Wales 0 vs England 1

Stunning day in old Sydney town today as i made my way over to Rushcutters to don my duties for the HuRTS boys and mark out the 800m track in time for the 8 reps that was on the cards for the lunchtime session.
Before that though i had my regular Thursday morning swim session with the Taffy Lad down at the P.A.P and set myself for the tough 40 minutes after James called 10 x 200s. I've been swimming better of late although still no match for the Welsh Wizard so decided that he would lead out all bar the 4th and 8th rep. Times were pretty good throughout all coming in under 3.20s but i could see Jimmy wasn't at his best this morning. So with this in mind (and after he led out rep #9 i issued him with the Dai Davies/Kevin Keegan (Wales England) Challenge? A straight 200 rep to finish off the morning. Had to then wait while he then gave a full on rendition of 'Land of my Fathers' as the hairs stood up on the back of his next and the 'hatred of the English was evident in his eyes.
Anyway, to cut a long story...........Old Jimmy, was last seen crying in his Welsh leek as the Keegan Cup is now safe and sound in Erskineville (for a week at least)

So back to Rushcutters and a big crowd, that saw the front group of Kenny, Enda, and Razor, with Mikey, Dom, Leech and a few others not far behind, I went through the first Rep in a sharp 2.36 and knew there was no chance of holding the remaining 7 at that pace.
Settled a little after that and managed to keep them all around the 2.40 mark, before getting the final one back to a 2.36

Rep times 2.36, 2.39, 2.39, 2.40, 2.40, 2.41, 2.40, 2.36
Quicker then what i managed at Tuesday's session although in truth its a far better surface then McKay and it was nowhere near as windy today.
Enda continues to run well, knocking them all out around 2.31s (?) and Mikey was telling me that he averaged 2.34s all up - very impressive

Swim Times were .3.16, 3.19, 3.18, 3.15, 3.17, 3.20, 3.18, 3.10, 3.20, 3.04

Talking swimming - heard on the grapevine that The Chairman Tommy H has started Swim Correction Lessons today in an effort to avoid being 'Chicked' come Biathlon time at the A.B.C Pool.
We have a date set for the big SHOWDOWN (or should that be Lowdown?) - Pencil in the 12th December, Xmas drinks to follow.

Also tomorrow is a famous day on the Irish calendar..........No, its not when the potato famine started, but something more important. More will be revealed tomorrow :)

Cheers