Wed 24 Jan 06, the Tan, gym & S2F training group

I arrived in the city at 5:40 this morning, parked my car and then ran two slow laps of the Tan as a recovery. The first lap was 19:30 and the second lap was 19:10, as I said, slow laps. I then went to the gym and had a good session, working chest, a little bit of shoulders & back, again the majority done on the fitball. Today all of my reps were 15, 3 exercises in each set with 30 second between groups. Then 50 lunges on each leg and 50 squats, just with 5kg hand weights on both side, finishing with a bit of ab work. At my desk just after 7:40am, not a bad start to the day.

PM: Tonight was my first S2F training run, I looked after the 10k group, we ran approx 5 min pace, which was slightly faster than normal but the group were easily able to do this. With a 10 min run prior to the group and then running back to my car I travelled just short of 14km for the evening.

Tue 23 Jan 07, I wasn't in the mood for it but I made my way to Coburg after work for the Shield Round 9 meet. On arrival at the track I changed and then dropped my work clothes into my car and took off for a 15 minute warm up and then 10 min of stretching and then made my way over to the 1500m starting area. I was in the 4th heat, which was made up of 4:45 to 5:15 runners, 16 runners. As i wasn't feeling the fit or ready I guessed I would run between 5:05 - 10, which was nearly right. The first lap was 80 and the second lap 80, I didn't hear anymore splits after that, but I must have slowed down, finishing 14th in 5:10.14.

I finished off the night with a 12 min cool down with ads and then stretched and made my way home. Feeling fairly ordinary, legs tired and I just wasn't mentally right for the race or to be around others.