A Good Weekend

Saturday:
Purpose:  long run - endurance
Distance:  45.4 km
Time 5 hrs 38 mins 35 secs
Rate:  7' 28" per km
Altitude gain: 1022 metres
Weather:  sunny, temp range 3-20 degrees, humidity 85% down to 25%, wind calm

Sunday:
Purpose: race
Distance: race -  7.00 kms plus warm up 2.85 km
Time: race - 36' 45"
Rate: race - 5' 15" per km
Altitude gain: 112 metres
Weather: sunny, temp at race start 13 degrees, humidity 55%, wind calm
Start group:  29
Finished:  24th out of about 90

Week:  101.05 km,  Oct:  345.2 km,  Year:  4365.7 km

Rest day on Thursday certainly helped get through this weekend.
A good long over the local hills & Mt Taylor with Softshoe & Kerrie M in nice sunny conditions. Not much else to report, except with less elevation than the previous Saturday training runs, the km pace improved by about 40 seconds per km.
A return to racing today at the National Arboretum over a very undulating course on the western side in near prefect conditions.
I have been slowly moving forward start groups, so I need to have a couple of good races without winning to move back to my  " normal  " start group in the mid 30's.
Happy with my run considering yesterday's effort, no problems and will head to the river on Monday to make sure no niggles take control.
All good, looking forward now to the warmer weather.