Confident and excited!!

I really felt the heat yesterday so decided today would be a no running day. It was about 45degrees even in our unit yesterday with no relief until about 10pm last night. I made sure I drank throughout the day, but just did not seem to be able to drink enough. I had that dehydrated headache and icky tummy- result of Saturdays and Sundays REALLY humid runs. I do not remember ever sweating so much before. I have drunk heaps of water today and feel much better this afternoon.... to the point that the nice cool evening is beckoning for a run. I headed off to the gym instead- 25mins on the stepper focusing on getting the glutes to work hard, then weights for the upper body, glute exercises and Abs. Woo hoo! I got on the scales today and I have lost 1kg- 3% drop in body fat and no change in fluid (51%)- which means the weight drop was body fat and not fluid :-) I have decided to try and drop body fat and not worry so much about the kg's... a bit more still to go!

My program this week:
Mon: rest
Tues: 400's x 10 (plus 2km warm up and 2km warm down)
Wed: 1hr 30min relaxed (I will go to striders wed run)
Thurs: 5x 700m hill repeat with 1min 30sec active recovery (plus warm up and cooldwon run)
Friday: easy run or rest (listen to body)
Sat: 1hr run- with a 20mins hard running
Sun: Sean has me programed for 30km (gulp)- but I am slowly building up and am only up to 25km.

I thought I might aim for the 8km Australia day run and do the CR 5km challenge to see how my speed is going... and hopefully improving. I am also going to aim for the Striders 10km in Feb and March- a good way to monitor how I am going. I think we also do a 35km race at SMC prior to Canberra to practice pacing and race day prep for Canberra. I am sending my entry tommorow and am feeling excited and confident ( see there is my new positive relaxed attitude!!)