Building Up A New Year Base

Today:
Purpose:  base loading
Distance:  10.75 km
Time:  65' 15"
Rate: 6' 04" per km
Altitude gain:  120 metres
Recovery: 10 minutes in river
Weather: sunny, temp 23 degrees, humidity 45%, wind calm

Week:  42.35 km,  Jan & Year:  190.05 km

With a purpose race early in the year, the base for the rest of the year gets off to a slow start.
Take out a tapering week, and a recovery week in the first 3 weeks, then not much of the important base can be reloaded.
From yesterday's figures, just 59 kms per week has been put down, and not enough to get through two days on the Centenary Trail in mid February.
But not every day has to be big, in fact the old rules of hard day, easy day are very important. Yesterday, although not hard in effort, was long at 17 kms, so today was short.
Don't take much notice of km rates, yesterday's rate was slow because I walked the last 1 km with a couple of others just to have a chat.
Today's rate was slow due to walking up the back of Stranger Hill behind Bonython. With a Mt Rob Roy run on tomorrow, not need to get too carried away today.