Six Foot Day

Yesterday was the 6ft track race and was the main goal I was setting myself for late last year.Instead of running my heart and soul out over 46km , I was slogging it out over a mostly flat 8km in suburban Concord at a pace of about 10min/km.I wouldn't have believed it if someone had told me after last years race that I would be doing a leisurely walk instead of trying to go under 5 hrs in 2005.
It was good to see a few of the characters that contribute to the CoolRunning website attempting 6ft for the first time and finishing well and truly slower than they were intimating.It still amazes me at how SO MANY people take it out way too fast when they know that they just cannot sustain it.Almost as though they are hoping for divine intervention.I reckon even the best runner on the other side of the Pearly Gates has to get themselves to the river without raising a sweat.
A patient that came to me for advice about hematuria beat my time from last year by about 90sec.The advice obviously was on the money!
As for my training...I ws lucky enough to get a session with Barb Hungerford, the principal at the practice that I get my physio work done (all the desk staff now know me by name which is scary!),and she said I was at the stage where the SIJ did not seem to be tending to slip out of alignment anymore.Which means that my recovery time depends completely on how much time I can devote to the exercises - alot of hard work in other words.I hope this blog keeps me motivated.
Business is still travelling amazingly well but ongoing probs with the supplier of the weight loss sachets we sell is just hastening our departure from them - idiots!I'd love to see the bank
balance healthier and I will be chasing it if in 2 weeks we haven't made a serious dent on it.The trip to Vancouver looks like being curtailed due to the length of time it will take to get the sachets legally supplied to Canada.That will give us more time to expand the OZ market - not such a bad thing really.
Exercise time now