Bridge Run & Recovery

Last Sunday was the Bridge Run. 9km over the Harbour Bridge, around Mrs Macquarie's Point and back to the Opera House. A good advert for the tourist sights of Sydney.

And a great day for running too.

There were many more people than I expected, so there was a fair bit of weaving in and out of slower runners and walkers. But that was OK - it was probably a useful way to slow us down a bit to make sure we finished without stopping!

I ran again with my City to Surf partner, and we had a guess at a target time of 50 minutes. There wasn't too much confidence that we'd meet that as we hadn't done anything since C2S.

We started out probably a bit quicker than I intended so by the time we got to about 5km at Mrs Mac's point it was a struggle back up the incline through 6 and 7km. I reckon if either one of us would have mentioned the idea of a '30 second' walk - we'd have both taken the chance and struggled to get started again! But thankfully we kept going.

The 8km marker seemed to take ages to appear but then it was all down hill to the Opera House and we put a bit of a sprint on to finish the last km in about 4 minutes for a total time on my watch of 47:48. So we were stoked about that.

Based on the euphoria of that good run, we've set our goal on the SMH Half Marathon in May next year.

I started on the long road to that event this morning by having an Easy run of 7km, but I have to work on slowing down a bit as I finished in 37:44 which was about 30 seconds per km faster than I should be doing. Naughty, naughty.

Perhaps some new shoes will add to this new found enthusiasm... The warmer mornings help as well!

I am Crap...

I haven't done any running at all since City to Surf!

There were some excuses - like recovery from the run and the cold I had, but now I'm just out of the habit! Oh, and I guess there is the small matter of torential rain that Sydney has been experiencing lately.

I intend to do the 9km Bridge Run this Sunday, so that may remind me how I enjoy running.

Until next week...