Land of the Kiwis A runner in New Zealand

Long Run and Done

Woke up against my will today having agreed to do an early morning "Sunday" run with Cary, Malcolm, and a girl named Lisa at 9AM. After some stretching, we did a 10k loop plus a little addon very easy in about 50min. I wanted to simulate a long run after talking to Nick a bit yesterday and learning he was still in base phase cranking miles. I'm beyond the point where ramping up the mileage in the next 2 months will help me a ton and it will be tough to crank with so much time in the pool. So Lisa showed me to a dive pool where I was bull-headed enough about swimming there that I didn't care that I had to hire (kiwi term for rent) out the entire pool for an hour for $20. It was a really good setup for me though and I took 45min of that hour to continue to aquajog.

So 50min run, 45 aquajog.

The pool also had a conveniently located bar about 4 feet out of the water I could lunge up and grab to do pull-ups. I did a bunch of those to break up the monotony. All in all it was a really good setup but prohibitively expensive. Tomorrow I'll look for another solution. Oh, I did a bit of core and a bunch of stretching once I got back at the track. Iced the achilles and took preventative Ibuprofen. Achilles continuing to hold up pretty well but both calf muscles are tight. Interestingly enough (and encouraging), my lower legs felt very evenly tight. Balance is always good to have...

Rest of the day was pretty uneventful. I took a 3 hour nap to catch up on sleep. Tomorrow I start the training Mitch so carefully laid out for me.