..ughghghghgh sick

:(
have a stoopid cold and feel sick
..early night for me

had a nice night with the family last night

sick of coughing

leaving now..... no running, came home early and went to bed

pleased and then not pleased- shield comp

-rocked up to meadow glen and was amazed that there was not even a lick of wind.. the 1500s started and by th time the last mens heat was on there was becoming a more than noticeable wind.... bugger bugger bugger
anyway the plan was to start at 90s laps and see how i go. at the 200m i was in LAST place, and then gradually worked my way through.. i ran 90/94/94(but think i may have been slacking off) and then brought the last 300 home in 63 so ran 5.41 which is an 8s improvement from last 1500.
was pretty happy with that and fairly confident i can do better, have a bit of a cough and was not feeling fabbo but felt really strong in the race.
hoeweever, legs did feel tired after and the wind sprung up even more and the 400 was the ugliest i had ever run. seriously i ran a 73 second which is ridiculous for me!!!!!!!!!!!!! i did 69 last time. the start was possibly the worst i had ever done!it hurt twice-not just once as i cam out-grimaced and then ran with legs that had no kick

anyway my sister is unexpectedly over from america(found out on friday) so we are heading off

oh and i pbd in javelin..lol 15ish metres
threw a discus )(badly)
oh and hte 1500 is faster than i ran all season last year and fastest so far(it may be the 2nd fastest since i came back to aths)

..yeah that wasnt ridiculous

yep those words were uttered by miss jojo
...well i was grumpy grump grumpy before hand(i even drove in a separate car frm stu and we left ummm 5mins apart...lol
..anyway set tonight was 4x400 at 1500 pace 90-92 sec, 2min recov, 4x200 at 800 pace 39,70s recov, 4x100 @400 pace walk back recov
actual 400s... 90,89,89,89
200s 40(into wind) 37(tailwind) 39(wind) 37(tailwind)
100s 17 dead,16.x,16.x,16.x

so very consistent and CONSIDERING that my leggies felt tired and heavy, i didnt really struggle with this set. yes i was working but it was completely DO-able

got my year9 exams..the little petals are going okay..makes me happy when they go quite well :)
-year 8s are being angels at the moment too(revising)
-its quite funny, im actually quite strict...well i set VERY clear boundaries,...but the boys dont necessarily see it as strict(someone said something to them..and they said no shes not strict(probably cos im FAIR andmost students think strict as being NOT FAIR- they know the boundaries and so try not to cross them... in my reiew(did i say this already) the guy said.... jo I have never seen this b4-you got 100% of kids saying they know their expected behaviour in class on their survey.. lol

anyway watching RUSH..one of my fave shows.... not feeling completely trashed from training...yay..and IT EVEN GOT ME OUT OF MY BAD MOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

umumumumumum somthing must be wrong with spell check-i just pressed it and no errors came up.... it CANNNA be true

omg stu are you kidding me

stu sent me an email today telling me what the set was..i just about fell off my chair
this is continuous BTW 800m@1500 pace and speed up to 400 at 800 pace -do you have ANY idea how hard that in itself is...its racing 1200m faster than your 1500 pace.. and we were expected to do that 4 times. with a 3min break between reps
i emailed stu telling him it was too hard. he told me it was tough but we would do what we could..i sent about 7 more emails..one which said it was the TOUGHEST set he had ever set, and that i nearly spewed when we do HOT 300s and this is harder so he had better bring the bucket..lol
and I WAS NOT BEING A DRAMA QUEEN- this is like racing 3 x 1500m races within 20 mins

anyway, he came to his senses and decide 600at 1500pace followed by 200 at 800 pace. Even this was EXTREMELY HARD for me that is 92s for 400 and then supposed to be 40s for last 200-couldnt quite maintain into the wind so the first 2 reps were (220s)
44,48,48,42
45,47,48,45
then reduced to 500 with 200 faster -i coudlnt manage another one
46,46,(not sure last 300)
then reduced to 1x400 at 1500 pace
93 seconds
seriously one of the tougher sets we have done

...omg miss j was super duper productive today

yep- did soooooooooooooooooo much work at school today-even started writing reports!!!! woohoo
went for a 30min run, just over 5.6kms.... was kinda windy but was very conscious about trying to 'run tall' and have the abs held tight- i might make this a focus during my slower runs

backs a bit so so-to be expected though... leggies a bit tired, never mind

and had yummy blue grenadier with salad for dinner... nice cheapish fish that tastes nice

thats it folks....

a short long run

went to the pool today and the poor little leggies were tired i have to say-not surprising really. 40mins only-stu felt sorry for me i think, then a very hurty hurty massage

..and yes Em, 24mins for hte 5km sure did feel a lot harder than it should
..and Ewen, Stu didnt make me do it, i actually chose to, because as a committee member im about to start asking people to do their non preferred events and because i have done it this week, they cant think im a hypocrite for asking. and im thankful he actually ran with me! but i didn enjoy it

stu has now set up our massive tv! its fantastico! good job done by stu, no tantys(there woulda been if id set it up)

shield-and miss jo, what were you thinking

yes i decided to do the team thing today
to say i ran badly in the 800 is an understatement...expected 2.38 ran 2.43 wasnt very happy, but right from the start my legs just felt sluggish, no excuses, just a crappy run
..then off to the 200 where surprisingly i ran quite well 31.36
i couldnt get out of the 4x4 relay even though i tried, so i put my big training shoes on(had a bit of a blister from spikes) and didnt race the 400, but went relatively fast, then straight over to the 5km... why did i decide to do the 5km.... there is a simple answer to that. I am STUPID! had decided i would just run 5min/km pace to 5:10 pace, but stu decided to run with me and he made me go a little faster. By no means racing but i really couldnt have gone faster today.i thought i was going to have to pull out with 3km to go,1km to go,800 to go 500 to go..i was in strugglesville. it was about 27 deg i think, but i was feeling way overheated and absolutely dehydrated. ran a 24:08 which isnt a great run..but hey valuable points for the club
..am way tired now.not long til bedtime and it is only 9:08
.will do my run in hte pool tomorrow(back isnt great) and OMG my 200 start was the worst ive ever done. i couldnt get the block thing on at all so when someone helped me i couldnt change it and just had to have someone elses settings!
ANYWAY CIAO
oh yeah, my budgeting i even worse. we went and bought airconditioning today which costs over $3500 eek but we do need it and it was a bargain. Even stu said we should buy it. if id known i was going to do that though, i probs wouldnt have bought the tv.... oops never mind. the air con is on 24months interest free and im very diligent at payiing monthly. so its only really $150 per month
..oh and hows this i walked behind some seemingly sane man who was standing still, when out of nowhere he did some buttkick and kicked me deadset in the knee.OMG, i can tell you it hurt, the lucky part is he didnt have spikes on