..jojo does a good impression of a burglar

..yep..im surprised i wsnt accosted by the police. I have been ABSOLUTELY exhausted lately so i said to stu to take K to aths so i can hve a rest after i drop you off.
dropped them off and had a lay down for half hour, then decided to go to the shops. buying groceries in a basket when i noticed that my diet drink of choice was on special so got trolley. went back emptied the basket and saw my keys, toodle off, stop at the deli, decide to buy some really expensive gelati ($9 for a container) for the boys for dessert, then out to the car to put it in the boot. what do you mean i dont have my keys.shite.oh well mustve left it at one of the 3 stores, went to all of them, nup no keys.....bugger bugger bugger
and bc i was only popping out for a min, i didnt even bring my phone, and i was supposed to pick up stu and the boys an no way of contacting stu... bugger..ask the lady in the patisserrie shop if she can call me a cab(well first i left my trolley there and hooned around like a madwomn for a while) so waiting for the cab, very dismayed at my melting gelati cos i dont know if i can break in at my house, then think , if i can find apayphone i can text stu(cos when i rang from the shop, his phone didnt go to voicemail.....d'oh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) go and text from the pyphone but worried the cab would come, wait for a bit then ask coles to keep my stuff there as i might run home(not a proper sports bra i might add either) give up on the cab and start runing (in sandals!) then see the cab, double back, chasing after the cab, waving arms frantically...lol, yes i looked as ABSURD s that sounds
lady picks me up and takes me home. she was very nice, sked if i wanted her to wait but assured her i ws fine. searched around the house to see if i could break in., nup, only the front window open(a tiny bit). lucky i skinny forearms and fingers but it does show that we have left te windows open to far.
and for dignity(i was wearing a skirt, scouted around in the garage and found some shorts to put on because i kind had to do a slow motion fosby flop to get into the house(head first legs last)(those roll out windows dont roll out very far, it was quite funny really
then change into gear, grab phone and run down to my car (3kms on my REST day too!!!!) lol
pick up my shopping, still no keys
the only redeeming thing is THANK god i took my car and not stu's.
racing 3kms tomorrow so 2 glasses of wine and thats it

oh yeah did a hot and bothered 5km run yesterday about 5.35 pace but it felt rubbish

anyway early night tonight, surprisingly, i didnt really feel that refreshed after this morning. go figure!

..thanks guys

thanks for the nice words regarding tuesday. i was just out of sorts and feeling completely shocked at how badly(i thought) i ran
and im not crap-im just not as good as i want to be! im okay compared to a lot of people, and crap compared to a lot of people, but people in my age are in the minority

In retrospect, 2.41 for me is not terrible as a rule, i was just expecting so much better from my training indicators and 1500 last week- getting my head around it now-stu wont agree thouhg....lol

anyway i mentioned to stu in my scowling-NESS of the last two days that maybe i needed to do more speed and the reason im doing better in 1500s than 800s is because not enough speed work...lol i am a bit of a brat..
anyway true to form he said fine(of course he had decided many weeks back about todays set), thursday is HOT 300s...im sure he was astonished at my reply of "good"
had to run 4.3kms with the slowest school boys on earth today. i seriously coulda WALKED faster!!!!!!
then straight off for the reps
asked stu what time he thought and he said fast, flat out? yep, so what time do you reckon 53s
okey dokey
sat on the outside part of lane one(not allowed to be on the inside!) but i worked my way over
51.4s wow fast and flat chat 5min rest
52.4 sec and gee was working hard-legs bit wobbly last 100 5min rest
53.4 sec ---geee this was even tougher, felt bit sick after- 6 min rest
53.4sec-was trying not to let the little tacker on my inside beat me
laid on the ground for a bit after this set
then ran 2 laps i socks..maybe ill trial this getting stronger in the feel by running barefoot for few mins after a set???????
racing at wyndham this week, but need to get through a light run tomorrow and sat first and try to get rid of the overwhelming fatigue that im feeling every dys
its okay though, i get to taper in two weeks!

..worst race of the season

yep it was complete nd utter rubbish.
there were people who'se times were behind me so was quite excited at the prospect of NOT being last

felt sluggish in warm up-legs just wouldnt move. extended the warm up, and noticed how bad my run throughs were
no excuses i ran like shit. lucky i ran well thursdy or i would think im completely terrible

anyway the plan was to stick with the pack a little, i went out quite fast 36 in the first 200 and was quite upset to be a few metres last, i think my head just couldnt cope with being last AGAIN(since i thought i wouldnt be but people pulled out) and it kinda took the wind out of my sails :( 76 for the first lap and finished with DISMAL and disgusting 2.41
its a minimum of 4 seconds slower than expected. am pretty gutted and feel like a crap runner :(

..more racing tomorrow :)

okerly dokerly
been trying to get my head around my last race. raced well but the MOST humiliating run of my life!
anyway nuff said
the weekend was a weekend of stu, we picke dup his son friday night, went to dinner, got up in the morning drove him to geelong for little aths regions, then hung around all day, then dropped stu at a bucks night, then fed his son, then got up and drove him to geelong all day the next day...

lol-and YES HE WAS EXTREMELY grateful! saturday morning after the drop off, i did my run which was 44mins including2x500 tempo, first rep 4.24 pace, 2nd rep 4:16pace -stu had set 4.30 but i wanted to push. sunday morning 55ish min run, 10kms...and i struggled
...oh and btw quite a few are in my training group so i was interested and wanted to watch a lot of the races!
then we realised we had dinner plans last night which meant my homework didnt get done and i had to teach double twelves kind off the cuff! went REALLY REALLY well actually.
rest day today as i am racing tomorrow. the fastest girl is 2.28 in my heat, slowest is 2.40 so i wont be last...woohoo... stu wants me to go out hard(not ridiculous and see if i can sit with the pack for a bit and hope not to blow up...risky but nothing wrong with me trying to have a proper race. am planning on removing my watch(i check at 200/600) and i think sometimes i go...oops too fast
my sports doc has changed practices but where she will be is not overly convenient for me so im going to stick where i am and see how i go. the physio was goig to give me dry needles, but we agreed since i hate it soooooooooooooo much, well see if mobilisation and the inferential??(which she isad is kinda like acupuncture(its a current running through)

so 800 tomorrow, would love to run well...am hoping :)

..that was a hard 1500 mentally

..okay so the mars bar goes to ewen who said 5.38.x but id rather give it to ajh who predicted 5.34 since he knew i wanted to be 5.35 or better...lol
..now im relatively tough mentally, but i FALTERED somehwat before the race hen after the start list was released, i said to the lady, am i the slowest, by a long way? YEP..GREAT
next girl is 5.20, i have recently pbd at 5.37..... aaaaaaghghghg. that is really hard to get your head around. My mind tried to disembowel my Whole race but as stu said we discussed it, it would be like a timetrial. well thats fine in theory, PRETTY damn DEMORALISING in real life.
i found it very difficult to put that toe near the line
..within 100m i was afew metre behind, after the 200 i pretty much didnt see people(and i went through in 40s)
400 in 86, (too fast but its hard not to!) 800 in 2.56, 1200 in 4.29 not much kick in the last 300 for a final time of 5.36.9
on the VERY positive side, i got an ADULT pb (in a time trial really)but it was the most humiliating race i have ever run. I even felt bad for me...lol
I was noticeably 100+ metres behing everyone in a very very public forum. if i didnt need the race so much (as not much racing around at mo)i wouldnt have finished..... :( well yes i would, i dont know if ive ever dnf'd in a real race(have in a 3km, which is not my event and i said id decide at 1km)
probably worth a 5.35 if i had had anyone within COOEEE

i survived, it will help me with my races campaign coming up, i just have to suck it up. I WOULDVE thought there would be at least a 5.30 runner!!!!!!!! i coulda dealt with that. so kinda mixed feelings, looking forward to the milers. Even if youre way behind, you only have to suck it up for 2 mins or so not 5!!!!! i think ill get 2.36/35-got 2.37.0 last time

..way too tired but still training well

... good set thurs...OMG could i be being more positive about the running?
anyway saturday was a reps set in the pool (being good, but also barney is being NAUGHTY at the moment(and my sports doc is unavailable-really hope she is okay)
so the set 10x200(40s) with 60s recov
i ran all up for 44mins and when i did the rep set, i was working WAY hard, i did an ACTIVE recovery for the 60s then off to the shield final, where our underage girls team won -woohoo

on the sunday i was due for a 60min run, but then i ran with lauren P for the 70 mins9didnt want her to get lost) and we were having a good chat anyway -shes a nice gal (GB on the forum)
Em, shes having some shin issues so i suggested she pm you as the resident expert
-then as the boys had done all 'our stuff all weekend' we gave them the choice for lunch and an activity of their choice. Pancake Parlour it was then a video game arcade(i went shopping for a while)
then monday had a parent information night so didnt leave school til 8.20(ughgghgh some parents are annoying but then thats all part of it)-so straight after school i went to the pool and did a 36 min pool run(equates to 6.5kms) and yes i have to count my water running kms as it is a long term thing and i need the comparison
-then tonight felt faint before my set tonight. i even had loolies(never have lollies, im a savoury gal) in case it was blood sugar(about the third time in the last two weeks i have been feeling faint, maybe i need electrolytes after long runs????? really not sure but it has been a few times lately(when i trained for the mara, i felt faint all the time..i thought at the time low blood pressure and started eating a bit of licorice, which helped somewhat
..maybe just OVERTIRED?
anyway, warmup i was like stu, any chance of moving to 400s..
his set was 3x600s long recov with first 400@90 (1500 pace) and hten speed up for last 200
strides was like-are you kidding me? the legs are unhappy..was feeling very grumpy indeed and wondering how i would do the set...oh and it was windy as all hell!(only ran into the wind once per 600)

errr dont ask me what happened i n the first rep....i was possessed
i ran 82 for the first 400 and then 40 for the last 200 so 2.02 for 600....errr 8s too fast missy and my 2.37 i ran 1.56 for the forst 600!!!!
4-5min recovery
legs wobbly -oops
out to fast in the first 200(41) then slowed 85 at the 400 sped up against all my legs wobbling and me wanting to step off hte trap mind games! and ran 2.07
final rep was a killer, 86 for the 400 and then 41 so 2.07

so faster than was probs expected(stu prob expected 2.10) but i also probs worked harder than expected

rest day tomorrow-woohoo racing a 1500 at Olympic Park on thursday-quite excited
stu wants me to do 5.35..i will be amazed but very happy if this happens..not convinced though-have only broken 5.40 once since i returned to running...... okay peoples-whats the prediction
a mars bar to the nearest person ;)

...ooooh that was a bit hard

..heard what tonights set was and thought....yeah thats not too hard

600 @2.10 so 43s per 200 active recovery(4mins)
2x400@ 78-80s active recov
3x300@ 58s
4x200@ 43 with 200 floating recoveries

i thought-gee a good set,yep with how ive been training, no worries

it was wet and yukky!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! took me an hour to get home...d'oh

anyway felt sluggish and couldnt even keep up in the warm up which doesnt bode well

..anyway i ran 2.11 for the 600 but it was hard..then walk and jog recov, then the 400 in 78 then had to go to the loo-upset tummy and was disappointed with an 81s lap until i realised only 1 s off what was et.
still not feeling fabbo, legs were still slugs
300 in 56high, stu dropped it to 2x300(conditions were pretty rottenz) 2nd 300 in 56 low
200s were all 40 or 41 with a 50m walk then 150jog recov

i found the set pretty damn tough i have to say! anyway, was a bit disappointed as i felt so strong the last few weeks, felt like a hippo swimming through water today :(

tuckered out little jojo now

..miss j wilts in the heat

..ughghghghg
no aircon is sh!t, i gotta tell you
My school can tel us all they like its for environmental reasons, but it is very hard to teach(and learn) int eh sticky sticky conditions that 3x 30+ days brings..its disgusting! sweaty all day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! there is a moderate amount of air con in one of the buildings.....

anyway...nuff said
today when i was supposed to go for my run, i felt exhausted, tired, sore feet, sore back and was really looking for an axcuse not run, i found one as soon as i laid down on the bed and pronptly fell asleep for half hour(and i went to bed b4 10 oclock last night
i kinda just wilted..........................

anyway trained super well last night
set was going to be 2x1km, 3x800 or 5x800 @ not nsure what pace, not as fast as last week sonce 2 min recov
it was 30 degrees at the track again so stu changed to (what i thought was 5x600) at 97s per lap with 2min recov
-that was too slow for me and i couldnt stick to it, my reps for 600 were 2.18 (92slap),2.16, 2x 2.20 when i sat behind stu, 2.17 and a 2.15(5th rep)
after the 5th rep stu's told me there was a 6th.i honestly hadnt realised this and was like d'oh!!!!!!!!!!!!!
anyway faster than planned but was pretty consistent and felt REALLY strong.. couldnt have gone muuuuch faster but reckon i couldve just about held it for 800m

dinner time... catch ya round....................like a rissole.... a hot boiled rissole that is :( lol

..needed goggles for todays wate run!

okey dokey-where was i up tookay thursday was the last post
saturday- went water running(looking after back) been having shin and heel niggles so we decided it was the best option but stu told me i had to work hard.
so 40mins all up, with 10x(200 efforts) which mean 10x 40s effort with 60s recovery.i worked soooooooooooooooooooooo hard......
then off to region final-team manager of one team do running around a bit..
woohoo................. mens div1,div3mmens u16 and girls u18 all won. mens u18 2nd and girls u16 4th, so lots of teams in the state final next week! yay
sunday morning 70min run-felt pretty good actually..my running partner kind of lagged off and turned back a fe minutes earlier so i actually picked up the pace for the last half km and felt REALLY strong
..then had a massage but the guy didnt even touch the shins or glute which was weird?
then stu and i went out for brekky an we both napped during the afternoon..then some chapers in the arvo befor ei fell asleep YET again....lol
i was tuckered out
..so todays water run 40mins and i was soooooooooooooooooooooo p'd off. youre not suppposed to be bombing- seriously there were 5 or 6 15 year old boys and the lifeguard just ignored them rather than asking them not to. dont get me wrong, i dont mind people jumping in, we are talking they jump high hold their legs land on their back and absolutely make the biggest splash you can imagine. i was literally as wet as when i swim, it was uite ridiculous. it was like i was in a wave pool.
and there are only 2 lanes for the public so is not like i could move anywhere. NOT impressed!

..maybe im getting faster?

stu set an horrendous set today(and there was NO way i could make it(and pretty much didnt!)
supposed set
200@43s 200 float and 200@43 walk 200 and 800@ 2.52(snort) 4-5min break and 600 in 1.58(snort) 4-5 min break 400 in 77s and 300 in 59s

yep even stu looked at the set and said not sure if we will hit those times. i sent him an email saying that when i run 2.36 i have gone through the 600 in 1.56 so it is RACE pace and i have already done 2x200 and a fast 800!

so here is what went down...legs felt heavy heavy heavy(had to run 3km with the boys at school -very very slowly)
anyway the legs werent really having a bar of me for a while, but they DID get over their little hissy

first 200 in 45s, then 42 high
800- 2.56 actually pretty happy with tat..hard work though1
600- stu said, after we all said no way could we go much faster) just be faster than 2.11(what we went through the 600 in the 800), 85 at the 400 and ive said to stu and Bay, work now and went past- i ran 2.07 and was kinda happy with that after the 800
400- started fast and ran 76.06
300 went fast again and ran 54.5

one of the toughest sets he has given us, but i actually felt pretty strong(working hard though)
kinda feel like im the most endurance(1500) fit ive ever been
milers(800) in a couple of weeks...and then a 1500 meet...im thinking there might be some quite reasonable times coming up
actually think i will adult pb in the 1500 and maybe run 2.36 in the 800??? hard to tell..depends when i start freshening up

anyway did i mention i booked tickets to perth and have decided to race at the australian masters championships...........way focussed at the mo, im sure thats helping me in training!!!!!!

mis absentee

yep miss j has been an abset friend this week ;)
i personall BLAME school-lol
started back at work last friday so been a bit full on...wheew
then i had to drive stu and his boys to bendigo(had to is not the right word, chose to) for state multis..his niece medalled woohoo... and his athletes did well
STINKING hot though, dont know the area so just ran an out an back on the road 47 mins 8.5kms BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
then grabbed 4 junior burgers and took them back to the pool for a break-a long day at the track otherwise
then stu and i went out for dinner and it was fun-stu was a bit tiddly i think..lol
then sunday morning he REFUSED to come for a run woth me, so i ran a BAF(boring as f%$#%) run along hte road and back..tired legs and it was already hot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i have been having some shin issues which are bothering me for over a week now,,,definitely a SPOT....stu reckons a massage might be the go..im going to put a few more water runs in...
it hurts more jogging or walking, the speed work does not hurt at all....and hurt is a strong strong word...not overly comfprtable would be better

monday-dry needling...after a trip from hell home from bendigo OMG it was a storm and a half..SCARY scary SCARY... it hurt-as expected...ENOUGH said..i want to ostrich for a bit really

tuesday -hot and we are training..stu slightly modified to 5x800m @ 3:10 yeah man thats fast, but he did give us long recovery)thank christ, cos thats still working pretty hard for me!!!!!)
so times were 3.09,3.09,3.08,3.10,3.10 felt like crap but didnt reduce even though stu had said i could do 6's after the first rep/windy, whats new, but sat beind stu who is a pretty good windbreak.....lol
wasnt happy with sore shins in teh warm up, but nothing during hte set, and when i was less 'heel striking' in the cool down, then i wasnt feeling it
anyway beddy byes for this tired munchkin and sorry no spellcheck so you have to live with errors...well that came out wrong but im not doing the spellcheck