Timmy rocked up at 6:10am and we were off at 6:30am picking up Dicky Green and Justin before meeting the Hamburglar, Jonathan W, Jamie, Paul, John Bowe and Jonathan's mate at Manly Dam. Very easy pace throughout. Felt fine on all the trails but poor Young Timmy is an urban dweller and started to feel it at 15km. We were originally talking about handicap times for Six Foot bets and Timmy was umming and ahhing over 10mins, but by 20km I'd already offered him 20mins based on his form on the hills. Could be a deliberate ruse mind. Maybe he's sharking me. If so, he put in a performance Streep would be proud of as at 23km I was forced to run straight home as fast as I could to pick up the car and come back to pick the poor fella up.
Strange old run. Plenty of trails around Red Hill, going all the way down to Narrabeen Lagoon, doing a 100m sprint on the synthetic track (Hamburglar's got some serious speed) before heading up the hills again to the highest point on the Northern Beaches. Felt comfortable today which was encouraging, albeit was panting a bit at the end due to a quick final 8km. Just short of 30km all up.
Kirst home tonight. Yippeeeeeeeeee!
3 comments:
I reckon Timmy needs 30mins. He thinks the hills in CP are big.
I said as much on young Timmy's blog myself. He hasn't been putting the endurance training in and will pay the price on a trail.
I'll put a $100 bet on you beating him by 20 minutes.
Tom has to be a shot at 3:45. Timmy's PB is 4:30 at 6 foot. On a good day he would run 4:10 but he may do 6 hours on current form.
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