Strides : Half Marathon Taper
Very windy today. Left the run until later, the usual Aranda loop with the addition of 8 x 20 seconds and 2 x 40 seconds all up hill. The reason for the up hill...there is no flat, too steep to run down fast. Some of my friends may have done strides out there as well although I doubt it. Best to be in the gym of somewhere else today. I know one who did strides on the treadmill!
I make my second debut into Athletics Victoria (the mecca of Australian Distance Running) this weekend in the Victorian Half Marathon Championships, running for Old Scotch Collegians. My friend and some time training partner Keith runs for the same combined APS team in M50+ during the XC season. They have been doing very well, locked in a battle with Keilor.
It's been almost a decade since I last raced with Athletics Victoria. I did four partial cross country seasons and one full track season in the decade I lived in Melbourne. While the track season was memorable I'd rather forget the cross country seasons. When I arrived in Melbourne in 1989 I weighed under 55kg and was extremely fit. Within months I had piled on 5+kg and then 1kg extra each year after that. Such is a life built around cafes, restaurants, dining out in beautiful streets and actually having enough money to afford it all. I would never give back those beautiful Melbourne years. Glad I get a second chance at a few Athletics Victoria Cross Country seasons, even if living remotely elsewhere. This time around I will be much better as an M50 than I was back then as M30.
Some mostly sad results. The one and only cross country highlight at an 8km XC in Deakin University Geelong, racing Hunters & Collectors Mark Seymour to the line in a quick time.
05/05/1991 Sandown Relay 6.2km Road 19:37
06/07/1991 Brimbank 16km XC 56:16
20/07/1991 15km Road 48:16 (10km split 32:00)21st
09/05/1992 Sandown Relay 6.2km Road 20:24
23/05/1992 Deakin Uni 8km XC 24:23
23/04/1994 Sandown Relay 6.2km Road 20:31
14/05/1994 Caulfield 10km Road 34:42
16/07/1994 Brimbank 16km XC 57:39 60th
Sandown Relay 1992
I make my second debut into Athletics Victoria (the mecca of Australian Distance Running) this weekend in the Victorian Half Marathon Championships, running for Old Scotch Collegians. My friend and some time training partner Keith runs for the same combined APS team in M50+ during the XC season. They have been doing very well, locked in a battle with Keilor.
It's been almost a decade since I last raced with Athletics Victoria. I did four partial cross country seasons and one full track season in the decade I lived in Melbourne. While the track season was memorable I'd rather forget the cross country seasons. When I arrived in Melbourne in 1989 I weighed under 55kg and was extremely fit. Within months I had piled on 5+kg and then 1kg extra each year after that. Such is a life built around cafes, restaurants, dining out in beautiful streets and actually having enough money to afford it all. I would never give back those beautiful Melbourne years. Glad I get a second chance at a few Athletics Victoria Cross Country seasons, even if living remotely elsewhere. This time around I will be much better as an M50 than I was back then as M30.
Some mostly sad results. The one and only cross country highlight at an 8km XC in Deakin University Geelong, racing Hunters & Collectors Mark Seymour to the line in a quick time.
05/05/1991 Sandown Relay 6.2km Road 19:37
06/07/1991 Brimbank 16km XC 56:16
20/07/1991 15km Road 48:16 (10km split 32:00)21st
09/05/1992 Sandown Relay 6.2km Road 20:24
23/05/1992 Deakin Uni 8km XC 24:23
23/04/1994 Sandown Relay 6.2km Road 20:31
14/05/1994 Caulfield 10km Road 34:42
16/07/1994 Brimbank 16km XC 57:39 60th
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