29 Jun

Another wash out - According to reports, the deluge of rain after this weekend make it the wettest month on record in six years. Yup, there's this thing called rain jacket and having ran in many different torrential weather during the "ultra" years, a bit of wetness shouldn't deter me too much.

Well, it did.
(yes, I'm soft!)

Spent morning working on a few logistics stuff for Harry's first event - Wingello Trail Classic. I worked on the event run sheet, radio allocations, presentation schedule, event run sheet and the announcer notes. Took lots long than I anticipated.

It's time like these I count myself really lucky to have access to SAT. Cycled about an hour and ran on the treadmill for 15minutes at about 3083m altitude.

June 28 - 12km

The alarm went off at ten past five this morning. I'm usually woken up the subtle 'beep' from my Sunnto.Today instead my phone's alarm went off. The 'church bell' tone didn't go down well with the Mrs p (fair enuff!) I soon jumped out of bed, grabbing the mobile phone and rain out of the room.

I stared out the window and remember, " hey, it's my day off " ! A pleasant surprise indeed. Sadly, I am still faced with the fact Sydney is STILL experiencing it's many days of rain rain and more rain. So instead of the  planned 5km+farklek+5km around the bay, I locked on another back up plan.

I manage to sneak in another 30 minutes of Zeeees but soon stumbled out into the dark with the usual morning routine - Bathroom -> Kettle on ->Change -> Sustagen-> (zzzzzzz) -> Shoes ->Garmin -> Door.
Only this time, I picked up my car keys and drove to the office's gym instead.  Eversince I joined fairfax, the $2-a-day gym has been a god sent.

I love doing pyramids on a track but equally, a pyramid treadmill workout certainly beats being drenched before you hit 1km in the open. Began with a 5km warm up at a slow and controlled 30minutes. And I went about my threadmill session.

Set 1: 4mins at easy pace - 5.15mins (then recovery jog 5.45mins for 2 minutes)
Set 2: 4mins at steady state pace - 4.55mins (then recovery jog 5.45mins for 2 minutes)
Set 3: 4mins at tempo run pace - 4.15mins (then recovery jog 5.45mins for 2 minutes)
Set 4: 4mins at tempo pace - 3:50mins (then recovery jog 5.45mins for 2 minutes)
Set 5: 4mins at easy pace - 5.30mins (then recovery jog 5.45mins for 2 minutes)

I managed to do only half of the second rep as it took quite awhile to do one set.

Honestly, I rather be out there pounding the tarmac.

A lovely afternoon with Helen. It's a blessing that with her winding down to working only 3 days a week, we were able to spend more quality time with each other

2006, 8th April - Happiest day of my (our) life..

. It was so easy for us to choose a movie where we would have spent 2 plus hours sitting mindlessly watching 'Man of Steel'. Instead, we went about a link Helen found and explore quite a few of these places...
Yum...Black sesame ice-cream.