6ft Qualifier = DONE .

Well after much angst i was forced out to Smithfield to run a Marathon in under the 4.20 cut-off time in order to get my 6ft qualifier if i am to do the run in March.
So up early (4am ) on Sunday to pick Kanser up to head west to Smithfield, with the heavy rain overnight i feared the worst but it cleared and we were on for a good morning for the run.
Started off nice and easy and decided early that we would just try to sit on 4.50s average., pretty uneventful course, and not a lot to see so for the first time every i was happy to run with Kanser and listen to his tripe for 3 hours to pass the time. Had a few characters run with us, one a 19 year old lad - named Trent, not a bad kid to be honest but as dumb as a box of hammers, must have told him the course layout about 20 times, as well as the pace we were on despite him having a GPS Garmin on? Also run with a strange guy with his shirt off,who we nicknamed the 'Shirtless Hippy' - turned it it was Paul Every?
Came  through half way in about 1.42 - and then picked up the pace slightly in the 2nd half, and eventually dropping 'Brains Trent'
The 5ks splits were ;
24.07 (4.50 pace)
24.12 (4.51)
23.57 (4.47)
23.58 (4.47)  20ks
23.43 (4.46)
23.17 (4.39)
23.07 (4.37)
22.44 (4.33)
11.22 (4.27)

3.20:38 average 4.42
Happy with that and glad to get that out the way,told Colin (race director) as much at the end and hoped that i would get in the race,
Made our way back to the recovery area, where i was hanging for a cup of tea...............and you wont believe that they had run out of teabags - Bloody Disgrace, told the young girl she'd better get herself down to Woolies to buy some then, think it went over her head. :) Drove back to normality of Surry Hills and Kanser out did himself when he got the best bit of 'New York Steak' on the go washed down with about 5 cups of tea. Sensational :)
Many thanks to Kanser for that, as well as running with us for the morning, it certainly helped pass the time away, otherwise i reckon a tough morning may have been a whole lot tougher.

Six Foot Track Here we Come................ Hopefully
Cheers
* this is a bit rushed this report as my computer has crashed and i am forced to write this at a mates house and doing it rather quickly*