Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Wed 8 Mar 2006 - Werribee River 12 km

Date/Time of Run

Wednesday 8 March 2006, 6.23 pm

Location

Werribee River (Virgillia, Tarneit, Hogans, Thames, River, River Bend, Heaths, Tarneit, Hogans, Derrimut, Virgillia)

Distance

12.31 km

Time

1:01:03

Pace

4:57 /km

Heart Rate Max/Avg

143 / 134

Weather

21.4 Deg Celsius Clear. Wind SE 8/11 kts. RH 57%. QNH 1017

More data

Motionbased

Exercises

Post run 100 Sit-ups.

Equipment

Garmin Forerunner 301, mobile phone.

Weight

76.4 kg (-0.3 kg from yesterday)

Stats as of 8 Mar 2006

km’s

Today

12.3

Prev 7 Days

62.0

Prev 28 Days

223.5

Mar 2006

77.5

YTD

608.1

Month Average 2006

202.7

Weekly Average 2006

55.3

Total (2001 – to date)

8349.2

Tonight’s run was a forced run, well sort of. During the afternoon I was tossing up whether to go for a run from work and run around the Yarra or do it from home. Late in the day I decided it would be a run from home job. I was feeling a little tired and in essence was putting off the run.

The train trip home (45-50 mins) doesn’t help if one has a dose of the tireds (I know, it’s not correct use of the word – but you know what I mean). The clickety clack is very hypnotic and I reckon I dosed for half the trip, thank god for the PA system announcing the upcoming stations.

Anyway, I got home, really tired but decided to run anyway. I felt flat for the whole run but not energy sapped. I think it was just one of those runs.

It makes me wonder at times how I survive whist running around the streets. As per usual I passed many people and most times pleasantries are exchanged. I just turned into Tarneit Rd about 8 km into the run where I saw a couple of runners’ 30 or 40 metres apart running towards me. As I was approaching the first one I came out with a, “G’day mate” as I was looking directly at him. As we crossed each other I then realized it was my brother, Philip. We didn’t stop and chat. On the one hand I was aware of my surroundings and yet a simple recognition went out the window. Is this normal; I hope so.

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Heart Rate

Weather

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Steven you’re clearly not normal. You’re a marathoner – far superior to just normal!

I have a running brother too. I never fail to spot him as he runs conspicuously bald & hatless and I’m always checking out runners when I run anyway.

Looking at your map I’d say the home we’re building is right about the 5.3k mark (in Batman Crt, close to the river). Before my knee flared up I did a couple of runs from home to there. It’ll be nice to do more runs around there when we move.

Tesso said...

That's funny about your brother :-) Being really bad with faces I always say a big hello to passing runners as if I know them - if I don't know them it doesn't matter and if I do I haven't offended them!

Shane said...

Cheers for the comments Steve, thats pretty funny about your brother. You must have been tired I can spot my brothers ugly mug from a mile away. :)