June June there is no spoon.

[Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man]

May has come and gone and a pretty good running month it was for MLC Man. Not the hugest number of runs (18) due to a bit of illness messing with the plan, but 137 kilometres covered with some good long runs and tough hilly workouts.

June therefore has every chance of being an even better month, and has already begun well with four runs in the first four days: one easy 5km, a tough hill repeats session and two hard street runs (one at PB pace!) for a total of 27 quality kilometres.

I've now added the monster City to Surf 14km fun run on August 14 to the training schedule. I say monster because last year it attracted 80,000 entrants, and already has 55,000 entrants so far this year with about 9 weeks to go until race day. They have six starting pens which are graded according to qualifying times with each pen starting at different times to ease the otherwise obvious congestion. My recent half mara time amazingly qualified me for start in the second wave, which is great, so hopefully it won't be too congested and I won't be trying to overtake slower fun runners. There's a nice 2km hill climb in there, too.

So, onwards and upwards (almost literally) dear friends.