Now that I've been in the village a week, I thought I might put in a little bit of an update.

It has been surprisingly good weather here, and it's not too bad a place to train over the final weeks before I race. I got stuck in a room with some distance guy running the 5000m. He calls himself Craig Mottram, but I've never heard of him, maybe you have. Of course I'm joking.

Training has been good over the last couple of days. I jogged on Sunday morning, after arriving Saturday night, for forty minutes. I followed that up with a ninety minute run at Daegu University on the Monday which was quite enjoyable looping around trails and not really knowing where I was. Tuesday was a twelve kilometre run in the morning and a mini session in the evening of six laps of 200m on, 200m off. I felt pretty good rolling around the track for my first bit of hard running off the plane. Wednesday was an easy sixty minute run out-and-back along the river. The surface is good, kinda like The Tan in Melbourne. Thursday was a bit tougher. In the morning I ran for forty minutes, with the time split up into a twenty minute warm up, straight into seven minutes at threshhold, then into a twelve minute warm down. It was humid and sticky, but not distressing for the body. It did, however, wake my body up from flight mode. An easy thirty-five minutes completed the day.

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