Week 14...

Week 1425/8 – Rest Day. 26/8 – 5km Easy hit out. 27min 10sec. 10m gain.Monday this week was a rest day and pretty non-eventful. The coolest thing that happened today was Pria asked for a Bible! For a lot of you this probably seems trivial, but for us, it is super exciting. We all try and raise our children in the best way we can, be it spiritually, lifestyle, diet, attitudes, behaviours etc so for us to hear Pria ask for this was so rad! Bless her heart! Other than that, work was fun, I got the book ‘Meat is for Pussies’ finished (AMAZING read by the way) and some good relaxing done. A nice day. A little more on the book…..if you haven’t read it, particularly if you’re a guy, you need to! Apart from being super entertaining, it is a real eye opener and challenging read for all! Classic in my opinion!Tuesday I head off for a nice little short 5k run. Nothing out of the ordinary, but a beautiful morning. Work was fun, but I have been feeling a bit flat for the last couple of days. Gotta get on top of this and my diet cleanness. Again, not an overly exciting day, just a nice cruisy one. Life is good friends!27/8 – 10.8km Easy turnover and climb. 59min 7sec. 135m gain.Today was one of those runs that just feels effortless. I got some good turnover in before heading up Dixon to the top of Buderim. An easy cruise home and before long I was done. I spent much of my run thinking of my friend from Instagram, Jenn, who yesterday was bitten by a rattle snake twice! I have found out that she is in ICU and as of lunchtime today, had FIVE bags of anti-venom through her. I have been praying a lot and surprised how much it has touched me. I know it sounds silly, but I feel as though I have a strong connection to some people through Instagram, and know some of Jenn’s friends, so it is just horrible. It just goes to show we should take nothing for granted. Get better soon my friend. The rest of the day was super fun, relaxed and happy. Life is blessed and I am spending more and more time thinking of the miler as it is fast approaching. Love it. From one of my other good friends on the Gram, lets always have #gratitude!28/8 – 7km Fartlek fun! 35min 18sec. 41m gain.Started the day with a really great run this morning. Felt really good to do another ‘workout’. It has been a while since I have included these in my program so it has been a good shake up. I did 1k warm up, 10 x hard efforts with easy recovery and 1k warm down. The leg turnover was great and even with the easy sections, I still averaged 5min 2sec per k. Pretty stoked with that. Work was super buzy today and it went really quickly. After a nice afternoon relaxing and watching the footy, it was off to bed to do it all again. A really nice, rounded day. This week has been really great and the last two days, completely pain free running in the leg! RAD!29/8 – 6.1km Easy leg turn over. 32min 43sec. 53m gain.This mornings run was just a nice easy leg turnover. Really looking forward to the weekend with the old boy in the mountains. Will be super fun! Work was super cool and funny, typical Friday banter. I am really gonna miss the people there! Super fun! I had a nice relaxing arvo before Mum and Dad arrived for the weekend. We watched our beloved Dragons tonight in a do or die game to make the eight and unfortunately they just weren’t good enough. A great day (apart from the footy), ready for a beautiful morning in the mountains tomorrow.30/8 – 30.2km Beauty with Dad. 4hr 10min 42sec. 1040m gain.What a morning! The weather was glorious, the trail was gorgeous and the run was glamorous….well not quite but you get the point. Dad and I hit 30k up the hinterland including the Kondilla Falls section. We took it nice and easy only two weeks out from the miler but it was so rad! Great elevation and a top morning although I finished a little dehydrated. All good apart from that! Bliss. The rest of the day was great relaxing with Dad and then helping Jason move. A real fun day and to bed at a reasonable time ready for another fun outing tomorrow morning. Yes!31/8 – 16k Parklands Glory. 2hr 16min 25sec. 386m gain.Head out for a back up run this morning with Dad. Got a bloody head cold but powered on. Had a real nice steady run, enjoyed the beautiful weather and rad trails. Great to get some k’s in with Dad this weekend that is for sure. What was even better is that I had NO pain in my leg! So so stoked! A massive confidence and mental builder for the miler in 13sleeps! After a nice morning rest and hanging out, we went to Palmwoods to Ricks Diner/Garage for lunch. Oh man, was so awesome! A good feed and hang out time. After a nice arvo, kip and relax, the girls came home from their weekend away. A good feed for dinner then relax before bed and to do the week again. This head cold is hanging on so hopefully it goes super soon! A good week and a real positive on running wise!Weekly Total – 75.2km. 9hr 1min. 1662m gain.