Cabbage Patch Dress Rehearsal

For some reason I started the weekend with a hangover - and although I got to the pool yesterday, I didn't do a lot today apart from some study and tidying - which definitely needed doing. Anyway - I was determined to do some running this weekend, but I'd left it late. So - off I set on a practice for the Cabbage Patch ten. Not the same route, but the same distance. Here's the route.

It was an odd sort of run - I didn't really want to limit myself to sub 140bpm heart rate, so had decided to just run it and let the HR drift up to 150 on hills and stuff. Then after a while, the HR drifted anyway, but I was enjoying running at that pace, and since I didn't feel too bad I kept going! The splits show that I stayed below 150bpm for abou tth efirst six miles - the course got hilly after that so to some extent it was inevitably going to drift up, but I must admit I didn't make much effort to keep it down.

Was odd running after having been reading about energy systems in the human body - kept thinking about Krebs cycles and the Electron Transport Chain! Weird!

Overall happy with it - the left quad niggled a bit, and the right ankle still did its odd thing, but I got to the end pretty much intact and feeling good. The downpour about ten minutes from the end was dead good fun too.

I want to get my weight down to below 88kgs by the end of the week - seems about right if I'm to get to 85kgs by the end of the month. I got more favourable comments at the sosh on friday, but still feel as if I'm carrying a bit of spare weight still.