Alright, it's a hugely unimpressive distance... :)
It's two weeks out from the Mother's Day Classic, five weeks from the Qld Half Marathon, and I'm still working out if I'm capable of running either of these. After Friday's Kokoda training effort I elected to rest and stretch yesterday, and headed back out today to see how far I would make it. The answer: the downhill section 3.21 into my "usual" suburban loop was as far as I could make it. To be fair, I'd made it past a few other downhill sections, all of which were either shorter or not as steep, and I was expecting this hill would be a problem.
Strangely, despite the fact that I didn't feel like I was running quickly at all, it took me around 14-15 minutes to run the three km, so it's not that I'm not running well, it's that I'm not able to go far :)
But, a little over three kilometres is better than the little over two I was managing during the week, so in theory I should be able to manage at least the four kilometres at the MDC, perhaps the eight if I'm being optimistic. And I don't need to enter the QLd Half / 10000m for another few weeks, so will work that out depending on if I can get back into my weekend long runs anytime soon.
