Sam Agnew

Have a party on this evening so persuaded Sam to do the long run on Saturday. Dragged myself out of bed for a 6am start and was rewarded with a beautiful sunrise and morning for running. We took the short route to Dee Why then through Cromer for a lap of Narrabeen Lake before retracing our steps. Met a nice chap at the lake (Matt Harris) who could talk the hind legs off a donkey and ran with him for a bit. Pretty tired over the last 30mins with a few comparatively big weeks catching up with me. 29.15km in 2:12 (4:32's).

Big Sam joined the squad a couple of years ago but, being another Fairlight resident, I'd been training with him (via Dicky Green, Jamie Stewart and Quentin) on Sunday long runs for a while before that. As strong as an ox, he seems to gain strength when others weaken over those 30+km runs. I'm convinced he'll run a great Six Foot Track one day. Runs great 400m reps too. If he sorted out his knees he'd be a force to be reckoned with. In between injuries, he's run a 34:30(?) 10km and a 2:46 marathon at Gold Coast last year, which would have been much quicker but for the robot dance in the final km. Berlin 2013 beckons. He loves a beer, loves the Palace, in fact loves all things English and makes my Sunday runs enjoyable. An all round good bloke.