Monday 15th August - my routine is all messed up this week with Milla's cut finger!!  She can't do gymnastics tomorrow, so I don't get my time to run while the girls are both there.  Likewise on Thursday - she is meant to be doing her trampolining session and she may or may not be able to do that - we'll have another Dr visit between now and then to check how it is healing.  So, some thinking was required.  First step was to do my long run on Saturday instead of rolling it over into Sunday - done.

Today, after getting the kids to school, 4.5 hours at work, a quick change at home then I drove over to the Uni loop to do my sprint session given the local ovals were all so waterlogged last week.  Rain this morning meant that I wasn't convinced they'd be any dryer this week.  5x 1000m sprints with 400m recovery each time.  It turns out that trying to do a sprint session the hour after your period starts (sorry if that's too much information, but I'm afraid that that is how it is, and most of the women around you suffer the same) is not conducive to that sprint session being much faster than 10k pace.  But my HR did get up where it was meant to, which is the real point of the session.

Tuesday - Milla decided she could go to gymnastics afterall and was practising cartwheels at school to prove her point.  So, I did a cross training session!  30 minutes on the rowing ergo, 15 mins on the cross trainer thingy - goodness that is tricky to get into the rhythm of!! - and 15 mins on the bike.  Followed by a little bit of yoga and a really good foam roller session while I was still warm.  Fantastic.

Wednesday - might as well stick with the plan for the week so so off for my tempo run (1 mile warm up, 4 miles at 10k pace and 1 mile cool down).  After a morning at work in the driving rain (well, at  least I was indoors, but it bucketed down all morning) and a whip around the supermarket it was off for the run before the school pickup run.  It was cold and blustery but the sun came out.  No records set today, slightly heavy legs after the session yesterday (just not used to cardio three days in a row, I suppose).  Now to see if I can come up with an exercise plan for tomorrow...

Thursday - that didn't happen, but I did get to walk quite a bit locally :)

Friday - foam roller session and much moving of furniture at home

Saturday - I couldn't sleep thinking of all the things I had to do today, so I got up just after 4 am and headed out for my run.  Just to remind myslef - mornings are the best.  The very best.  Today was a bit balmy and still and spring was in the air - blossom fragrance everywhere I went, even though that included through town, past men urinating along buildings at the end of the night.  Oh well.  Seriously, tho, it was a fantastic run.  I listened to a couple of great podcasts - one was a physio lecture / interview that had me so engrossed I actually thought my GPS Nike app on my phone was on the fritz again (it's done it a few times now - it has even had me running at 2 minute km's when it has been well off.  So I prefer MapMyRun and I now use my garmin watch as well).  It wasn't- it was just that the time was flying by.  I then listened to a couple of podcasts I downloaded the other day - Phedippidations - a running 'food for thought' type.  A good talk on the morality of quitting, then most of another on the pursuit of happiness and what motivates us.  Definitely passes the time - so much so that my 19.5 km was done in 1 hr 41, ave pace of 5.15 / km - not bad for the long slow conversational type effort.

Next weekend is the Adelaide marathon - just the half for me, but Beck will be doing the 12 km, so I may see her en route!!

After my run, some furniture moving, then to work - Strong Core class today, then a few more hours working, then more furniture moving - now moved to mum's for the next week or so while the floor boards get polished at home - and then to yoga!!  My first yoga session in 3 weeks, and I realised as I struggled to get up into the hand stand and the bent arm stand (my worst one) that I haven't done the hand stands in 6 weeks or so (holiday in queensland then last 2 weeks missed as well).  Great to be back - only 9 more class opportunites before the marathon now.

Sunday -  A glorious Adelaide late winter / spring type of morning, and a short jog to the Torrens to do some more guest coaching for the master's women at Pembroke.  They even asked me to do a lap in the quad at the end which was awesome.  Except that I am not much of a sculler, and we had to do a race piece.  I am sporting a fairly significant bruise on my left ribs from a poorly timed and coordinated finish.  It was fun.  And I raised another $120 towards the total - only $1300 to go, now :)