Managed a morning off work and despite the wet weather headed out on the bike and joined in the BRAT session conducted by the ‘Hobbit’ himself (Hilly), Loads of new faces around that I didn’t know and no sign of any of the gun riders about but still decided to go with the 2nd group. Loads of short reps going up Woollarha hill each time, thought I was going OK until I saw a few girls from the 3rd group fly past me at one point. Mind you after seeing the size of their legs it were hardly surprising. Supposed to have been about 6-8 in the second group but we were all over the place to be honest, with some flying off, whilst others were dropped, and many of the 3rd group ahead by about half way.
A good solid hit out for the morning, although I can’t really say I enjoyed any part of it - it was always going to be tough but with no one to work off, no craic, and no personalities within the group, it really wasn’t my scene.
Still a quick fire 50ks for the morning won’t hurt.
Lunchtime into town for the 14 x 3 minutes efforts and another big turnout and nice to see the Chairman back after a 4 week break, and even longer as he seemed to avoid me since the start of December by his NO SHOW for the much anticipated Thursday ABC Biathlon? Nice to chat with Rich Mullaney, and even saw ‘The Leech’ doing a few reps.
Sat in with Irelands #1 Macca for the first few , with Rich , Jeet, Super Kev, Todd and Angus all nearby, With No idea of pace as watch is buggered Macca told me we were working at 3.33 pace and that was getting us to the far side gates. Pretty much held it at that same pace for each rep with Macca slightly ahead (going through the gates) and me just short.
Started to struggle coming home for the 8th rep but run beside the Chairman for the last minute as he was coming past that seemed to somehow help out. Temps seemed to rise by about 5 degrees for the 9th but still got to the gates and was happy to get back to the starting line in under the 3 minutes for the 10th.
10 solid efforts were enough for me and so thought many others as we recovered under the tree nearby. A long cool down with Jeet, C.T and Enda to finish.
Happy with that, tough session but I do enjoy it for some reason.
*Sight of the Day, Was witnessing Tommy H bring out a plate of baked Potatoes kindly cooked up by wife Kirst, Seems as if those North Shore boys struggle to get past the 5k mark if they go more than 7 days without the good old ‘Spud’. And after hearing this news ‘Mrs. H didn’t want to see the ‘Silvertails’ struggle so was busy overnight making sure they get those carbs into them.
Will be back out in the morning for an easy run , and then it’s the killer session Thursday – double header, Timmy’s 20 min hill repeats, followed by the 5k tempo run around the Domain
Cheers
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