Week 8...

14/7 – 10k Cruise and enjoy. 55min 5sec. 162m gain.This mornings run was the first of my drop backs for my two week ‘taper’. I will still do a decent amount of k’s this week but feels nice not to have to be logging big k’s for a couple of weeks and focus on my race. As much as I love bulk k’s, it is nice to take it easy every now and then to let the body recover. The rest of the day was super and nice and steady at work. I did some groceries this arvo and then relaxed tonight. All in all a top, easy go lucky day.15/7 – 13k Uni loop cruise. 1hr 9min 52sec. 62m gain.Had a nice cruise around the Uni loop this morning. I started listening to the Rich Roll Podcast with John Joseph, the author of Meat is for Pussies. Oh man, he is wild as they come but SUPER entertaining and intelligent! I love listening to that mad man go at it! Work was good and pretty non-eventful. I picked up a movie on the way home tonight and look forward to relaxing with Tegs watching it. All in all a nice cruisy day.16/7 – Rest Day.Today I had the day off due to feeling a little fluey (Corle has had it terribly!) and wanting to knock it on the head before it got too bad. It was a pretty non-eventful day and funnily enough, I am starting to get pretty nervous about Flinders Tour. I am really looking forward to running hard at that race and its gonna be tough and fun! Apart from that, all is good and I should be good to hit another run tomorrow.17/7 – 12k Flat Turnover. 1hr 3min 7sec. 131m gain.Well, I woke up this morning with a flippen sore throat! I thought I would get over it yesterday but it was worse this morning. I really hope it gets better soon! Flippen taper sickness! The day at work was super fun and then I had a nice arvo with the girls hangin out riding and waltzing around. K’s are dropping fast and I don’t like it! Tapers always kill me! Whilst I know it is a necessary evil, I really don’t like limiting my k’s. Flinders is always on the mind now!18/7 – 10k Dixon climb. 55min 44sec. 150m gain approx.19/7 – 10k Parklands fun. 1hr 10min approx. Gain ??I only realised half way through today that I didn’t blog for yesterday! I think the madness of making my announcement about my new potential adventure stole my attention. Before that…the reason my runs aren’t accurate is that my Garmin played up the last two days. I tell ya, I have had just about jack of Garmin. If I had the $$ I would just go and buy a Suunto! Anyway, enough whinging and ranting! I know I did my distance though.SO, my news…. I emailed and facebooked out last night that I am trying to raise funds to get to America. I have been offered the chance to take part in a fundraising run along the Pacific Coast Highway (1000k) in conjunction with Miles 2 Give, a fundraiser/awareness event for Sarcoma cancer. If I can establish enough money before the end of July, I will be heading over late August! Super exciting opportunity and if it is meant to be it will be! If you, or know anyone who might be interested in helping me get there, drop me an email at grills_1@hotmaill.comApart from that, all is going well. It was a beautiful day today and particularly good starting off with a fun outing at Parklands with Jacob. A sweet, relaxed time crusin the trails. The rest of the day was buzy and had a nice easg night in. Tapering isn’t going too bad so far, and looking forward to a cool 20k run in the morning with Wade. Good times ahead!20/7 – 20k Ewan Maddok Dam. 1hr 53min 50sec. 278m gain.Started the day with a beautiful run at Ewan Maddok Dam with Wade. Only the second time I have been there and it was really nice. Had a nice cruise but still ran home in a decent time. Really nice to catch up with Wade that’s for sure. We head to church in the morning and then bought a new couch! Our old one went fully mouldy in storage whilst house sitting at the last place which sucked so we had to get a newbie! It wont be arriving for about two months though! Still stoked. The rest of the day was nice and relaxing and so completes a drop back/taper week. Happy with how the legs are feeling that’s for sure. Ready to race! Now to just get through this week of REALLY cutting back the k’s!Weeks total – 75.4km. 7hr 7min. Gain?? Around 1000m??