Saturday, July 11, 2015

'Harbour 10k' - 37.44

Into town on a bitterly cold morning for the ‘Harbour 10k’, raced on pretty much HuRTS home territory in and around the Passenger terminal and Hickson Road areas. Met up with Quentin first up before making my way to the start line for more warm up with Jeet, Sammy J, Bruce Lambo and Enda along the way.
Good showing from the team especially only one week after the Gold Coast and #1 Barts was putting himself back out there as was Jeet, Angus and to a lesser extend Prince Hoey and Skippy Heyden. (No sign of Tommy H or those other NOTB boys mind you)
Pretty fast first k to start and I was keen to hold back although nearly took down Ana White in the process who cut right across me beside the Park Hyatt and with her Mule kicking action got tangled along the way.
Angus was soon to come past and I was happy to keep Jeet in my sights as we hit the top of Hickson, the wind seemed to come up in and around Darling Harbour and near the Casino I felt the first pace drop. Lost a lot between 5 and 7ks and was just hanging in coming back onto Hickson with about 2.5ks remaining.
All the talk the day before from certain quarters was how well Sammy ‘the Salmon’ Johnson was running and the smart money was on him to turn me over and when a group of 4 came past at the 8k mark I honestly thought he would be one of them. Luckily for me he wasn’t but it gave me that kick up the @r$e I needed and coming by the ‘Red Squashed Car’ I somehow managed to find a bit of life back in the legs.
I thought at the 8k mark I was goneski and would be lucky to run 38.30 but was satisfied to cross the line in 37.44 averaging  3.49s and at least there is a little light at the end of the tunnel
My k splits were all over the place today – not sure if it was poor running (most probably) and the windy conditions coming into play. What I had recorded were the following.
3.37, 3.41, 3.58, 3.50, 3.48, 3.59, 4.04, 3.50, 3.48, 3.39

Some good runs from the lads, although #1 Barts couldn’t back up from last week and was poor with a 34.00 only beating Stankard by a mere 10 seconds (could you image the hysterics had the Galway boy got the win over him? I don’t even want to think about it)
Probably the Timmy Run of the Day goes to Angus Boyd on his impressive 35.12 only 7 days out from his recent half. A sub 35 can’t be that far away for ‘Curly’ now.
Other times.
Quentin   32.47
#1 Barts    34.00
Enda           34.09
Angus         35.12
Steve Per  35.44
Bruce L       35.49
Adrian Mc 36.35
Jeet              36.42
Lindop         37.44
Cialis             38.48
Sammy J     39.22
Heyden       40.26
Hoey             40.30

A nice breakfast followed in the Rocks with Sammy  J, Jeet and the Stankards (sister Fiona ) was well washed down with perhaps the biggest bowl of coffee seen in years.

Just out now for a few ales to toast all those Gold Coast runners last week. Could be a big one.

Hoey, Christian (Cialis), Timmy and first home Quentin. Moments before Skippy Heyden(in yellow) tried to spoil the shot.

Cheers

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