Solid Week and a track viewing...

The heat has not helped the training but I have been pleased that I have continued to slug it out rather than regress eating snack foods and

drinking beer. This tends to negate the overall training effect and I end up putting weight on again. (Goal weight 65kg)

Ran on the Thursday with Raf's group at Yokine and just cruised around with Josh and Raf. Impressed by a little fella, Mikey, who chased Jas and Dale all night. Pretty warm night but got the laps done and they go into the diary.

I have been doing some smaller weight workouts in the shed along with some modified core work in an effort to strengthen the core and also the glute max. At the moment this just seems to make me sore, hopefully the extra work will pay off in the long. I know it will actually, just want it to happen now and not later.

Went down to the track on Friday ni

ght to give the boys a cheer in the 5km. Each and every time I go to the track I think how lucky these guys are. the track is magnificent

and the fact that the distance events can be run under lights, with very little wind is a far cry from the 1pm schedule with either it being 40 degrees in the shade or blowing a gale at the old site in my time. I guess prior to Perry Lakes the runner before wold have said the same thing when they used to run on Leederville.

The race was pretty solid. A very good pack formed early and they boys worked even laps of 70-71s for the first 8-9 laps. The group of Marc, Josh, Ethan, Thomas, Raf, Roberto all were in the mix until Marc put his foot down and stretched the group. Very impressed with Raf who got into a rut with 4

laps of running left. he could have easily settled into Roberto's rhythm but rather ran around him in the front straight and chased Thomas. This paid off and he soon caught Bruin and locked onto Eth

an's back. See ran hard and stretched a lead out on Ethan over the remaining 4 laps to take a comfortable win in a Pb. Unofficial around 14m36s. Raf also turned out a Pb for third place behind Ethan in around 14m47s unofficial.

Coddi, the White Knight, was also on the track and copped a fair bit of Sledging for his choice of running apparel. Many of us thought that this was the reason he spent 95% of the race running in no man's land.Later that night I enjoyed a solo run , in the dark around Perry Lakes and the surrounding streets.

This morning's Sunday run was also pretty warm and I made a start from the Approach Road Get heading out along the quarry before dropping down into Helena Valley and running out along the pipeline. Saw Barts heading out as I returned along the route but the boys had not started en mass from the car park by this stage so It was very much a solo run this morning for the wombat.

Looking forward to the next week and will keep you posted on the weeks progress.

Barrel on Wombats...