Tired and after a sleepless night it was into the park for the later 7am start to once again run the City to Surf course for more hills. Waited till the earlier 6.30am team come through and then felt bad as poor Eloise was left to run by herself (she wanted to run on the soft grass) as I took everyone else out the park.
Armed with the Branagan brothers (Kev & Mark), Leech, Dick Large, Jeet, Gleeso and surprise surprise Dave ‘Kanser’ Kane back from his holidays (and more surprised to see him on time) we headed down Ocean St to New South Head Rd. Usual pick up of pace at O’Sullivan and worked the ‘S’ bends to the top and around Military Road to Dover Heights. Covered the 5k section in 20.16 (4.04 pace) as Super Kev came past me on the top of the hill and Leech did likewise by the graveyard with about 1.5ks to go both looking far stronger than me.
A quick regroup at the top as we waited for Gleeso to come through and as a change we continued down the hill into Bondi Beach, a few of the lads decided to work the downhill’s as well but I preferred to ease my way down.
The tough section out of Bondi is always hard as we head up Bondi Road and it goes very quiet for about 2ks as we make the steady climb into the junction before a further 2 to get back into the park.
18.6ks all up. Glad to get that one out the way
Very good week all round training wise, with the two HuRTS sessions on the Tuesday and Thursday, Midweek run on the course and the Parkrun yesterday.
Less than 2 weeks to go ….. getting serious now and I’m even forgoing my Sunday beers this week in an effort to give myself every chance come race day J
Note, No sign of Birchy, Sonii, Corky, Sweaty Sock, Renaud, Jerome, Enda, today ….. hope they are not going all soft?
Even had talk of one N.O.T.B (hardman) venturing over to join me this morning but think he struggled to get his visa sorted and never made it either.
Special Mention to Young Hoey , once more, 3 weeks after his stunning 2.30 Gold Coast Marathon he was back out today running the boring M7 Marathon. Super run from him to come in some 10 seconds behind the winning Kenyan bloke in 2.33
Cheers
Well done to Hoey - and by the looks of it he picked up a cool $2,500 for a Sunday training run......Bruce
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