6 Gate to Gates - 910m efforts (2 mins rec)

A big swim to start the day down at PAP, once again mixing it all up with slower longer sets and quicker 50m reps as I racked up a healthy 3.2ks before heading for a well deserved coffee.

 

Into the city for lunch and every now and again the HuRTS website doesn’t list the given Thursday set. So after about 100 enquires I sent word out for an easy set with Sundays Half Marathon in mind. Unfortunately the message must have got mixed up as a ‘Timmy’s Hill and Tempo set was set down (WTF?) Pretty poor selection I felt as did the masses as only about 5 people fronted in what was perhaps the smallest HuRTS turnout for years.

Anyway not to be put off I cruised down to the gates near the steps around Farm Cove and decided to knock out an old favourite that we used to do before big races in ‘Gate to Gate' -910 metres. So solo I rolled out into a heavy headwind and was working hard from the get go.

The return leg felt easier and was reflected in a faster time and basically it was repeated 3 times for 6 reps in total, keeping all consistent once more.

Got a bit of support and High 5s from Brendan Wong, Steve Perry and Paulie Hannell who were all out in cruise mode for the day but other than that I didn’t spot anyone else.

Time and pace per/k for each rep went;

3.04 @ 3.22 per/k

3.00 @ 3.16
3.02 @ 3.22
2.59 @ 3.15
3.04 @ 3.22
3.00 @ 3.15

 

Easy jog back up to the stone pillars for a touch over 8ks for the day – happy with that, especially having to do a HuRTS session solo for the first time in 10 years.

 

Cheers