Monday's Training

Run: 12 km
Swim: 2.1 km
Weight: 79.5 kg

After an enjoyable weekend in Sydney, it was time to do some training. I have entered the six-foot track marathon (http://www.coolrunning.com.au/sixfoot/) a 45 km trail run in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney on 12 March. It is a very hilly run with a 7 hr cut-off (which I didn't make in my one previous attempt). I think I did enough run training last time, but not enough running (and walking) up hills. So today I ran along the Kangaroo Point Cliffs, over the Story Bridge and up and down Ivory Street 10 times. Ivory Street is probably about a 15% grade and maybe 150 m long. A longer hill would be better training for this race, but my legs felt that this was tough enough.

Lunch-time I joined my triathlon squad 'Spike' (http://www.spiketri.com.au/web/default.aspx) for a long-overdue swim. I haven't swum for a few weeks and it showed. You quickly lose swim fitness, faster, I think, than bike or run.