Monday, February 11, 2008

11 February 2008 - Yay For Nike! (..am I a sellout?)

Well this past week has seen the commencemnet of the Nike - Run For The Kids training runs.

In a nutshell these are group training runs from Fed Square of 5, 10 or 10+km's, as training for the race in late March. I lead one of these groups each Monday and Saturday, and the occasional Wednesday.

Monday was the first session and I was looking after the 10km slower group. I had a fantastic group, who really soldiered on in the hot and humid conditions. The banana muffin afterward was well earnt, and a mighty fine muffin to boot.

Wednesday I didn't run, but called in to Fed Square to pick up my gear to wear as a run leader. I made out like a bandit! I got all this great Nike gear and a new pair of runners, which I am stoked about. All of it is Nike+ as well so it will suit very nicely. I ended up going to the Australia v Qatar game as I wasn't working and that was great fun. I'm looking forward to the rest of these qualification games.

Saturday morning saw me assisting with the 10km+ slower group, and this run stretched out to 13km! The group did really well to stick together, and I had a fantastic co-run leader in Cristina. It was a great morning for a run, although the post work drinks on Friday night made for a difficult first few k's.

Overall it was a reasonable week of 23km's, but hopefully I'll get back to four runs in the week pretty quickly.

It was great to catch up with Beki, albeit briefly, as she got in her Tan run on Saturday morning! Melbourne's loss is definitely Sydney's gain there.