Long Weekend Run

Been a bit slack this week training wise, really seeing as it's Monday we didn't actually train at all this week just gone. However as  it's a long weekend and today is a public holiday I reckon we can just get away with saying today's run was our training for the week.

Will save the excuses for not hitting the altitude chamber this week (busy, work, tired etc etc) and just say maybe we'll call it an easy week to rest a little.

Of course we did get off our arses today to train with x2 laps of Narrabeen lake. It seems to be becoming a recurring theme of me heading into a training session thinking it's going to be a breeze and coming out struggling! I knew that x2 laps of Narrabeen lake is a bit more distance than we usually run but as it's so flat just thought it wouldn't be too bad.

Well after the first lap I was still feeling comfortable and Mai was feeling a bit tired, then the second lap was a bit tougher for me and a bit better for Mai. Regardless, we pushed ourselves and are now reaping the rewards lying on the sofa hurting!! Haha, okay so wasn't that bad but wasn't that easy either though and think it's probably the furthest either Mai or I have ran in one go.

Mai's watch said we'd done 16.72kms in 1:47, not exactly a blistering pace, but I'm not much of a runner and Mai hasn't been doing many runs lately so we'll take it. We were also a lot more concerned with pacing ourselves and making sure we got it done than burning out trying to set a good time.

The weather came to the party and was a beautiful day, this also brought out the hoards of families so the trail was very busy. Not a surprise really as it's such a nice circuit. Busy as it was, it's still very handy for us when we can't be bothered driving to the Blue Mountains to train as it's a pretty cruisy 15mins drive from home. Not a bad session, pretty sure my legs will be feeling it tomorrow!