HuRTS

Boundary riders this morning. I just couldn't hang with the second round of the pace line and got well and truly dropped, then was caught by the traffic lights at Bike Addiction and I was all on my lonesome.

Now I've stopped to wait for people many times on that ride who've been dropped by the group and then been caught by lights, but I guess the "let's stop and wait" rule only applies to the in-crowd!

To be honest I'd rather not have people wait for me anyway, I'd much rather do what I did this morning - put my head down, get low on the aero bars and time-trial back to the group. I caught them at the top of Wanganella Street.

At lunch today I ran with the newly monikered Hickson Road Training Squad (HuRTS - like it), doing 4 x 10mins (2 min recovery) at Half Marathon race pace.

I ran right at the back with Greg and we managed about 2.4km in that time (so just slower than 4min/km pace), then ran back in 3.55 pace. The third set I managed to get a hundred metres further so spot on 4min pace, then 3.55 pace again coming back.

I noticed my HR was around 170 bpm at 4 minute pace on the flats. When I dropped to 168 the pace was slightly over 4 mins and when I picked it up to 172 or 173 the pace dropped to 3.50 or 3.45min/kms. Good to know.

I've really got to pick up the running - at least ad another day per week - as I just don't feel like I can run a decent marathon on 3 runs per week. That's seriously low mileage, only about 50km per week. If I could throw in a midweek medium-long run of 15-20kms that would get me up to 65 or 70km per week which would be ok - not great, but ok. Or is it too late to cram? Nah I've got 6 weeks until the Canberra marathon, so I can easily have three or four harder weeks before the taper.