Monday, May 01, 2006
OK, OK - I know I said...
... that I'd be updating every day, but honestly, I have some good excuses. Mostly, because I spent last week volunteering at the NSW Young Carers Camp - a fantastic, if somewhat demanding week, which went a great deal towards confirming how old I am - during one activity, we had to do a musical (don't ask), and I encouraged the kids to do a parody of Michael Jackson's "Bad". 12 blank faces stared back at me - I don't think they were aware he was a musician! Then it did occur to me - "Bad" was released 20 years ago! As I said - I'm definitely getting old.
So anyway, I got back from camp on Thursday, and spent the rest of the day catching up with Amelia and Louis (there's nothing like a hug from a 2-year old you haven't seen for a week), despite a huge work deadline looming on Friday. Dragged myself out of bed at 3:30am Friday morning (not the most desirable thing when you have been up most of the previous night enforcing the boy/girl cabin demarcation!), and worked straight through till 5:30pm. Then I went for a run!
Saturday was spent looking after Louis while Amelia had a girly day with her friend (Louis and I went for a big, long bike ride round the city), and then Saturday night was drinks with a couple of running friends at a local pub (how civilised). A few more drinks than I normally have, so Sunday morning was a slow one. Sunday afternoon - no sleeping from Louis, so we drove to a friend's house out in the sticks (sorry mate!), and ended up staying for dinner - a great afternoon - the highlight being opening a bottle of wine that had written on it "To be opened on Parker Jnr's 2nd birthday" - quite prescient, given that it was written nearly five years ago. The wine had not held up as well as the company, but we cracked a few backup wines just to compensate.
So anyway, that's why I haven't written lately!
I have, however, been running a bit - not as much as I would like, but enough to ensure I am not going backwards. A pleasing session of 4x1km at about 3:20/km with 60 seconds recovery was probably the highlight (particularly as it was on a rough hilly road, and all the reps were within 1 second of each other). I have been getting on the bike more (and developing serious cyclists envy - my bike is very practical, but not very fast), which is good, as my new program kicks off today, and Sean has put a bit of cycling in it, to allow me to up my miles more safely.
Day 1 was a 30 minute bike ride - so I am one for one at the moment. I have to start a strength session when I stop typing which will be more interesting, as it will be my first effort in this area since my wrist debacle.
My program for this week (copyright SWEAT - please don't sell it!) is as follows:
More conservative than I would have done myself, which I think is a good thing. I am actually looking forward to totally putting myself in someone else's hands, and just focusing on doing the assigned training, rather than tinkering pointlessly. As I loathe water running, I will be using cycling for cross-training - something I have never done in my life. However, if Marty and Uncle Dave's (who won the Bathurst Half Marathon in an awesome 1:13 on the weekend - showing what a fluke the Sydney Half was for me) results are anything to go by, then I think it will be a good thing. Don't know if I will make the road champs at Holsworthy (sure you'd live all the way out there!)*, as I have the Camp debriefing the night before, followed by an all-expenses paid dinner (the only tangible payment for 5 days work - so I plan to redeem as much as possible in the beverage department!)
Anyway, despite copious references to alcohol (did I mention I have a wine club dinner on tonight?), today marks my first day on the SWEAT program, and a much more serious approach to my training! Long itnervals at 6:15 tomorrow morning will reinforce this point.
* for those unaware, I grew up in the next suburb!
So anyway, I got back from camp on Thursday, and spent the rest of the day catching up with Amelia and Louis (there's nothing like a hug from a 2-year old you haven't seen for a week), despite a huge work deadline looming on Friday. Dragged myself out of bed at 3:30am Friday morning (not the most desirable thing when you have been up most of the previous night enforcing the boy/girl cabin demarcation!), and worked straight through till 5:30pm. Then I went for a run!
Saturday was spent looking after Louis while Amelia had a girly day with her friend (Louis and I went for a big, long bike ride round the city), and then Saturday night was drinks with a couple of running friends at a local pub (how civilised). A few more drinks than I normally have, so Sunday morning was a slow one. Sunday afternoon - no sleeping from Louis, so we drove to a friend's house out in the sticks (sorry mate!), and ended up staying for dinner - a great afternoon - the highlight being opening a bottle of wine that had written on it "To be opened on Parker Jnr's 2nd birthday" - quite prescient, given that it was written nearly five years ago. The wine had not held up as well as the company, but we cracked a few backup wines just to compensate.
So anyway, that's why I haven't written lately!
I have, however, been running a bit - not as much as I would like, but enough to ensure I am not going backwards. A pleasing session of 4x1km at about 3:20/km with 60 seconds recovery was probably the highlight (particularly as it was on a rough hilly road, and all the reps were within 1 second of each other). I have been getting on the bike more (and developing serious cyclists envy - my bike is very practical, but not very fast), which is good, as my new program kicks off today, and Sean has put a bit of cycling in it, to allow me to up my miles more safely.
Day 1 was a 30 minute bike ride - so I am one for one at the moment. I have to start a strength session when I stop typing which will be more interesting, as it will be my first effort in this area since my wrist debacle.
My program for this week (copyright SWEAT - please don't sell it!) is as follows:
| 1/05/2006 | Monday | 30min water run or cycle | strength | ||||
| 2/05/2006 | Tuesday | TRACK: 2.4km (5) 2.4km (3) 1.6km | 12 | ||||
| 3/05/2006 | Wednesday | 40min water running or cycle | strength | ||||
| 4/05/2006 | Thursday | FARTLEK: outside loop relaxed | 12 | ||||
| 5/05/2006 | Friday | 30min water running or cycle | |||||
| 6/05/2006 | Saturday | RACE: NSW 10km road championships @ Holsworthy | 16 | ||||
| 7/05/2006 | Sunday | 1hr run easy | 13 | ||||
| WEEKLY SUMMARY | 53 | ||||||
More conservative than I would have done myself, which I think is a good thing. I am actually looking forward to totally putting myself in someone else's hands, and just focusing on doing the assigned training, rather than tinkering pointlessly. As I loathe water running, I will be using cycling for cross-training - something I have never done in my life. However, if Marty and Uncle Dave's (who won the Bathurst Half Marathon in an awesome 1:13 on the weekend - showing what a fluke the Sydney Half was for me) results are anything to go by, then I think it will be a good thing. Don't know if I will make the road champs at Holsworthy (sure you'd live all the way out there!)*, as I have the Camp debriefing the night before, followed by an all-expenses paid dinner (the only tangible payment for 5 days work - so I plan to redeem as much as possible in the beverage department!)
Anyway, despite copious references to alcohol (did I mention I have a wine club dinner on tonight?), today marks my first day on the SWEAT program, and a much more serious approach to my training! Long itnervals at 6:15 tomorrow morning will reinforce this point.
* for those unaware, I grew up in the next suburb!
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Good to see you on your bike Sparkie. Just remember the cyclists' mantra: "Cyclists are entitled to a fu$%ing lane".
(said with one hand on the handlebars, and one hand flipping the bird :-) )
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(said with one hand on the handlebars, and one hand flipping the bird :-) )
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