Waiting For That One Step Back

Things still progressing very well as far as my return to running goes.I'm running 1km intervals with 5min walking between sets.The terrain has to be as soft as possible and the pace has averaged about 5m53s per km, or 2min slower per km than where I would like it.Still, having now run a few km and not feeling any pain is so much better than where I thought I would be during some of the darker days.

Just back from my favourite vice - drinking too much wine.The event was the Sydney Top100 wines exhibition.Took me ages to realise that there were about 200wines on display and hence why at the end of it I was always in pretty rough condition.I spat every wine bar about 5 today and still felt too hammered for my comfort but a wee sleep and some water sees me coherent again after a few hours.While recovering from my vice session I read that there is still no clear cut result on whether alcohol is terribly bad for you.However it will deplete glycogen stores following excessive intake (goodbye carbo load) and will exacerbate any fresh injury if you follow the training session with a pub session (no more drowning the sorrows).

I'm setting myself a return to Striders series next month at The Domain where I will try to finish somewhere within the 55min to 60min range.This is bound to blow the handicap out but I will recover it in a few months.