What up with last few days of training, plus plans for tonight & sat

Training has been on track if slightly unorthdoox over the past few days.

I had really been feeling the need to start getting more sleep and also catch up on the missed sleep, and Saturday morning I again did not feel up to getting up for training. Instead I attended a yoga class and had an intense cycling session in the gym in the afternoon, intending to catch up with the run on Sunday.

Well I didn't run on Sunday - getting caught up in life's logistics instead - another reminder of why it is so beautiful, simple and elegant to get the long run out of the way first thing Saturday morning.. another reminder of why it is so beautiful, simple and elegant to get enough sleep during the week so I can a) recover from training and b) get up when I need to!

So On Monday I ran for 1:20 at lunch, then on my fatigued legs after work did a retty fast run to flinders st (about 18 mins), then walked the rest of the way home, then had an intense half hour cycle at the gym followed by a less intense 20 min cycle on the reclining bike with the resistance cranked way up. So I simulated the fatigue if not the actual full distance of the run I should have done on Saturday.. It was a huge day of work and training and I got lots of electrolytes in and lots of sleep.

Tuesday I had yoga and again plenty of sleep.

Today has been a big day as I had an exam this morning and my house settled - having these two 'big rocks' leaves me not as stressed and looking forward to having a clearer schedule, and making less stress and more rest a priority which will really help with my ongoing training.

This weekend is the half way point of training - 10 weeks in and 10 weeks to go. I'd hoped to be halfway with my fundraising, which I'm not - I have $2137. That amount doesn't include chocolate sales though, and there's still a couple of days, so there's a chance I may get there. I should have chocolate sales so far totalled on the weekend.

Tonights session

I am enthusiastic about tonights session - usual warmup and cooldown, and 5 x 1k splits with rest jogs in between. It will be a tough one but I'm not feeling overwhelmed like last week (which had a fair amount of my general life stress of the time). I'm just going to make it through and try to have some fun with it, and look forward to toast and eggs and mushrooms and avocado afterwards (YUMM.. with some chilli sauce and fresh coriander, oh yeah). It's the last speed session before next week's 5k time trial which I have high hopes for (number 1 : stay in control & number 2: go sub 30 mins). So with that in mind I'll be hoping for sub 6 min Ks for the 1ks tonight - but consistency and control is more important than time, so we'll see what happens.

Long run on Saturday - distance is 22km, starts at 7am

We just got the map for saturday's run which is important for two reasons

1) it is my first time running further than the half marathon
2) it is important to make it to training after not making it to training the past few saturday mornings

and the course is sensational.. it is all areas that I know, and the turnaround point is slightly ambiguous but near work so i can visit it on my lunchtime run tomorrow (having just had a quick look on google satellite map)

So I feel really good about getting back to Saturday morning routine, and I know I'll be rested enough to support it.

In other news, I am getting a lot of s**t from people at work because I have not been riding my beloved (and new) bike since it started getting dark very early in the evenings (ie all winter). Well it has been in the bike shed at work gathering dust for months now, I keep arranging to come in and pick it up on the weekend and then the weekend gets too busy and I don't get around to it. So I hope I get around to it this weekend!