Woollahra Hill Reps & Med/Long Run.

Tuesday. With City to Surf less then 20 days away i thought it best to start my prep with some hill training so sought out the Woollarha Hill (700 metres) within Centennial for some repeats to try to gain some strength in the old legs.
Forgot how tough theses kind of sessions are and was blowing hard even after the first one, easy cruise down before trying to hold the 4 minute kay pace for the next. Saw C.T on the 3rd rep on his bike cycling away like Miss Daisy going up so tried to push past him. Managed to hold the last few despite feeling very heavy legged especially on the final 200m of each rep.
Times were:
2.50, 2.48, 2.45, 2.49, 2.50, 2.47
A warm up 3k flat loop and the same for a cool down for 15ks for the day.

Wednesday. Backed up with my Med/Long midweek run consisting of 2 x 10k loops in and around the park. Pretty quiet and saw nobody around as i settled for the first loop. Was moving OK working at 4.30 pace coming in on 44.59
Picked it up for the second even kicking it down further to 4.17s to finish off with 42.55
20ks done for the morning in 87.55 - ave pace 4.23s
Things are finally starting to look up and i have thankfully managed to get out of 1st gear at long last...... Berlin he we come :)
From the park it was back for more torture at the Yoga place, Gawd... i struggled again. 90 minutes of pain, Its nearly on a par with spending 90 minutes locked in an empty room listing to Kanser's injury woes.  Got that bad this morning i had to have a sit down on my mat for a minute of two as i went all faint a one point :), (think i was a little dehydrated after the 20k run first up)
Once more laboured my way through the class, but must say it does have its advantages as i peruse around the room to check out every ones form to see if i am doing it right.

Back out tomorrow for my new favorite training ground down at Rushcutters for the 8 x 800s with the boys.

Big news out of the Old Dart last night was the new arrival of our future KING, yes, a new heir to the British throne was born. I see some of our HuRTS boys have been less then complimentary about the arrival? Still, hardly surprising when any mention of the word Queen and they go running around singing 'Fat Bottomed Girls'... talk about culture!
Anyway the worlds press and paparazzi have been camped outside the hospital for 3 weeks waiting for THAT first photo, BUT we at the TRASH have trumped them all as we have the exclusive that the fans demand.
Check it Out -

The TRASH delivers first - William & Kate showing the new born off.
No Rumour that he will be named after HuRTS finest and Berlin Bound - Thomas Samuel Charles ( Highnam, Agnew and Dalziell)  :)

English Wannabe  Eoin 'The Leech' celebrates the new arrival whilst on his tour of London.

Cheers