Training Log Archive: markg

After a nice brunch at St Lucy's and bike riding lesson, I ran home following the river until I was defeated by the golf course, then cutting back inland and through Indooroopilly. Picked up a nice little track through the trees down by the St Lucia golf course, it's just a pity you can't keep following the river much further. I felt solid but never very sprightly, but this was probably explained by the tummy bug I had for the rest of the afternoon.

From QUT to Toowong for school pick-up. With a heavy bag today and it felt like a struggle and my left soleus was starting to feel tights but was pretty much on pace with previous runs. Good to have a few days training out of the way.

Attempted 3 x 8min at tempo pace down along the river at lunchtime with a planned finish at Gardens Point campus for a free burrito but had to abort the intervals shortly after the start of the 2nd when the pesky stitch from last night made an appearance. After jogging for a short time I managed to increase to sub-tempo pace and hold it steady until the end. Was disappointed on reaching Gardens Point to discover that the line for free burritos was well over 100m long and I had to abort that too. Pace in 1st int was okay at about 3:45-3:50

Night Nav around Toowong starting at Anzac Park. Started off following Mat, who was flying, but he surprised me with an unexpected route choice after the first and so we went different ways. I had a bit of a messy run, it definitely wasn't an optimal route and made a couple of little errors to compound it. Also started getting a stitch mid-course which slowed me a little.

The sun was out today for the first time in forever so I packed my running gear in my bag this morning and at school pickup time, when the good weather had mostly held together, I ran to UQ to pick the car up. Felt pretty good, tootling along at a good pace. My shoulders are always the first thing to get tired when running with a pack and today with a light pack it kicked in around 6km, which, incidentally, was about when it started to rain. This might be the start of a good training week ...