Woodford to Glenbrook

Monday - 10k cahill run in with inhisshadow Rich H and Christian. Quicker pace but felt good - 10k in 47:20 @ 4:41 (156)

Tuesday - rest

Wednesday - corp cup and there was three goals: 1) a PB 2) a fast point for the team and 3) win a bet. IHS gave me 45 secs for a week's worth of coffee. He ran before me but didn't tell me what he ran, so I just had to do my best. I felt good most of the way and was really disappointed to just miss out on goals 1 & 2 by 5 secs. The last 500m was terrible - simply ran out of puff. The Splits (against 23:35 goal) were:

1) 3:41 (169) - 1 sec down
2) 3:54 (181) - 5 sec down
3) 4:15 (186) - 5 sec down
4) 3:52 (184) - 2 sec down
5) 4:26 (185) - 8 sec down
6) 3:40 (186) - 13 sec down

Total 23:48 (182). Oh and BTW - I one the bet with about 20ses to spare.

Thursday - rest

Friday - Wooloomooloo run with inhisshadow - 14k in 70:05 @ 5:00 (154). This run showed that I am pretty fit - I haven't done this run in 70 mins with such a low HR before.

Saturday - Wallabies vs France and no running

Sunday - Woodford to Glenbrook 25k

After a late night, the Hamburglar family pulled ourselves out of bed and headed for the mountains. It was great to have someone to drop me off and pick me up so I didn't have to worry about trains and buses.

Having not done this race before and having no idea how to pace myself, I congregated amongst Tim, Horrie, Rod and Brick at the start. I figured these guys are around my pace and I can let them show me how to pace the ups and downs.

The gun went off and Rod was out of sight in about 1 min followed by Horrie. I tried to stay with Brick and then Tim however the pace was too hot and the HR was too high. Settled in around the Author, TallGeoff and Miss Z playing leapfrog before they moved ahead. Before long Mango cruised past as well. I wasn't too worried as I felt comfortable and ready to push on in the last half.

I really enjoyed the 2nd half and picked up TallGeoff, then Mango and we ran together for a while. We leapfroged Miss Z as she fixed her shoelace. I then cruised by Horrie and Brick (who was struggling with injury). All was going well and I had my head down to catch Tim when about 4k from home I got hit by a huge stitch which almost stopped me dead. I needed to stop and walk a couple of times. Brick caught me and we shuffled like a couple of wounded soldiers for a while before my stitch disappeared and I picked up the pace again.

I loved the grassy finish and was happy to finish in 1:54:59. Great run by Spud (who ran up before the start) and I was glad that I kept in front of him - just.

The Hamburglar family had a great day. Mrs H and Cheeseburger did some bushwalking before meeting up for some lunch, coffee and a chat with some CR's - probably the best experience my non-running family have had. Great event and really well organised. Well done organisers (and Action). I'll be back next year for sure.

Splits were:

5k: 22:08 (171)
10k: 26:19 - 48:27 (171)
15k: 23:01 - 71:28 (169)
20k: 20:25 - 91:53 (171)
25k: 23:06 - 114:59 (169)



June mileage was:

JAN: 292 (251)
FEB: 57 (268)
MAR: 239 (165)
APR: 96 (181)
May: 53 (183)
June: 176 (259)

YTD: 913 (1307)

So a better month, but due to sickness (again) still not great. Cycling was also down with just two rides totaling 131k.

Cycling YTD : 1284 (532)
Swimming YTD: 1 (0)