Progressive Tempo

Large HuRT squad contingent today, to be honest I don't know half them. I really should socialise more but I'm always running late and just don't get the time. Given the size of the group, we split into two, the plan was to run the initial 10 min split at 4.10 and decrease by 10 sec every interval. With Serg at the front of the group that was never going to happen. I forgot my garmin so we all tucked in behind Serg (including English Andy, Ray, Charlie, a new guy Enda introduced me too - I think his name was Andrew).
Anyhow, we set off at 4 min/k splitting the group pretty quickly, after 10 min I think we went to 3.50, by the Park Hyatt we were down to 3.40 and at the turnaround we were down to 3.35. With all the km's in my legs I was surprised that I was feeling pretty good. We increased the pace again as we approached circular quay and by the Opera House Andy fell off the back of the group and we started to pick up the stragglers from the 2nd/3rd group. I fell off the back of the group after the 2nd gate in the domain, Ray fell off shortly afterwards. I struggled from the pool to the stone gates but picked up Ray and Charlie (who afterwards explained he'd some breathing problems). Serg surged ahead to the finish creating a large gap on the new guy and myself. I was half expecting English Andy to run over the top of me but I am not surprised as afterwards he explained that he ran 42.2k in training on Sunday in 3hr 04 mins. He's certainly looking good for GC.
Serg is definitely hitting form at the right time. Pretty happy with the session today, it's a great session for building strength and and after talking to some of the boys after the session will change the session slightly on Thursday to make it more of a threshold session...