2007 Goals

Long time since the last post, I'll just briefly summarise:

The preparation for the planned 6-inch track 45k race was going ok - not perfect as I had real trouble for a while to get up early in the morning. 

However, my better half started joining me on the Saturday long runs on her bike and that was good fun! Who would have thought that she would ever get up early on a day when she was not on a schedule.

The accommodation was booked and all planned when I had to go back to Switzerland at the beginning of December as my godfather was very ill. Fortunately I managed to get there just before he passed away and we were able to spend a couple of days together.

I then ran in the Silvesterlauf, a 8.6k race through the middle of Zürich, very pitturesque, if a bit crammed. How I managed to focus during that race I have no idea as otherwise the whole time over there was quite draining. 

After dealing with the aftermath, I just got back for Xmas (the kids were happy), but I slept for the first three days back almost non-stop.

Apart from one run up the Üetliberg outside of Zürich I didn't run all month. 

By the end of the year I had at least mentally recovered, put on about 5kgs and ready to plan. Took me another week to work it all out, but then, hey, who's rushing?!

The year started well though as I started it with a run around Kings Park at 5:30 in the morning!

So the plan this year is to do the Bunbury, Perth and Rottnest Marathons, with a focus on doing Perth in 3:30 and Rottnest just to enjoy myself. Bunbury is not a must, especially as it is a mere six weeks before Perth and I may turn it into training run only.
I will also do the Perth Half (but not Freo as we will be in Melbourne then to see the Dalai Lama), Darlington Half, City to Surf and a few club races.
The 6-inch is a definite date (unless I decide to go skiing instead).

Training started for real last week and I have been keeping up with it. I also try to ride my bike to work to get some additional overdistance work done without the strain on the joints.

Eventually, I'll start swimming again - but first I'll need to figure out how to go about learning it properly - I am just so hopeless, it's embarrassing.