Friday April 10

Today is my last run before the flight to the U.S., where we are headed for a week of work and, more importantly, David's Boston marathon. Kate came over to the house and we headed out for a lovely run, interrupted by a Monaghetti session. We began with a 20 minute warm up before the intervals. Kate kept me honest throughout the session, which consisted of 2 x 90 seconds on and off; 2 x 60 seconds on and off; 4 x 30 seconds on and off; and 4 x 15 seconds on and off. As Kate noted, 30 seconds is painfully short for a distance runner - it's hard getting those fast twitch muscles activated to really do the session justice. But we did pretty well and most importantly enjoyed our run. It certainly helps having so many great running buddies to do this with; I'm going to miss them heaps over the next two weeks, though it will be exciting to run in new places