Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Running in the Country


Happy New Year! I hope everyone in blog land had a wonderful Christmas & fantastic new year! I'm pumped for an exciting year ahead. It was great to browse back over my goal book this morning and read my goals from last year and see that most were ticked off. It was one year ago that I decided to run a marathon and it's been a massive journey since! Some of my running goals for this year include a sub-22:30 5km and a sub-1:50:00 half marathon and I can't wait to achieve them!

At the moment we are in Dimboola, in country Victoria, visiting my sister & her family.  We drove down, which was a long haul, but good fun at the same time. I was really happy with myself over Christmas week to run most days, despite a crazy busy few days. I also stayed on track with not over-eating - my strategy was no nibbles, no alcohol, no bread and just 1 small dessert. I didn't succeed at every function (we had 4 separate family lunches,) but was pretty good overall. My goal is to maintain my weight while we're away, then just drop 2kg in the few weeks after we get back.

So we're here in the middle of nowhere, and getting out for a run most days (very handy having babysitters on hand!) The first day was just an easy jog around the town (although the town is teeny tiny, so we had to do a bit of an out-and-back down a dirt road).

 On the 12wbt program for Monday was hill sprints. Well, that wasn't going to happen - this place is as flat as a tack! So I did last week's Monday session, which was intervals. We ran down to the Dimboola Football Field (for footy lovers, this was Tim Watson's home ground!) and did 10 reps of 2 minute sprint, 1 minute walk. Hard work, but nice to do it on grass compared to mt usual concrete surface.

Today turned out to be the most convenient for a long run. Although my program says 20km, I decided on 15k because of time factor. So off we went, down the highway, onto a dirt track through wheat fields and back for another loop around the town. It was cloudy and drizzly, which was a nice change from the Brisbane humidity.

I'll do another one probably tomorrow, before we head to Adelaide on Friday, where we'll do Torrens parkrun on Saturday. I'm loving the change of scenery and keeping active, knowing that I'm starting the year feeling fit & healthy, rather than returning from holidays feeling fat & lazy! Can't wait to share more running stories with you this year :-)


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