Running intervals 30:00 [4] 5.25 km (5:43 / km)
(injured)
Descending Set
1500m, 1250, 1000, 750, 500, 250
2 min recovery between each.
I felt very cold all morning, with a bit of a head cold. The warm up felt terrible, and I was a bit cold and stiff. Finally I started to feel a bit better by the time I got to the tan. I was a bit late, so ran straight into the first rep with no warm up.
Throughout the first rep, I was listening to Jessica Schipper in the 200 Fly final. I was trying to motivate myself, but it was hard when the 2 Chinese hit lead as I was climbing Anderson St.
The second rep was Eamon Sullivan's turn. The exciting call by Ray Hadley pushed me on. Pity about the 1 tenth of a second. I feel a bit sorry for Eamon given Stephanie's gold rush.
I pushed fairly hard on the other reps. I was stuffed at the end of each one.
On the warm down I had low expectations about the women's 4x200m, but was pleasantly surprised. I ducked in to a foyer of a high rise building to wwatch the finish on a plasma screen.