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Friday. Ventured over to the dark side of the bridge and joined the 'Bold and the Beautiful' team out for the Manly to Shelley Beach and back swim. Early start but had a great morning when the locals came out to play that included Warrior Charlie, Ireland's #1 Macca, Gleeso , Benny S, and most surprisingly Tommy H (in wetsuit but minus arms bands). Cold morning but water simply stunning.
Followed by a decent brekkie that is so often hard to come by NOTB, even if the service was average.
Top morning, but what was to follow for the rest of the day and weekend that included a surprise party left me lost for words.

Tuesday. Massive weekend and even come Monday night I was still struggling when Enda put an SOS call out to train early doors Tuesday.  A 2k warm up then we decide to knock out 3 x 2k  reps on one of my courses within the park. Joined also by Birchy the 2k consists of a easier first K but a hill in the 2nd that stings. Happy to hold Enda on the first even if the time wasn't the quickest, Struggled on the 2nd and basically it was just survival mode for the last. About 4 weeks back I did this session running all under the 7 minutes today I was not even anywhere close . Still its not every day you hit a milestone birthday and have one of the biggest weekends in years.
Times. 7.18, 7.23, 7.33
2k cool down and that will go down as one of the toughest of the year so far, just thank God I got through it.

Wednesday, Was rushing around all morning but eventually I managed to squeeze getting into the city for the midweek City to Surf run. Was in no humour at all and the legs and body in general were still in all sorts of pain from the weekend. Met Jac and Hoey (with his arm warmers to protect his puny arms) and after telling them I was going to be slow we were off and away. True to form the pace was well down, so much so that Renee and Brucie Lambert caught us just before Heartbreak. Didn't push the pace at any stage and just happy to run around the 5 mins per/k throughout.
Returned back to the car at Woolloomooloo with just over 15ks done in 74 minutes averaging 4.58s for the hit out.

Thursday. Swimming has been non existent over the past few weeks (apart from last Friday ) and with PAP now closed for some renovations I was forced to hit nearby Victoria on the Park to smash out a few laps. Nothing special at all and happy just to see out the 2ks, made even easier as I donned the NEW wetsuit kindly brought for me by my Thursday morning swim squad.

The past couple of weeks have been awful in terms of training, but the best on the social , but I really do need to get the training back on track now for the next month or so before the big City to Surf in the second week of August, and it all starts back tomorrow.

Cheers