June 'Golden Duck' Time Trial - 15.12

Friday. Well all the toys came out for the one off 1k swim time trial that allowed wetsuits, paddles, fins, snorkels or whatever other aid you felt might improve your 20 lap time in order to take home the ‘Golden Duck’.  What a farce it turned out to be with not only wetsuits the order of the day but Wong, Champ and Coach Walker also deciding to wear the longest pair of fins seen in a 50m pool.  Unfortunately Enda didn’t understand the email and brought along the wrong type of toy and was seen leaving the pool upset that him and his new friend Barbara were turned away at the turnstiles.

A good turnout all the same and after a warm up Christian (normal swimmers only ) was first away, Champ and all his gear followed, before I was set to go only for Crossy Lad to undo the wetsuit that resulted in a wardrobe malfunction and having to start again. It actually did me a favour in the end as I was able to tag on to Brendan Krone. Pretty much swam the first 500m with him and moving well all the while. Then surprised to see the impressive Phoebe come past us with no ‘swimming aids’ in just her cossie as we both battled to stay on her toes.  Helped big time as the pace never dropped and I came home recording a new PB to stop the clock in 15.12 (15.19 last month)

Pete won the first of the TWO Ducks on offer with fastest of the day even with the aids, but due to a few schoolboy errors from Yum Cha Wong (starting way too early) and Champ (still not able to count to 10 properly) I was deemed the handicap winner as another Duck made its way back to downtown ‘Erko’

Times for the day were;

Pete       12.38 ( wetsuit and fins) – Fastest

Belinda  14.00 (wetsuit)

Wongy   14.46 (wetsuit, paddles, fins)

Phoebe  14.50 (au naturel)

Champ    14.55 (wetsuit, paddles, 10ft long fins)

Timmy     15.12 (wetsuit and paddles) – Duck Winner

Kroney    15.12 (wetsuit and paddles)

Crossy     15.49 (floaty pants and handcuffs)

Christian 18.40 (budgie smugglers)

Enda   DNS  (Barbara the blow up doll)

 

·         For the record. Head to Heads in the Time trials. Timmy 4 v Crossy Lad 0 for season 2016

 

Saturday, Busy morning with work and knocked out an easy 7k or so with clients before agreeing to help Jac ‘ Corky’ O’Connor out for a bit of a tempo on a bitterly cold morning. Aim was to run a solid 4ks then pick the pace up a further 10 seconds per/k for the second half. Mission achieved and she was spot on and hopefully she can now take that form into the Gold Coast next Sunday.

15ks all up for the morning.

 

Need to back up in the morning with another Sunday long run, did 26ks last week so will aim for similar this week, not sure who or how many will be out though with Gold Coast next week but still I need to get the ks in regardless.

 

Cheers