Saturday. Cue the opening line- (Seem to be opening each entry with the same). Its 30 degrees, hot and humid and is becoming the norm and whilst I love the heat its becoming tough to train in.
Missed the Park Run due to work but Birchy and Taffy were persuaded to help with a 5k T/T around the park.
After a 2k warm up I was running solo from the start, got to the regular 3k marker on 11.01 but the wheels fell off soon after. Lost over 9 seconds per/k for the final two and felt I was hardly moving come the 5k finish line.
Stopped the clock in 18.38, which in the scheme of things wasn't the end of the world. Taffy looked as if he'd been shot with a 19.56, whilst Birchy couldn't even get past the 2k marker before pulling up stumps.
3ks cool down before retreating to the coffee house knackered once again.
Sunday. Back out with the Centennial Park boys for the first Sunday long run of 2017. Usual suspects and I counted 12 as we set about the first 6k loop that included the likes of Enda, Birch, Brendan Fehon, Leech, C.T, Nick, Super Kev,, Razor, hipster Mitch and some other guru Ben (Strange ?) Fehon must have been given the book on banter for Xmas as he was very vocal this morning (even if most of it was utter shite).
Steady pace all around and once 20ks was done old mate Enda was looking for someone to help out with his 8k fast finish. Told him I was good for 5 but once started I was struggling. First of the 5 done in 3.51 but then 3.55 before him and Razor were gone. Held on for the 3rd but then pretty much just cruised the final two of the day.
Still, happy enough with a solid 25ks for the day in 1hr.54 averaging 4.35s
Nice chat with the PRO of the group The Leech over coffee post run, NOT PRO as in professional but PRO as in prostitute as he seems to be on every app going these days and will sell out at any price, even doing the unthinkable yesterday to run the NOTB ... Shame on him. For the record he still thinks Curly is 30 seconds faster than the tough St Peters course.
The heat is set to continue this week, so I'll be back in the pool tomorrow and the now regular Tuesday will be forced to kick off at 6am for the 4th week on the spin.
In the overnight footy, close again with the scoreline but I should have known better to ask the Tin Pot Palace to score a goal when I went 1-3 and it ended zip 3 . Shocking.
Tennis final tonight - my money and my hopes are with The Fed to topple Rafa, A better sports role model you wouldn't find and Aussie Brats Bernie and Nick could well learn a few things from the Swiss Master.
Cheers
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