Hic Cup at Hickson.

Busy day at work but first found the time to ride with Ireland's undisputed #1 Triathlete POD, I say ride with..... i basically saw his back from about 200m for and hour  as he was simply too strong on the bike for me to get anywhere near. This time last week i was feeling like Lance Armstrong on the bike as i flew around on someones wheel, today i felt more like bloody Louis Armstrong when POD made us do the Double Laps working on our own.
Was really conscious of not sitting on The Laughing Policeman's (Samsy's) wheel so let him go a little but basically struggled all the way around after that coming in on 12.09. a quick regroup for half a lap and it was on again. I managed one lap in 6.00 minutes and then had nothing so waited for the lads to complete there 2nd effort.
Had permission from POD to sit on the wheel (if i was good enough) for the 3rd, and did exactly that, coming in on 11.05, and hoped i could repeat the effort on the 4th and final rep. Unfortunately that was as good as it got and i was 'out the back door' within the first 500m which made for a battle to get around the last 2 laps. Just managed to sneak in in 11.58.......... But buggered after that and was soon out of there after in search of a strong coffee and banana bread.
I've said it before and will continue to say it but POD is a machine on that bike, he is just so strong and does every effort by himself from the front unlike EVERYONE else in that group that is happy to sit on each others wheel and its little wonder he gets the rewards come race time.
Samsy also cycled well, although he was more then happy to sit on POD for as long as he could as well.

Into town at lunch and after sending out many emails yesterday asking how Hickson Road was in terms of work being carried out, i was reliably informed all was well. Big crowd on show once more on another hot day, but one notable absence was that of Tommy H who i hear was doing a 2k Rep? ....Whats all that about? Not sure that's going to help his Marathon times any come Berlin.
Anyway with Mikey in charge he made us all move further down to under the Harbour Bridge so we could run into Barangaroo due to the works going on at the top of Hickson.
Set of on the first feeling comfortable and turned into Barangaroo only to be stopped in our tracks at 900 metres.....Great.
A quick discussion and it was decided we would run back to the Park Hyatt Hotel (1.2ks) and then repeat for the remainder of the session.
Was moving OK, even if i wasn't exactly flying  despite having heavy legs, and the times were;
3.00 (for just under 900 m), 4.08, 4.02, 4.07, 3.59
Mikey continues to run well, and i reckon he was about 15 seconds ahead on some and running about 3.12 pace - impressive, and a sub 35  MUST be on the cards come March.

So no sign of the Chairman today - rumour is he wants to put the poncy 150s and 200 metres on the HuRTS calendar to replace the 1.2 and 2k reps that we now do .........the mans gone mad :)

A couple of solid days training and might give myself a recovery day off tomorrow and just enjoy the sunshine down at the pool for a few hours and sample the nice sights :)

Cheers