Running with Vlad the Destroyer.

Fresh from his weekends win in the Port Macquarie Half Marathon I enlisted the help of Vlad who I saw roaming around the park this morning. Had a good chat with him and after telling me about his 67 minute winning time (first 10k in 31.40 then backed off) he agreed to help me out with a tempo session that I had planned. Hate these at the best of times so I would have been silly not to take the opportunity to run with one of Sydney’s finest.

Session was 4 x 8 minute efforts with a 90 second break in between each and it was agreed NOT to run them flat out but more tempo and controlled pace. Felt OK on the first but when was working a lot harder then I should have been on the 2^nd rep on the tougher section of the park, Easier section made the 3^rd rep the fastest of the day but when it came around to starting the 4^th in proximity of the Fox Studio Gates part of the park it was a massive battle to hold the pace.

Great session with 32 minutes of solid running, the first two reps were identical in time, the 3^rd the fastest by 2 seconds per/k but I did lose it by the same margin on the 4^th.

I know I say it plenty of times but I really DO NEED to do more of these sessions J

Cheers

If ANY of you (apart from Master Sweeney) can remember any of the above then i may have played footy with you.
I think David 'Kanser' Kane fell into #1 and #8 on the list if my memory recalls :)

Vlad Shatrov fresh after winning the Port Macquarie Half Marathon on the weekend


Cheers