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The older I get the better I was... but after many years of idle burrowing the candle of desire is still burning and I have come to realise that running is as much a part of me as my heart and lungs... In Christmas 2008 I was 82kg and was not running a step..This is my journey , the journey of the wombat...Dogged...determined...persistent...and maybe a little grumpy.. but like the wombat my journey is territorial, its about running and I am going to work to protect it...Come along for the ride and see if I can become the wombat warrior. 2009 was a mixed bag for the wombat's journey.A top ten placing in both the Bridges and the City Surf brought a small sense of achievement but also a degree of frustration.... I think I can do better and better I will in 2010. A better run in the Busso Half iron man in support of TV in his swim and bike ride and that was about the extent of my racing. Lets see what happens in 2010 as "My journey Continues". Now in 2011 the wombat will continue his journey, but not alone the wombat has a youngling who knows how to dig. 2015 and its a new beginning , time goes on and the journey to the 2016 World Masters is under way.

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Smooth run today...

Friday 21st Jan: Smooth running this afternoon. Covered a lazy 5 miles in 35 minutes. The distance was slightly longer than 5 miles but I have never been a big fan of adding my points of a mile when totalling the mileage.

Out and back from Drucker's Store. Headed up the heritage trail through Stoneville and back. This is what I call a cheat run and is actually handy to remember. The out section of the run is uphill, only gradual as the course follows an old railway line. This means that the home journey is the opposite, slightly down hill. Obviously I did not have to work as hard coming hone to maintain the pace as I did going out. You can use the same principle when running out into a wind.

A few walkers on the trail but otherwise a quite afternoon. Bloody humid and hopefully the rains will come through on the Sunday as predicted as everything is dry.
No niggles but feeling a little weary.

Pretty pleased at the moment that I am stringing consecutive runs together without to many worries. Am really hopeful that this holds. I do have in the back of my head that I was moving well this time last year until the wheels fell off in late March and I missed the masters competition and the Bridges run. Fingers crossed and time will tell.

Barrel on wombats...

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