(*Sorry, these entries are not the words of Paul {note the clever sidestep to avoid blasphemy}. Could someone please hand me a flak jacket? I'm sure I'll have need of it, for once more daring to paraphrase the words of Paul.*)
Saturday
1 hour run, easy. 1.5 hour bike ride, not easy.
Sunday
Slept in, and then pretended that not wanting to borrow car was excuse for not doing long run in the morning. Went fishing (in the car), did a sort-of-long run in the evening, 1hr 45.
Monday
This one I can't make up, don't have a clue, but there would have been a run done, and it would have been something like 1hour easy, again pretending to make up for the whole Sunday sleep in thing.
Tuesday
Oh no, technical stuff that I wasn't really paying attention to. What was it - um, maybe 5 x 1km, all sub 3', last one 2' 52". Something like that.
(*and while I'm online, in case I run out of time to post much later in the week, Happy Birthday Greta. Grid-iron player? Have a great party*)
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5 comments:
Well well. Finally found it.
Great to see you are posting Paul and WM.
I actually think of you a lot and am please to read your blog on life and running with all its up and downs. Firstly congratulations on being a Dad and a mother again.
A couple of thoughts. I was on the Central Coast all December and January running, cycling and surfing. Mike Aiken was hit by the car 3oom from my place at Avoca and when I found out it was a runner I was pretty confident you all knew him. I was walking by after he was taken to hosipatal the police were dong their investigations. I got onto Kevin Tiller to see what we could do but we could find no info on Cool Running. How is he going - I have heard no more news.
My thoughts on age. Well I am now 47 and it is something you have to adapt to. The 1990s I refer to as the period of deferred personal goals as I had a family and I was slowing down. Once I got over the depression of this situation I felt better by putting back into running.
On the drinking. I gave up all drinking for over 2 .5 years just after the 2005 Gold Coast Marathon. It was obsessive binge drinking I was sick of. I ended up drinking more coke and eating rubbish - fortunately the weight did not go on. I would run more to take my mind off it ( and got injured) - yes substitution one obsession with another.
After a while I realsied I could master abstinence and now the challenge was moderation. Zen Buddhism helps me here. Well now I only drink when I am up at Avoca and in moderation. It works for me and it helps push away all those negative thoughts that I see we sometimes have in common.
Just remember we need you Paul as much as your baby daughter needs you.
cheers Plu
Plu, you're lovely, as ever. (And just so we don't start a new controversy, no, this is not Paul posting). I hear news of Mike about 5th hand, I think, but he has regained some consciousness, has been talking to his family, and his doctors are hopeful for his recovery. Best news I've heard in the new year.
I will try to update this blog in the next few days. Most of the time I am on the Linux computer, that doesn't like Blogger's bells and whistles at all, and refuses to play most of the time.
Hope to see you at North Head. Cheers, Di.
Paul, still waiting for your Six Foot blog entry, believe me i wasn't happy as i made mine and really didnt want to (never was in your league as a runner but i still hate performing like an old hack !!). Speaking to you Saturday i'm still quite sure that you still have some years ahead at the pointy end of the Six Foot Field (and podium finishes) as you still appeared to have that hunger to race. Bit like you if i don't race often i'll drink instead (as an Ultra runner i think a personality that does all things to excess - be it running, booze, music or other things - is both an aid and a hindrance but i think after all this time i'll never magically change !),
Kelvin
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