A repeat of last Saturday’s effort that was 4k warm up, followed by the 5k time trial then the cool down, with the Taffy Lad and Kanser (can you believe he was only 4 minutes late today?). I was looking on improving on my 18.53 from 7 days ago after a decent weeks training. Very warm and humid conditions again this morning so thought it may make for a harder hit out.
Set out and pretty much straight away and knew it was a faster pace as we all went through the first k in 3.30 (3.40 last week), the boys started to get away after that but I was keen to hold the pace in the middle stages, felt the pace drop of yet again around the tougher 3k mark and had to dig in for the final climb at 4ks. Tried to lift on the final turn for the last 600 and was delighted to finish with 18.20 – some 33 seconds faster then last week.
The boys were also a lot faster both dipping under 18 minutes, Taffy actually getting a PB even overtaking Kanser at the 3k mark.
Talk is about heading over to the ‘Dark Side’ next week to run the Curl Curl 5k Park Run, I see Tommy H is a regular on this course, will be interesting to see if I can perhaps dip under 18 mins especially as I hear it’s a flat course.
Well it would be amiss of me not to mention the Ashes – And fair play to the Aussies who destroyed us on Day 2 at the Gabba, Great fast bowling by them and some poor shot selections from us contributed to us losing 6 / 9 at one point with only Wesley Snipes lookalike Carberry offering any resistance with 40 runs.
Looks like this one has gone and will see the Aussies go one zip up and will certainly make for a better series with 4 still to play
My RED CARD Part 1 - of the Day (rant) goes to the Aussie Boofhead who tempted Kevin Pietersen to the boundary to sign his little cricket bat. KP went over in to oblige only for the Gob$h!te to pull the bat away to make Pietersen look stupid. Now I’m no PK fan to be honest (I think he’s arrogant and a tool) but if you are going to start that caper then players WILL NOT head to the boundary in future to sign the little kids bats etc and then there will be an outcry from everyone that they are not looking after the kids of tomorrow.
2. The clown who tried to bring a PIG into the game smuggled in a pram disguised as a baby – Boys, that has been done some 30 odd years back with the words Botham written on it, for Gods sake come up with some originality for once ………Mind you I think you need to get past the ‘Aussie. Aussie, Aussie’ chant before we get too far ahead of ourselves J
Big weekend in the footy once again (when isn’t it) and a massive game at the potters tonight, the first real 6 pointer of the season in a must win game for the boys against Sunderland . I’ll take them for the win tonight as well by the odd goal
Timmy’s Tip Stoke 1 vs. Sunderland 0
The other big game is the Merseyside Derby between Everton and Liverpool – taking the red half to run out winners here 2-1
Tomorrow I am out on the Sunday long run, pretty much the same as last weeks 21ks, sure to be plenty of trash talk again running alongside Kane, Stankard and the Leech, wonder if the Chairman Tommy H might grace us this week.
Cheers
Sydney Swans fans did it in 94 at the SCG when they played St Kilda and Tony Plugger Lockett was playing for the Saints. The pig with plugger in red on the side was let loose during the 1st quarter I think.
ReplyDeleteThe true look of pie chuckers was on show today.