On Toddies Toes

A bit dusty this morning after a Sunday afternoon spent in the beer garden that lasted way to long. Cycled into the city to swim with the boys but found NO Pete Walker as arranged, apparently he was having problems with his work changing locker and had that much money stashed in there he couldn't shut the door.
There was a massive crowd on hand as i rocked up to the pool - apparently word had got round that Enda was making another guest appearance at the A.B.C and they were selling tickets such was the entertainment on offer last Monday. Much to the crowds displeasure unfortunately he never showed.
Went ahead and did the session anyway, with Todd calling the shots starting off with 10 x 100s, and after a 500 warm up and with Todd taking pity on me (unlike Pete) , he swam with his feet banded and the pool buoy with a ball and chain attached to slow him down a little meaning that i could try to stay with him.
Felt so easy for the first 3 that i thought i was nearly stopping and tapping Todd's toes but was amazed to see times on 1.36, 1.37. 1.37 for each, Kept the breaks short as well, only taking 10 seconds between efforts. Got through the remaining 7 fine with the slowest being 1.38. Pete then made it and then we knocked out 5 x 200s that i was still able to hold a reasonable time for each.
2.5ks for the session and probably best swim session I've managed this term - thanks mainly to Todd's pacing and help.

As mentioned yesterday there were some super runs from the Melbourne Marathon with many of the boys running PBs for the day - Sensational effort is all i can say, although i have been bombarded with emails all day from a certain HuRTS member who is now questioning the distance of the run - Outrageous Claims if you ask me.
All this from the guy that would travel 12'000 to find a race that is short in distance and is a professor of Marathon Running.
Here are just some of the messages the Trash has received ALL day



'Lots of negative splits in the Melbourne marathon, which is interesting'

'The split for 30-40k seems to be the outlier. For some strange reason the majority of runners have run this one a tad quicker. sure it was 400m short'

'To be honest, I can’t find anywhere on the site that’s it was measured by an IAAF official. Strange really..don’t read anything into that comment'.

'If I'd of run it i would have smashed Tom's PB as well'

I'm sure Fats, Richie P, MrAce, Razor Wareham, Conor will all be sending you an email Mr Kane with there thoughts :)


Will try to get out for the HuRTS 2 x 20 minute tempo session tomorrow although i have a busy day and the temps are tipped to hit 32 degrees so may try to get it down earlier in the day even if it means i go solo.

Cheers