Who would be a trainer..... ? Out this morning in the pouring rain and got soaked for about 3 hours :( Still no time for the faint hearted these days and it was into town for the HuRTS 14 x 3 min session. Good turnout despite the miserable weather and the banter was hitting fever pitch with all the Irish team out in force in an effort to take us out in the Half in 5 weeks.
At the front was Tom, J-Fen, Scott, Macca and Kanser, with me sitting slightly behind on the first few with Enda tormenting me for the first 4 or so. Was working well and the pace was kept pretty honest with the initial goal to run them ALL sub 3.30 pace. Still feeling good on rep 7, and pleased to see Richie High back from his travels floating around Farm Cove, A quick handshake from everyone to him just proved what a popular member Mr High is, although again Enda was to take it a little too far by romping on the ground with him and then preceded to start 'Gumming' him he was that happy to see his return.
The Heavens opened on rep 8 and that was the time for the Irish boys to pull up stumps and run for cover and that was pretty much them done, except for Paul Macca who saw the full 14 out (will have to check his passport as he again proved he does have a good ticker)
Stayed strong throughout today and even when Chairman Tom came up to me on the last rep i tried to kick it down - succeeded for about 30 seconds (didn't realise i was only 1.13 into the rep) but still was happy with a 3.14 average last lap.
Again a good few start this session but only about 25% actually finish, despite this being a tough session (not to mention the longest) its one i normally go OK on - strange?
Average pace on each rep was as follows:
3.28, 3.27, 3.27, 3.21, 3.26, 3.20, 3.28, 3.22, 3.27, 3.26, 3.27, 3.26, 3.28, 3.14
All up 12.8ks in the session.
Happy with that, and plenty more to come over the next 4 weeks :)
Like i say the Banter was at fever pitch today in regards to our little challenge with the Irish lads, over the next week or so i will give a brief rundown on ALL the players involved in the teams. First up is Paul O'Doherty AKA POD (Ireland) the only one with a shred of credibility in the team with some solid races over the years, mostly in triathlons mind you. Has a big job on his hands trying to carry his good buddy Enda over 21ks and has been known to 'blow up' a few times as proved inthe photo below (walking) Still he will need to be at his best to get his team aggregate down and may need a few extra sessions with the team shrink Sparksy if they are to get the victory they are after:)
Tomorrow - find out who "The Leech ' is in the Irish team?
Cheers
With a few Macca's around at HuRT's surely a Scottish team would front for a tri series? Good session Tim. You must have been sandbagging the run on Sunday.
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