Great Monday Session

Need to do the Sunday run at that pace every week given how I felt today. Very small crowd of Erika, Renee, some South African chap and myself at the start, although we did pick up Adam, Jonathan, Ellie, Jaqueline and The Chairman at the Hospital. Laura and Andy Heyden joined in near the ABC and we gradually picked up more folk along the way. Seems MC has created a splinter group as we passed liked ships in the night at Baragaroo. Sat on the front for most of the way out at 4.40 ish pace. Picked it up for the last 2kms with Jonathan for 13kms all up. Stats for today are at http://connect.garmin.com/activity/470917801.
Off to Brisvegas tomorrow afternoon, so hoping to get 10kms in on Wednesday morning.

Hard Sunday

Big crowd out today for the Sunday run with a few north shore faces - obviously realising better running across in the east! Good to see Laura back after a couple of weeks out with an injury and hoping she makes Canberra. Usual suspects in CT, Barts, Renee, Jit, Ant, Ellie and Paul with the Chairman making a guest appearance and Timmy doing a 6km PB with the 6.30 start. Must have knackered him as he didn't do any more than that. Felt ordinary right from the get go - huge piece of rib eye for dinner at friends last night was always going to cause some discomfort - and it didn't help that the pace was on straight from the off. Barts was a bit cheeky and made us do all of moonlight cinema hill on the first rep and so I wans't convinced I was going to make it pas 10kms this morning. Second lap felt worse and dropped off the front group to stay with Ellie and Paul for the second lap but even that felt bad. All up just over 19kms at 4.34 average. Had to have 30 mins dozing on the couch this avo but another 50km plus week. Stats for today at http://connect.garmin.com/activity/469899455

3x2km in the rain

Slightly smaller crowd out today and I suspect the wet and miserable day had something to do with that! Timmy tried to organise the troops in the absence of MC but he just doesn't command the same respect or have enough presence for the job. Good to see Adam, Renee, LF Charlie, Tom, Jit, Ellie and Erika out for the session. Decided to go in the third group and aim for 3.45 pace. Felt good on the first rep and bang on target. Adam picked up the pace on the second so and we ended up about 3.35 pace and then felt really good on the last one but Garmin has not kept up, so no idea what I did but suspect it was sub 3.30 pace. Very happy with that set given the 15kms from yesterday in the legs. Partial stats from today are at http://connect.garmin.com/activity/468362207.
Hoping to get out tomorrow but have a meeting until 12.45, so will be a late easy one on my own I suspect.

Singapore 60km

Adam returns from 10 days in Singapore to advise he did 60km and hooked up with the Singapore Shufflers for a track speed set. Was banking on him doing very little while he was over there!
Anyway, only 5 of us for the 12.10 meeting time today including Brendan and two other chaps. Headed off on the "newish" Wednesday set around Pyrmont and managed to get in about 15kms at roughly 4.35pace. Garmin didn't lock on for the first 2kms so have had to do a manual edit. Saw Ellie near Shelley St after a massage with Gary - reckons she will be sore for the rest of the week. Anything that slows her down will be fine in my book.
Doctored stats for today are at http://connect.garmin.com/activity/467890207

Monday Recovery Run

Decent crowd out for the session today including Enda, MC, Erika, Russell, Brendan and Jit. Picked up Ellie on the way past the hospital and Renee on the way into Barangaroo. Garmin seems to have lost the plot a little as it hasn't recorded an average pace overall and has one of the km splits as 3.23 which I can assure you is not the case. So all up 11kms today and a solid enough start to what is looking like a very wet week. Dodgy stats are at http://connect.garmin.com/activity/466860825.
Very excited to hear that Hurts are planning a 10km race every 4 months

Long Friday

Rocked up for the Friday session and Erika and Tucks were at the start. Tom only just made it so we were off on the Monday route. Was only planning on doing 10kms back to CQ given how the legs had been feeling all week but felt really good so did the whole set. Had forgotten the Garmin, so estimated we were doing about 4.35 pace for the 15kms.
Supposed to be off to a school camp at Berrima today but not sure the weather is going to be favourable down there, so could be getting in the long run tomorrow.

Solo

Couldn't get to the Rushcutters session today so just did a quick one across the bridge and around Lavender Bay and back - pushed it a bit on the hills coming back and certainly felt better than yesterday. Only 6.5kms but at least it got a run in.
Stats for today are at http://connect.garmin.com/activity/464257618

Monday and Unofficial Corp Cup

Out on Monday and a pretty decent crowd including MC, Tom, Erika and Jonathan. Just easy 4.35 pace and legs felt heavy for the first half. Stats for that run at http://connect.garmin.com/activity/463779659
Had the sniffles for the last two days thanks to Mackenzie and a meeting prevented me from getting to the long session. Met up with Ant and Derek in the change rooms and decided to run the corp cup course with them. What a shocker - knew after 400m that it was going to be a slog and finished in 26.18. Legs were like lead for the whole way round and stats for the run are at http://connect.garmin.com/activity/463779622. Did a 2km warm down which felt better than the run but pretty disappointed with todays performance.

Easy Friday and Long Sunday

Just a couple of folk out on Friday - MC, John Bowe, Ray, Alex Von Nale and Paul. Just did the Monday route with Ray pulling off at the squashed car and I heading off at CQ. Have left the Garmin in the office so no stats but 11kms all up.
Out to a huge crowd this morning and Enda and another Irish chap crowing about the Six Nations - just glad there wasn't a Welshman about. I counted 15 including Laura, Barts, Enda, Jit, Derek, Ellie, Ant, Andy Heyden, Paul, Terence and Renaud. Great result for Jit yesterday at the Parramatta park run with 4th place in 18.02 and backing up for 20 odd today. Nice ish pace for the first lap although I didn't feel great so pushed it on the moonlight cinema hill to try and blow away the cobwebs and felt good. didn't feel quite so great on the second lap (trail running again) although better than last week and gave the hill a good go again and felt strong. Have started taking a tip out of Laura's book and having coconut water at the halfway mark  - seems to be working. Anyway probably did about 19kms in 1.31 so pretty happy and two weeks on the trot. Biggest week for probably 6 months and legs feeling it a bit. Unlikely to be out next Sunday as we have a school camping trip, so will need to get all the kms in during the week.

3 x 2kms

New route for the 3 x 2kms session today, while Adam availed himself of Singapore Airlines business class, around Art Gallery Road and loved it. In my personal opinion the hardest set on the calendar but hope this becomes the new home for this set. Decent crowd today and good to see some of our star 6ft Track performers making an appearance. Ant and Derek turned up - Derek's first Hurts session in about 18 months and he did pretty well.
MC decided to take group two today and advised it would be about 4 min/km pace - first 2kms done at 3.42 pace and didn't get any better. Second rep was at 3.53 pace and third was 3.45 - lot harder hills on the second rep. Felt good though and pretty happy given I did 13 with Adam yesterday. Derek was in the fast group and Ant managed to beat me on the third rep. Stats for today are at http://connect.garmin.com/activity/460127575 and all up about 9kms with the run up and warm down .

It wasn't me Guv......

That set Barangaroo on fire! Great day to work in Westpac Property seeing our new office alight - guess our moving in date might be pushed back!
Ran past with Adam at about 12.40 and no signs of things to come at 2pm!
Anyway, we did about 13kms today around the Wednesday route and didn't feel like it at all - certainly wouldn't have done it if Adam hadn't been out. Garmin ran out of juice at the 9.4km mark when we were doing about 4.45 pace and doubt it picked up much after that. Have had two nights of poor sleeping so beginning to take its toll. Anyway, limited stats for today are at http://connect.garmin.com/activity/459612322 and hope to put some training into Adam while he swans off to Singapore for work for 10 days.

Monday Hurts

Tired legs today and didn't need the warm conditions. Decent sized crowd at the start given the races over the weekend and some splendid performances all round by Fats, Tucks, James, Tom, Jonathan and Erika at 6ft track. Even more impressive was Jonathan turning up today for the session - the rest of you should be ashamed. Good to see Charlie back along with Renee, MC, Adam, Russell and Ray. Didn't feel like I had much at all today although from the Barangaroo turnaround, things started to feel better. All up roughly 11kms and stats at http://connect.garmin.com/activity/458475123

Friday and Long Sunday

Only Jit at the start on Friday, so headed off on the Monday route and met Adam just before Fleet Steps. Nice easy pace all the way back to Circular Quay after Adam peeled off at the squashed car.
All up about 11kms - http://connect.garmin.com/activity/456860017

Decent sized group this morning including Laura, Barts, CT, Ant, Ellie and Paul, who had all started at 6am. Joined in with Jit and Renee and a few others for about 15 in the group. Jit and Eoin started to pick up the pace a wee bit but most of us just let them run about 50m ahead. CT and Barts decided that the second loop needed to be a bit more interesting so we headed off on the CP trails and boy did that hurt - most of it was run around the inside of the fence to take my total to 20kms and my first one of that distance since Christmas. Thoroughly enjoyed sushi with Hamish for lunch as I'd only had a banana to eat for the entire morning. Everything feeling good so hoping that I can get the distance back up and kick off the half training program. Stats for today at
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/457352445

Thursday Quickie

Could only get out for a quick run around the wharves due a forum at Darling Harbour at 1.30. Felt hard but was probably around 4 min km pace for 4.5-5kms. No watch so no stats.

Monday Hurts

Perfect day for a run and a smallish group at the start including MC, Tom, Adam, Jonathan, Jit, Erika and Brendan. Some great results over the weekend with the highlight being Tom and Barts at the state 10km track race - would have been great to watch. Erika, Ellie and Renee had fantastic results at the Striders North Head run and our Irish member, Rob C, rounding the weekend out with a half pb in Meath of 83.47.
Laura and Andy Heyden joined us at Farm Cove and just listening to Laura's training camp last week was tiring. 160kms for the week and she was out for 10 today - she is a machine and should be well on track to a Welsh marathon qualifying time for the Commonwealth Games.
Perfect pace today and felt strong all the way round.  Adam had been doing some semi-secret training yesterday so he left us at Barangaroo and I stayed on until the Opera House for 13kms all up.
Stats for today are at http://connect.garmin.com/activity/454482419 - forgot to set the auto lap so no km splits.