Saturday, 11 May 2008

My club hosted the Athletics Victoria All Schools Cross Country relays today, although it was more like an All Private Schools event. Very few government schools represented unfortunately - I think I counted too and even one of those was Melbourne High School

Afterwards we had a hill session and a tough one at that. We had to do three long hills at kodak hill, three medium length hills back closer to the track and then three short hills from the pylon

Philip ignored Brian's instruction and had everyone start a quarter way up the hill. Brian set the session out so that we were supposed to start at the bottom and work up for 200 metres. In the end Liam, Warren and I did the longer hill. My legs were feeling very heavy from the start and the last two reps were hurting quite a bit. Liam finished far stronger than I and he was ahead on the last two reps

Then we moved back to the hill at the back of the track outside the fence. Three of the longer ones and I seemed to go better on those and on the three smaller ones

To finish Brian wanted a 3 km warm down. Liam, Bernie Ledden and I turned that into a 3 km medium effort. Funny, as there was no talking for all of those 7.5 laps, just grim determination to finish

TOTAL DISTANCE = about 5.5 kilometres including warm up and down