Well I was very, very sore for the next couple of days after my 30 km run on Sunday. Didn't recover as quickly as I would have liked.

I think when I had a more regular long run it never took more than one day to recover from it but this week my legs have utterly HATED me!

Unfortunately I had a heap of uni work to do which i could not put off because I made last minute plans to visit my bro interstate for the next week.

He's under the weather since he's just had an operation but he refuses to take time off and he's short of workers so i'll be working out bush with him. He's a shearing contractor and I'm going to be a rousabout on the crutching trailer for a week.

Had so much uni work this week i didn't get to train at all Monday through Friday and stayed overnight at uni Monday and Wednesday night. I may not have recovered as well as normal partially through lack of sleep i guess.

Took overnight bus from Adelaide to Melbourne last night (Friday night) and am taking another bus out to a place called Deniliquin and getting a ride from there out to a small riverside town that will be our base for the next week.

Luckily Melbourne bus / train station has decent facilities. I was able to leave all my stuff in a locker and go for a long run and then come back and pay for a shower.

At least I have tomorrow to get over my long run before I start rousabout work which I'm expecting to be really tiring. Did walk warm up then the following intervals running with 500 m walk between: 5 km, 7 km, 7 km, 4 km, 7 km and then a walk warm down. So as last Sunday I did 30 km running and something like 36 km on my feet including the walking.

I was considering uping the distance to 35 or 40 km this week but considering how long it took to recover from last weeks long run and how much pain I was in as it was i decided that was suicidal!

Was able to make the running intervals an okish pace but I'm still a little worried about how much it hurts. Ideally I'd like to be able to run 30 km relatively pain free before attempting the 42 km marathon.