Kenny where art thou?

Kenny failed to appear and so Dave, Paul and I headed off to the Greenway for some lovely mile reps. At the junction there were no surprises when the choice of short road or longer hilly trail went the way of the long route, well we wouldn't want to under distance would we!

We were imagining Kenny having driven out to the Greenway and parked up stitting pretty waiting for us supping a cup of tea playing the coach role - "again boys, faster this time!". Then as if on cue, a lumious yellow jacket is spotted though the trees heading right at us moving quickly - it must be Kenny - but no just a look a like. Then a yellow jacket cycled past us - thought is might be Kenny again but also no joy.

At the start of the Greenway we figured our session would be 7 mins on with 3 recovery. I wanted to do six, but was over-ruled after two and talked down to 4. Which was probably more realistic.

First one was a bit of a phaf as I had messed up the start on the Garmin and it had decided I was not doing the session I'd programmed in and started last night. On the recovery though got it all sorted and so reps 2-4 were Garmin led!

Dave had been at Laurence Nieberg's spinathon and done 4hours on the bike yesterday and Paul had knocked out 15 miles on the trails (albeit 30 seconds slower then when he did it last year) so I guess that explains why I found myself in the unusual position of leading the reps. Dave made an amazing sprint finish on the first rep to catch us, but the next three were hammered out at much less than the declared 7 minute mile pace: in fact it made hopeful reading cleared 1.04, 1.14 and 1.12 miles in those reps with ave pace of 6.44, 6.14 and 6.15 min miles. Very pleased with that. HRT was fine, quickly up to mid 150s and drifting to 165 and not going above that. Instant recovery on the stop.

More Kenny look alikes in yellow jackets. This guy is no-where and eveywhere today - are those yellow jackets franchised out?

Played the tank it past the joggers game on the way back from the Greenway, overtaking a couple of big blokes one of whom had a gammy leg and a jogger on the Lea Valley walk - great fun and injects a bid of speed - perhaps it gives the slow ones something to aspire to!

Got home to find a text from Kenny - injured playing football so can't run. Which begs the question why was he playing such a high risk sport so close to race day?