Well the last of our double ups today and I am going solo this morning as Debbie is on nights and Chris can’t make it so I decide to do the same run around Arataki that we did on Tuesday only in reverse. It ended up being a nice 13.5km run in just over an hour so nothing too strenuous and that hill at the end always gets me, why we buy houses at the tops of hills I’ll never know. I felt pretty good and had the heart rate averaging about 142bpm, I did notice a couple of times I thought I was going OK only to look at the watch and see that my heart rate had dropped so I promptly sped up. If for nothing else it will keep me honest. Time for food and a sit down at work before our lunchtime run.

Part II

I was feeling a bit stiff when I met up with Chris and Ben at lunch, Chris had run about 9am so he had even less of a break but we headed up to Te Mata Peak and decided to head to the water tanks via the trails and we put in a good solid run as well. I thought I wanted to make it to the top of the Peak but in hindsight it was the right move to go to the tanks as we were both pretty knackered. Tomorrow is a swim and our last decent run is Saturday and then its the countdown, not long now!

Kia Kaha Aaron