Long Run

Stunning day for the long Wednesday run today and a bit of a disappointing turn out with only 7 of us there including Wildman, Mike Race, Adam and James. Group decided the route was Centennial Park today given the hill rep session on tomorrow. Quickly became evident that Adam, James and I were a bit out of our league and so resigned ourselves to a session on our own! As we were heading down into Elizabeth Bay we heard some heavy footsteps and hard breathing behind us and lo and behold Tom was bringing up the rear. Some friendly banter exchanged in relation to his hurtful blog comments on Monday and he disappeared off into the distance with a "I'm running 4m/kms to catch up". Sounded kind of impressive until James mentioned Tom wasn't even doing his marathon pace on the way past! Mike Race was waiting for us at the top of Ocean Street and we did a pretty decent pace on the lap round the park. Mike headed off for a second lap while the three of us turned for home. Adam decided to leave at the Oxford Street gates but was waiting for us at the top of Ocean Street. He gave up the ghost at Rushcutters due to a poor breakfast although credit for 3 days of running on the trot. Felt the last km and oushed it up the hill through the domain and happy with a 16.5km effort today. Run stats at http://connect.garmin.com/activity/102055652 and have done a quick calc on 5km splits which were around 24.40, 22.30 and 21.40 for 4.5kms. Hill sprints tomorrow should be fun.