The anti inflams are keeping the knee pain to manageable proportions!
Saturday I managed 30km on the bike at 30kmph and jumped off and ran 42m52 Roo+Lake = 10.6km 4;03 km pace. It was really tough work in about 26 O C heat.
In the rain on Sunday I ran to the industrial park and did a loop of about 800m X 5 with a 100/150m jog recovery. Ran about 3;20km pace and then ran home for 15km all up (@ 3;56 km pace). Went back out on the mountain bike and went bush at the back of North Lakes. It was a bad move as after recent rains the mossies are in plague proportions and I was attacked by swarms of them biting me through my clothing on my back and arse. I tried riding one handed to swipe them off, then had a mechanical failure which allowed more of the blood suckers to dine off me - I had a blood test a week or so ago and cant have much blood left in me. For the record my haematocrit was 43 like everything normal.
Monday I ran 12.5km in the afternoon (@ 4;02km pace) and back to roo+ lake in the early morning darkness Tues and Wed 10.6km 4;20km and 4;16km pace.
Saturday I managed 30km on the bike at 30kmph and jumped off and ran 42m52 Roo+Lake = 10.6km 4;03 km pace. It was really tough work in about 26 O C heat.
In the rain on Sunday I ran to the industrial park and did a loop of about 800m X 5 with a 100/150m jog recovery. Ran about 3;20km pace and then ran home for 15km all up (@ 3;56 km pace). Went back out on the mountain bike and went bush at the back of North Lakes. It was a bad move as after recent rains the mossies are in plague proportions and I was attacked by swarms of them biting me through my clothing on my back and arse. I tried riding one handed to swipe them off, then had a mechanical failure which allowed more of the blood suckers to dine off me - I had a blood test a week or so ago and cant have much blood left in me. For the record my haematocrit was 43 like everything normal.
Monday I ran 12.5km in the afternoon (@ 4;02km pace) and back to roo+ lake in the early morning darkness Tues and Wed 10.6km 4;20km and 4;16km pace.
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Lord Garmin last night made a thinly veiled reference to the unprecedented lengths that some age graded challenged runners were prepared to go to in regards gaining an invitation to the much sought after Govenor General's Gala breakfast and prize giving function following his expected runaway win in next month's Park Run World challenge . He said he would be returning a bottle of Grange Red (vintage 1959) to the Robot and would be making no further reference to it . Taking time out from writing his victory speech , his Lordship described such persons as parasites and bloodsuckers who had been feeding off his exploits for far too long . It's a well known fact that since Lord Garmin's league of followers were legally constituted as a religious movement fifth columnists have attempted to infiltrate the movement by stealth . Self styled technical officers have been attempting to exploit the GTrain's world wide audience and celebrity to push the agenda of cinderalla sports such as Duathlon and Masters Mud wrestling . His Lordship twitted that he's had enough of these, "bloodsuckers" as he termed them and let them know in no uncertain terms that they were not welcome in pushing their diseased and self serving agendas on his forum . Posting an image of a genetically cloned mosquito ( an obvious reference to robotic life forms and aerial marauders ) his Lordship has drawn a clear line in the sand over the issue . Lord Garmin can be seen in person this Saturday at North Lakes where he will be attempting to smash the hard boiled world record for 5k running carrying an egg and spoon the defining of which will play no small role in determing this record .
Lord Garmin , the global face of Garmin Enterprises, returned yesterday to the scene of so many of his past triumphs with a stunning new global mark at the North Lakes Park run for the rarely contested but still highly prestigious egg and spoon 5k world record . Clearly taking advantage of the ill defined laws governing this event His Lordship carried his customised egg and spoon , his definition of which was as tenuous as his thin knee cartilage still tenaciously hanging in place after decades of high class athletic abuse , and had them strategically positioned in his running jocks. This caused much excitement in his league of fanatically loyal female followers who spontaneously threw various women's undergarments onto the course to gain their heros' and heart throbs' attention . Lord Garmin's next assignment is to take on a field of the world's top masters' runners in a World Masters Park Run international spectacular at Minnipinni Park Run on May 3rd . The GTrain , as he is affectionately known, is now clear favourite for the event and it is hard to see where a possible challenge to his supremacy as reigning Park Run World Champion could possibly come from after yesterday's stunning performance . It is expected the Govenor General will present the popular Scotsman with a specially crafted trophy to be presented at the end of proceedings at the Gala Breakfast now which is totally sold out .
Excitement is clearly building in regards the May 3rd Masters's international age graded extravaganza where Lord Garmin has put his World Park Runner's Crown on the line . The chosen venue is the bleak and malaria invested tidal marshes of Moreton Bay at a venue euphemistically called the Minnipiini Park Lands . Despite the remoteness of the venue throngs of die hard GTrain supporters ( many from his native Scotland ) have been camping out hoping for the best in regards to high tides that threaten to swamp their pathetic tents and hovels at any moment . However such is their devotion to their idol that no hardship is considered too extreme if it gives them the possibility of cheering their hero on . Sources close to the Queensland Premier , so close in fact that they share the same running shoes , have declared that an appeal is being made to have national icon and official running treasure , Sir Ronald (Ronnie) Peters on hand to present Lord Garmin with his winner's trophy following his expected runaway win in the race . Ronnie , as he prefers to be called , has not been seen since setting off on the Birdsville Track to find a remote desert location where he might write his memoirs and publish for an adoring public to turn into an international best seller. The message from this government source states , " Ronnie mate if you're out there we'd like you to send the runners off and present the awards at the Gala breakfast after . BB says ring home to confirm ." Lord Garmin in his book , The Mr. Garmin Story , pays tribute to his boyhood ideal who , the prospect of meeting compelled him to make his perilous journey to Australia via refugee boat that floundered in the treacherous waters of the East Timor Sea to leave the Scotsman at the mercy of a cruel demise . However fate intervened and after years in detention Lord Garmin was able to embark on his rags to riches rise to the top of his profession and become the world wide face of Garmin . He states in his book that the only time he was ever overcome with emotion was when he lapped his hero in a minor competition for the first time. He wrote he was in fact so emotional his eyes swelled with tears (he masked as sweat) and he has no memory in his mind's eyes of passing Ronnie due to being blinded by his own tears . He makes no apology for declaring that while he is a Lord and Peer of the British establishment he always refers to Ronnie as "Sir" and concedes that he is his master . This is of course is the type of gesture that appeals to the little people as his Lordship calls them who choose their live their lives vicariously through following his exploits as so many will be doing on May 3rd . The government source has confirmed the trophy to be expected to be won by Lord Garmin will be called the The Golden Ronnie and will be competed for on a regular basis and over time expected to rival the Davis Cup or the America's cup as a highly sought after prize of excellence and achievement .
Ronnie please ring home . Lord Garmin needs you . Please sweetheart for the sake of your fans .....
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