Running with the C.E.O and another swim title.

A few weeks back it was the Chairman, and today I got the call from the C.E.O ‘Militant’ Mikey Conway to go for a run early in the park to kick start the final week before Xmas. Also joined by Old ‘Chesty Bonds ‘Dolph Lundgren Terence Bell fresh from another 3 year around the world holiday.

 Mikey’s first run all year he was telling in the A.M as we knocked out the normal 10k Sunday loop to start. Pretty much ‘chewed the fat’ over all things. Got talking how well everyone was going in the team and that certain people have really stood up over the past 12 months, But I was all ears when he mentioned that others WILL NEED TO LIFT THEIR  GAME MORE IN 2015 or they will have their cards marked ????

After the 10k loop we knocked out a flat 4ks and finished up with 14k for the morning in 63 minutes averaging 4.34s

Cracking morning and made a nice change to run with Mikey easy instead of smashing ourselves when we usually meet for the speed workouts throughout the week.

Will do the same with him again on Wednesday morning.

Into town at lunch for the final swim set before the Xmas break, some have already stopped work for 2014 so it was a smaller team today with only Todd, Leech, Sonya, Zoe, Liam around. Basically the Leech and I just sat on ‘Machine’ Todd’s feet for the first 5 x 200s coming in around the 3 minute mark for each ( I was around 3.02 – 3.07s)

Added a bit of fun after that with the team relays pairing up and each doing 5 x 100s alternating  for 1k in total

Seeds went 1 & 6 (Todd, Liam), 2 & 5(Leech, Sonya)  and 3 & 4(Zoe and I)

Jesus, here I was thinking it was going to be an easy set but had Todd homing in on me each 100 so was keen to hold the advantage that Zoe was giving me each time. A big effort from the token English lass on her final 100m meant I had about a 8 seconds lead and was lucky just to hold out as we took line honours.

Good session was knackered at the end, although feel my swimming is slowly on the up (….at last)

Will be back in the park early doors tomorrow and will do the speed work then instead of heading into town for the lunchtime set as I’m not sure who will be running or even around?

Had a cracker of a weekend, caught up with Pommy Paul Birch on Friday for beers, who has his parents over for holidays. Lovely people and Birchy is the spitting image of his old man (although his old man doesn’t have the fancy haircut like Paul), Mummy Birch was regaling old stories of a youthful Birchy and came out with a story of him getting arrested in years gone by and refused entry into Villa Park home of Aston Villa (I said the fans should try that every week),  Arrested for Drunk & Disorderly??  Mmmmmm, some things haven’t changed much over the years.

Down in the Shire yesterday, for lunch and drinks …… never saw Laura, Damo or even Eloise around, although I did get out early before the locals started getting messy and causing mayhem into the evening J

Cheers