*synth* I WORKOUT

[Ashie]

Take it easy on yourself and I hope your tear heals soon.

[Ashie]

Not my best half since I lacked any real training, but I had fun with my college running friend. Hopefully my July race I'm back on track and more motivated. 20180506_105052.jpg

[tigeraid]

Cool! I kinda hope to work up to a marathon of some kind some day, even though I focus more on weight training lately.

[G'day Mate]

Just did 18.8kms at 5:00 pace. Ran the first 15 quite sensibly around 5:00-5:10 then sped up for the last three why not.

Anyway, that puts me in with a shout of doing a 1:45:00 half marathon ... which I'm pretty sure is quite fast. I started wanting to beat the two-hour mark, now 1:50:00 looks likely and, as I said, 1:45:00 if everything goes right.

[dodint]

My best is 1:53. Ash is in the low 1:40s for PR I think.

[G'day Mate]

Nine days out from my half marathon and I've somewhat inconveniently contracted a case of hand, foot and mouth disease from Jonah's childcare centre. Currently barely ambulant ... this may slow me down a little.

[Ashie]

Oh no!!! I hate getting sick before a race. Feel better soon.

[G'day Mate]

This is going to pan out more like an injury than sickness I reckon, but I know what you mean. When I was training for Three Peaks and Revolve24 I was afraid to the point of being paranoid about falling ill.

[Ashie]

I agree it's the worst training all that time then getting ill/injured. I need to get my butt back in gear and run again.

[G'day Mate]

Well, looks like I'll be lining up for another half marathon on Sunday week. It's a completely flat course and I seem to be able to hold 5:00/km fairly well so I'm eyeing off a time of 1 hr 45, which I'll be pretty happy with.