A samll turnout at the club session tonight and Michel Z was in charge and ecstatic about it. He'd organised a 'real' training session for the 20 runners who'd turned up : 2 x 10 minutes at threshold. Nico had other ideas and wanted to do a track session with some longer intervals. Between the track and a session with Michel: I chose the track and I wasn't complaining.
We waremed up with the others as they ran into the forest and then Nico, Simon and myself left them to head back around by the swimming pool and back to the clubhouse where the track was waiting for us. No PSG female stars tonight; no budding young female athletics starlets either. It was the track and the 3 of us.
A few strides for warm-ups and then Simon and I waited as Nico insisted on running a few more straights before we set off. I was eager to be going in order to get it over with and Simon felt the same way. Any more staights and we'd have been knackered before we started. Nico declared himself to be fully recovered from his very serious left calf cramping injury. Delphine wasn't anywhere in sight this evening as apparently there was some sort of girl's shower organised where she was said to be honing her new-found massage skills. Still something or someone had managed to put Nico right and he seemed to be satisfied with the arrangement even if he wasn't letting us into the secret of his recovery.
We were off and Nico headed straight to the front and Simon and I tried to follow. We would remain in touch for the first 400m and then he would gradually pull away and I'd be unable to respond. He ran all of his intervals in around 3:20 whereas I ran all of mine in 3:27 with the last in 3:28. I was pleased with my regularity and I felt far better than Tuesday while running. I was also chuffed to have managed all under 3:30 which was my initial target.
Laurence and Christelle joined us at the end and made a scene by drooling over this athlete sprinting down the back straight interspersing his sprints with push-ups, knee jerks and star jumps. He was showing off his torso and the girls were suitably impressed. What a w*nker!
11.8 km all up and a really good session in just over the hour. Another recovery run tomorrow morning and we're off on holiday for another week in the south of France. Looking forward to it.
Footing
10 years ago
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Sounds like you're slightly jealous of the gorgeous sprinter doing push ups, James. Well done Laurence and Christelle!
The budding young female atheltics starlet will have much trouble staying one if she keeps skipping training for the sole purpose of getting drunk on champagne for her friends' birthdays ...It was Sonia's birthday last night, with A LOT of champagne involved, but no massage skill honing. We thought we'd be better off gulping down the beverage rather than using it as massage oil. Even for Nico's sake, we didn't want to waste it.
Enjoy the holdaiy in South in France and see you soon !
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