hair of gold and lips like cherries

Training last night at Parliament House were Abi, Caroline, Christopher, Colin, Craig, Emma, Ewen, me, Helen, Jochen, Joel, Katherine, Mick & Neil. We ran 640m intervals on 5 minutes, six of them, on a 300m circuit which involved running the uphill section three times. Notably, new green green grass has been laid on these hills around Parliament House and the surfaces are soft, even, and most pleasant to run on, unlike the squares of rough grass down towards old Parliament House that we have recently used. A very enjoyable session.

Today I race at Acton over 5k: last year's time is the time to beat: 21:35. If I can achieve that, it will be the first real sign that my training is on track.

I am mentioning again that online entries for the March 13 Weston Creek Half Marathon close Wednesday 9 March, tomorrow.

ACTVAC results from the weekend:
60m Championships
M60 Garry Maher 9.06 87.6%
W40 Emma Adams 9.16 80.1
W55 Noeline Burden 10.00 85.8

100m Championships
M60 Garry Maher 15.22 78.8%
W40 Emma Adams 14.44 77.8
W55 Noeline Burden 16.27 80.9

200m Championships
M60 Garry Maher 30.74 80.1%
W40 Emma Adams 30.67 75.5
W55 Noeline Burden 34.82 78.8

400m Championships

M open Joel Pearson 56.03
M40 Damian Rutledge 55.04 86.3%
M70 Tony Booth 1:32.92 65.9
W40 Emma Adams 1:06.28 80.9
W55 Noeline Burden 1:23.08 74.7

800m Championships
M40 Damian Rutledge 2:15.16 81.6%
M40 Brett Morrison 2:35.69 69.6
M55 Ken White 2:24.82 85.1
M70 Tony Booth 3:11.99 74.4
W40 Emma Adams 2:32.11 78.0
W40 Heidi Johnston 2:36.83 74.3
W45 Katie Forestier 2:41.79 75.3
W50 Helen Larmour 2:54.14 73.9

1500m Championships
M40 Brett Morrison 5:30.01 67.8%
M55 Ken White 5:02.57 84.6
M70 Tony Booth 6:51.05 71.5
W40 Heidi Johnston 5:20.12 76.8
W45 Katie Forestier 5:27.43 79.4
W50 Helen Larmour 5:43.34 81.6
W55 Kathy Sims 6:02.77 86.1