Friday Swim.

Into town for the Friday swim down at A.B.C Pool but not before a quick detour to catch up with my old mate and top blog reader Laura James for the regular catch up over coffee and to see how she’s travelling. Pleased to report all is well with her and she is making good progress and is back running and despite still only running at 28% still said she would smash ‘Jokers’ Birch and Taffy James over 10ks.

Over at the pool it was a smaller team with Pete Walker, Leech, Luke, the original Hardman J.C, The Gangster Jason Ibrahim  and we even got a visit from Sonya for the first time in perhaps 6 months.

Pete and J.C were soon gone as early as the first 400m and I was already dropped by the 200 marker. Leech didn’t cope much better and was dropped at 300 before we organised our own little pod (Jas, Luke, Leech and I) for the 5 x 200s. Far better pace as we were holding sub 3.10s for all  and then we pretty much took turns to lead the 100s out. All done in under 1.30s that I was happy with (even my effort), before the 6 of us paired up for the relay leg to end the week. Managed to hook up a good partner in new lad Ryan(?) and with a healthy lead I was then able to hold the Leech and Luke out to take the spoils.

2ks for the day.

 

Big weekend on the cards, got a bit on but hopefully I can still make it out for the Sunday run this week. In the Premiership, it’s all coming to a head with only 5 games to go and Stoke entertain Tottenham this week who are in the running for the title. That will all come crashing down when the Potters take all 3 points from the pretenders at the Brit on Monday evening. Stoke not playing that well as a 1-4 lose to Liverpool will testify but not many teams come to Stoke on a windy and bitter Monday night under floodlights and leave with anything more than a cold.

Timmy’s Tip, take Stoke in a tight one 2-1

 

Have a good weekend

Train well, stay safe

Cheers