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Monday 27 November
Austraya 1 - England 0 :)

Feeling very tired today despite 8 hours sleep last night. Still nowhere 100%. Anyhoo the body held up well after yesterday's lil adventure. No niggles, just some DOMS particularly in my adductors.

I headed to the gym for a weights session with Satan after work tonight. My first weights session in 3 weeks (yikes) but surprisingly I felt much stronger than I had anticipated. A new circuit was on the cards tonight with a focus on glutes, hammies & core strength/balance. The glute & hammy work identified a bit of a muscle imbalance that has snuck up while I wasn't paying attention. A really tough but fun session - gosh, it's nice to be moving again :)

Tuesday 28 November
After an interrupted nights sleep, I was very tempted to roll over & go back to sleep when the alarm went off at 5am. But I didn't. Got up & was running by 5.15am.

Despite the temp out here being forecasted to reach 40 degrees today (and it did!), it was actually quite mild this morning - beautiful running weather. The run itself however was fugly - bloody hard work but ya get that. After this mornings effort, I'm certain my "race" plan for Sunday is the right one - there is no way I could go any faster right now. In fact, I may even have trouble keeping up with Owly's HM pace over the first 4.5kms.….Finished with 5.61kms in 35mins (aver 6:14min/kms).

And then I read for 20mins & slept for 40 on the train on the way to work. Nice.

And later in the day spent an hour in the Tiger's den having my ITBs tortured. Not so nice ;)

MTD: 38.97kms