Wednesday Dec 26 |
 | running race 23:59 [4] 4.6 km (5:13 / km) +225m 4:11 / km | |
| shoes: 2007 trabucos |
| Hot and windy. Slightly diuretic during morning before, had sportsdrink 1 hr before, seemed to help. V slow start along sand for first 400m along beach, ended up passing lots people on dirt as they walked up first sets of stairs. Eventually fell in with a bad crowd, seesawing position to and fro. Seemed to be a lot of Sarahs running, turned out to be 1st and 3rd for women were Sarah Devoy and local Sarah who finished just in front. Ran whole way up and charged down 2 or 3 steps at a time but still lost a couple of places on last 400m slog over the sand. Pleased though with 1st Mtn race for a long time, although legs sore for a couple of days as it turned out. |
Sunday Dec 23 |
| running tempo 27:06 [3] 5 km (5:25 / km) | |
| shoes: 2007 trabucos |
| Hilly road 5km, warm up first 3km and tempo last 2km at about 4:25 per km. Felt much better after finishing, needed a bit of a blast to freshen up after christmas and various long drives, slow run day before. |
Saturday Dec 22 |
| running long 1:42:00 [3] | |
| shoes: 2007 trabucos |
| Long "getting an easy long run in after hectic work and travel" run. Through the Mark's farm down the gorge and up other side, decided to incorporate tempo hills x 8 into the run which were steady several minutes each with easy downhill in between. mostly track and farmland, some slow long grass. |