5 weeks to Perth

Another solid week of training, only 5 weeks to go until Perth.

Week in Summary 101.3km @4:21

Mon 9.23km@4:20 40 minute run.

Tues Mona Fartlek session incl 3.2km@4:22 warmup, 5.24@3:49 Mona Fartlek and then 4.46km@4:29 cooldown. First run in K-Swiss and they felt great, very happy with session.

Wed 9.02km@4:26 40 minute run

Thurs 11.27km@4:26 50 minute run. Stopeed early as left hip was giving me grief.

Fri 18.77km@4:22 Medium Long Run

Sat 14k incl Tempo to Race pace run of 8km. 2.5km@4:22 warmup, 8k@3:41 close to race pace, 3.5km@4:33 cooldown. Ran in K-Swiss again and once again very impressed. Managed to break my 5km race pb in this run in the process, 1st 4km-14:45, 2nd 4km-14:43. Extremely happy with evenness of run, slowest km 3:42, quickest 3:40.

Sun 26.12km@4:35 2 hour long run incl some hills. Pretty tired at the end, was a bit silly though in that I only took and consumed 200ml of water for the whole run. Bit of a mental battle for some of the run coming down from yesterdays high but glad I got through it, just had a couple of stops to tighten up bandages etc.

Had a couple of maintenance sessions with physio and deep tissue lady , left hip still playing up a bit and have a couple of sessions booked for most weeks leading up to Perth.

Good to see that Gunner and Attitude are running Perth, hopefully see you out there on the course. Here's hoping that both Epi and Homo have started hitting the pavements.

Epi and Sling, in answer to your queries re K-Swiss which I'm sure you know from reading the above, I love them and tempted to run some of my races in them, we'll see.

Bought 3 pairs of Asics 2130's from Jim Kidd for 99.95 each. These are my favourite everyday training shoe, bought them in 12.5 which is half a size larger than I normally have as they didn't have any size 12's. I wish they'd just keep on making this model.

Next week I hope to do a few more km's than week just gone but will try and slow down some of my runs.

Go the Aussies in the cricket and good to see the Eagles strangle the life out of the Dees.