Glorious autumn day in town, in fact it was too hot as a
large team headed out to a freshly mowed Rushcutters Oval for the 6 x 1k
reps. With Nick Roberts, Little Tom,
Jerome and a few others leading out I was happy to sit in the 2nd
group alongside Brucie, Toby, Hipster Chris, Brendan and Jeet as we rolled
through the first in 3.17
Was feeling the pain though as the rolling 5 minutes flew by
before we were set again, held the next couple very similar before the effects
of very little training over the past week started to come back to haunt me.
Lost it on the 4th rep and felt I was about to pass out and was
forced to sit the 5th one out (talking to Sammy Johnson) before
returning for the 6th.
Amazing what a longer recovery does for you as I was then
able to find something and led the 2nd group home to stop the clock
in 3.14
Times for the day,
3.17, 3.17, 3.18, 3.22, 3.14
Was dreading this session before the start as I’ve been
feeling terrible all week (think I may have overdone it last weekend) but
looking at those times I’m pretty happy with how it panned out.
On the positive side I even stayed ahead of Jeet, who I was
lucky enough to get a decent handicap start for next week’s State 10k. One of
HuRTS fairest men gave me a 2.09 start that I’ll happily take. On the betting
stakes ‘The Love Doctor’ Craig also agreed on a small wager, although its ME
who has to give the start this time – agreed time of 1.40
Last week I was shouting about what a good week it had been
, this week couldn’t have been further from that. Very poor.
Can’t finish without a quick mention of the London Marathon,
A bit of a mixed bag from the boys. Barts was the run of the day with his sub
2.30 – yes OK I know that I predicted he wouldn’t get under that, but I was
more than happy to be proved wrong. Well done to the big fella. Macca run his
usual top effort, whilst good mate Sammy Aggers will be disappointed with his
2.51 but should be proud of himself with what he achieves especially with all
his family and work commitments he has.
Big downer of the day came the news that Tommy H wouldn’t
make the start line after a bad cold leading into the race prevented what I
considered a certain 2.28 time being run L
Predicted times actual time
Tommy H 2.28;54
DNS
Barts
2.34:47 2.29.15
Macca
2.45.30 2.47:51
Sammy A 2.46.39
2.51:16
Cheers
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