10km Run Today

So today I decided it was time to tackle the "big block run".  Which is from my place, down the Northern Rd, down Andrews Rd, along Castlereagh Rd, then up Coreen Ave, til we reach again the Northern Rd, then run along there for around 1.8km - 2km til we reach home again.  

I measured the distance and it was 10km even!  Nice new running track for me!  The last time I ran 10km it took me 2 hours and 10 minutes this was at Norwest.  Today I ran it in 1 hour 40 minutes!  So stoked with how much I have improved.  Its definately all the running and kickboxing its starting to help strengthen the leg muscles, and its getting the endurance / miles in the legs in prep for City2Surf.  Now only 63 days to go!  Time to rip into the training and get the miles in and break in the new shoes and get some running done!

Morphing into a Runner

Now as most of you know I am not a runner I don't generally enjoy it I guess mainly because I was 140kg and trying to run was painful the body and also running out in public with everything wobbling around its not the nicest feeling.  But in saying that I'm no down to 118kg and am no longer worried about what people think if they wanna yell idiotic things or whatever then thats their problem.  I did actually get a few honks on this mornings run, which was kind of nice.  So stoked I got through it though.  

I am going to do Knapsack with Robyn tomorrow which is going to be awesome I can't wait!  I will definately be icing down tonight and tomorrow so my knees will be okay to handle knapsack tomorrow.  

But now since I am running almost everyday now, I am kind of starting to enjoy it (damn it! My physio - the runner said I would start to enjoy it! He was right) But my week started yesterday and I'm already 10km down.  Gonna try and aim for between 15-18km this week and see how we go! 

Bring on Knapsack tomorrow, will post photos soon!

Knapsack

Ok, so I generally had a pretty good and productive day I swimming this morning then shopping for fruit (damn how expensive has fruit gotten lately! - anyway that's another blog post!) and got my highlights redone.  Found myself at home about 1.30pm just bored and wanting to eat, so I rang up my friend Jason and suggest we do Knapsack, we both just needed to get out the house and keep our mind off things

Jason

 

 

 

 

So we rock up to Knapsack, and chatting as we normally walking upto the bridge and it was really nice to just chat and have someone listen, especially with everything going on with the weight and the personal life, its a little drama filled right now. 

So finally we get upto the bridge

Knapsack Bridge

Knapsack Bridge - View from the bottom

And there is a few different tracks that we can go down but today we picked our usually hard one with lots of steep steps, but its such an awesome feeling when you get to the top, its one of those tracks that is just brutal especially when you weight 127kg, its very difficult to pull yourself up that track to say the least!!

One set of stairs on the track

 

 

 

Brutal!

These stairs in the pictures were absolutely brutal!  No matter how many times you do these- they do not get any easier!!  Killer on thighs and butt!  But you feel awesome knowing that you conquered it!

One of the stairs we went up

You know your near the top when you see these awesome little rock statues!

Awesome Rock Statues!

Almost near the top!  Promise!

This little one means your less than 200m from the top!

So, so close to the top you can practically taste it!  Just a little more to go and I'm there!

View from the top - how good is that!

And here are some photos as we were walking down the trail

More up hill parts of the trail

Love this trail its so beautiful and relaxing

As much as do love doing knapsack walks and runs and I love being and training outside it is absolutely fantastic. 

Can't wait til the next time I do it which I'm hoping to be next week.  But knees are definately feeling it now and have to ice them down big time

Ice packs at the ready!  Iceing down after knapsack