. His best around the Tan is a none too shabby 16:16 off only five months of running two nights a week. A bit of talent there

So after a nice easy first lap in 18:30 or so, we stop do some stretches, grab a drink and start off again. Evidently the plan was to go through the second lap quicker than the first. From the get go I am feeling realy good and we maintain a little over 4 mins per kilometre for the first two kilometres. Then we all speed up over the last two kilometres (well, 1.83), so that by the last kilometre we have done 3:24. I was in front for most of that 3.83 km lap and I am hoping the boys - who had a tough training session last night at Vic Park - didn't wreck themselves for training tomorrow. Its not like I had a hard night last night, nor going to have to train half as hard as those guys tomorrow. Pretty solid 14:40 or so and it was a very slow warm down run back to work with thoughts turning towards the cricket with the Third Test in Perth - Australia versus India

May be taking training tomorrow but with Brian back from London this morning it wouldn't surprise me if he turned up to training severely jet lagged!

TOTAL DISTANCE = about 11 kilometres