Mutiny Medium Sunday Run

Lovely start to the day and rolled up see Enda, The Leech, BenTen, Pommy Paul, Ronan(Just for Men),  ‘Allo Allo’ Rene, Jeet  and last but not least the late arrival of Kanser.

It looked like it was my time to shine as Mikey had informed everyone on the distribution list that I was to be in CHARGE for today’s run (Fame at Last J ), so decided to pretty much repeat last weeks effort that involved heading out the park, up to Randwick, down Coogee Bay Road, then over to Cloey before returning to the park via Queens Park.  All was going smoothly until we hit the bottom of Coogee Bay Road then Kanser demanded we all continue down to the beach and basically follow the coastline to Cloey and Bronte. I tried to rally the troops and remind Kanser of Mikey’s email but by this time he had already collaborated with his Irish mates and threatened the rest of the gang if they didn’t follow J

So it was down to the beach it was and the longer and slower route back with all the hills and stairs to contend with before the tough Bronte Hill back up to Queens Park, Was travelling OK I thought but then had Enda give me a gee-up as he gave it a ‘C’mon Timmy, come with me’ and I was made to up the anti to stay with him for the next 1.5ks Regrouped with everyone before re-entering Centennial then all of a sudden the pace was on again as we flew back to the café – Kanser reckons there were a few 4.15s chucked in along the way.

14k loop done in 63 minutes –average 4.35 pace, then headed out to finish off with a flat 8ks. I was feeling very tired at this stage and it didn’t take much to persuade me to cut short and when Allo Allo said he was only going to do a flat 4k loop instead that was enough for me to call it a day at that as well.

18ks done all up in 80 minutes for 4.34 pace – not the 20k I was after but good enough especially with running hard yesterday as well a late one last night on the radio then watching the footy till all hours only getting 4 hours sleep. Solid weeks effort and will give myself the break tomorrow and try to hit the pool to pick up on my swimming.

Sadly NO breaky today as Kanser had to head away after ‘Renting Out’ the whole of Luna Park for the Day for daughter Cara’s 5^th birthday, and Enda just point blank refused me even as much as a cup of tea.

Must mention some good results coming in from the weekend, Up in Forster Ironman Richie Palmer taking out the Age Group win, as too did Champagne ‘Pony Club’ Low despite spending some time in the ‘Sin Bin’ for blatant drafting on the bike leg, Solid effort from Angry Boy Clyde who was top 15 (?) overall, but poor PLOD had the distinction of a DNF against his name – not sure why? But I suspect he went too hard on the bike and blew up and couldn’t finish the run leg………Just saying like?

Timmy’s Performance of the Day though goes to Renee Simon, Kenny’s better half for those that don’t know. Who did the sprint tri and took out the age group win with a quality time of 75 minutes, talking about it this morning with Enda and it works out she would have beat him with a time like that J

Well done to Taffy James on his 5k PB yesterday, and the Chairman Tommy H’s 2^nd place (hang on, doesn’t he normally win these ‘Weetbix’ type races?) at the Curl Curl Park Run

Day 3 another shocker from England in the Ashes, safe to say this test has now gone with great batting from the Aussie pair Warner and Clarke, Its really important I think that England bat out day 4 at least and show a little resistance or else it will set the tone for the rest of the series ……..and we don’t want that do we?

The English batsman J.Trott looks half the cricketer he was 3 years back and his head is all over the place at the moment and doesn’t look like a number 3, so let’s hope he can find some form from somewhere.

Great result overnight with Stoke getting the much needed victory over Sunderland, can’t say I didn’t tell you – obviously Tom never listened to me looking at his less then impressive tips once more.

Cheers