8.6km tempo run and I am fully sick!

best RHR this week a solid but mediocre 43 beats per minute. so still in the ballpark, but nothing like the breakthrough alltime best of 37 bpm from last week. Big news is I recorded a weight of 77.4kg this week, which confirms things are slowly heading in the right direction in that regard, although another 5-10kg would be good...

Thursday PM; 12.5km slow jog run in 1hr 27 min HR 132 at end.
Planned to do intervals this day, but felt sick all day, no energy, and decided instead to go on a slow easy jog/run exploring my lakes course to Adventure world and back. Stopped about 4 times to get little bits of stuff out of my shoes, didnt lace up tightly enough. Motivation was at 1% or so, totally didn't feel like running, and had no energy, but forced myself out there in the hope that by Sunday I would be feeling better and ready to race...The early trail bit was ok, but then I found they had put new bitumen on the trail section where the tiger snake sign is...great...(a) it meant the nice trail I was looking forward to had been replaced by harder bitumen duh! and (b) it was new bitumen so it kept sticking to my shoes...horrible...the next bit up to adventure world was better, and I got some ok slow running done, but then on the way back just jogged home via the rail/parks course as I wasnt going by the tiger snakes sign again on that sticky bitumen. A depressing grind of a run, , but probably helped in my quest to drop my weight a little, and confirmed to me that I was indeed sick, and not just imagining it.

Wednesday PM; Ran 8.6km in 41min 40 HR 174 at end. (4min 51 per K).
With Simon at the new BT running club, which I think is a cool initiative.
Was a progression run, i.e. the idea was to start at easyish but solid pace then try and step things up in the last few km to target of about 4.40's...

Enjoyed the run a lot, and had some good chats about various stuff. An honour to run with such an accomplished and experienced runner. He had his toddler in a running pram, but it was me that struggled to keep up all the way. Early on running at conversational pace...just...I found the going toughish, and sensed maybe we had started a touch too hard but wasn't sure, but with my inexperience at tempo/progression runs, I am still learning how to do this kind of run well, not a style of run I am used to or good at doing...

Was a spur of the moment decision to run. Was reading meters in Attadale that day, but could see that if I went home straight after work as I felt like doing I'd probably not run, and waste yet another day...so resolved to go check out BT even though I didn't really feel like it, and force myself out for a run...very glad i did.
Apart from the concrete near the ferry terminal the course out to past the Narrows was excellent, flat and fast mostly, and seeing the city lights of the CBD across the river on the way back in darkness of the night was surreal and a touch of awesomeness. Simon got me to accelerate after the ferry terminal, which was good, but probably overdid it a bit, and only lasted about a minute or so, before I backed off to jogging...we restarted agin on the road towards the finish in the last K or so, which was a solid continual but shallow uphill, and as we increased the pace up this hill I knew I was making some gains here...felt good. Finish was a pretty good downhill, and afterwards good chats with "Comrader" Kevin (who is slightly ahead of my times at the moment, but behind some of my PB's maybe?, so running at a level which is good for me to aim at beating...i.e. a challenge but an achievable one in the short term), Simon and others. The Mizuno Strands top is awesome, and I have got to get back to BT sometime soon, a really good addition to the training arsenal this one...

Planned race this Sunday was the Perth Half, but instead of attacking that (have to admit I wasnt keen on the last minute course changes through east perth...way too much concrete), I spent the weekend blowing my nose every 5 minutes, and learning about the federal election...
so pretty depressed about this week, although the wednesday night run was good, right now I am as sick as a dog...fully sick....so need to get better before I can resume the Melbourne attack...9 weeks left to get it right...need to get the long runs going, and also the quality in the week sessions going, know what I want to do, just cant get to it until I get better from this cold/flu...plus its tricky finding the time to do sessions, but I know I can do this...maybe next week I will get better from this siockness and blast off in earnest...need to get on with it, and a few other non running things I might add...so a bit :-( down in the dumps right now, but the moment I can snap out of it, hope to start training hard and often...