a rarity in a 10k wyndy Millar and a grunt off

Wednesday 29th

a catastrophic day at work today with everything going wrong and everyone on site getting a mouthful. This carried over in to the 30 mile bike. wanted to do 40 to 50 but just couldnt be arsed. Pembs Velo 10 mtt tonight. Think i have given up on them. Its road bikes only which is fine but why put them at the business end of the season ? When theres qualifying rides to be done and everyone is at their fastest. Did get 258 normalised power so it wasnt all bad.

Tuesday

Only managed a swim today. was thinking of a rest day but will have one at the end of the week now on the build up to fishguard half on saturday. The swim itself was one of harris’s sessions , the ones he never actually turns up to. You turn up and the session is just written on the wall.In crayon . Presumably by harris or sometimes not. The mysterious Mr Harris .And his swim sessions written in crayon. It was a bit of an odd set and i didnt finish it anyway. 2k. I’m sure harris who im sure is all seeing all knowing will be….disappointed.Maybe he will show his disappointment in a different colour crayon next week?

Monday

fuck work today its for chumps anyway. I had 5 years off work when i went sailing around the world. You know what? i didnt miss it. Not at all. The routine?Nope. Nothing. I was more than happy bobbing around in the atlantic single handedly skippering away .no fucker bothering me. No phone,no internet. I didnt waste any time at all thinking about work.Or work related issues. Work was when you had to change a sail or pull the anchor up. That was about as much work as i needed to get me through.Yep, it was.

So to fully give work the finger today i procrastinated all morning and went for a run on the coast path.This was supposed to be a recovery run . It turned into a ball grinding interval set as i forgot how…undulating the coast path from saundersfoot to tenby can be. At monkstone it looked like the forest had been cleared .well it had been cleared . it wasnt an illusion and it looks like it was cleared for some sort of god awful development. Brilliant . Just what the area needs. Less trees more fucking pikes and valley commandos in static caravans.Now thats progress!!

Not content with a 6 mile off road interval set i found myself at ollies turbo at 540. It was FULL. Just shoe horned me in at the back between Amy and Hayley. What a foursome those two are. This turned into a brazier. I was relieved when we started with 3 minute efforts low cadence. At FTP. I can grind these out all day at 300 watts . Then the main set. did he say the main set?I thought that was the main set. Think it was 45secs on 15 off times 4 maybe 4 times. At 115% ftp. I never heard that though .What i heard was 150 % FTP. Half way through the first set hayley offered me her asthma pump. Through to the second it was cpr.the third set it was heart resuscitation paddles. The wheeze i had turned into was making everyone look around. By the 4th set i had prolapsed both lungs and my heart was on the floor. Yes i do have one ,everyone saw it.There was a mixture of concern and glee in disproportionate percentages on the faces of the people in the room who i could focus on. They kept drifting in and out. . Mostly glee.there was some alarm too now that i recall. I was in a semi conscious state for the remainder of the workout. Apparently there was someone else in the room making as much noise as me. Although it couldve been one of my other numerous personalities chipping in trying to get in on the act. Ollie looked on. Perturbed . If thats 115 per cent what the fuck does 150 look like???ffs. I was airlifted to the van.Ben the dog looked on.Completely unfazed by this turn of events. Seen it all before mush. What a life that dog has had.Cooler than a polar bears paw at christmas.

Sunday. Tenby 10k

The mighty Wyndy Miller made an appearance today and we all piled into Fabulous car with the dean bot and drove into tenby. It was cold wet and windy.Perfect conditions for the Millar. We only got out of the car after we had fully revved ourselves up listening to Fabs own personal collection of hulio englestas ? unplugged. greatest hits. Amped. After this virtuoso performance by hulio with fab and the deanbot singing along with the harmonies i promptly got out of the vehicle and pissed up against a wheely bin. Thats rock and roll. Windy ,being a woman was in a far more difficult predicament. So we found her a relief in one of the numerous sites i had been working on in tenby and she got to use the throne in a brand new renovated 1 million quid tenby town house. Me and fab strutted around the start line and made sure every one knew how important we thought we were. Now. heres the thing. I dont do running. So i kinda forgot that this was a run race. I got all mixed up and thought triathlon and thought its ok to take a piss in your wetsuit on the start line. One major oversight was i wasnt wearing a wetsuit was i? I was wearing shorts and we werent all packed in that tightly either. I’m pretty sure a lot of people noticed. Wyndy did and there was a bit more …splash . No one said anything though . So fuck em. Queers. like they’d never seen a fully grown man piss himself in a crowd before???yeah right. where do you live????

The flag went up the flag went down and off we went . Warp speed and i tried to hold on to the leaders . I did .kinda the front pack gradually pulled away and that was…well the last i saw of them. But i managed to hold onto the back of the second group. I spent the whole race trying to stay in contact with Dan Mumford of Mumford and runs fame and wondering how far the deanbot was behind me. I got blown sideways on the paragon. I actually ran the second 5k slightly faster and was getting into it and slowly started to reign the mighty mumford in .But not enough and he skinned me again by 20 odd seconds. Good racing though. For my first proper 10 k race i did 38.02 . the lead group winner was 32 something or other obscene. Richard Gardiner did me by 4 mins so i equated that the 15 minutes over a marathon as a scenario i am comfortable with.The fact that it might be adrift from reality is of no concern to me at this time. Then i thought did he do a hard 80 miles yesterday with over 7500 feet of climbing with James. NB ,Ollie and Gethin? He probably had done something similar.Windy came in at 42. Just beaten by fabulous who put on quite a pitstop performance. Deanbot did 40 something and Claire was just behind him. Think that was the first time we had spoken since IM Wales last year.It was nice to see her.Gareth Powell had a good run too and all the boys came in smiling . I won precisely fuck all.But thats never stopped me before as i marched up to the podium and tried to claim someone else prize,then ask for a stewards enquiry, followed by words such ‘fix’ ,then a fracas ,upset home. My work is done. We did wait around in the rain as Fab ,Myself and dean bot had won the business team prize. This was the category we had entered under under the feel good inc banner. It was the only prize that was not of any monetary value. We won it . If we had entered just as a team we wouldve won and scored enough to procure a four pack of special brew each the drive home. But NO!!!