After a Saturday night out being entertained by English funnyman Steve Merchant (think The Office, Extras) i was up early for my first Sunday Long run in months as i arranged to meet Kanser at Centennial. Also had a late text from Rob Costello aka Elvis who was out to join us at the same time and in fact made for a nice change for an Irishman who doesn't talk trash for two hours (although he is a little strange as he was telling me that he plans to run some hundred miler in the states next July)
Had intended to run 24ks for the morning but really haven't done anything like that distance for months so thought I'd just see how i went. Beautiful morning first up with temps over 26 degrees (see Flakes blog for full weather pattern)
Knocked out the first 10 loop in 46.11 ( 4.36 pace) doing it pretty easy catching up on the gossip and chatting about the up coming HuRTS 'night of nights' Presentation **. Started the 2nd loop and Kanser was straight into picking the pace up (that i could have done without, and got me thinking WHY does he do that?) and went around in 44.07 (4.25s) although the talking dropped somewhat at this stage of the morning. A single 4k flat lap was all that was left to do and as Kanser drifted off by about 100m i managed to hold the 4.25 pace to finish with 24ks in a time of 1.47 all up averaging 4.30 for the morning.
Very happy with that to be honest and at least i have a solid base to work with and will try to pick it up every week now getting either up to 30ks or just working at a faster pace.
It was like old times at the end when it was back to the 'House of Kane's where the Good Wife had already lined up the best breaky that now includes 'Smoked Salmon' on the menu (Tommy H will have to lift his game to top that should we venture over the Dark Side early in the new year for one of his hostings )
A little tired now and will take tomorrow off, although got a big afternoon planned as got the special invite around Mr Stankards house at Bondi for a BBQ he has, lets just pray he doesn't try to kill us with more of that Irish Phish alcohol he dished up at the end of the City to Surf in August and i get more then a burnt Rissole this time around :)
I must add that i must have rocks in my head as the Charming and Classy Anna from the group is also hosting a BBQ (although it is North Shore) and has promised Wagyu Beef, Lobster and top line guests and chilled bubbly, whilst i will have to put up with Irish drivel all afternoon, PLOD slobbering away, and Angry /Marshmallow Man Clyde putting the World to rights, and that's before Enda has even gets started on his excuses for the afternoon.
Cheers
**, The outcome of the HuRTS presentation chat we had was that we feel that the poor Chairman may go home empty handed next Thursday evening once again despite having a pretty good year............all will be revealed next Thursday.
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