Lá Fhéile Pádraig

Massive weekend that saw me out with mates on both the Saturday and Sunday to help celebrate St Patrick’s Day with all those loony Irish lads.

Struggled big time on the Sunday morning then after promising a client I’d do 13ks with her as part of her long run, If I thought that was a battle then Monday morning was even worse after having a few pints and talking trash for about 6 hours  with Ireland’s # 1 Triathlete Paul O’Doherty (POD )

Tuesday. Managed to find Vlad again in the park and decided that despite feeling terrible I’d do a 5k time trial, felt good ………..for about 340m then it was a battle just to finish it as the pace dropped pretty dramatically. Thought it a major victory just to get through the final 4k warm down without throwing up, it wasn’t pretty

Wednesday, who should I bump into on the Wednesday cruise around the park? None other then Enda Stankard and what appears to be his new buddy and run coach, the very strong Terence Bell. Joined in with the two boys for a 6k Woollahra Hill loop followed by a flat 4ks. Pace was good, working under 4.30s as I was battling to hang on. Enda was once more talking utter nonsense going on about how he hasn’t run for a fortnight when I know for a fact he has run everyday for a MINIMUM of 45 minutes.

Still he doesn’t’ fool anyone these days and I think the whole of the HuRTS crew have him sussed out these days?

Had a great afternoon with my mates and POD on Sunday over a few beers, Had Ronan also pop along to settle his debts from the England vs. Ireland rugby match, but sad to say both Kanser and Stankard were nowhere to be seen once again.

Would be amiss of me not to mention the 6 Nations – Congratulations to Ireland on taking it out, well deserved especially getting the victory in Paris over those Garlic Eating. Frog legs munching, champagne drinking, white flag waving, guillotine loving, brie making, World War surrendering French to0l$,

Fantastic to see Brian O’Driscoll goes out a winner, a true champion of the sport and I just wish that he was English J

Still with the World Cup coming up in less then a year, I’ll confidently say that we have the team to take out the major William Webb Ellis Trophy when it comes around.

Will be back out for the HuRTS Rushcutters Pyramid session tomorrow,

Some pics from Sunday

St Patrick's Day celebrating with Ireland's #1 POD

POD having maybe one Guinness too many.

Mothers Milk.

Party time - those Irish ladies know how to party.

Sorry - I did say Kanser wasn't out , BUT i did see him later in the day with the Irish Assassin Eamo K.

As was Enda who was spotted wandering around after a shandy

Cheers