I saw Phil Essam out near the zoo judging the walkers in the LBG 20 mile race on Sunday. We hadn't met before despite being "facebook friends".
Monday's Training
We ran under the lights of the Western and South-Western side of Parliament House a double pyramid of 200m 400 600 400 200 400 600 400 200 on go-2 minutes 6 12 16 18 22 28 32 finish on 34. If the whistle for the next sprint blew before any runner had returned to the start point, they were allowed to turn around early on the whistle and run shorter. On this occasion no-one completed the full session: Warrick was the closest, getting back on time (just!) every time but simply being unable to complete the last 200m. A good hard session designed to test the better runners! Along with all but Warrick & Craig, I bombed out on the very first interval and it was all downhill from there.
Running early were Craig, Ewen & I, and we were joined for the main session by Andy, Jill, Neil, Warrick & Yelena. Numbers were down as it was a public holiday in Canberra. Next week we will repeat the session, or something like it. Because it's hard and it's a challenge and it's the best track there for running fast intervals.
Jill: a surprise attendee at last night's training session.
Reminder - Cross Country Championships, 18 June: no late entries.
The ACTVAC races are 8k for all women and for men 60+, and 12k for men 30-59. I will be running in the 8k at 10:40am, while the 12k starts at 11:10am well before I have finished!
On Line Entries for ACTVAC (only) can be made at http://tiny.cc/qzk7d
Closing Date for entries is Thursday June 16th, late entries will NOT be accepted.
Monday's Training
We ran under the lights of the Western and South-Western side of Parliament House a double pyramid of 200m 400 600 400 200 400 600 400 200 on go-2 minutes 6 12 16 18 22 28 32 finish on 34. If the whistle for the next sprint blew before any runner had returned to the start point, they were allowed to turn around early on the whistle and run shorter. On this occasion no-one completed the full session: Warrick was the closest, getting back on time (just!) every time but simply being unable to complete the last 200m. A good hard session designed to test the better runners! Along with all but Warrick & Craig, I bombed out on the very first interval and it was all downhill from there.
Running early were Craig, Ewen & I, and we were joined for the main session by Andy, Jill, Neil, Warrick & Yelena. Numbers were down as it was a public holiday in Canberra. Next week we will repeat the session, or something like it. Because it's hard and it's a challenge and it's the best track there for running fast intervals.
Jill: a surprise attendee at last night's training session.
Reminder - Cross Country Championships, 18 June: no late entries.
The ACTVAC races are 8k for all women and for men 60+, and 12k for men 30-59. I will be running in the 8k at 10:40am, while the 12k starts at 11:10am well before I have finished!
On Line Entries for ACTVAC (only) can be made at http://tiny.cc/qzk7d
Closing Date for entries is Thursday June 16th, late entries will NOT be accepted.
