Numbers were down slightly due to a big day at the Rugby 7s
with No sign of Irish pair Enda or Corky, still a decent 12 or so ventured out
and it was a welcome return of the ‘Weetbix Kid’ Renaud for what must be his
first trot since New York last November. Hoey was backing up, alongside C.T , Kanser,
Jerome, Champ, Craig, Jeet, and a few others.
Pace seemed certainly easier on the standard 6k loop that I
was thankful for before picking up a few fresh faces back at the cafe for the outside
10k. Enjoyed a long overdue chat with Renaud but in truth all he wanted to chat
about was some DVDs his good wife gave to him over Xmas ? A decent little group
formed then with Renaud, Champ and Hoey as the others seemed to pick up the
pace coming back at the end of the loop although I was still running sub 4.30
pace that I was happy with.
Group splintered a little from this point with Hoey and
Champ departing so Kanser, Renaud and I hit another 5k loop with the pace picking
up a lot especially once Kanser had also farewelled.
21ks in total in 95 minutes averaging 4.31s (nearly as fast
as my 10k time yesterday )
Actual k splits were , 5.00, 4.54, 4.42, 4.43, 4.38, 4.41, 4.30,
4.20, 4.26, 4.36, 4.26, 4.35, 4.29, 4.29, 4.23, 4.29, 4.25, 4.23, 4.15, 4.07, 3.59
Enjoyed coffee with Jeet, Jerome, Damo and Renaud who then couldn’t
wait to get his DVD collection out to show me, before he ventured off to do
some of his own downward dog poses J
The big news of the morning was to come from yesterday where
Enda Stankard was spotted on national telly blasting out ‘Swing Low Sweet
Chariots’ as England scored the winning try against the Yanks. Well, I never thought
I’d see the day. Whatever next ? Let’s hope he doesn’t want to join our winning
Churchill cup team for the SMH Half in May.
So back out in the morning for a 10 -12k easy recovery Monday run to start the week.
Cheers
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