The Changing of the Guard

Beautiful day in Sydney again as i cycled over to Rushcutters for the 8 x 800s that was on the agenda for the day. Numbers were down slightly with no sign of Mikey, Kanser, Macca, Fats, High, MrAce, and with Tommy H avoiding Bartles these days it really is a Changing of the Guard with Bartles (who still isn't happy about the Head to Heads not changing on the Chairman's blog), J-Fen, Kenny (James) Everett and Skippy Heyden leading from the front.
Great surface to run on down there and found myself tucked in mid pack running alongside Ronnie (Biggs) for the first rep coming in on 2.43 (3.25 pace) - the boys mentioned that my measuring was out and they were getting closer to 820s?
Pretty much held the next 3 all around the same pace before my lack of fitness, strength (...and some say talent) come to the fore and it was a battle just to get around on reps 5 & 6. Knew then i had gone in truth and didn't want to push it any further just for the sake of it and pulled the pin after number 6.
Cooled down with Enda who was just floating around, although it was hardly floating as he was working on 3.51 pace as he prepares for the Half down in Canberra on Sunday.
Rep times for the 6 completed were:
2.43, 2.41, 2.42, 2.44, 2.47, 2.47
Happy enough with that, all done under 3.30 pace so can take a few positives out from that session and even more happy to get two HuRTS running sessions done for the week. Even happier for my one and only reader Master Sweeney who was complaining that all the recent swim times i have been submitting mean bugger all to him and he doesn't understand or relate to them :)
3 Days straight running now for this week and feels great to be back , but will be back in the pool tomorrow lunchtime for more pain care of Boyd and Toddie.

Cheers