The tapering of the lentils

6.00am, 30 minutes easy, Woolloomooloo - Botanical Gardens

Thanks for the comments and feed back from the loyal army of friends and readers. I did forget to mention that the there will be a race report regardless of the outcome: crash, burn or sink on Saturday. Thanks also to 2Ps, the blog will be extended beyond a description of my humility in order to reach a second paragraph.

This morning was a nice easy run after red lentils for dinner last night. Warmed up pretty quickly and cranked out the output around the Botanical Gardens. I ran a bit faster too. It was still dark coming into the Botanical Gardens and quite a pleasant night vista of the city and the Manly ferry with lights on

I was moving smoothly and probably close to a sustainable race pace. There is a weird freshness in the legs at the moment. It would be good to bottle it. But instant fitness would spoil all the fun of those gruelling long training runs. I got home pretty fresh and shaping up to continue the main battle of the week - the battle of the bulge. Appetite up, kilometres down, but I'm doing ok on that front so far. I'm off now to suck on a celery stick.