Training Log Archive: tinytoes

Yay - my 100th parkrun. For person who is definitely NOT a runner this is an achievement. The actual distance isn't anything startling - the big achievement is actually getting up at 6:30 for parkrun.
I would never have considered it except for my wonderfully inspirational husband rockman who came today to volunteer and to be there to support me. He also made sure he took some good pics for me to remember the occasion. Expecting rain we instead got mossies.
The parkrun family are fantastic - lots of people congratulated me during the run and gave me a big cheer when I crossed the line. I've made some lovely friends such as Catherine, Majid, Homa, Ken and Anne Marie, Pete and Robyn as well as many others who wave (or grunt) as we pass. Very humbled today by some lead runners who congratulated me out on the run.

Not the smoothest of arrivals at Callaghan and so a very truncated warm up indeed.

Took off like a startled rabbit and paid the price fairly soon - not a great start! Because of the weather numbers were very low - but the tide wasn't high!
Start-steps Rainforest walk -10:39 Fairly happy with this but still in the 10s. Pebblecrete wasn't slippery as I had expected it to be.

Steps - cone 7:49 (18:29) Rather disappointed with this - slowest for a while - though it did include some waiting at the large puddles to let the fast boys through.

Cone - steps Rainforest Walk 7:14 (25:43) Not many people around now so could enjoy the bush. Had some puddle dodging but that doesn't explain the lack of speed.

Steps - Finish - 12:19 (38:04) Best time for this section in a while which is weird.
Nice chat afterwards with Catherine about swimming, traffic at Uni and in Sydney.