Getting close now. Who's in the year?

I've done serious training this year. I've even restricted myself to 2 std drinks per session(mostly), I've dumped about 7kg of lard... If I cant get into mid 70's this year I never will. Got so much to catch up on. Looking forward to drinking several schooners after the race, and buying 1/2 dozen sausage sandwiches, going to the fish n chippy and buying 2 of everything, then going to the bakery and buying 2 of everything, going to kfc and buying 2 of everything... Its not going to be pretty.

Have fun Chris, I'll be up the top of heartbreak hill spectating and hearling abuse.......

Interesting run this year, my km times were all over the place. I was aiming for 75mins to get into SH1 next year. Got to the 4km mark and felt good. Then my left calf started to cramp up. I just kept running, damn it hurt, paying for it now. Heartbreak Hill stretched it good so was reasonably OK after that. Then I had brain fade and was calculating how fast I had to go based on 11km, not 14. So the last 3 km I really had to push hard and finished unofficially at 74:56 which is 9 minutes quicker than last year. I'll be absolutely spewing if I miss out on an SH1 start by a second or 2. Its pretty amazing how far willpower can get you. My mate that I went up with was trying to break 60mins and he thinks he ran 59:50 something,

The 14km run was slightly easier than the 12 hour drink session that followed at Ravesi's. Expensive @$8/beer. Went in with about $150, came out with about $20. Interesting observation was that all the people who wore their race numbers and medals all night were back of the packers. Had a fantastic night, until it was time to go and discovered that my mates bag had been stolen. We stayed just down the street from you at Coogee Sands. Majorly dehydrated.today but no hangover