Running and more running

Sunday just gone saw another early morning run with my sometimes training partner Peyton. She has just recently done the Melbourne Marathon and is a very strong runner of about my pace so it's always a good quick run. We are both aiming for Marathons next year (Probably the Brisbane Marathon in April and Gold Coast in July)so it's good to have someone to run with. We are also running a 50k relay in 2 weeks time on the Gold Coast which I am really looking forward to.

So for the run we had two domestiques (Lionel - Peytons dad) and Belinda my fiance riding their bikes to provide us water/food as needed.

A nice relaxing run of 20k as we were reaching our turn around point Lionel starting talking to another walker/runner who started to run with us and it turned out she had run the London Marathon before and was over here from England on holidays. Amazing the people you meet when you are out running. So the run was fair pace with Peyton pushing hard most of the way ended up around the 1hr 40 mark for 20k which we were both pretty happy about.

Always good to have someone to train with makes me get out of bed early to go run.

Been a while

Yes its been a while since I posted something but I have lots of excuses honest !

Anyway last weekend saw us at Noosa for the Noosa triathlon, I was in a team doing the ride with a mate doing the run and swim. Spent Saturday having a look around the expo there and buying some new gear which is always on sale there. Also enjoyed watching the elite womens and criterium around the circuit. A little disappointed there was less attacking than normal in both races but then I guess that is racing.

Sunday was race day an I had been feeling really flat the days before so was concerned about how I would go. My mate did an amazing swim and we were top twenty after his effort. On to the bike for me and I figured I best go as hard as I can and worry later about blowing up. Like everyone I guess I let my mind tell my body how hard it can go so my mind limits me sometimes. I had a great ride 1hr 7 mins rack to rack. By this stage it was thirty degrees and the humidity was massive. When I came back in to transition we were still top 20.

My runner set out and we ended up 37th overall in our category which we were stoked about. Now the goals are to do better at Mooloolaba and I will have to get myself some tri bars before then as 40k riding in the drops was not great fun.