update.....

Friday 23rd Feb

Today: 6km
Week: 49km
Month: 282km
Year: 650km

I ran this afternoon after a really late night..... we saw Damien rice at the Enmore theatre. He was Brilliant!!! it was a fantastic concert and they all were amazing musicians. The girls had such beautiful voices and one of the girls was playing the Cello, which just sounded unbelievable with the Guitar and Piano! I just ache to be able to play that well!!! The run was a lot less ordinary.... 6km around home. I had a crappy day and spent the whole run feeling like a hippopttomus in disguise! Lets just say slightly fragile! Average pace 5:20/km

Saturday 24th Feb

Today: 12km
Week: 61km
Month: 300km
Year: 662km

CR 5km today. I had grand and ambitious plans of making an attack on 22mins today. It never ceases to amaze me the impact your mental state can have on how you run. Now I will not bore you with the details.... lets just say I was obsessing about some bosy issues and my head was from being in PB form! I lined up with Professor, Tess, Johnny Dark and someone else. I was freaking aout a bit at this stage "what are you doing these guys are heaps faster than you!!!!". So we started and I was feeling pretty good and went through the first 2km in 4:21, 4:23. I then ran past Gnome taking phots and all I could think about was "GREAT photos of you looking fat for all teh CR world to see". It was at this point my head was all over the place and I had to work really hard to just keep running let alone run at my best. NUTS... yes I know! I have been working really hard to deal with body stuff but it does rear its ugly head from time to time. Ironically I had emailed a great article to friends written by Lisa Corriden and Buster talking about the pressure of running and body image for females and prevelance of eating disorders within our sport. So like a neourotic female I spent the next 3km being particularly negative. Poor professor had no idea and was doing his best to encourage me to run faster.... all I wanted to do was cry. Now it is actually hard to run and fight off tears.... so my breathing was a little all over the place. So I just put a stupid smile on my face and thought lets just get this finished. SO I finished in 22:37.... I am happy with my time, but annoyed at myself for letting such negative crap get in the way. I proceeded to have a good whinge to Bernie and Ray on the way back and felt much better in time for breakfast. I decided to post the details because I am sure I am not the only female who suffers with body image and self esteem stuff. Just to reassure you all I know I am not fat blah blah.... just negative thoughts thats all! The even funnier thing was that the photos are not that bad!!! Typical :-) Finished the day with my mum, sister and little neice- they are so good for the soul! I can never have too much of them.... always make me feel so good!!!!

5km: 4:21, 4:23, 4:30, 4:38, 4:39


















Sunday 25th Feb

Today: 23km
Week: 84km
Month: 323km
Year:685km

Today felt like the last day of school! It was our last long run and we were all feeling tired and a bit over it. We decided to do a shorter version of the 10 bridge strider run. We strted at the civilised time of 7am and headed off from Brett Park, through Drummoyne, over the ? Figtree Bridge, through Hunters Hill, through the Reserve at Lane Cove, up a nasty hill, into the bush at Lane Cove, then down and up River Rd, through Woolstencraft and North Sydney, onto the Harbour Bridge where we bumped into Rags. Then we ran past Observatory hill where I had flashbacks to the marathon and nice memories of Rays marriage proposal! We ran through the city and over the bridge at Darling Harbour. We stopped here for a few minutes to cheer on the Dragon Boat races! I was slightly slow and about 10 mins later announced very wisely that the races were obviously for the Chinese New Year..... that had already been discussed about 15mins earlier!! I am pretty sharp :-). We then continued over Anzac bridge and back along Victoria rd. I was so hungry by the time we got back to the finsih and was soooo happy for my soy hot choc and fruit toast from Bowen Island. Today we were all a bit tired and there was no concern given to stoping to sniff the roses so to speak! I love that run!!! I love when your in Woolstencraft you can see both the Anzac and Harbour Brdge in the distance and it spins you out that you will cross both of them!

So that about it for the long stuff! Two weeks to go and the plan for the week is to do some faster sessions at training and then eat and sleep well and run relaxed for the rest of the time. Sounds very nice!

I am getting Big Kev Excited!!!!!!!!