Wednesday, 2 July 2008

With my staying at home yesterday, I was unable to leave the stuff at work I would need to run into work with today. So I hooked up with Shane Jansen and friends at lunchtime and we did a session around the Tan

Shane's mate Scotty wanted to do a fartlek session, so I stupidly agreed to do it with him. We did 250 metre hard efforts with 250 metre recovery. What I didn't realise was that the recoveries were just float, so not a slow jog

The first one felt pretty solid and the third one started near the base of Anderson Street and ended near the top. Not surprisingly, that was our slowest one. Scotty and I were pretty even paced for all of them, and by the end of it we were pretty stuffed. He was clocking the reps on his watch. We were averaging 47 seconds for the 250's and 62 seconds for the float

We only did the one lap, then it was back to work. So not the long slow 40 minute recovery run that I was looking for, but it was nice to do some speed work for a change. I am sure I will make the k's up later in the week

We had a work function on tonight and it was supposed to go for 90 minutes. The organiser only bought a slab of heavy, one of light, three bottles of champers and six bottles of wine. Surprisingly, that was enough with bottles of wine and champagne left over! I was planning to leave at 5:45 but as usual left much later. In my defence, I was cleaning up from about 6:00 pm onwards, but getting home at 8:30 pm was not a good look.

TOTAL DISTANCE : about 7 kilometres