A good week without running looks like this:

After the half marathon I thought it would be a good idea to just force myself to COMPLETELY lay off running for a solid week to let the leg fully recover. No sense in risking it THIS close to the race (even though it still a good 6 weeks away). I didn't however want to lose focus on dropping the pounds to get down to around 155 (I raced the NCM last May at 165lbs) and in the race report that "I simply can't be this heavy". It wears on me. So this week I figured it'd do both my metabolism and my leg some good to put in some miles on the trainer. The no pounding nature of cycling is good because it gets some blood into the muscle for active recovery, but it doesn't take the beating it would with running. I did a total of 9 hours on the trainer this week! 2 Hours Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday and an INTENSE 1 hour Saturday night. This morning's two hour ride was a killer, as the intense one hour ride was yesterday EVENING, not much time for the legs to recover, but that's all good. :)

I'm down to 163.6 AFTER this morning's ride, which is good. I started a couple weeks ago at 167 after training so I'm definitely making progress. I feel better when I throw these trainer rides in. I really feel like the fitness is coming around. So this week I'll get some run training going again, take it easy, build back up and then do two - three solid higher mileage weeks with one or two long runs at 36k+ and then back off again into a taper for the GCM. SHOULD BE A BLAST!

This week's work was also much better. I mean I was still pissed about my sched changing all the time and not knowing where I'd be til last minute but it was better than the previous weeks. I texted him and said that I was ONLY available for Wollongong from now on and he said OK. We'll see what that means but at least he knows how serious I am about it. Either way, I'm sticking with this for the forseeable future and Julia and I are really being money conscious and have a full-on budget set-up, saving a MINIMUM of $300 per week.

Today we'll be working on an animation I have to create for science. I'll post it somewhere for all to see. :P

OK, BACK TO WORK...

PS - THE TUNA IS 1:40 into a 28k run! EPPPPIC! Her longest EVER! I think I'm going to go out on the bike to see her in about 20 minutes. Just to see how she's feelin' and make sure everything is A ok. I'm so proud of her!