One week to go!!

We only have seven full days left in the southern hemisphere. Andrea often counts down the time in terms of the number of training runs or sessions that she has left. That meant that including today it is only 13 runs and 5 harder sessions. It still sounds like a lot doesn’t it! Today was Andrea’s double session day so we would immediately be able to knock two off each of those numbers.

Andrea’s first session of the day was a 10mile marathon paced tempo. So that she doesn’t run on an empty stomach Andrea normally gets up around an hour before to have a small bowl of cereal. As you can be out for a couple of hours on these types of sessions it stops you getting really hungry. Part of the loop that we found to do the tempo run on was on a main road without paths (although there was a cycle lane), so we decided to get up half an hour earlier so that there would be less traffic about. This meant getting up at the crazy hour of 4am! Andrea started the run at 5:30am and approximately an hour later had finished. It didn’t go so well today - it happens every now and again - so we decided to not bother with the second small speedier session later and just do an easy run.

The rest of the day was pretty relaxed. We went to the beach and then into Noosa Heads, which was pretty and expensive, to explore and get an ice-cream. When we came back we (or more accurately I) watched the penultimate stage of Australia’s premier pro road biking tour - The Tour Down Under, which is dominating sports coverage over here along with the Australian Open.

After we got back from our easy runs we had a barbeque without the carcinogenic bit, i.e. burning the hell our of the meat on an actual bbq. We enjoyed sitting outside on our porch until late in the evening (8pm), whilst enjoying a glass of wine or two… or perhaps even four.