Rushcutters 5 x 1k Reps

Heavy dark clouds overhead and in general a miserable morning just as I finished work so I ditched my swim set and headed to the comfort of the local coffee house for a starter and toasted banana bread. Still hadn’t cleared by the time I arrived down at Rushcutters as I marked out the oval for the 6 x 1k reps that was on schedule for the day. A couple of ks warm up and was then greeted by ‘Top Man’ Mikey Conway making a rare speed work session, unfortunately he pretty much rocked up solo after refusing to wait for the team at the Art Gallery and it took all my powers to delay the start until a healthy crew arrived (on time)

Big team out and it was Biathlon champ Mike Leichwark that led out with Jerome, Enda, Tongy and I following in single file, Steady first up coming in with Jerome on 3.22 for the 2.5 laps of the oval, but with a Southerly blowing around it meant we got the head wind 3 times on each rep that was making it harder at the start and end of each one.

Rolling every 5 minutes I was holding even pace throughout but the front lads were getting slightly faster as each one went by, Jeet was keeping me honest though and the Leech put down a marker on the 5^th rep and did enough to suggest that my 60 seconds start come Saturday won’t be enough when he blitzed a fast 1000m out.

Called it before the start of the session that I was only going to do 5 reps with racing on Saturday and stuck to that as the rest of the team went around one final time.

Times for the day were; 3.22, 3.23, 3.23, 3.24, 3.23

 

The lads were running well today with Jerome once again the pick of the bunch, makes it look easy and finished off strong when he kicked it down to run around the 3.06 mark for the final rep, Geez, dare I say it but Enda also looks like he’s hitting a bit of form. Mikey seemed to go OK as well, hitting roughly 3.55s for each with a final one at 3.45 running with #1 Mrs Kenny.

No sign of any of the NOTB team out today, must have been too cold for Tommy H , Barts, ‘Special Q’  Macca, The Jordan’s and even new recruit Gleeso was nowhere to be seen.

 

Good banter at the end with the team and Enda came up with a good one to end the day when he complained about his lack of sleep he’s been getting lately, even blaming his neighbour’s dog these days.

This is what he came out with – bless him (names changed to avoid embarrassing him)

 

Quality from my little Irish training partner.

 

Rest day tomorrow, before lining up for the first race of the season at Homebush on Saturday.

Cheers