Not so Big Bertha

6.15am, 3 km hill circuit, Centennial Park

Since I am running at the ANSW long cross country race on Saturday at Nowra, I got to do a truncated (guess who's been reading statistics lately) Big Bertha hills circuit at a 'steady' pace.

There was a good crowd out there at training with Sean, with a few notable absentees from those also likely to be running at Nowra. I heard Kit handing out running advice described by Kerry as advice from a seasoned professional. I added that she'd run a marathon now, which prompted a laugh and sounded a bit nasty in retrospect: I'm supposed to be a sensitive guy now but it seems a leopard can't change its spots when I go for the quick and cheap laughs. I might have to go for the really goofy jokes now at training ;-).

Dimitri and Liz took off up front and I followed Jenny, who is also running Nowra and supposed to be taking it easy, until she blew me away on the second lap. We went through the first lap at close to my PB pace so I eased off and wound my way around 5 more laps which felt pretty good.

A long warm down and another chat to Dean who's back after an 8 month absence.