Week ending Jan 29

Jan 23 - 29: Recovery week:

Jan 23: no run

Jan 24: 75 mins, 361 metre elev gain, 11.95 km; steady run to mill creek trails, to the top of thw two tits peak, ran into a crazy dog, took some wrong turns, ended up bushwacking through bushes and the river and running back via the highway

Jan 25: no run, supposed to be tempo run, didn't do it due to lack of sleep induced by upstairs neighbour

jan 26: 47 mins, 166 metre elev gain, 11.03 km; 10 km tempo run in 42:10 (new PB) running on the roads above springield rd

jan 27: 63 mins, 253 metre elev gain, 10.9 km; steady run in mill creek trails. Dark, lost many times, while looking down at myself picking out weeds from my gloves I ran straight into a barb wire fence.... haha

jan 28: no run; extra rest day

jan 29: 120 mins, 550 metre elev gain, 11.97 km; long run with pace in glenmore highlands. Used extra traction on my feet for first time. Fantastic.

Totals: 5 hrs 5 min running, 1,330 metres elev gain, 45.85 kms. This rest week idea felt very strange, previously I would just keep running as hard as I can until I was forced into rest by lack of energy. I've run 45 km this week, and feel like I am ready to tackle another couple build weeks with ease. Just feel physically great. If only I was feeling less sleep deprived.



Currently marking out for this band. Not so much in this song, but they kick the crap out of the double kick on the bass drum. Just awesome.



In a course at school we aren't doing any tests or anything like that, two groups take a case study every week. One group acts as the proponents, the other acts as the opposition. Each presents a case to the rests of the students (the jury) to try to win the case. It really is an eye opener about how flawed our court system; the right answer often doesn't win. In our class we are talking about science papers, and the papers we are discussing are sound science. And yet, the opposition has managed to convince the jury of the side every time. Sadly, in real courts the truth gets lost due to the adversarial/jury system too often.