Tigy’s Blog

It was good fun, although my build up has been dogged by this bloody calf/achilles injury. I haven’t been able to run properly since the Run Auckland race the prior weekend, so although I knew my fitness base wasn’t completely crap it wasn’t great either.

Started with a 10 min warm up jog before the race so my calves wouldn’t be too cold and allow me to start harder, this may have cost me a bit in energy but at least I didn’t tear anything. Did the first 10 min of the race with a friend at a pretty quick pace to get onto some clear trails, after that I had to let Brent go on ahead as I couldn’t quite keep up. Managed to stay roughly in touch with him and just finished 45 seconds behind him. In hindsight I probably could have caught him but thought the run was a bit longer than it really was and was keeping some juice in reserve.

The course was pretty nice, undulating sand based trails. Very little mud and generally plenty of room for passing which made it nice. Managed to have my eyes closed for the photo coming up to the finish line, but at least I didn’t look like a half shot horse!

Given how much trouble my calves have been giving me I really need to give myself some time off. I’ve planned in 2 weeks of no running and then I’ll ease back into it. Want to do the Auckland half marathon in November so I need to get better so I can start training. Will let you all know how it goes!