Summer Leaves, Autumn Arrives

The official results from the Twilight Half put me down for a chip time of 1:31:47 and a third place in the M50 - 59 Category. I took comfort from the fact that in that race nobody older than me beat me.

I don't know where the 4 seconds difference between my own timing and the chip's comes from. So I didn't get to beat my Over 50 PB. That will have to wait till Doomben next month.

The race took at little time to recover from and I picked up an ear infection as well in the week after so it has been slow getting back into full training.

The last two weeks have seen me do 94k an 99k including a 31.5k run on Sunday morning . On some days I have done a 2.5k run in the morning with my son Kewell to help him get some fitness for the soccer season. At around 6min/k they are really recovery paced runs.

One session a week now is a long tempo run (9.5k) which at the moment I am averaging at around 4:20 pace but the last couple of Ks is under 4:10. When I get more used to that pace, I will start upping the distance.

At last the humidity and temperature has dropped over April and conditions are now starting to get very pleasant for training.

At ZeRO, they have had a May Music Mixathon to start off May. I have put up three mixes over the last few days. Details here if you are interested and here if you want to listen.

Swine Flu? I don't know how I would go having to run in a face mask.