Perfect Timing
Posted by plu, Yesterday, 12:11 AM
Hi all,
Penno road semi trailer 6km, 40:15
6.12
5.59
6.25
3.22 stretching
5.33
6.07
6.45
Now let me explain. This was to be my last run for the month because I think it will give me 100 km for July and given my health and days off I am pretty happy with that. This morning 17b wanted the car because he had an appointment during the day. I took my gear and arranged for to have a run. In the arvo it was raining all the time and I did not want to risk my health with me going in a few days to Cairns.
So I got a lift home. Tonight after watching PM Live I decided to go for a run at 10:30pm. I headed out very slowly as my times suggest and just before 3 km I felt a twinge in my right hammy. Never happened to me before. So I stopped and stretched for 3:22 seconds and slowly made my way home.
Just putting this out there, I don't know if it would be true and happy for some input. This is the first training run since the end of May when I have not run with the Inner Muscle longs and top - I wonder if the lack of tightness sprang lose my hammy?
Anyway I have put on some ice had a shower and not too worried as I was now planning to have a few weeks off and it seems my body is telling me to have a rest. I might spend a few weeks doing some stretching, some core work and come back with a plan for the rest of the year..
cheers Plu
Pennant Hills Road Run - Video
Posted by plu, Jul 27 2010, 12:22 AM
Hi all,
6 km penno road run, 38:08
18:08
19:59
I headed out at 10:20pm, took the Flip camera to show you why I like this run so much. Enjoy.
Plu
Weekend That Was
Posted by plu, Jul 25 2010, 06:52 PM
Hi all,
Sunday 6km, 34:26
5.42
5.56
5.48
5.38
5.50
5.29
Rugby yesterday at Cranbrook big win to 17b's team but did not get a run on in the Firsts. In the evening we went to a 50th birthday at Roseville Bowling Club.
Followed the evening up with the Tour de France time trial.
Everyone in the family got up after midday today.
Just on sunset I went for the run. Well done those runner son the cool M7 Marathon Course today. Now back to the Election Debate.
cheers Plu
Thursday 6km And Soul Running
Posted by plu, Jul 22 2010, 09:54 PM
Hi all,
Thursday 6km 37:18
5.59
5.54
6.19
6.23
6.03
6.38
I took Thomo's advice - starting back easily. I was sitting at home just pottering on the computer and just thought I feel like a run - first since last week- and out the door I went for a penno road run. It was so easy to start with I thought I would keep going along penno road for 10 km but at the 3km turnaround I turned. At 4 km I looked into a pizza place on the corner at Thornleigh and one of my students was in there celebrating her 18th birthday. I just waved through the window, mouthed happy birthday and kept running.
A while ago Tim made this blog post:
When I run long, I am talking real long, for moments my front brain just turns off. For the briefest moment it stops the endless chatter and is quiet. It is in those moments I get a glimpse of my subconscious, I get a glimpse of my soul.
Running is my path to god.
http://timothyturner.blogspot.com/2010/07/...-is-my-god.html
I read it a week or so ago and Tim reminded me of 1997 where I gave a Chapel address where I argued that running was my religion. There is an obvious spiritual connection for me when I run - ultimately to be one with the world and yourself. When it clicks I call it my Soul Run. Also Sunday runs made it difficult to go to Mass
I have been through many stages with running. Running has dominated my life at the expense of my friends , family and loved ones. It has just been part of my life and work. I have been evangelical about it, passionate about it and know how much I love it when I am missing it.
Today after dropping off 17 b for an early morning Extension Maths lesson I drove into the car park next to the oval at work and the students were training for the up coming athletics carnivals. I realised I was automatically was watching students doing intervals. I was even walking up the hill backwards looking at stride length, cadence, posture and speed of the intervals.
I cannot help myself. I just love running.
cheers Plu
I Love Election Time
Posted by plu, Jul 20 2010, 09:58 PM
Hi all,
Warning - nothing to do with running.
In Australia we have an election coming up on 21 August 2010. I love election time.
One of the things I most like about the election time is not so much who wins but trying to read what society’s collective consciousness is going to do and who will win the election. IN the past these two photos reveal how I have learnt about elections and politics. This is not the case any more – or should it be?
Soon after the #spill I was able to find a whole heap of media and political people on Twitter because I was able to follow the conversations about the spill. Having recently experiencing my third birthday on Twitter I realised it has taken a while for a wider cross section of society, media and politicans to use Twitter.
I have also noticed, until the most recent obvious political followers, that there seems to be a predominance of the less conservative views been expressed by those I follow. Recently during my holidays I made a conscious effort to compare the views I was picking up on Twitter and comparing them to views I read in the newspapers. By this I mean I actually read the papers and read them cover to cover – something I never do. I started to see arguments and viewpoints that were not being expressed on Twitter. In fact I was starting to believe that the views I was reading on Twitter were the only issues. So I am grateful for my most recent in depth holiday readings because I believe I was getting a blinkered view about what I believed to be the issues for the election.
Can this collective consciousness be represented through the media? Now that the media is so diverse is it much harder to do or is it being more representative but harder to read?
At least now I have realised I have to look beyond Twitter to attempt the find the answer. Does everyone who uses a #lateline to express a view on an issue ? – No they do not- and are these views representative of reasons and rationales for predicting the outcome of an election? Don’t know the answer to that one but I will soon find out.
cheers Plu
Struggling
Posted by plu, Jul 18 2010, 07:04 PM
Hi all,
Struggling health wise at the moment - I suspect running a half not 100% and running it well has taken its toll.
So doing nothing, thinking running and trying to keep the weight under 80kg.
I have compared my stats for 6km runs over two periods. The two graph below show the comparisons for over 115 six km runs.
Heart rate and pace average good in recent incarnation.
cheers Plu
Avoca 6.7 Km And Back In Penno
Posted by plu, Jul 16 2010, 09:53 PM
Hi all,
6.7 km 38:40 AHR 131
5.36
5.57
6.12
5.51
5.45
5.58
3.18
Flat stage of tour and taped it - saw on Twitter something had happened so watched it as if live this morning. Interesting decision.
Back home now.
cheers Plu
Avoca Beach 6.7 Km
Posted by plu, Jul 15 2010, 10:52 PM
Hi all,
6.7 km, 35:04, ahr 133
5:24 176??
5:36 130
5:36 134
5:04 138
5:10 136
5:16 146
2:55 137
Some thing wrong with the HRM seems to lock in the first km. I have done this run three times now with each one successively faster and with me feeling better each time.
With the Tour out of the mountains I have not watched all night. Watching Cadel the other night was enough for me - top shelf rider and guy.
Been thinking about my running - no I mean my exercise. Instead of running more km, faster or more frequently I am going to keep up with the six km runs - it works for me.
I just find 30-40 minutes is not long and I am doing it easily - well I will be again soon when I get the health 100%. So I have to make an effort to ride and swim a bit more when it warms up and remember to get in my entry to the Nepean Tri in on time this year.
But none of this will happen till after I come back from FNQ in the middle of August. It will be unlikely that I will get any runs in while away - as on duty pretty much 24/7 with the students. This will make it hard to get 100km for the month of August - so I am going to treat it as a rest fortnight.
cheers Plu
Two Rest Days And 6.5 Km Run
Posted by plu, Jul 14 2010, 08:45 PM
Hi all,
6.5 - 6.8 km AHR 138, 36:32
5.28 171 hangs here for a while and for no real reason
5.49 122
5.49 128
5.35 125
5.29 131
5.26 145
2.54
Essentially health has been less than 100% for three weeks now. On Monday I rang two Doctors surgeries in Sydney and visited two on the central coast. I got in at Terrigal at 12:45 Tuesday as the earliest and the latest next week.
Normally I let this stuff run its course but given I am with a group of 40 of 160 Year 9 students for two weeks from August 1 in FNQ I thought I should make sure if I needed antibiotics I would run the course now and get 100%.
Well no antibiotics but 5 tablets and 5 days of steroids so I can breath - hope there is no knock on the door to test me as an athlete 
Got back to the car to be greeted by a flat tyre.
cheers Plu
Sunday 6.5km And Monday Rest Day
Posted by plu, Jul 12 2010, 11:00 PM
Hi all,
6.5 km , 37:27
5:31
5:56
6:03
5:44
5:26
5:40
3:05
Still chesty but went for a decent run on Sunday and had a rest day today. Jenny came back to Avoca on Sunday night with 14g and headed back on Monday Morning. Gordon came over for brekky and when he left local runner Glenn Ritchie drove by and stopped for a chat. After Glenn went Jenny rang to say she left her laptop so I had an unexpected trip back to Sydney a day earlier than I planned.
cheers Plu
