Gold Coast Holiday and then back home.

Well I haven't updated this blog for more than 3 weeks!

The last 3 weeks have looked like this:

Week 1 - Gold Coast holiday. Ran a total of 60kms even though it was extremely humid. I tried running early in the morning, at night and during the middle of the day but I could not escape the humidity at any time and I always returned pouring with sweat. The highlight for me was running the 10km stretch from Burleigh Heads to Surfers Paradise, just as they do in the Coolangatta Gold which is one of my favourite sporting events.

As usual when I am on holidays, I ate and drank everything in sight so the belly began to grow!

Week 2 - Back home and managed a total of 64kms. Didnt do any speed work, just focused on building back up consistently and trying to do some sort of run every day of the week.

Week 3 - Same as week 2 but this time I managed 70kms!!! First time above 70kms for several months. Things are on the improve. Let's hope I can carry this momentum through to the following weeks.

Sadly at the moment I weigh 77kg so I had better get my act together and lose some weight fast! I will be returning to doing some light speed work this week but overall just trying to build my weekly mileage up and then trying to hold a good level. I am going to aim for about 75km this week.

One step forward, two steps back...

Well.. what can I say? Things seem to be going from bad to worse. After being sidelined for a week with the flu, I managed about 40km for the following week and then have a guess what happened? Yep I got sick again! This time it was not as bad but it still put me out of action for about 3 days meaning that once again my weekly mileage ends up being about 40km. I am a long way off where I want to be but I suppose I will just have to be patient. The last six months have been an absolute horror stretch with a combination of minor things just adding up to play havoc with my training.

Next week I will be going to the Gold Coast for a short holiday. This will give me the chance to do some nice relaxing running however as we know, the kms have to be built up slowly so I can only hope for about 50km. Its frustrating but as long as I am sensible, I will remain injury free and over the long term, the training load will build up and when I hit 100km per week, I believe I will be certain to run some serious PB's.

Also last night I finally uploaded part 1 of my own amateur Melbourne Marathon video. Here is the url http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoHLZyy8Ug4&feature=feedu