Howdee.
A quick update - today was a quickish 12km run with Legend and Andrew. I must say i felt 100 times better than i did at club on tuesday.... thank goodness! hahaha. After that it was off to Chris who turned me into a pin cushion with all his needles that he stuck into me. ;).
I'm looking forward to tomorrows run.... it's Kent Horners wedding run....his last one as a single man!! ..hahaha. Just a smallish group of us are probably gonna trot around constantia. I'll let u know how it goes.
chow
R
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Early morning
hi
Well its four o'clock and i've been up for an hour so far with a house 'malfunction' my garage door is opening and closing I think its shorted somewhere because of the weather but am a little shaky because its not great to be pulled out of sleep but an alien sound! yesterday was ok day just swam, enjoyed it! Had a good, although painful session at Chris eventually he found the problem i've been having with my calves as a tendon issue which I have to do exercises for so it doesn't get worse! about to leave soon tto do my run think its goinng to be wet! hope I can get the garage door closed
Well its four o'clock and i've been up for an hour so far with a house 'malfunction' my garage door is opening and closing I think its shorted somewhere because of the weather but am a little shaky because its not great to be pulled out of sleep but an alien sound! yesterday was ok day just swam, enjoyed it! Had a good, although painful session at Chris eventually he found the problem i've been having with my calves as a tendon issue which I have to do exercises for so it doesn't get worse! about to leave soon tto do my run think its goinng to be wet! hope I can get the garage door closed
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Pack Run
Hi there.
Yesterday I had a light swim and as per usual the Tuesday day night pack run. I had a nice run with Carla and the dogs beforehand.
The pack run was hard last night ..... I think it was me....and not the increased pace of the pack....hahahaha.... I hope. I felt tired on the up hills and kept on running out of breath. I think that it may be from all the weekends parties!!
Just got a e-mail now - Puffer and Tuffer Puffer entries are out - wooooo hoooo.
What to do, what to do - Puffer - or Tuffer??? :) - I think I know already!!
R
Yesterday I had a light swim and as per usual the Tuesday day night pack run. I had a nice run with Carla and the dogs beforehand.
The pack run was hard last night ..... I think it was me....and not the increased pace of the pack....hahahaha.... I hope. I felt tired on the up hills and kept on running out of breath. I think that it may be from all the weekends parties!!
Just got a e-mail now - Puffer and Tuffer Puffer entries are out - wooooo hoooo.
What to do, what to do - Puffer - or Tuffer??? :) - I think I know already!!
R
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Tuesday
Had another late day at work todsy, Had to go back to my client three times today so only got back home just before seven. it took every bit of motivation I could muster to go out for a 15km run in the cold and yet - I got rained on but in the end I was glad I did it - laying on the couch now about to go to bed
Weekend Training
Hi Guys
Its really nice to be cutting the distance a little on the weekends now because you really have the opportunity to enjoy your fitness. You can look around a little more and take in the surroundings that much more.
I really enjoyed both runs on the weekend. Saturday was spent mainly between Hout Bay and Sandy Bay. Fortunately it was raining so we didn't bump into any unsuspecting nudists or should I say no nudists bumped into unsuspecting trail runners. JT, John Legend, Andy and I looked like drowned rats at the end but we really had a good time. The one path we chose to run hadn't seen any running action in a while (I think it had seen plenty of other action - by the number of condom wrappers we found on the floor)so it was a little rough going. It was really quite spectacular.
Sunday we were back on a misty Chapmans Peak with the usual suspects.... John Legend, Trev, JT, Carla, Lisa Baumann, Monique Andy and Me. Once again a good fun run.
Afterwards we all headed off to Dario's to celebrate Monique's Birthday.
The week ahead is a few 15km runs, gym work and some swimming.
During this week, perhaps on Friday, I must start to get my final items on my kit list together!
By the way ... Andrew has been working on a logo for Further Thabn Far ..... so watch this space!!
Cheers
R
Its really nice to be cutting the distance a little on the weekends now because you really have the opportunity to enjoy your fitness. You can look around a little more and take in the surroundings that much more.
I really enjoyed both runs on the weekend. Saturday was spent mainly between Hout Bay and Sandy Bay. Fortunately it was raining so we didn't bump into any unsuspecting nudists or should I say no nudists bumped into unsuspecting trail runners. JT, John Legend, Andy and I looked like drowned rats at the end but we really had a good time. The one path we chose to run hadn't seen any running action in a while (I think it had seen plenty of other action - by the number of condom wrappers we found on the floor)so it was a little rough going. It was really quite spectacular.
Sunday we were back on a misty Chapmans Peak with the usual suspects.... John Legend, Trev, JT, Carla, Lisa Baumann, Monique Andy and Me. Once again a good fun run.
Afterwards we all headed off to Dario's to celebrate Monique's Birthday.
The week ahead is a few 15km runs, gym work and some swimming.
During this week, perhaps on Friday, I must start to get my final items on my kit list together!
By the way ... Andrew has been working on a logo for Further Thabn Far ..... so watch this space!!
Cheers
R
Monday, April 27, 2009
Looong Weekend
I counted back from last week and realised I think the longest I slept was about 4 hours last Monday night, so suffice to say that its been a really interesting week!
Most of the sleeplessness was work related, and I ended up doing not a whole hell of a lot of anything except work (and fly around the country) last week, so I really wasn't holding out for any major feats of heroics with the weekend's training, but it turned out quite well in the end. Saturday was mainly beach work, had really tight calves and a full blown asthma attack towards the end (always really great in front of a group of people....) but hung in there. We did mainly beach work and some interesting path finding in and around Rocket Road and Sandy Bay. It was quite wet - I think that's what made my chest close up as I went up the first sand dune.
Anyway, Saturday night was Kent's bachelors - managed to keep it (mostly) tidy, but got home quite late (nothing like a 90 minute stroll through the streets to get back to my car to loosen up the legs...) and then the parallel path along Chapman's Peak on Sunday with the usual gang (Rob, Carla, Lisa, John, Trevor and birthday girl Monique) - had the usual tight calves, not too worried, I missed my appointment with Chris twice last week because of work, I am sure its nothing he can't sort out. Once the tightness left, I must admit I felt really good, and myself, Rob and Lisa did the return leg along the path while the others took the steep path down to the road.
Tried Rob's suggestion of longer strides in the shale on the usual section just before the end of the run, it worked well - thanks dude.
After the rush of last week, I decided not to force anything and just lazed around watching tv this morning and did a gym session in the afternoon - my arms are sooo sore now -funny how quickly you lose it!
Anyway, more recover and taper to look forward to this week. Hopefully can swim and gym a bit more, feel like I have neglected them a bit.
Most of the sleeplessness was work related, and I ended up doing not a whole hell of a lot of anything except work (and fly around the country) last week, so I really wasn't holding out for any major feats of heroics with the weekend's training, but it turned out quite well in the end. Saturday was mainly beach work, had really tight calves and a full blown asthma attack towards the end (always really great in front of a group of people....) but hung in there. We did mainly beach work and some interesting path finding in and around Rocket Road and Sandy Bay. It was quite wet - I think that's what made my chest close up as I went up the first sand dune.
Anyway, Saturday night was Kent's bachelors - managed to keep it (mostly) tidy, but got home quite late (nothing like a 90 minute stroll through the streets to get back to my car to loosen up the legs...) and then the parallel path along Chapman's Peak on Sunday with the usual gang (Rob, Carla, Lisa, John, Trevor and birthday girl Monique) - had the usual tight calves, not too worried, I missed my appointment with Chris twice last week because of work, I am sure its nothing he can't sort out. Once the tightness left, I must admit I felt really good, and myself, Rob and Lisa did the return leg along the path while the others took the steep path down to the road.
Tried Rob's suggestion of longer strides in the shale on the usual section just before the end of the run, it worked well - thanks dude.
After the rush of last week, I decided not to force anything and just lazed around watching tv this morning and did a gym session in the afternoon - my arms are sooo sore now -funny how quickly you lose it!
Anyway, more recover and taper to look forward to this week. Hopefully can swim and gym a bit more, feel like I have neglected them a bit.
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