Easter Sunday Long Run and a Day Trip to Manly

Big team out for the Easter Sunday run and I’ve said it before but it seems all the Irish lads are back with Enda, Super Kev, Leech and ‘Big Jim’ (who I’ve been calling Phil for about 4 weeks). Good to have Birchy & Renaud back and we even had a guest appearance from Kansers mate ‘Superflake’ Paul Brunning as we did an easy 6k to kick things off. Picked up Laura at 7am from the cafe as she also returned and then made the call to head out the park and sample some of the states finest beaches on a cracker of a morning.

First over to Coogee then around to Cloey through the cemetery and over to Bronte. It’s a long drag up the hill from Bronte but tucked in with Jeet and Enda and the 2ks passed in not time. The pace then quickens coming down past Queens Park before returning into the park and heading up the Woollahra hill. It’s a 14k loop once back at the cafe that brought the morning to 20 so decided to add another flat loop around the park as I picked the pace up running around the 4.10mark to end with 23.7ks in 1hr:50mins averaging 4.40s

Really enjoyable run with the team and good to get out the park for a change, tough run with plenty of hills and stairs that made it more challenging and also brought the average pace down a bit.  Made even more enjoyable with the post run coffee kindly supplied by Laura as we also dived into some kids chocolate eggs.

Post run coffee with Laura, Neil, Birchy, Jerome, Jim, Renaud, The Flake Timmy and Damo.

Guess Who, Think this lad needs some new runners. Clue
Very Talented, although maybe his National side not so in the Union, and I have promised him a new pair if he lines up for the English team in the Churchill Cup in May.

A planned trip over the ‘Dark Side’ NOTB in the afternoon with a good team that included the likes of Leech, Jeet, Birchy, Taffy, Neil and the ‘Love Doctors Vic’s & Craig as we settled in the Manly Wharf Bar for the day. Unfortunately we were all let down badly by certain people who were NO SHOWS despite actually organising it and getting us all over there in the first place. Very poor form I say, still it didn’t ruin our entertainment as the banter flew over a thousand beers in a packed out pub due to some famous English DJ spinning his decks,  as even more bets were taken. Jeet is confident and has given me 4 minutes for Canberra and Craig hit me up and I’ve got to give him the same in his favour.

 

And Jeet is getting more confident after taking out his 3rd win at Park Run in as many weeks, Then tries to fit in with the NOTB snobs over beers.

Sadly the same can not be said about Gleeso who was a NO SHOW.

And finally a sad week with the passing of one of the greatest footy players to grace the game in Johan Cruyff. Probably the best EVER European player the Dutchman was all class.
RIP Johan.

Rest day today but will be back into it tomorrow for the HuRTS 8 x 5 minute efforts in the City..

Happy Easter
Cheers