The week that was

Monday – rest day!

Tuesday – playground boot camp (took Eddie and Sam to the playground and did a workout using the playground equipment. I might even post some photos of the exercises next week)

Wednesday – Went for a mid week semi long run of around 12km with some people from work who I just met. They have both run marathons before, so it was great to hear some first hand advice! They helped to push me, and I ended up running faster than I would have by myself, and also further than I have ever been during a lunch time run. We ran to MacRoberston bridge a bridge at Grange road that goes over the Yarra. I didn’t take any photos so I have done a bit of a Google search about this bridge. I found out that it was named after Sir MacPherson Robertson in 1933. This man was famous for creating MacRobertson Confectionery, which created Cherry Ripe, Crunchie, Freddo Frog and Roses Chocolates! Sounds like my kind of man! The company was later acquired by Cadbury after he died.

Thursday – Another rest day – I walked all around the city looking for some running gloves – with no luck :(

Friday – I tried to get a pb around the Tan. I felt like I was going really fast, but the watch said 17:52 at the finish line… my fastest for the Tan is 17:30 (unless I wrote it down wrong that time?).

Saturday – Massage :)

Sunday – The 27km long run to Toolern Vale and back. This was a bit different… we had to leave at 11:30am, instead of our normal early morning start. We had a tough head wind going up the hill to Toolern Vale, and we even did a bit of practice at drafting (like in bike riding where one person goes directly behind the other so there is less wind resistance)… which did seem to make a bit of a difference. We got Kel to plant bottle of Gatorade and water at different locations along our route, and this really helped! It took us a total of 3.5 hours to complete, including the drink and stretch stops.

Today we tried PowerBar Gel – Green apple flavour. It was a bit of a strange flavour… maybe they should have tried red apples instead? lol Plus we can’t forget the pack of jellybeans which I always carry with me now. I got the Natural Confectionary jelly beans and they are the best! Gotta keep our energy levels up!

Here is a horse that we saw along the way. While we were running it was looking at us like we were very, very strange. But when I stopped for a photo he got all shy!

The road ahead… near the Melton air field.

Look how far we came! Looking back down toward Melton.

Carli at the bus stop (one of our water hiding places!) doing one of our favourite stretches – the calf stretch off the back of a step.

Note Inspector Gadget has a foot pod and a GPS tracker, and there is also a heart rate monitor there too!