Whew! Well, that was a fun time! First off, sorry that the site was done for a while there. It turns out that someone hacked Kev’s server while it was on vacation at our place. They were trying to hijack it to use to send spam. Luckily, Kev didn’t have a mail server configured on it, so instead, they just deleted a few files so that the thing would not boot properly. That’s all been cleaned up now, and Kev and Dave put on a new Linux OS which should improve a few things.
Anyway, on to the story of the day. That would be my painful 21.2km run from Kev’s new house in Stittsville to our house. Strictly speaking, 21.2km isn’t really all that bad, the problem was more a result of alcohol consumption the night before. Kev invited the boys out for the first Poker tourney at his new place, and it ended up being a sleep-over party too, so that we could properly enjoy the night. Well, yours truly made sure to partake, and that resulted in some rather not nice feelings in the morning.
However, never the quitter (in spite of several people offering drives and such), I made the run home anyway, not cutting any distance from my route. You can have a look at the route I used on Gmaps as well. I really didn’t plan on having a fast run, so at a very pedestrian speed, I finished the run in just over 2 hours. A far cry from the speed I’m hoping to get for the marathon this year. That speed would have had me finish the 21k in about 1h 40mins. The slow pace made it not all that bad, in spite of me having missed my first turn, and losing the directions I had written up at Kev’s. Luckily I was able to run the route from memory. Good nav / concentration training 😉 I also did the whole thing without any gels or food. Just Eload, my favorite new sports drink. It has a ton of extra sodium, which helps me with my cramping issues on long races.
The day before, I managed to also squeeze in a 1.8km swim, and a blistering 10k run, which I completed in 45mins. That was my fastest 10k yet. Coming up this weekend – the Mad Trapper finale race, the 3rd and final snowshoe race I’m doing. Hopefully both Kev and Jim will make it out to this one. That’s it for me, have a great week, and I’ll try to get posting more again.
