Looking forward to the next few weekends

Hoping to get to the Masters athletics this thursday (18th March) night, to have a hitout before the Australian Masters in April, to get some base times for the 1500m and 10,000m, to try and work on. Not expecting much as my speedwork has been practically non-existent most weeks this year, but hope to turn that around in a big way in the next few weeks, and do some serious intervals. Bridges 10k I hope to lob in somewhere between 43-50minutes.

Have held onto resting heart rates of around 46-47 bpm on my good days so far this year, which is a much better start to the year than 2009. My weight is sitting around 79kg, which is not too bad, and I hit 78kg for the first time in a long time, last thursday on the back of significant dehydration after 8-9 hours of fast meter reading in humid 38 degree heat (was under pressure to clear 500 reads (one was at a Bikie clubhouse) by the due date that day, and made it with about 12 minutes to spare). I stupidly only took 2 litres of drinks, and forgot to take money or a debit card (i.e. do the Dean Karnazes thing and order a pizza, and extra drinks while out in the field) to buy more while out there as well, so had to survive on 2.5 litres of water at heart rates of about 100-150, a can of sprite lemonade I managed to convince the shopkeeper to give me for 70 cents, and good old fashioned determination. Another 2-3 litres would have been good, especially some gatorade, staminade or powerade. My no 1's was distinctly dark that night, so reckon I was in a pretty significant state of dehydration, although not as catastrophic as one training 23km+ racewalk I did in Armadale in the late 1980's/early 1990's when I was vomiting up water by the end...This level of dehydration probably was what got me to 78.4kg, that night, in a similiar way to Jockeys going into the sauna before races, or Danny Green losing too much weight to make Mundines boxing weight in their only fight to date. So I think my sustainable weight is still about 79.6kg, but want to head into the low 70's or even high 60's at some point in 2010.

Training and racing (was hoping to have a shot at the 1k at Masters at Coker park on thursday night but was too busy with the 8-9 hour meter reading day until about 1748hours...) didnt happen this week. Work took over again, and on the weekend I was sleeping 8hrs a night, and getting busy with family stuff. I think I needed a good week off anyway, so two weeks to recover from the 6 hour track race, is probably a good thing as long as I bounce back from here on. My plans for the next two weekends should ensure that occurs, as long as injury stays away. I still feel I am well positioned for the year ahead, although I have to step it up significantly training and racingwise in the coming months at some point.
Was nice to get in a lightning 5minute bodysurf at Secret Harbour on Sunday night (that was all the time the wife would allow me, and that was hard to get), felt very invigorated after that. I see Dave Kennedy did a 1.23 at Darlington, to back up well after his 12 hour race win of 118km 2 weeks ago, and stay ahead of Motor Matthews. Well done to Rob D. on backing up with a 1.47 after the 6 hour race too. Have put up some photos from my 6 hour race on my Blog command page here...

I decided against Darlington due to (a), hating the course, and (b) being too busy and worn out. Have to check andf see how others went, would be good Boston prep for Clown and Epi I would think, and also keen to see how Jane E. and John C., Ewen , others went at 6 foot track as well, when I get time to check the results later this weekend. Had some annoying pain in the last 24 hours in the medial upper thigh, it feels like a pinched nerve or a minor groin strain or something, maybe some groin stretches or a chiropracter visit in the next few days if it doesnt go away...2 weeks until the almighty Fremantle Dockers start thrashing everyone in the AFL...(although they might have trouble with St Kilda,Bulldogs and Geelong)...

In salute to Big Kev; Keep on running (even when you dont run at all for more tyhan a week due to the need to go into a Cerutty style hibernation for a few days, and meter reading and work stuff)...onward...