Monday, November 16, 2009

Feelin' good (well, better...)

Haven't been sleeping well last week. Sleep has been interrupted, either by waking children, bad dreams or just plain waking up. Maybe it's stress; physical or mental. I'm not sure but it's messing with my flow yo.

Hay Fever has hit this season as well, really hard. Cannot remember when I was last so badly affected. The anti-histamines (claratyne / polarmine) don't work. Maybe I should try another brand.

At any rate, I woke up this morning feeling really out of it. Tired, fuzzy and with a general sense of CBF. I packed my running gear into my bag, I think more out of habit than any eagerness to get out and knock over a few kms.

I did run though. It felt like such hard work. I noticed each stride and it took a while to warm up. The odd thing is that about half way (1.5km), everything snapped together. I found my stride, the movement was fluid as I remember it, the breathing matched and the right muscles were being used.

I finished strong in the last 100M and was breathing heavily, but far from tired. Did my upper body and core exercises and did a cool down jog back to the office.

I was watching the time and at 12:03 pm, I was walking into the Flinders St tunnel to start. I finished at 12:27 pm. I think I'm not too far off the pace. I've thrown out all my old digital watches so I haven't been timing myself. Might have to rectify that I think.

All in all, I'm happy I went and feel so much better for it.

Thursday, November 05, 2009

Setting Goals

Ahhh...I've made target #1 which was a well paced 3km jaunt. Now this is still a far cry from where I was and where I want to be. I guess that's where all this goals talk is heading.

It's quite simple to say that I want to do xyz. Problem is, there is nothing to track or measure against. So this is my documenting as such.

Big Targets:
- 3km - Done
- 5km - End of December 2009
- 5km in 25 mins - End of February 2010

All fairly reasonable. I think this time round I will focus on fast 5km as opposed to longer distances. I've always been more about speed than distance anyway so I guess for now, any dreams of doing a marathon is put aside.

Embrace the racer.