Thursday, January 1, 2015

Faster Speed for the start of the New Year.

Went early and enlisted the help of Enda before he got his first cold of the year, although in the state he rocked up I doubt if any bug could have lived with the amount of alcohol he had in his body.
Asked him if he could help out with a faster tempo style 10k run looking around the 4 min/k mark, After a two k warm up we were set, hot and humid morning and was feeling the effects of the festive season as early as about the 3k marker (11.53),  Seemed to  settle and hold the pace fine through the 4 and 5ks, but once into the 6th  I seemed  to struggle. Had to dig a little going back up the uphill section of the park but once 8 was down then it’s funny how the mindset changes and I felt fine again for the final couple of ks.
Completed the 10 in a time of 39.50, averaging 3.59s so happy with that, works out over 2 minutes faster than I did the first Striders race last Feb so things maybe looking up, especially for this time of the year. J
A couple of ks warm down to give us close on 14 for the morning before heading down to Cloey for a few ins/out swimming – water felt lovely and was the perfect way to recover before retiring back to Randwick for coffee and bumping into Irelands #1 triathlete PLOD. Good chat with him discussing all things for the coming year and how he aims to knock Enda’s PBs off over the course of the next 12 months.

Back home and time for footy and the darts, hope you have been following the Potters , another good result overnight,  1-1 against Man Utd giving us 7 from 9 points over the festive season.
‘The Power’ is keeping the Stoke dream alive in the darts as well as the semis start to take shape. You have to check this out – the grand entrance on stage of the players is quality. Peter ‘Snakebite’ Wright with his ‘Endalike trousers, and Birchy hairstyle,  with his merry dance with the cheerleaders. I swear if my running doesn’t improve this next 12 months then that will be my next calling I reckon J


*** Didn’t help him much though as he got smashed 5-1 by the Flying Scotsman Gary Anderson in the Quarter Finals.

Will be back out in the morning , might see what Kanser has in store?

Cheers



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