Saturday morning rocked up and after numerous emails and an elaborate route setting, I was dead chuffed to see the elites of HuRTS and Striders all out in force. Barts, CT, Quentin, Hoey, Neil, Robin Vonk and myself were all doing up to 90mins. Jamie was doing 30mins and Macca and Eoin were doing 4x5km. Route started at the Passmore bridge and took in a loop of the golf course via the lagoon track, then returned (5km) plus a loop around North Manly Bowlo for 6.15km (via Mapmyrun) but I read exactly 6km on my Garmin.
Great group together bowling along and it really made it so much easier to do with plenty of banter (at least on the first lap). Occasionally the pace would ease through lack of concentration but someone would soon pick it up to get us back on track. It never feels wholly comfortable but 3:40's was certainly much more manageable than 3:30's and I was getting through the laps ok. Her we are at the end of lap 3:
I'd managed to persuade the kids to stand on the bridge and hand out water on each lap. To their credit they did a sterling job, shouting encouragement too.
Going into the final lap I was feeling good so decided to up the pace to see what we could sustain while still not redlining. That turned out to be 3:30's for that final lap with CT starting to look strong and obviously coming into form. All up 25km in 1:30:55 (3:38's).
Warm up and down for 30km all up. Dip in the ocean then Emporio for breaky. Certainly quick service now all the fickle ex-customers are queueing over the road at Ruby Lane.
Then out in the evening with Macca, the Cap'n, Darren, Erika and Injured Andy for a few pints at the 4 Pines then curry at the Last Train to Bombay. The Cap'n and I even kicked on to have a hipster cocktail out of a jam jar in some back lane bar.
Rest day Sunday too. That session on Saturday needs to be respected.
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$50 mate and that trip to the ATM obviously happened after I left 😙 My best session this year cheers for that
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