After the coldest morning of the year that saw me freezing my b@lls off standing poolside at 6am I eventually thawed out enough to get over to Rushcutters Oval for the 7 x 400m session with the lads.
Smaller turnout today due to the SMH Half on the weekend although the big guns were out, including Barts, Tom and Crossy Lad, and good to see MrAce, Charlie and ‘Sammy the Salmon Johnson all giving it a go.
First rep is always tough and was happy to go through in 74 and would have been happy to get them all done around the same time. Found myself working 4th wheel behind Barts, Tom and Crossy through reps 2,3,4 before Irishman Burkey started to fire up and push ahead. Had a bit of a shock then on the 6th rep when Sammy J flew past on the inside – Geez, ‘Inside Lane Kane’ may have a bit of competition for future sessions, that saw him almost go straight up the cricket square.
Held pretty well throughout to keep an even pace, although I won’t get too excited as it was only 7 reps for a distance of 2.8ks
Rep times, 74, 73, 72, 73, 73, 73, 72.
Some of the lads then went on and did the 2nd part of the normal session that sees a 3k tempo, but I followed the Chairman and Barts lead and just rolled around for 1k at 4 minute pace.
Happy enough with that and once again I seem to be getting the training done without too many problems, just need to be able to convert the times in races.
Will rest up now, got an appointment at the best Acupuncture place in the business tomorrow over at Bondi so hopefully that will help me more in time for Sunday.
Cheers
7 x 400's you must be tapering! Is it the Churchill Cup this weekend?
ReplyDelete7 x 400's you must be tapering! Is it the Churchill Cup this weekend?
ReplyDeleteYes mate it is, and i'm surprised that you've not had the call and been flown down from Enda to join his Irish team.
ReplyDeleteCup is on its way to the engravers as we speak.