Life as a Journalist with some 400s

It’s a Monday, It was bloody HOT(29 degrees) and I had a belly full of beer from the usual Sunday session over at Bondi ….every reason therefore not to train today but received the call up from the Chairman Tommy H mid morning and was asked to join him and help out with the 10 x 400m session that he had planned over at Rushcutters Oval.

Met up in the city for the jog over and pretty much just did the full laps of the oval that we did last Thursday with the boys (about 440m), started off OK with a 75 second lap and was keen to hold them at that pace, Started to struggle as early as the 4^th though and was flat out just trying to maintain as I saw a few 76s go by.

78 for the 5^th, and only just snuck in under 80 (79) on the 6^th and was basically cooked, dehydrated as buggery and badly in need of water that meant I had to miss the 7^th rep as we were rolling every 2 mins as I nearly drunk the nearby fountain dry.

Came back in for the final 3 feeling (only) slightly better getting back to 76s for the 8 & 9^th and just about had enough left in the tank on the final rep to finish what we started with a 75.

Tough set but happy with that overall , the return jog back to the city was almost as tough mind – not used to these speed sessions on a Monday.

Got chatting away about the ‘Life of a Journalist’ and blogging in particular, Seems a tough gig these days with certain people getting upset over comments made and written over the past few weeks? Not going to dwell on anything in particular but I can say in all honestly that the purpose of my blog is to let all the readers (all 6 of them) know about training sessions done and hopefully give an insight into one or two of the team that attend with the odd bit of banter thrown in for good measure. No nastiness is intended and I certainly don’t bad mouth people with any comments made.

If though you don’t like what you read……….. DON’T READ, it’s that easy, go back to reading ‘The Dandy or the Beano’

Will be back out tomorrow with the team for one of my favored sessions – the 14 x 3 minute efforts, not sure how I’ll go though especially after today’s efforts.

Will aim for 12 at a slightly slower pace I think and see how that pans out?

Cheers