Tues 5.00am 16km Cadel+Roo 67m14
Wed 5.00am 16km Cadel+Roo 63m32
Don't ask me why running in the rain on Tues should take so much longer than running in the dry today! On Tues I would have looked like a drowned rat so at the 2/3rds mark (home) I stripped off my long sleeved top and felt liberated running bare chested for final 6km!
No one to offend in the rain at that time of the morning!
Further to comments about Pete Magill, I was saying he was fortunate to be turning 50 just before the World Masters Championships in Sacramento next year (youngest in Age Group) where as I would not be going as at 49.9 , I'd be oldest in age group : (
However, Pete said he was going to give the World Champs a miss ! !
I couldn't believe he'd miss the opportunity for a World Crown but he said the organisers of this Summers USA Masters Champs made no allowance for the temperature in the distance events! The World Champs organisers were not going to make any allowances and that means running distance races in 90 to 100 O F which is (32 to 37 O C).
Here in Brisbane at Masters at least we have a policy which is to run the distance events first thing = 7.00am in the morning and no distance events if the temp gets above 27 O C (80 O F)
Though we do have the added difficulty of high humidity!
Pete said he doesn't want to run a slow race at the World's, his goal is to set a new WORLD RECORD 5000m in the M50 Cat which is currently 14m53.2 by David Rees in 2003.
Pete wants to do this early in the Summer (he turns 50 in June) and spend the rest of the Summer enjoying life with family.
Finally the Spuds got smashed by the Gooners ( 1 - 4) this morning at Shite Hart Lane!!! SWEET
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