A Few Months Of Fun & Building A Base

Have decided that there is too much fun to be had in cross training, and way too long till 2011 6ft to pound the body with relentless running. So it is time to pull out the bike and shake out the costumes for some fun time preseason training with a couple of more social events along the way.

It seems a basic plan will revolve around running Wilson to Bilpin and Sydney Marathon through August and September, rolling through the slight adjustment to SWMBO delivering Binary Baby in October and hitting a couple of triathlons in November - December. Particularly finding a long course event to wet the apetite in December. All of course linked to running in or helping out with the running wild trail series and long course series.

Week to week I think it should unfold along the lines of:

1. Mondays,  afternoon 1hr run (incorporating Gnomes MonRun) and swim evenings
2. Tuesdays, morning BMMC run and afternoon track session
3. Wednesdays, Swim morning and cycle M7 cycleway afternoons
4. Thursday, morning BMMC run and cycle afternoons
5. Friday, morning swim and afternoon Mt Bike with Gnomes followed by 40min evening run
6. Saturday, LSD run morning
7. Sunday, build to LSD cycle morning with swim in the afternoon

This leaves me a bit light on for weekly runs initially however as I get back into it the overload will incorporate a few runs off each cycle session and the possibility of a Monday morning run. Never the less fun is the name of the game through to Christmas and this is what I seek.

Will aim to hit this post holidays as I am enjoying my time fitting things in as they do currently and the Gnomes go skiing next Mon to Wed anyway. Still hope to hit PB off a very soft marathon PB and to take a chunk off W2B from last year.

For now it's back to holidays following my first ride in 8 months this afternoon. 30km at a pretty constant 30km hr round the lakes. Dodging holidaying family picnickers and 1 million scooters. Think it is time to build a third path at lakes for scooter hoons. Legs felt fairly good given the lack of condition I felt on Saturdays run through Long Angle out to Singles Ridge-Tall Timbers link track and Hawksbury circuit to home again.

Will definitely have to map this one as the 'W Run' linking Warrimoo to Winmalee and back. Plenty of options to add to the 2hrs it currently sits at as the LSD gets longer again.