Beautiful mind, horrible body ; the 'office' christmas party
6.30am, 90 minutes easy, Centennial Park
Ran up to Centennial Park. Felt better than yesterday and good enough to do a longer run: to run the fartlek session without the fartlek with the Sean Williams morning squad. Being our last run before Christmas there was a casual Christmas atmosphere, the equivalent of an office christmas party.
As the others took off on the fartlek surges I could only lift the pace from 33.3% to 35.5% due to a tight left glute. The rest of me was jumping out of my skin to get going. It was quite tortuous as I watched the others sail away ahead with ease and picture where I might otherwise be running. A bit surreal, and like a long slow nightmare. Strangely enough I did not come last in the surges except one. Then I had Xela turning around ahead to double back and jog away again oblivious to my inner torment. I also had Deanna encouraging me with kind words to keep going. I felt a bit wobbly after an hour but finished off the session at a strong 36%.
I did have an office Christmas party last Friday at one of my office landlord's houses in Kirribilli with harbour views opposite the Royal Sydney yacht squadron. It was a pleasant but restrained affair for me, alternating between beer and mineral water. A bit like fartlek.
Finally, there is a secret life of Don Juan the student. During the week I got offered a 3 year scholarship to do a PhD at UTS. It's in financial accounting researching company performance and share prices. I might be able to blog the whole thesis.
posted by Don Juan @ 9:18 am
8 Comments:
Gee, I've learnt alot about you this week - from your strong groin (your words, not mine) to your life as a student.
Congrats on the scholarship offer. But if you were worried about your recovery runs being boring reading for the visitors to your blog, I'd stick with blogging about recovery runs rather than blogging about your thesis ;-)
Hey then you will be Dr DJ - cool!
Congratulations on the Phd!!!! You will be a busy boy! Dr Mark has a nice ring to it :-) Glad to see you there this morning!! I hope that glute sorts itself out soon... its letting the rest of the team down :-)
Ha ha, I love the precise percentages. No wonder you got offered a scholarship researching performanc.
Bummer about the glute pain (pun intended) :-(
Take it ieasy I will!!!! I am planning on either a really short easy run or a swim :-)
Thanks for the reminder though!! I am thinking my fridays will definately be easy follwing a hard wed, thurs.
Now you take it easy Mr 100kms !!!
Sorry the glute is so happy to stay in your skin when the rest of you is ready to jump out.
Dr DJ does have a nice ring to it - congratulations on the scholarship.
Education is a meal best served free :-)
Well now you know what it's like at the back of the pack with Xela chatting in your ear and turning round to get you. Shame I wasn't there to keep you company!
Congrats on you scholarship, but I thought you were a lawyer not a beancounter! Mr lulu says he knows the answer already and can save you 3 years work.. standby and he'll publish shortly :)
DJ congratulations...I think. Everyone I know who's done a thesis seems to find it extremely painful. I must say your topic sounds indredibly...er...well...not my cup of tea, but I'm sure it's like acountant porn or something. Anyway, thank goodness you have running to keep you sane and interesting! ;-)
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