End of the week

I received an Email (which I didn't read until Friday night)....

"Toasty, I am planning a 5am start to run a 32k via the Story bridge and then over Mt Coot-tha and back. Haven’t done it for a couple of years. Harder than the river loop. See you at 5 if interested. Cheers, Glenno."

OK, so this will round out the week... Clairie left me to go to Sydney, but I'll get by. I think it was about 7:30 pm when I got the email from Glenno so I made plans for an early night .... as you do on a Friday ....right?????

Thursday, I ran my Tempo, having given Pat the flick, in order to be fit enough for a good run at Canberra. This run (the Tempo) is 6 km warm up followed by 5 km at whatever I can do. This turned out to be 21:38, although I think Garmin added a few 100 metres. Not to worry, I have another half dozen of these to go before the Canberra Marathon.

This week finished at 80 something km or 50 plus miles for those caught in ye old metrics.

I really enjoyed the run with Glenno. It was bloody hard, in colonial terms. Puffing up the mountain after an hour or so at a decent pace seemed harder than either of us could remember. I guess that is a sign of age ... not being able to remember how hard these runs can be.

I did manage the "finish the last few km at marathon pace" .....

The early start meant I missed seeing a few of the other crew ..... I hope Matty and Celeste are doing well in their preparations for Canberra. There is only a month to go!

After the Saturday run and breakfast, I came home and endured another ice bath before crawling back to bed for a few hours. Somewhat refreshed, I experienced a re-born start to the day and joined Katy to the Expo for Monster Trucks (except it wasn't really Monster Trucks).

We love the Monster Truck Expo ...... so much fun seeing all the people it attracts. The highlight was a detailed discussion with Mr Mud-Flap (except he wasn't Mr Mud-Flap) where he explained how his product worked. It was kinda strange and amusing to hear someone so proud of this product that he would like to refer himself by it. Katy almost lost control when he described how one of his products wasn't suited to the "ruts in the road" and how it came down to which highway one chose to travel....... OK this might not be making sense but I'll happily share the decode words if appropriate by Email ... this is a family show, donchano.