Today Total: 11k
Week Total: 23k
Month Total: 219k
Year Total: 219k
An absolutely gorgeous morning out on the bay with many of the regular suspects in attendance as well as a guest star appearance by Tesso who I think runs more Sydney CR 5k's than I do :-)
Keeping the bigger picture in mind and not wanting to compromise my long run tomorrow I decided to head off on 25 minutes with Benny and Professor.
We went out at a comfortable 4.50 pace and pretty much kept that up + or - a few seconds for the first 4k. Benny started to struggle a bit around 3k and I slowly pulled ahead - Prof did the decent and hung back to keep Benny company.
With one k to go I decided I really was bludging and kicked it down a gear to 4.30 pace - feeling pretty chuffed with myself till Prof went cruising past with about 300m to go - I was tempted to go with him but bit down on the discipline till about 40m out when I hit the full on sprint ubangi for Gnomey who was taking photo's (what can I say I'm a natural born show-boater) to bring the last split in at 4.22.
So 5k in a very comfortable 23.49 - very, very happy with that.
The return trip at 5.30 pace was shared with Tesso and Blue Dog till Colin came along and whisked away the Dog - the trot back on these outings was as always the most enjoyable part of the day - it's just nice after you have had a decent hit out to share some time and stories with friendly people in a great location.
I was mildly surprised to see we finished the 10k in 52.02 - considering my last 10k TT was 51.31 just before Christmas and I was absolutely shattered afterwards - today just felt like a trot in the park by comparison.
Very happy and chirpy 2P this morning - exit whistling :-)
Saturday, January 27, 2007
CR 5k Challenge
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14 comments:
That's a very nice bit of running, sir.
Enjoy your trek tomorrow.
Geeze 2P, that's a nippy time. No way I'd keep up with that now. On fire matey ! Full credit to you.
Sounds like 2P's got his groove back. Good to see :-)
You should have run faster on the way back. I don't think the Professor was cruising, he hasn't been doing much training.
Very nice running there 2p!
Good to see the 'Vanity Fartlek' made an appearance in a race situation ;-)
No mention of the evil twins which is great news. Enjoy tomorrows run :-)
Great run 2P - always helps having great company too.
I went straight to the end of this one! A sigh of relief was breathed :) Then I read between the lines. I think you're just playing with the sub-23 - just like Federer plays with his opponents.
Slow down, will ya!
Great run 2p, sounds like fun!
MAR.
Congratulation on a good TT and a great run!
Back on the up beat - good to see. Nice times! ahhhh one day...... :-)
Nice run 2P. Boy you are getting fast.
That Tesso does get around. I hope you finally got to give her that punch in the belly! That was a very nice effort there 2P.
Sounds like a very pleasant way to start a Saturday. one day I'll actually make it to one of these 5km challenge thingies myself!
Ha ha, you forgot to give me a punch in the belly. That means next time I have to give you two ... sorry, but them's the rules :-)
It was great to catch up again. Wow, you hammered that last km. In the pics on CR you look so much more like a sprinter than an ultra runner.
Thanks for the company on the journey back. Another 2k and you may well have convinced me trail running is the way to go :-)
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