Another dreaded early morning swim down at the Vic on the Park Pool Broadway this morning to finish the week off, although it was a glorious setting with the steam coming off the water and was pleasantly surprised to jump in and the water was a warm 25 degrees.
After a small warm up i decided to see if i could get through 1500m straight, and more importantly to see if i could hold a pace for the whole way even if it meant slowing it down from the start.
Settled OK and passed through the first 500 in 9.20, but wondered how the hell i was going to do another 1k on top of that as i felt like stopping there and the. Checked the time on the 1000m and lost about 20 seconds to do 19.00mins (9.40 for 2nd split), and then worked hard to try to hold for the final 500.
Touched the wall in 28.30, which meant a 9.30 last 500 - So although slow i didn't actually lose to much today and was pretty happy with that. Still not enough to make the English Olympic Team but....
Thoughts turn to North Head in the morning, been a little quiet from the boys on this one, Kansers on Marathon Pace (aiming for 40 minutes), Mikey wants 60 seconds start from me, Slim Sammy Agnew is on fire, Tucks is still on waking duties and i think i could get one up on the Head to Heads with Chairman Tom in the morning?
So with the Irish still lamenting there lose last week there seems no takers for a wager this week? Still i no doubt will have my own little battles with certain people over the course for 36 minutes :)
Have a great weekend
Cheers
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