Out early but very humid morning again for the tempo session around Centennial Park. After a flat lap warm up I decided that 2 x 18 minute tempo efforts with a 2 min standing recovery was all I had time for this morning.
Felt pretty flat even before the start this morning and wasn’t even keen to do it but I knew it wasn’t worth the hassle from our Chairman Tommy H in not doing. Set off working around the 3.50 per/k mark and basically held it all the way except coming around the Fox Studio Gates part of the park where it dropped and ended up averaging 3.54s for 4.65ks.
Its slightly harder on the return so was keen to work the first part harder in order to gain a few seconds in the bank, once more was happy just to sit on the 3.50 pace. Although in truth it was about all I could muster anyway. Managed to return to the start line with 7 seconds to spare with 17.53 showing on the clock.
Wrecked at the end and couldn’t even do a cool down, not sure if it was the Triathlon Sunday, the beers that followed or just a bad night’s sleep but it certainly wasn’t one of my better sessions.
Title of today’s blog comes after Tommy H constant badgering throughout the day questioning my commitment to the tempo session after failing to front for the HuRTS lunchtime set? Even went as far to suggest it was ‘Mythical’ ……………….. Well mate, it was far from Mythical, it certainly wasn’t pretty and there were many a folk (including a walking PLOD) that saw me battling it doing the hard yards.
Over 12ks for the day.
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