Today I ran one of the biggest runs I’ve done in the last few months, approximately half a marathon (21k) maybe a touch more. I am a bit annoyed that I forgot to press ‘start’ for the first 20 minutes of my heart rate data, and due to electrical interference it stopped recording the last 20 or so minutes. The curve below shows 1 hour 15 minutes of running, so it was probably around 15 minutes of running. Since I can do 12k in 55 minutes easy, and I was running about the same pace, linearly interpolating one could deduce that the run today was 25.1 k’s. Although, I would have been only outputting about 80 – 90% the pace compared to when my body is fully conditioned such as I was in the summer, and hence my estimate of 21k’s. I should really measure this distance for reference as I’d say I’m the furthest from the form I was in over the summer before ITBFS, so I could establish a good training floor with this data. It’s a pity I didn’t manage to record it all.

I should really start working now on pace rather than endurance, as I want to get into the top 150 of the City to Bay fun run this year. There ya go, it’s in writing now Tom so there’s no excuses! I was originally aiming for top 100 this year, but after the problems with my knee and ITBFS I’m going to settle for top 150. I should however be able to get a placing in this years Black Hill Challenge.

I decided to pass up an invite to go to the Grand tonight (speaking of which, I should have gone on Thursday night where they were celebrating Hoff’s b’day, with $4 Hofftails!) as I know I’m going to collapse very shortly. It’s 9:37, and I’m going to bed – weird!

Tonight we had Matt as a Celebrity Chef – definitely close competition to Kath & Morv’s curry, although many factors are yet to be considered.