A Change of Plans

Thank you for all of your kind comments regarding John.

We got him home on the Thursday after he was born. He is settling in well at home, but unfortunately seems to sleep at night approximately as well as his parents (patchy at best).

I don't go back to work until after ANZAC day, and so far it's been a constant stream of visitors testing my skills as a barista as well as the expected crash course in caring for an infant, changing nappies, burping and sleep deprivation.

So far, would you believe, I've only missed one scheduled run - the one after John's birth. Since then, with all five of us at home it has been easy to schedule in the runs. I can see trouble looming when I get back to work. To maintain my regular program I'd have to run at the times I used to run - 5:00 - 5:30AM, and at that time in the morning I've been feeling like death warmed up.

Coincidentally, we have discovered a scheduling conflict. The girls have their confirmation booked on the morning of the SMH half. Neither DJ nor myself are religious, but the girls father is Catholic and they have had a mainly Catholic education.

So I'm in two minds about SMH. The girls don't seem that excited about the confirmation, and I don't think they'd be worried if I ran the race, but I still suspect they'd like me to be there.

So I've decided to shift the target race to next weekend and run the Bathurst Half. I've had my eye on it, but the timing looked appalling. With John coming at Easter it made the Bathurst Half the ideal race to have one more attempt at 1:50 before work interferes with my training.

Training which, by the way, is going quite well. Pat Carroll's program has been good so far. Despite some poor eating I'm still maintaining 75Kg, and I think the two hard sessions a week have been good for my speed. But the true test will be Sunday week. I read on Coolrunning "run a race soon after the birth of your child- I guarantee a PB". Time to test that theory.