SMH Half Marathon Sun 18th May 2008

6500 entrants this year and I started about a third of the way down the pack. It took about kilometre to get past the slower runners and settled down to a pace of about 4.1 min/k. I wanted to beat my PB of 87.57 but not thrash myself.
I came through 10k at 41 mins and faded in the last couple of k's to come home in 87.03 net or 4.12mins/k. Fairly pleased with that as I had trained pretty hard during the week and work was a thrasher.
The weather was perfect. Greg L. unfortunately dropped out with a hamstring problem but Mike K. ran well in 99 mins.
Afterwards ran to Balmain to meet Alison at her cafe followed by a great family get together at her place. Very nice.

Church Point Challenge STAR

This starts off with a big, big hill, which I ran OK. That broke up the group leaving just three of us. After the hill I was able to fall into a steady rhythm and felt good plugging away at 4.2 to 4.5 min/k. The final hill up to Warriewood was a challenge but one at the top it was an easy run home to Narrabeen.

Flu

No running Mon to Thu due to flu. Felt crappy so I rested. On Friday went out for a slow ramble round Cape Banks then up to Maroubra, along the beach, back round Malabar headland and home.
No running Saturday due to work and Serena's confirmation.

Striders Homebush Star 30K - 4-5-08

Interesting 30K run around the mostly flat suburbs of Homebush, Newington, Ermington and Concord. It took 2h 20 including a few pit stops. Felt good, ran well.
Watched Rohan Castro's footy match afterwards.

Striders 10k Homebush

A perfect morning cool with no wind and a flat track. After being away all week I was feeling very lethargic and was happy to come home in 39.50.

Working at in Kangaroo Valley

Spent the week away working at Tallowa Dam Kangaroo Valley. Beautiful mountainous scenery. Ran the 21k's to work one day. Fog bound, freezing and silent. A giant tree suddenly fell beside me. It came down with a tremendous CRACK!! followed by a tearing, rushing cacophany, then silence.
A strange experience. Is it an omen?