Battling On.

Seems to have been ages since any training has been done over the past few weeks as doing things a little tougher then normal for one reason and another that i wont bore you with, plus the fact that i am still unable to run just rubs salt into the wound....... Still we battle on.
Beautiful start to the working week as i cycled into town for the Monday lunch time swim, No sign of Mikey who has give us the flick now that his leg is better and it seems we have served our purpose over the past 3 weeks, No Julia either (perhaps as i wasn't there last Friday the thought of having to deal with Enda once again was more then she could handle?). MrAce, Enda, Champ and i started the session after i did the 500m warm up solo.
The session was;
2 x 300, 4 x 200 , 6 x 100
MrAce led the first rep but it seemed TO SLOW can you believe and we kicked him off the front and threatened him with the Tommy H swim squad if he didn't lift his game. Enda was next up and the pace lifted straight away and all was good until Angus rocked up and then it was kicked up a notch further as he nearly killed us. I thought my first 200 was sharp, but Angus's rep was some 9 seconds even faster.
Times were;
5.17, 5.00, 3.17, 3.20, 3.08, 3.13, 1.32, 1.34, 1.35, 1.31, 1.31, 1.34
Once more was happy to get that done and even happier with the times recorded and another 2.5ks done for the day.
There was a moment of anxiety half way through the set, when i thought disaster was just about to wipe us out with Australia's first ever Tsunami........... scary at first but then normal service resumed after we found out it was only Marshmallow Angry Man Clyde dive bombing into the next lane just about to do a few laps:)
The swim was finished off when we were also paid a visit by young Cillian Stankard aged 9 months old - Good to see him and already looks as strong as his old man, And i must add, Almost as TALL as MrACE who was standing nearby :)
I called out to swim coach Vlad at one point " Vlad, any chance you could get Stankard into swim school?
Vlad (looking at Cillian) " Sorry Timmy, don't have anything for the kids until the school holidays in a fortnight"
Timmy 'Oh no, its not for the young bloke, i was enquiring for Enda"

Might try to get out in the morning in between classes and knock out a few ks to test the Achilles out.

In other HuRTS news from the weekend - Huge Congrats to Richie High and Taffy James on there Melbourne Iron man, Heard it was tough conditions out there especially in the swim causing it to be reduced to only 1.5ks and high winds on the bike leg made it hard for half the race.
As mentioned top effort from the boys, BUT there must a tinge of sadness that it will NOT be recorded as a FULL with the race shortened, especially after training so hard.
Had an email from one of our old members today - Anthony Murell (aka Muzza) who gave me the news that he is on the way back to Oz within the next month and has targeted the S.M.H Half as his first race upon return. Will be good to have him back and will certainly be one to look out for once he does a few sessions with the lads.
Heard also that Centennial had HuRTS royalty for the Sunday run with 'A Grade Runners' Fats, and Truscott, running around with Kanser and Stankard.
Talking Kanser - seems i am not on the 'A list' anymore either as i didn't get the call to run with the boys and rumour has it that his NEW training partners last Saturday were Vlad and Stevie "Wildman' Thurston.......? Well, there you go !!!!
Makes me wonder if they had my seat at the breaky table drinking my tea post run ? :)

Tomorrows German Gibber Part 3 - Chairman Tommy H as you have never seen before.

Cheers