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We are cleaning out the closets at the moment so anything that has not been used or played within recent memory is off to EBay for a better life. Last time it was some old board games. This time the Sega is on the block.
At the time of writing there are 4 days to go so give me some bids folks!!  I am only up to $10.50 which is kinda sad given the technology in the box. It would make a Japanese console manufacturer a reason to cry.
Anyway I have been struggling for anything particularly meaningful to write, which hopefully explains my absence. I’ll have to seek some enlightenment and punch out some more interesting posts soon. 

This was a pretty rushed training session. It was just a quick treadmill run between work commitments.

Distance: 7km
Time: 33min 10sec (609.3cal)
Course: 7km Treadmill tempo run @ 4.41 min/km, with an incline of 2
Target Heart rate: N/A
Average heart rate: Not sure, however my max was 181bpm
Weekly total Km’s: 7km
Notes: This was a pretty hard run, but I could have kept going if I had to. I just wish that I had an opportunity to stretch. Unfortunately I had to run back to a customer focus group.

Today was my long run day. This takes me from North Sydney to the city, through to Centennial Park. Another beautiful (unseasonaly) warm winters day.

Distance: ~24km
Time: 2hrs 22min 7sec
Course: Home to Centennial Park (follows 2000 marathon blue line course) and then one standard lap of the park. Then back home.
Target Heart rate: 165-170bpm
Average heart rate: 167bpm
Weekly total Km’s: 34km
Notes: It was a good run at a reasonable pace. The course gets really hard when I hit the Cahill Expressway on the return path. It is basically all up hill from there, and back up the Pacific Hwy to home. Ouch!!
This was my longest run so far for the year. I think that I will keep the distance next week and try to improve the time.

This week I have not been able to train, due to work extending in to the evenings as well as during the day. However I did manage to get out for a run today.

Distance: 10km
Time: 50min 22sec
Course: 1 lap of Sydney half marathon course
Target Heart rate: 175-180bpm
Average heart rate: 178bpm
Weekly total Km’s: 10km
Notes: It was a nice comfortable run. On a beautiful Sydney day. The only sad thing was running past the Domain and seeing the wreckage of the beautiful Morton Bay Fig’s that are being chainsawed down this week.

I am planning to get out and do a 20-25km fun from home to centenial park tomorrow.

I have just started up a new blog for my training lead up for the Sydney Marathon 2004 on September 12th.
Come on over to see how I am doing in the lead up to the big run.
http://www.nickcoster.com/runlikehell/