As a mountain bike rider........

Running
........I make a fantastic runner :-) Quite a few Ausrunners were heading off for the second Spring int Shape series. I would have loved to have joined in but I was being Miss Goody Two Shoes and continuing my recovery runs. Today I was hoping to manage 15Km and that is what I ended up with, took me 1:20:06 with an average pace of 5:20. The week finished on 44.4Km (bugger, should I pop out now and run to the end of the street and back!!). I am pretty pleased with how the week has progressed, certainly contuning to recover better than last time. Oh yeah, my new shoes, fantastic, very comfy and they had heaps of room for my poor battered brusied toe.

Life
This afternoon we went for a bike ride, I took us to Westerfolds Park this time. Headed out of the park and down to the Yarra Trail, a spot that I have run on a few times over the last couple of months, however we mostly rode down all the off path sections, we even spotted a snake. By mountain biking standards it was not particularly challenging, but I am certianly a much beter runner than mountain biker. The problem stems primarily from the fact that I am now old enough to know that if I go wheel first into a pot hole at speed and fly over the handle bars it is going to fecking hurt, therefore I proceed with caution. While it was stacks of fun I couldn't help thinking, hmmm, gotta get back here soon and run these off path sections.