Week 2...

2/6 – 12k Leg Turnover. 1hr 5min 59sec. 200m gain.Todays run was solid. Legs are feeling strong and my focusing on keeping the legs moving on the uphills is going well. Even though I went a little later, I still should have taken a headlamp! It was so flippen dark! Over the darkness and cold already, bring back summer! All good though, I will push on! Felt good at work today and been doing a fair bit of thinking….see below. As a complete side point, I also bought a spiralizer! Super keen to give this bad boy a go and start making some vege spaghetti!3/6 – 17k to the Red Light and back! 1hr 32min 46sec. 264m gain.Todays run was solid with some good turnover and I knocked out some good paced k’s! I went to a new area and plodded along at about 4:30am and ended up in an industrial area in Kunda Park where there were a number of brothels and a Rebels Club house! Ahhhh, what the heck! I was outta there quick smart! I was just praying I wouldn’t get knocked off by some meat head in the process! It was an enjoyable day and a buzy afternoon at the docs and looking at houses….praying we can find somewhere to look asap! Gonna be rad! Tegs and the girls went away tonight too which is good for them but sucks for me. I really miss them when they go away! Three nights of batchin…..booho!4/6 – 20k Kiel Mountain Loop. 1hr 50min 50sec. 403m gain.Today I did the tough Kiel Mountain Loop plus the 5k out and back past the graveyard. Flippen Kiel is a angry little monster! Love it! I only hiked about 200m of it today which I was stoked in! Two mornings of 3:30am wake ups and I am still feeling pretty peppy. The day at work was fun and enjoyable. My diet was pretty solid today and it doesn’t seem like I have eaten all that much but feel full enough. I did start my day with my biggest smoothie though….1.6L!!! I only just got through that bad boy! So good!5/6 – 15km Ewan Maddock Dam. 1hr 33min 54sec. 156m gain.Had a nice morning off this morning relaxing, blogging and preparing for the day. Work was enjoyable and found out that the announcement of my sponsorship on the Kunara page had got 2500 views! Holy smokes! So awesome! Things are continuing to be exciting! I also got a chance to speak with the Australia Clif Bar rep and there may also be an opportunity to hook something up with them! Ripper! This afternoon’s run was with Katie and some of the crew from the Sunny Coast Distance Runners group. We did a lovely 15k around Ewan Maddock Dam…what a beautiful afternoon! The pace was slow but super enjoyable! The k’s are stacking up this week and I am loving every moment! Thank you God to be running injury free again! I am also super pumped that tomorrow marks 100days until GH100! Holy smokes! That means it is time to step things up!6/6 – 10k Sandie fun. 57min 16sec. 132m gain.Pretty stock standard today, the only difference being that I ran in sandals. This confirmed what I kinda already knew… that I can not run as fast in this footware. Whilst I love them and they are so liberating, I can run so much quicker and so much more confident in shoes. Ill keep using them from time to time, but continually focus on getting quicker and stronger shod. Tegs and the girls get home tonight too which I am super excited about! I have missed them a lot while they have been away so it will be tops to have them home. I’m looking forward to some fun running on the weekend hopefully with Jody and maybe Jason. Good times with the boys. I am also super excited about a new little journey I am going to be embarking on from Monday. I have decided I am going to go ALL in! !00% commitment to doing the whole foods, plant based plan for 40days. I will explain more in the next day or two, but going to use the weekend to prepare mentally for the adventure within the adventure! Gonna be epic!7/6 – 16k arvo with Jody. 1hr 43min 30sec. 371m gain.After a really nice morning of breakfast with the family and a trip to Eumundi Markets, in the afternoon I headed out to Parklands with Jody, a guy I am coaching. We hit 16k on some sweet single track and brought him up to 100k for the week. It was a really nice arvo out and found some great new trails which was tops. We also had some super conversation and it was really nice to get to know him a bit in person.8/6 – 24k with Andrew and Jason. 2hr 51min 33sec. 633m gain.We head out to Parklands again this morning and cranked out an hour in the dark. This was enough for Andrew so he finished up. Jason and I kept on keeping on and although my legs were a little weary from uping the k’s this week, it was good to get this solid effort in. I have felt pretty tired today but super satisfied that I managed 114k this week. Looking forward to recovering and kicking off again next week…..with a public holiday! Also starting a new little challenge within a challenge will be super! Bring on anther big week. So so good to be back running proper again!Week totals – 114.1km, 11hr 35min and 2158m elevation gain.