SPIKES and TIGHTS............ and a race review

Yep newbie spikes and tights... more of that later.....
FIRST MENTION: fingers crossed to my potential stressie friend DT, fingers crossed it isnt, but if it is, lots of alcohol helps...lol.. BUT when you do come back to running, you feel every gained kg!!! fingers crossed for friday xo

thursday we did 4x400(one of mine was 300) in 90/92 and 66 for the 300's with 2min recov
4x200's with 1 min recov in 43,42,40,39
4x100s with 30s recov 18,18,18,17 was pretty happy with the session-hipe still pulling up sore
and then racing at brimbank this saturday
This was to be my first proper race of the season,
PLAN: to walk the big hill and try to go about 30 mins for hte race
well i did walk the big hill(and all the people who passed me i passed in the ensuing 500m), one of the girls from my club who in wanted to beat got about 100m/150 or more ahead of me over the hill and i kinda gave up on her and just focussed on legs in front of me and moved up a few people. Looked up and there was the girl from my club about 50m ahead... didnt have much happening in the legs so again just kinda thought...oh well she's too far ahead, so she beats me, so what
keep pluggin away and am only about 10m away and still thinking that i wont get her,(this took about3kms to get close) and was even with her at 1km to go(5kms in)
she alsked how far to go and i said 1km, which kinda depleted her..anyway i went past(and i hate to go past and then get overtaken by that person) so i grimaced and tried to work hard having no idea where she was.
ended up 7s ahead of her which was pleasing, 40s behind last year was also pretty pleasing as i was fiutter then(but i did have bleeding knees which enforced walking up hills too) nw its just my hip back and softness causing it.... llool
didnt get sub 30 :( ran 31.11 but overall happy and i was able to run the consecutive day on sunday which i havent been able to do after racing.

got a house evaluation on wed and was pleasantly surprised to find out that there had been about a 20% increase from when we bought the house 3 years ago :)

training tonight
-someone cracked it a bit AKA me, cos all stu's juniors doing fast stuff, so just stu, myself and luke running. Well i can tell you they are way too fast for me, it was windy and i DID not like running by myself the while way(and shortened recoveries) kept telling stu i should just run with this other pack who i knew i would sit with-him being him disagreed...anyway after 2 annoying reps and knowing the rest would not be pretty, (and desperately needing hte loo, went to the toilet(stu thought i cracked and he yelled something at me but ignored the poo-head(lol)..
as i came out saw the group i wanted to run woth so i just joined in with them and sat wide on lane 1, was VERY happy with training after that, ran with people and felt good
6x800s
3.24(too fast) 95 recov,
3.26, 2.53 recov(incl loo break)
3:32 75s recov
3:31 68s recov
3:30, 1:51 recov(was waiting for the group but they didnt show so went by myself)
3:17
so overall a reasonable set, first time ive done 6 since the injury(yes still 10+ sec slower than i used to be but i will get there)

oh and bought very cute spikes-they weigh less than 100g man! how light

ph and i know i mentioned my foot problems... i put domes into my lunar racers and no sore fett-until after-woohoo
and i bought adidas compression tights which look like they have tape across them...umj wasnt sure at fiurst, but they are seriously AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
legs feel great after what i consider a tough session!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and one more for you ewen !