Lobbed back into beautiful Sydney last night after a long day of meetings and presentations. Accordingly I opted not to head to Timbrell with the masses at 6am but instead cruised down to Lane Cove National Park to do my own sekrit training.
A good 3km warmup on the way and the plan was for 4 x 1km reps between the 8km and 7km markers for the Striders 10km course, this being the "flatest" 1km section by my reckoning.
Banged out the reps as follows
3:58 (slight uphill from 8 to 7)
3:50 (yep felt like a bit more down)
3:58
3:54
Pretty happy that I could knock out 4 sub 4 min km right now, these were done with 2 min walking recovery.
Cruised back home, with Ellie's mention of menacing kookaburra's reminding me that it must be very close to magpie season and there is one particularly tenacious bugger that I sometimes encouter on this run.
Thanks for the tip on Easy Tiger Lulu, he was in fact my secret weapon to try and sort out the tender achilles but it seems the whole world has discovered him now and you need to plan your injuries in advance to see him :). So I adopted plan B which was the witch doctor and he diagnosed some very tight spots in the LH calf. Half a dozen needles later, plus an injection, hopefully some of Floyds unused testosterone he reckons I'm back on track!
5 comments:
not good to hear about the achilles mate (or the kookaburra). Take care of yourself, and we'll catch up in a couple of days!
hope you are right back on track - those reps sounded very fast!! see you sunday :) (unless there is a magpie accident in the interim...)
Gotta love sekrit training. Your secret is safe with me ;-)
See you Sunday!
Nice reps Dave. Your achilles can join my hamstring at the start line on Sunday. See you there mate.
Secret training is often the best when you want to secretly surprise!
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