Wednesday, 16 July 2008

Decided to run home from work tonight, as I was having lunch with my mother, whose birthday it is today. Not the healthiest of lunch. dip platter for startes and a shared oily vegetarian pizza for main. And a cascade light beer

And hard session yesterday, body was still feeling sore and sorry for itself. I have noticed that when I am feeling that way, I generally eat crappy food and today seemed to be no exception. had a very ordinary chicken avacado wrap for morning tea. there seems to be no inbetween with wraps. they are either really nice, or fairly ordinary

The run home tonight was a bit strange. I started off at a pretty easy, gentle pace given that I was still feeling pretty heavy in the legs from yesterday. Once I got to Princes Park and knew I had a long stretch before the next traffic light, i decided to turn my easy run into a tempo session. Intending to run for 10 minutes, I pushed the pace to about a steady intensity and was pleasantly surprised to find I could maintain it. I got to Lygon Street with eight minutes on the clock where I had to stop at a red light. Frustrating

Still, after not feeling that great at the start of the run, I was very pleased to be able to push through and do that steady effort. What's more, after I finished that effort my body felt really refreshed and I was able to maintain a good steady rhythm run all the way up St Georges Road to home. This was appreciably quicker than when I set out for home, but still at an easy pace

Pigged out a bit for dinner with yummy tuna pasta and cheese on salada biscuits for after. And then settled down for my second favourite television night of the week, with Spicks & Specks, followed by Gruen Transfer and Hollowmen to finish off. What a great line up

TOTAL DISTANCE : about nine kilometres