Tuesday, June 11, 2013

My 1000th Post

Wow, I've finally reached 1,000 posts for this blog. It's taken a few years! This morning it was cold and bleak outside, a day for catching up with things around the house, but as mid-day approached the sun came out and it was time to take Teddy out. It was stunning at that time of day and he had a great off lead run on the grass and in and out of the drains.


Teddy ready for his run




I made it to Speedygeese at Dickson Oval by 5.10pm and managed to fit in a large loop outside the oval giving me a good warm up before the session began. It was a mild evening although there was one very cold patch on the straight.
Only 7 of us turned up for the main session of training plus our speedy leader. Miranda had run early for the 8km with speedygeoff and Kelley had joined them. Miranda left after our warm up leaving Colin, Kelley, Kym, Margaret, Mick, Rod, speedychief and me. After our warm up loop our main session consisted of 400m fast loops of the oval with 400m slow running in the opposite direction between each rep. This was for a total of 30mins. Then we ran a warm down loop of the oval. Colin and Rod were much speedier than anyone else and were neck and neck most of the way.
Total distance including my early warm up: 9km
It's a rare occurrence these days to be able to make it to the Dickson training as I often have the afternoon shift at work and as it's the other side of town it makes it impossible to make it in time for the session so I was particularly happy to be able to run with the speedygeese today!


9 comments:

  1. Congratulations Strewth and Teddy on 1000 posts!

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    1. Haha Teddy probably has succeeded in that too!!

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    2. I get it. Then your long walks are generally interval training between posts.

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  2. Ruth you are getting way too many spam comments. You should change your "who can comment" setting to "Users with Google Accounts". I stopped getting spam when I did this to mine. Before that I had been getting dozens every day.

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    1. p.s. look at "comments" ... "spam" to see how many don't even make it this far!

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    2. Thanks Geoff - done! Fingers crossed I have less now! They come into my inbox but don't usually get to my blog. Just checked the "spam" as you suggested and will delete them all eventually. It will take a while!!

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  3. Bet Teddy makes the next 1000 posts faster than you do ;-)

    Congratulations!

    BTW, did Jen return your text message?

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    1. Yes she rang and yes she saw you but you left too quickly:)

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