A weekend...where?

Well that was one of those weekends that seem to be over before you can snap your fingers. Here's what I recall...


Saturday Easy 6km

After a red-eye drive back to Port on Friday night I wasn’t going to make the group run at Town Beach. So later in the morning I just headed out for an easy loop around the back of Waniora.

It hadn’t been an ideal week, with only 1 run in the previous 5 days, so an easy one was good just to get moving again. Lucky I planned to get ahead of schedule the week before!

I was considering using the heart rate monitor next weekend, but hadn’t used it for a few months so I threw it on for a test. As a result I’ve decided against it, even though I was only going to use it for analysis after the event. I just found it detracted from the feel of the run and my pacing, which I think has progressed well recently. Even if I covered the reading it would still be on my mind that I’m being “monitored”, and is an unnecessary distraction. So I’ll leave it to its intended use – as a training tool for lower HR sessions.


Sunday 16km Aerobic

I felt better for having done the easy Saturday run. This was an uneventful run into town following the coast and the river, then back home via Granite Drive. Threw in a few detours to extend the run to the target time and distance, and finished fairly strongly in a similar manner (just from a different direction) to last week's long run with a climb up Mimosa, Plantation and to the top of Astonomers Terrace again. All up it took 85 minutes.
The fuel belt was drained by the 70 minute mark. I think I’ll wear it next weekend as I find it so awkward drinking from a cup on the run. Most of it ends up spilt, and I don’t fancy stopping and breaking my rhythm to take in the fluids I need. It’s much easier to be able to work through the bottles at leisure whilst on the move!