a month to go...

so far i've managed to get in all sessions scheduled for the week and it feels like my fitness is taking over where the fatigue has left off...

the week:

monday: am) the usual 10k run to work in around 43mins.
pm) 10k run home in the heat while considering death. Took it easy going up the hills to save myself for the hill session in the morrow.

tuesday: pm) hill session: ran 10 repeats which included 250m (gradient avg 10%) of climbing and finished up the session running 6x200m in around 36" to remove some of the tightness which was heavy in my quads.

wednesday: pm) 1h55min run touring the penrith lowlands. legs felt surprisingly good which caused me to go out a little fast which caused me some problems 90mins in. forced my legs to work a little harder over the last 5km running 200m fast every 2mins on the way back.

thursday: am) finally made it to a bmmc training run and completed the standard 10k loop which includes for me the most unpleasant of climbs on tired legs. need to do it more often and start toughening up.

pm) 1h05 run with 31mins of intervals (covering about 8+km). felt like i had a good workout.

the next 3 days...

friday: short recovery run

saturday: am) 10km tempo run

sunday: am) the big run - last and first a month out from bogong. will make sure that i'm stocked up with all the goodies that i'm likely to consume on race day.

christmas came early

these arrived in the mail this week. can't wait to try them out on some local trails this weekend... hopefully i'll find the spirit of anton. maybe i'll even grow the beard back....