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Friday Feb 3, 2017 #
7 AM
Pool running 45:00 [3] 0.7 km (1:04:17 / km)
Even by my standards of this week today was particularly epic (although not in a training sense). Started the day, so to speak, with a teleconference from 2-3am (one upside of this timing was that I was then able to call Max for his 6th birthday while he was still up). I didn't really get back to sleep properly, and in any case needed to be at work earlier than usual because I had an interview booked in for 9am and you don't really want to give the media a chance to attach your name to a "lazy public servant" story.
I felt half-asleep for the first hour after getting out of bed and suspect a run wouldn't have been pretty in such circumstances, but getting into the pool was exactly the right thing to do (some coffee afterwards helped, too - I'd asked all the new parents out there, who have to do for months on end what I was doing for one day, for advice on how to cope and coffee featured prominently). Certainly felt better for this session.
And then I kept going, and going, and going, and didn't eventually pull up stumps until close to 10pm, feeling better than I was expecting to except at the very end and during a flat spot around 2.30. As the tangible outcome for this day's work I now have updated and cleaned-up data sets for New England, the NSW North Coast and the Hunter (Bathurst and Dubbo come tomorrow).
One positive from today - my hamstring seems to have improved significantly over the last 24 hours. Given the injury's history I'll be cautious with it, but if it continues to improve I'll probably try starting to run on it on Sunday or Monday.
I felt half-asleep for the first hour after getting out of bed and suspect a run wouldn't have been pretty in such circumstances, but getting into the pool was exactly the right thing to do (some coffee afterwards helped, too - I'd asked all the new parents out there, who have to do for months on end what I was doing for one day, for advice on how to cope and coffee featured prominently). Certainly felt better for this session.
And then I kept going, and going, and going, and didn't eventually pull up stumps until close to 10pm, feeling better than I was expecting to except at the very end and during a flat spot around 2.30. As the tangible outcome for this day's work I now have updated and cleaned-up data sets for New England, the NSW North Coast and the Hunter (Bathurst and Dubbo come tomorrow).
One positive from today - my hamstring seems to have improved significantly over the last 24 hours. Given the injury's history I'll be cautious with it, but if it continues to improve I'll probably try starting to run on it on Sunday or Monday.