35min 29secs 8km PB keeps things ticking along

Wednesday 22nd July 2009 AD;
Ran approx. 5 miles (8km) in 35minutes 29 seconds HR 186 at end. Time-trial.

My only run this week.
Did a 10 lapper at the oval. Its a real blessing having this good oval about 100m from our rental house...Have done a lot of running on this flat grass 800m course this year...
Kicked it off with a pretty fast first 800m lap in 2min 49 (my quickest 800m split on this course so far this year and at 3.31 per K pace or 5.38 mile pace felt like I was pushing the limits a bit, which is good...) before settling into 4.35 per K stuff, which I maintained through to the end, with a solid but not all out faster last 800m (reckon I could have found another 5 seconds if I had sprint finished to the line, but held back a little, although did finish strongly)to knock off my PB on this course by 48 seconds improving on the 36.17 I did on 6th May 2009.

Pretty happy with this excellent time-trial. Had plans for a long run on the weekend and/or a run in the Run for Gold 10km (see the thread I started on Cool Running...nice to see Radar won the 10km in 31.05, (his older brother Ryan also nailed a 39min PB in the same race) before he ((another Canning Districts Athletics Club legends blog, in this case its Radar...) heads back to Europe/USA for his tilt at a World Dualathlon title, good PB's too for other Perth Bloggers like Biscuitman (37min zone) and 20thcentury boy (46min zone)...
But I digress...I also planned some shorter sessions during the week, but got too tied up with important work and family stuff, plus the struggle to pay the bills as per usual. Logged my second 50 hrs a week work effort in a row, including about 30 hours worth Thursday to Saturday, had towork most of saturday so had to enjoy hearing the last quarter of the 5th consecutive Fremantle Dockers demolition of the hapless Eagles in the derby on the radio on the way to my night job, where I enjoyed annoying the eagles fans at work by wearing my Freo scarf and beanie all night, along with at least three other purple army supporters there. The four of us in Docker purple heaven in a good mood, which was good cos it was a full-on night with 60-80 calls waiting most of the night...
Wasnt the best game by the sounds of things but the young guns like Deboer,Van Berlo,Ballantyne,Clarke,Pearce,Suban and Ruffles, plus the old hands like Big Pav and 211 did enough to worry the eagles into an 8 goals 18 points! muck up...plus bag 10 majors to seal the 5th consecutive derby win! If you count pre-season games and the London game where Worsfold rudely entered the Fremantle coaches box, we have smashed ém at least 7 times in a row, maybe more...Read all about it and weep or punch the air in delight, (or go back to sleep) as the case may be on that wonderful website Dockerland!

Of course my eagles fanatic wife wasn't too keen on talking footy on Sunday, (although we did watch the ex-eagle bennys Tiggers beat the Bombers on tv) and as i hadn't seem much of her and adorable almost 2years old Jacob Thursday to saturday except to wave goodbye in the mornings (but at least I dont work in the mines up north or live in another country feel sorry for those blokes), which was special especially as young jacob not only waves goodbye now but has added "See ya" to his fledgling vocabulary...so cute seeing him say see ya see ya see ya when I leave for work..Thanks God for the good moments of being a dad...although he did drop and break a plate this week while trying to "help" me wash the dishes...hahaha be many more I am sure...oh well all part of family life...Anyways I felt compelled to make the most of our time together Sunday, and had to go get some more petrol money from my parents (Drove about 500km this week as usual and about 800km-1000km the week before) but hoping the money situation will be a bit better as my metering money starts to kick in and we catch up on the bills that have been building up. Gotta get my tax refund...Hopefully our home loan application will come through approved soon too...had plans to explore a new long run course but just didn't get out the door...so maybe next week...Found a good clip of industrial alternative group Mortal (Enfleshed) this week live at Cornerstone...

Its time to start cranking up the training for hopefully the City 2 Surf Inaugural Marathon on August 30 and Melbourne Marathon attempt number 3 in October if my tax refund is good enough...Right knee has been sorer than usual this week, to the point where I couldnt get up off the couch without icepacking it or using my other torn ACL left knee...
Anyhow have to get some more sleep before another 14+ hour day at working my 2 jobs as it is now 3.30am (although I have grabbed 4 hours sleep already tonight) and my average for this week slipped into the redline territory of 5hours a night, so need to get it back over the 42hours for the coming week. Be interesting to see how Le Tour Le France finishes, with Contador leading Andy Schleck by a lot and the evergreen Lance in 3rd...the last i saw...Hopefully the Australians will work out how to play Freddie Flintoff and get it together to wrest back the ascendancy in The Ashes... Interesting quote on this series HERE, it goes like this;
Greg writes: See, this is the difference between England & Australia. If we (England) were given 522 to chase, we'd do the decent thing and get bowled out in a day for 175, leaving everybody with a nice day off and the Sports columnists could turn their attention to which mercenary is going to turn up at Manchester City next. Not you lot though, no you have to go and chase them down. Whatever happens, a magnificent effort, fair play boys.