a good long run

It’s been a little while since I last posted. Apologies, gentle Jruns readers. You’re entitled to expect better from your humble correspondent. In future I will try harder.

So what’s been happening? Well, for one thing, it was the weekend; a time when, amongst other things, I am blessedly free of all things web-related. I have even been known to go without looking at a computer for days on end. True.

Also, I’ve needed to get my running mojo back, after a simply horrid week struggling with the flu.

In retrospect, it may have been wiser not to struggle so hard. I’m thinking particularly of an ill-advised 10k run last Wednesday, and an even more ill-advised 14k the following day. Neither of these really helped my recovery a great deal. In fact, I felt positively nauseous for most of last week.

Ah well, we live and learn. Or at least we live.

I finally saw sense last Friday and took the day off.

Saturday was much better. I had a very pleasing hill session, using the mobile phone to time 2 minute up-hill sections. Quite fun.

Yesterday I met a couple of guys from the Eastern Suburbs Running Group at Croydon Athletics track for a nice long run. The weather was good, the gods were in alignment and for once everything worked.

I think it’s been at least 2 weeks since I had an enjoyable run, it’s been pretty much a hard slog.

Yesterday was a real exception though. 31.7k done at around 5 minutes per k pace. I felt pretty good for most of it, with the exception of a section in Nunawading when I could feel my blood-sugar dropping. I pushed through it, and perked up a little later when we ran through a light shower.

Everything’s back on track, touch wood (and anything else you may have at hand).