Had no real intention of running this morning, that was until the Taffy Lad came calling last night wanting me to do a few ks with him followed up by watching the Cardiff Centennial Park
12ks for the day in 54.15 average all up 4.32s – Pretty happy with that all things considered.
Not been swimming much of late and when the storm came through at 11.30 that was almost my excuse NOT to go , but then the sun broke out and I started to get the guilt’s and found myself at the pool by 12.15pm all set to go.
Good turnout as well for a Monday with all the regulars there and after a 10 minute ‘Who’s got the worst excuse NOT to lead the lane out we were set to start. Some of the best today were:
MrAce “Sorry Boys, My Son didn’t sleep well last night”
Julia “My shoulder is still sore”
Champagne “I raced on Saturday”
Todd “I’ve not swum in 3 weeks”
The Champ “I forgot my pool buoy”
The Leech “I’m Irish”
And Finally Enda “I’m just $h!te”
So with all that out the way I tucked on to Cialis toes for the first of the reps – pretty solid as well coming in on 4.55 for the first 300., Sat on Todd’s feet for the next few reps and boy what a kick he has – I thought a big storm was coming through again and it was raining hailstones. Jeez, got a bloody headache after the 2nd of the 200s. Managed to hold the pace for the 200s before finishing off with 6 x 100s and tried to bring each home strongly.
Session was 2 x300, 4 x200 and 6 x 100s
300s done in 4.55, and 4.56. All 200s in under 3.20, and the 100s around 1.35 the last knocked out in 1.32
When The Leech told me he wanted to be just like Champagne Pony Club Low – I thought he meant as a runner or triathlon but it appears as if he’s following him down a different path as today after about 1100 metres he was done and called it a day – must be going soft?
Solid start to the week and will look for another 7 days like last week now in order to try to gain some much needed form.
Also yesterday it appears as if I’ve give ‘Angry Man’ to MUCH of a wrap. I think I said he came 10th overall but news out of camp is that he actually came 26th overall – Sorry about that and its not like the TRASH to get things wrong. Incidentally – It also appears that I was a little harsh on Champagne
Still great effort from all involved but I wonder what Angry Boy was thinking as a LADY came flying by to beat him by 3 seconds overall to get him added onto ‘The Chicked’ honours board?
For the record, In TRUE Triathlon measurements – The 1.9k swim was short, been told it was closer to 1600, Heaven knows what the run leg turned out to be?
And finally we have a NEW nickname for one of our members, Taffy James rocked up to the park this morning on his NEW motorbike, I say motorbike, my bloody hairdryer has more power – it then took me 20 minutes to make out who in fact it was. With a massive big crash hat on this muffled voice came out with ‘Hello Boyo, its me’ …….Far out – I thought it was the STIG for a moment. The STIG for all those that don’t know is a character on the British motoring show Top Gear who goes around setting lap times with this Full Faced Helmet on. Taffy looked a dead ringer for him this morning J
cheers
Thanks Panda ears!!
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