Double Up on a Scorching Hot Day in Sydney.

Tuesday.

Been promising many times but finally managed to get out on the bike first up for an easy ride down to La Perouse, enjoyed the company of HuRTS # 1 female Renee (who’s as strong  on the bike as she is a runner ), David ‘Sugar’ Ray, and after an absence of two years (or so he says) Enda decided to join us.

Beautiful morning as we cruised down before we upped the pace for a couple of ks on the way back that got the heart rate up.  Must have been moving well as we actually caught PLOD up at the set of lights at one stage.

A few easy laps upon the return to the park before riding home for 50ks done – felt good and nice to be back.

Into town at lunch for the first of the HuRTS sessions for the year, and boy was it a HOT…. Bloody boiling and with the humidity I knew we were in for one hell of a session. Set was 4 x 10 minutes but decided beforehand that 3 would see me for the day.

Good team out with regulars Fats, Tucks, Enda, Jeet, Macca, Renaud, Biggsy, Renee (backing up from the bike), Warrior, Skippy, Muzza, The Italian Stallion’ Durante  and a host of others.  Fats led the way out on the first whilst I tucked in a nice group of Macca, Enda, Jeet, and Renaud making it back to the ‘Burns’ statue near the Stone Gates working at 3.44 pace. With the undulating course (not to mention the heat) the return was a killer. Macca just opened the gap although I was still moving OK, got to about 8 minutes though coming up the final hill before the Overpass and I went ‘all wobbly’ legs got heavy and head lightheaded. Managed to hang in and get back to the gates in 9.54 (3.41 pace).

A two minute recovery was never going to be enough and when the ‘Stallion ‘ came up for a chat and said he was done that was my queue to bail out as well as I was more than cooked at this point.

Pretty disappointed that I had to pull the pin on 2 reps, although with temps up over 32 degrees I think It was madness to continue, Most people also had the same opinion, as I saw Fats pull out at 1.5, Durante 2, Enda & Jeet 3, and not sure what happened to Macca after 2 ? Fair play to Warrior who I see battled it out for the 4 …. That said the pace he was doing, he could have knocked out 44 J

Wednesday.

Another boiler of a day to begin, and met the Hardmen, only knew PLOD and Krone though and had a good chat with them for a full 6k loop, PLOD was as meticulous as usual, telling me how many litres of fluids you need to replace every 27 minutes, how many revs per second you need on the bike, and what E=MC2 real meant (No stone is unturned with POD that’s for sure). Pace was kept honest and did over 7ks with them at 4.25 pace, A quick drinks break, and then decided to do my 3^rd 10 minute effort from yesterday to finish with. Struggled, and was only able to do 3.49 pace for it before a final 600m to cool down for a sharp 10k for the day

Set for 30 degree day tomorrow but will be back for the HuRTS session at Rushcutters – 7 x 400s followed by a 3k tempo.

'Sugar' Ray, Enda and I after catching POD on our first ride back for the season.

We did have to wait an extra 10 minutes for the arrival of Enda before we could set off.

cheers