Training Log Archive: Mounty

Saturday morning trail run with Maxi at Oxford Falls. He went out hard today, but bonked after half an hour.

Evening Killarney loop after Tom's State Gym champs. He came 2nd overall done 58 to 58.2, (and first on 4 of the 6 apparatus). Interesting feature of the comp was a fire alarm that resulted in the gym being evacuated half-way through.

Tom's rapidly reaching the age of having to decide how hard to commit to his various activities. Was chatting with the folks of the kid from Rooty Hill that won (lovely kid) to hear that he's started training 24 hours a week (Tom does 12).

Really enjoying the hippie time. Shame I can't fit more in.

First commute for a while. Couldn't resist the gauntlet laid down by a similarly hairy-legged commuter with a big pack and hammered from Crowie thru' to town. Got owned.

Cradle Mountain training run #1, with a symbolically appropriate set of tough conditions - 34 degrees, and a hot dry 30Kt westerly blowing from the gates of hell.

5 * Carlyle hill reps off the Nosh track, (with a stop for work call halfway). 2:41, 2:38, 2:35, 2:37, 2:32.

Ran back home dreaming of taps and cold water.

The weekly Curly-Manly beach run on the way to collect Annika from softy. Graduated to soft sand run this week, complete with 6 * 3min efforts on the way back. Legs feeling not too bad.

An advantage of sporting age kids is a whole new set of opportunities for toy shopping. Was tasked with replacing Annika's softball bat recently, and pulled the trigger last week on a new model from the US (after lots of fun research). Flattered to arrive at training tonight to see the whole team using it.

5 * 400 with the hound up on Starkey oval in the dark. Timed the last one at ~80 sec.