victorian masters championships and a blonde moment

AKA state champs for oldies..lol

after such a hectic couple of weeks(school has been crrrrrazy), my mind wasnt really focussed enough on the saturday...
Let me start off by saying from the outset..I DID NOT run as fast as last year but NOR am i that disappointed either..i ran well and last years time were really an anomaly-they were a little out of the blue.
both times for the 4 and 8 were clear seasons bests..the 400 by 1s (66.86)
800 37.96 (officially 2:38.36 but we're positive that was wrong(but ewen will work out on 38) as i got 37.9 by my watch(and hit after i crossed,stu had the same as did someone else and no way were we .4 second slow..i think my time was given to the second girl 2:37.96 as they joined a few races and mustve got one of the people out of sync
..the girl who won was magnificent 60.3 in the 400 and 2:16 in the 800- that is really quite PHENOMENAL
the second girl ran a 200 today PLUS a 400 hurdles 40mins before the race and still outsprinted me.. she ran a good race. i sat on her and everytime i drew closer she surged(mustve surged 8times!!!!!!!!!!!!!! with 300 to go i surged a bit,so did she, 150 again, 200 again, 100 again, and about 3 more in the straight..i gave EVRYTHING i had so i am not disappointed at all.and it is a season best by somehwere between 1.6 to 2 sec
400 was second best time EVer
800 was second best time since i went back to running after 20 year break
..am thinking next year to focus on the 1500 and 800

thanks to Em for coming and seeing me.thanks to my BF and beautiful coach of course..all i can say now is THANK CHRIST summer is over..i need a break ...now where is that champers


oh ewen here are my times
post yours
400 -66.86 800 2:38.36 1500 5:44 3km 13.55

BLONDE MOMENT
leaving at 1pm so start packing bag at 12.40
jo: stu..have you seen my spikes
stu: no
more rummaging and throwing stuff around
go and get stus and my keys to check the cars(no luck)
more unpacking and packing of the bag-generall cursing and disbelief
jo: ..ummm stu now im going to make you really mad-
i cant find EITHER of the sets of keys i just took out to the cars(did i mention i get nervous???????????????????????????)
unpack and repack bad 4 more times and give up
..ps i lost a pair of spikes after the 800 last masters)
go and get 2nd pair of spikes that i dont like.,... and try to convince stu (and myself that they are just as GOOD(dont fit properly-too loose but not mentioning this)
i wont even BEGIN to decribe the look stu is giving me..god KNOWS how he managed to bite his tongue(hes already not happy at how early we left..)
stressing is an understatement but trying to hide it(not well) stu saying he didnt want me at the track 'fretting" me replying --but ill be less stressed if i know where spikes are
..get to track
...ask where lost property is..near medal presentation(and told someone had handed some spikes in-not sure what type)
jo: (at medal pres) lost property is near here? ..no love..try upstairs
jo goes upstairs-asks around..no love -nothing been handed in(errr blood pressure rising)-this is where it would be... go next door... no nothing here dear, try next door(where i came from..grrrr-why do i SUCK so much-i hate my 'losing ability-i am an OLYMPIC champion)
go back to medal presentation-
jo: are you sure you dont have lost property here..
no love sorry
jo: but someone said spikes were handed in
sorry -nothing here
i look near his feet-point and say-
jo: um they are my SPIKES there and pick them up... and wander off -quite happy-like a little gal who has found a ollypop that she misplaced
and then started to de-stress just a little (instead of distress..hehe)
errr not what i really wanted B4 i run..someone ...please kick me up the bum and tell me to be an adult-and a normal one at that please....lol

..vic masters state champs tomorrow

am nervous..400m tomorrow(which the block start is going to hurt(been taking naprosyn ALL week..its a bit flared up(doesnt affect my speed though :)
anyway its beddie byes for little miss jo

..tapering,cranky and UNMOTIVATED

tapering.. thats sucks in itself(read ems blog-she understands) todays run was C......RAP
feeling UNMOTIVATED-which sucks-been training for this race since sep/oct last year... when i found out there is a girl who is 20s faster than me ..i have quite succinctly...DROPPED MY BUNDLE...i need to get my head back into the right space..
so the ABSOLUTE best i can achieve is SILVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :( so i cant do as well as i did last year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ...GET over it you little sooky la-la
..anyway..i need to get my head right...its got about 40 hours til i pull out the bat and start hitting mmyself on the head...lol

am starting to get over the cold..yay ") my year 9s did VERY well on their Maths test...bigger YAY...proud of the little buggers... have been marking papers like im an Olympic champion at it
/// need to just get it all together at the moment EVRYTHING is pissing me off

good luck to my trailwaker buddies...

light session tomorrow,..my poor bf has gout ..hugs for him x0x0x0x

sister here fri(dont get to see her for a while though :(

..a quickie

Sooooo it’s a 30 min break in between parent teacher night..yippeeee..they did provide a nice dinner
Also found out that this weekend..i will not be defending my title.there is not ONE iota of a chance that I will retain it. One of the girls running can run a 2:16 800m(which is VERY QUICK) and 20 secs ahead of me and she can run a 61s 400 which is 5s ahead of me.Another girls though, I should be able to have a good contest with and im not sure about the others…oh well-I will try but I do happen to know my limits
..i turned to stu and said…so can you speed me up by 20s this week honey….. I wont bother telling you his response…..lol

Sunday was just a brief 30min run(not sure if I posted or not…memory like a sieve… still feeling average but at least today im feeling a tad better..not over my cold yet,,but not as phlegm central-ish-ness and less coughing –oh and I can occasionally manage two coherent thoughts IN A ROW,,hehe

Okerly dokerly better get back to work-and soz I haven’t read blogs lately-it has been insane and I will catch up

Ciao bellas

...ugugugugugugugugughghghghgh week from hell

..first of all i really have to apologise to my bf.. i have been horrible to live with...
i have been sick and OMG so ridiculously tired... wed i had to do an extra 2.5hours extra time with year 12s then straight to doctors for a VERY painful dry needling session, and pilates and skipped running -too sick and then met gfs for dinner where i stayed one hour only came home and almost went to bed by 9:15!
still tired thursday... trained ok..luckily stu knew i still wasnt well and altered my session to 8 1x150s...at stride pace-went a bit faster than that 25,26s and then last two were a bit faster
...friday rest day-only JUST managed to stay awake through the day..felt overwhelmingly tired...had a couple of drinks...was crankiest girl on earth-went to bed very early

couldnt sleep past7am tho-spoke to my sis in america(she comes over in a week..yay) and then went on a shopping bonanza..lol..its stu's bday soon so i bought afew things for him... shhhhhhh
and a tee for each of his boys and a bra for me and one for my sister(it was cheap and im sure its her size) and 2 water bottles as i keep losing them and then the shopping for dinner began
bought prawns(making prawn rice paper rolls for entree) and then salmon for dinner still deciding what to go with it and fresh pineapple for dessert

..trained llike a dog

..what a difference a day can make. i felt super strong yesterday, on my supposed easy run, i just kinda let the legs do what they like, and ended up running 20mins at 5:03pace and felt comfortable...anyway today was not so!

it was supposed to be easy-ish with an 800 that would be pushing a bit
4x200(43/43/39/39)800(2:54)400(80)300(under60)200(under 40)

anyway even before i started running i was feeling kinda weak and floppy(super tired) so the 1km warm up didnt improve much, the 4 strides felt harder than they should and i was starting to get worried(i had woken up with a cough and was super phlegm-y this morning)

200's hit all the times and for the first two there was 200m float recovery-i hate FLOAT recovery, then i got to walk recovery for the last 2, 200s
stu saw how hard i was pushing for 39s(which last week was super easy) and decided to let me do 600m instead-struggled through the first lap,the wind just about killed me and finished in 2:15 and was wheezing at the end of it-and just couldnt get my breath back for a long long time..couldnt breathe
so stu changed the 400 to a 300, and i did it in 66s as he asked me to, then another 300m and it was supposed to be fast-stu said under 60s so i ran 55seconds
then 200 in 37s

i made the session, but as stu said..i trained like an absolute dog...and i have to agree.. i was complete rubbish today
dry needling and pilates tomorrow, so i might skip the run

dont know how i can fit it in..
im meeting student before school and after school, then off to karen(needling) and then off to pilates and then meeting a freind for dinner...yep not much time in there

..a very short long run

my 'long; run, which is in inverted commas because i dont know that 8.5kms can really be classified as a long run.
anyway i did the run upn turntable(on the road) felt strong going up which was good..was avergaing 5:35 pace up the hill...only managed 6:30min kms down the hill...i dont like the really steep downhill sections...so it was a good run-someone running my pace the whole way.with 10 mins to go i picked the pace up to sub 5min kms for a bit(trail runs are always going to be sloer than the road runs etc.. finished with 3 pretty quick strides
amyway a good run..felt good..back is okkkkkkkkkk, a bit tight(its been pretty average the last two weeks-hyave been taking naprosyn 750 fairly regualrly :(

anyway, im all tuckered out, havent done my hwk yet :(