The long time spent in the wind at the lake on Saturday told on me Sunday morning . . . my cold had returned and settled on my chest, making breathing difficult and ensuring that I was going nowhere soon.
Unfortunately this lasted throughout Sunday and Monday, so that I had no exercise on either Sunday or Monday.
I did manage to get out on Tuesday to 'do' the monthly Lake Ginninderra Stakes at lunchtime. The PRB gave me a lift down to the run, as Bob left late on a cycle around the Cotter Urriara loop and needed the car to get down to the lake in time. My handicap had been 'corrected' to 15:30 from its previous 18:00 minutes, however this was still hideously inaccurate. Realising that my handicap had no chance of being corrected unless I went off my assigned time, I watched Demetrious complain about his bung knee and go off 7:30 while I waited around for another 8 minutes.The run was good, and I worked hard. It took me just over 40 minutes to complete the 7 kilometres, with an average heart rate of 155 bpm and a maximum of 170. The conditions were hot, and on reflection I went off a bit too fast, completing my first km in 5:27. This seemed slow enough at the time, however subsequent splits were 5:49; 5:55; 5:40; 5:43; 5:47 and 5:39. I took some Ventolin during the run which seemed to help, and recovered reasonably well.
I left it too late to cycle to Cross Country, so that was the end of the exercise for the day.
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