Rushcutters 450s with the Angry Man

Yet another busy morning work wise in the park, doing a sharpish 40ks on the bike and a cruisy 8ks of running (very slow). It was then over to Rushcutters Oval for the full single laps we do now that is about 450 metres rolling every 2 mins:10 seconds.
No sign of all the favorites for tonight's presentation, as Tucks, Tom, Laura, Richie High, Elvis, Pete Walker and Enda were all in make up and getting there nails done for the evening (although not sure WHY Tom wasn't there though in truth)
Still a good crowd out with Bartles (leading from the front), Kanser, Macca, Heyden, Mikey, J.W, Christian and a good few others as we split into two groups. Rolled around the first rep in 82 (ave 3mins/ks) and pretty much held the pace sitting behind Kanser and Bartles, coming home alongside Macca and Heyden for the first 5 all around the same pace. Anyway it was around the half way mark that 'Mr Angry' was to make his mark for the day ....And NO Clyde wasn't there, BUT Mikey fires up about runners going out to hard and then blocking his lane (what?), Well in fairness i realise i am not in career best form at the moment but 3 minute ks is hardly pedestrian and there isn't exactly a million people out there on the back stretch to get around - still he wasn't happy :(
So took it on the chin and dropped back as Kanser then rolled his eyes i was happy to roll around at the back of the pack for reps 7,8,and 9 before trying to put a final burst in for the 10th rep.i was perhaps fading in truth so even without Mikey's blast I'm not sure i could have held 82/83s for the rest of the set.
Bloody Hot out there today didn't help matters,
Reps times were;
82,82,83,83,83,83,86,86,87,80

Not sure whats happening to Mikey, and I'm secretly hoping that he does NOT win his usual award this evening as it may just send him over the edge, and if that's the case there is NO WAY I'm training with him next Tuesday he'd be unbearable :)


Well that's about it - i best go dig out my best shirt for the evening and say a final farewell to the trophy that i collected 12 months back and prepare for a night on the tiles with the boys. Will be sure to have a full report with photos on the blog sometime Friday.

Mikey with Benny St collecting his award last year................Will we see more of the same this evening ????

Cheers