What a Week its been.

My return home from Melbourne last Sunday night was very short lived. As I said in my previous Blog, Jack was a sick little boy when I left.

On Tuesday when I was about 2 hours out of Launceston working, Robyn called to say Jack was going to Hospital. Within 3 hours I was back in town and on a Plane to Melbourne.

The little fella wasnt very well at all and there was bugga all the Hospital were prepared to do for him and they sent him home. Later that same night, about 1:30am to be precise, we had him back in Hospital again.

This time they did a little more than simply take his temperature. Just as well cos I dont think Robbie was in the mood to be stuffed around again. Who is at that time of morning???

The little man is now back home and still not 100%, he spends most of the time sleeping and when hes not sleeping he is very grizzly. Things can only get better I guess.

Needless to say I havent run since Monday night, but I cant say Im too fussed about that.

Trip to the Zoo

Spent the weekend in Melbourne with the family and decided yesterday that we would take Jack to the Zoo.

Poor little man wasnt feeling too good so we thought it might cheer him up a little. We hadnt got 20 metres inside the gate when he decided to empty the contents of his tummy all over the place. Gastro does that I guess.

He did seem to enjoy it though, every animal he saw prompted a "woof woof" from the little bloke. Somehow I cant see how a Gorilla looks like a dog but who am I to ruin his fun?

On a training front I have only been getting out every second say lately as I am trying to build up slowly to protect my Calf. Every now and then I feel a twinge which is concerning but resting every 2nd day seems to be working pretty well so far.

Plodded around Heritage Forest tonight and decided at the end to run the last km pretty solidly. 3min 07s later and the job was done. The last km didnt feel all that good but was a lot quicker than I thought it would be.

well done to the Western Aths boys who ran the Melbourne Marathon yesterday. Adam ran around 2h 49m and Adrian Jeffkins in around 3h 15m. (Apologies up front if I am wrong). Their plan was to meet up at the Transport bar afterwards and sample many of the 100 odd beers available. Good luck with that one fellas!!! Gotta keep the fluids up yeah??

Anyway, Im outta here.

Run in with Management

I have always said that respect is something you earn, not demand.

Last night at a work function, my boss decided that he was going to demand my respect. WRONG.

Myself and another Rep arrived at the bar early with 2 of our best customers and decided that we would start up a Tab in the Company name. We knew that this was the intention of Management to begin with so we didnt see a problem starting it up. When the boss arrived an hour later he wasnt happy that we had started it without first speaking to him.

He start by telling us in front of both fellow workmates and customers that we needed to show him some respect and seek permission first. Fair point and I understand where he is coming from. However, I did strongly reject the language in which he was using.

On 3 occasions I asked him not to swear at me and on all 3 occasions he continued to do so. When I gave him one last chance to stop he said "right, outside now" to which I replied "OK lets go". I took 5 or 6 steps towards the door and turned to see if he was following and guess what? He hadnt moved. I have no idea what would have happened "outside" but I refuse to take a backward step to anyone. Theres only one person I am scared of and its not him.

I admit that the whole situation could have been avoided if we had gone about the Tab differently, however I wont be spoken to like that BY ANYBODY.

I had a few people at work today say that he was way out of line and showed a total lack of control. At the end of the day it doesnt change what happened.

I didnt see him today and when I do, as far as I am concerned, matter over.

Stay tuned for any updates.

GO CATS!!!!!

Spent yesterday with the boys watching the Cats break a 44 year drought. I was planning on having a blinder but in the end only had 4 drinks for the day. I must be getting old or something.

Its a shame that the score was so uneven in the end. Yet again the Preliminary Final was more exciting than the "big one". With the exception of the 2005 & 2006 GF I cant recall another exciting GF unless I go back to '89. For some reason they all seem to be a non event in the end. Thats my opinion anyway.

On the running front, I have been a little lazy this week. I need to build some consistency if I want to run fast. I did an easy 20 minutes today and felt ok but need to start building it up again.

Did some Core work tonight with the Fitball and Ab Roller. Will now make that a regular part of my routine as well. Every little bit helps right???

250's

Back to the track tonight for a session.

Ran with a young bloke by the name of Josh Harris, champ has a 3000m PB of 8:53 and he's only 16 years old. He goes alright too.

Menu was as follows, 3(3x250m w/ 150m rec). I had no intention of doing the whole session but instead ran the 1st and 3rd rep of each set.

I felt ok, need to get on the track more but its a good start. Spikes were definitely out of the question.

Times were around 38s which I was very happy with.

Hopefully tomorrow wont see any problems pop up and things can get back to normal.

Even better, hopefully the Cats can get up on Saturday. Some knob jockey has invited us to an Engagement Party on Saturday at 12pm!!!! This little black duck will be leaving about 2pm due to a "prior engagement" .........WATCHING THE CATS!

Tan Relays

A weekend in Melbourne running the Tan Relays. My first race for Western aths since the XC Relays in April and a pleasant surprise performance wise.

I was expecting to struggle and run about 17 or 18 minutes. Instead I found it easy and ran 14:37.

I started out very easy and cruised up Anderson St, rolling thru 2km in 8 minutes and then it was all down hill to the finish. I reckon if I had had a decent crack I would have run a minute quicker. At no time did I feel as though I was out of my comfort zone. Even better, I had no trouble with my Calf and even did another lap as a cool down to finish off a very good day.

Good to see so many Western Aths runners out as well, as I have said before, the club has a good feel about it. Everyone seems to get along well, and shows genuine interest in their team mates.

Saw a couple of the AFL boys as well and it was good to catch up on the gossip.

Calf has pulled up well today but I will have today off and then an easy run tomorrow night after work at the track.

Hopefully things are on the improve and my injury troubles are behind me.

Deja Vu

Yet another week off with calf problems.

An easy run today and I only lasted 15 minutes.

Quite frankly I have had enough and giving it away is high on the agenda. This has gone on for far too long and I am over it. No matter what I do nothing seems to work, at best it offers some relief for a while then same shit different day.

Tan Relays next weekend may well be the last time my runners see the light of day.