A week of tapering, though I would have preferred to have done a few more sessions than I did. There's a number of reasons, firstly it was my first week back at work after six months of long service leave. To be honest, I really didn't want to return, I was suppose to win tattslotto, but that didn't eventuate. Secondly, my new braces were giving me heaps of grief and towards the end of the week I wasn't in the right mindset to be running. Thirdly, towards the end of the week I also felt the onset of a cold and flu and luckily it never developed. I put this last point down to pre-marathon blues, everything has gone so well so far, sub-consciously something must go wrong.

Despite my tales of woe there was a milestone in there. On Wednesday, after a 12 k'er, I clocked just over 2000 km for the year and I'm only 700 km short of my best ever yearly mileage. I should easily knock-off that 700 km in the next 2- 3 months but it will be tough going to crack 4000 km for the year. I'm back at work now so don't have the time up my sleeves to run where, when and for how long I want. If I can crack 3660 km I'd be happy with that, then I can say I averaged 10 km per day for the entire year.

On Saturday I headed down the freeway to Harcourt, a hour and a half drive, met up with my club. It was relay race day this time round. I ran the third leg, 8.4 km up and down a hill and finished off with a nice slight decline, about 2 or 3 km long. 36 mins or thereabouts averaging 4:28/km. Would have been quicker but had to take a pit-stop about 20 mins in.

For today, ran my last long run before the Gold Coast Marathon, which is next weekend. A casual 22.6 km in 1:54:20 averaging just over the 5 min rate.

You'll probably notice that my June mileage is at 289 km. With only one day left in the month, I'm definitely running tomorrow after work, at least an 11 k'er, merely to have 300 km for the month. No serious runs this week, probably 3 or 4 sessions before Sunday.