5th February - Welcome to Fun Runs

The Long season of Sydney fun runs has started up again with the SunRun in its second year being contested yesterday. Over 6.5km runners took on the course from DeeWhy to Manly. Although the winners complete the course in approximately 20 minutes, both they and all other runners will tell you that this is one very tough little run. I think its a mini City2Surf.
The popularity of runs right across the country has increased over the last 10 years and just seeing the number of people competing in these runs tells you that more and more people are turning to running. I was lucky enough that my Store runclub 2XU Paddington was the first team home and I also took third outright.
My training has been all long hard training for a couple of months, not that Im complaining as the Marathon is still my training goal, but I just didnt have the speed near the start and it hurt a lot. I did manage to hold the gap and towards the end I was getting closer to the leaders again, so Im happy with how the training is progressing.
Im also happy that Runlab.com.au is gaining momentum with a number of people already taking on a personalised structured training plan - their goal SMH Half Marathon in May this year. Whats yours?