Wednesday lunchtime squeezed another swim set in this time with Eoin The Leech and Cialis (Christian) that saw us do a shorter set of just 4 x 200 and 4 x 100 although did a 400 warm up to being. Longer breaks also as I couldn’t get the Leech to start after he took up a conversation with a nice young lady standing at the end of the pool.
Thursday, Met up with the Taffy Lad James for swim session number 3 for the week, was hoping he’d go easier on me seeing he raced a Half Iron man on the weekend, but no such luck as after a warm up he declared 1 x 400, 3 x 300s and a further 1 x 400 to see us through the morning. Very consistent with the times as I sat on his feet for ALL the session, times were:
6.46, 4.50, 4.50, 4.53, 6.45
2ks all up.
I enjoy swimming with Taffy as I like the longer breaks we get, found out the key to getting them is get the Welshman talking about his beloved Cardiff City J
Lunchtime, Cycled into town for the HuRTS 3 x 2k set that was on program, big turnout although I seem to know less and less people each time I venture down, More noticeable in there absence were Enda, Tommy H, Kanser, Barts, Pete Walker, Taffy ( I must have worn him out this morning), and Tucks.
If the swimming times were consistent then the running was the opposite as I was all over the place time wise, Tucked in behind the lead group that included Kenny, and Mikey and about 6 others and was happy enough with a 7.14 (3.37 pace), Had the great honour of running with the Italian Pizza Loving Stallion Durante for the 2nd time In as many weeks on the return and we seemed to help one another on the wind assisted easier rep stopping the clock in 7.08.
Was working on Mikey’s 2 minutes and seeing he was about 25 seconds faster it meant shorter breaks and when Durante didn’t do the 3rd rep I was running solo pretty much straight away, got bulked half way up on the narrow footpath (although in truth didn’t lose much time) and after that struggled to finish it off as I labored over the line with a 7.38 with a lack of fitness showing.
So times for the day were: 7.14, 7.08, and 7.38
Mikey continues to run well recording well under 7 minutes for each rep which is good to see.
Tomorrow its Time Trial Time in the pool for our monthly 1k rep – Smart money with the handicap is on MrAce (lets just hope he can count to 10 this month), I think I will struggle a little to be honest especially after taking 3 weeks off whilst in Berlin and Munich
Final bunch of Pics from Berlin & Munich – hope it’s give you some idea of the fun the gang had whilst on tour J
Next Tour for 2014 will be announced December 8th - stay tuned
Cheers
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