Pacing greyhounds

7.15am, 2 hours, Centennial Park

A huge sleep in, by an extra 30 minutes, and eventually got out the door for the last long run before six foot.

On the first inner fence lap, I caught up with masseuse Easy Tiger and Royworlds who later disappeared in search of the perfect hill. By 8.00 am I joined the larger group and kept up with the pace on the outside fence. I felt much better this week not having done the extra hour beforehand and handled the pace in the larger group. Legs felt good and I snuck up to the front group while no-one was watching.

We did see Lulu on some secret training looking very composed.

On the second inner fence, I had to dig deep to hang in with the greyhounds (Sean's young squad members) while going up the slight incline to the cafe. One young lass then blew past me and dragged me along up to another guy. This was the last long hard session before six foot so I went up an extra gear, and passed both of them in the final surge to the pavilion. I definitely won't be surging like that at six foot track until I go for the communal hot showers at Jenolan Caves resort. I'll have to think of those hot showers to get my second wind on Black Range.

I then cruised home for the final 20 minutes a spent force. It was a good final long work out.