Wednesday 15th April
The thought of dropping over ten minutes from a PB in a matter of months was giving me the jitters and I was eager to get back on the road. The "oyster incident" took the wind out of my sails, putting it firmly in my bowels, for the first couple of days after Canberra, but by Wednesday I was raring to go.
Vic and I decided on a Sydney classic; Hyde Park, Mrs Macquarie's Chair, through Domain and around the Opera House. Nice and slow, 5:30 per kilometre. Felt surprisingly good, given I'd lost 200-300 grams per hour in weight the day before and had recently run a half marathon i.e. I felt awful.
The Corporate Cup was afoot at the time. Seems like a bonkers race to me. Runners of all abilities literally everywhere in the Domain. The course? Couldn't work it out. There were runners with bib numbers going in every direction on every stretch of road. No marshals to police the madness. It was like they'd herded up a random sample of folk from Sydney businesses, dressed each in a singlet, took them to Museum Road and said, "run my beautiful salespeople, run!"
We did 8km, returning through the Domain. Cracking weather.
Thursday 16th April
Intervals! Post nights!
Another Sydney classic; Liverpool Hospital to Fairfield Railway Station (ahem). The route is about 6.5km and the plan was for 1km intervals with 90 second standing recoveries. Victoria joined me, but we ran the intervals at different paces.
If not flat, this route is predominantly uphill. Charming. I like it because it uses up commute time and only crosses two or three quiet roads, the rest along designated walkway. It's also good because you can extend it by 1-2kms and run on to the next station (up to Merrylands, 12km) if you miss the train. Or perhaps that's not good.
The session was pretty tough, but I walked (hobbled) away with a new 1 km (3:35 minutes) and 1/2 mile (2:53 minutes) personal bests (estimated).
Victoria wasn't happy because her suffer score (69) was almost double mine (39). Lolz.
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