Last Day in Paradise
Today:
Distance: 21.5 km
Time: 1 hr 43 mins 31 secs
Rate: 4' 49" per km
Calories: 1568
Water temp: 24 degrees
Weather: sunny, temp 23-26 degrees, humidity 62%-50%, wind light SSE at 15 km
Holiday distance: 102.8 km in 6 days
Week: 51.4 km
August: 97.35 km
Year: 3084.8 km
Last day today in FNQ catching a plane south at 1:30 pm gave plenty of time to get another few kms done at the beach. Palm Cove is just north of Cairns airport, a long sweeping beach of 5.5 km. Brother and I and dog Charlie started at the southern end instead of the jetty end as we had done last Friday.
Another perfect winter's day in the sunny north, gentle breeze off the sea just to keep it nice and relaxed. A few less people about which was good as the tide was coming in fast, so not a lot of hard sand to run on.
Ran bare footed again to harden the feet, the sand is nice and soft, the sea warm, not quite cold enough for recovery but nice to wash off the sweat and sand.
Reasonably even paced running with the breeze just slowing on the run south, averaged 4'45" with the breeze and 4'55" against. Finished in time to have a shower, get changed and be at the airport to fly out at 1:30 pm. Plane delayed for half an hour so making the connecting flight out of Brisbane was close, I made it but really worried about the suitcase. Somehow, we both arrived in Canberra at the same time to a complete change of weather, temp 4.5 degrees, rain, cold, humidity 90%. Sometimes you just wonder why?
Back to work tomorrow for a few more week before 2 weeks off to get back to Qld for Glasshouse run. Need a few long runs before then, a few nice Saturdays would be good, but the Olympics start this weekend, so much to do and so little spare time.
Distance: 21.5 km
Time: 1 hr 43 mins 31 secs
Rate: 4' 49" per km
Calories: 1568
Water temp: 24 degrees
Weather: sunny, temp 23-26 degrees, humidity 62%-50%, wind light SSE at 15 km
Holiday distance: 102.8 km in 6 days
Week: 51.4 km
August: 97.35 km
Year: 3084.8 km
Last day today in FNQ catching a plane south at 1:30 pm gave plenty of time to get another few kms done at the beach. Palm Cove is just north of Cairns airport, a long sweeping beach of 5.5 km. Brother and I and dog Charlie started at the southern end instead of the jetty end as we had done last Friday.
Another perfect winter's day in the sunny north, gentle breeze off the sea just to keep it nice and relaxed. A few less people about which was good as the tide was coming in fast, so not a lot of hard sand to run on.
Ran bare footed again to harden the feet, the sand is nice and soft, the sea warm, not quite cold enough for recovery but nice to wash off the sweat and sand.
Reasonably even paced running with the breeze just slowing on the run south, averaged 4'45" with the breeze and 4'55" against. Finished in time to have a shower, get changed and be at the airport to fly out at 1:30 pm. Plane delayed for half an hour so making the connecting flight out of Brisbane was close, I made it but really worried about the suitcase. Somehow, we both arrived in Canberra at the same time to a complete change of weather, temp 4.5 degrees, rain, cold, humidity 90%. Sometimes you just wonder why?
Back to work tomorrow for a few more week before 2 weeks off to get back to Qld for Glasshouse run. Need a few long runs before then, a few nice Saturdays would be good, but the Olympics start this weekend, so much to do and so little spare time.
posted by Two Fruits at
10:15 PM
2 Comments:
Back to reality Steve - Canberra is COLD!! Shame you couldn't have just stayed the extra 2 weeks to train in the warm sunshine! Glad you enjoyed such a lovely break. Has your household shrunk yet??
By
strewth, At
August 6, 2008 at 9:19 PM
It was particularly miserable at Calwell this afternoon. Oh for winters "up north".
That beach training run of yours was my half marathon race pace!
By
Ewen, At
August 7, 2008 at 7:14 PM
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