Becoming a Real Runner

chinguetti wrote: »

On Sunday, there was a long discussion about this in the Papal Cross car park.

Mr S had the red one and Digger had the blue. Red is for the legs and blue for the back as we all had a go.

Well the blue one seemed to do a good enough job on my calfs this evening so I am happy enough,and given that I often get a bit of back pin, it is probably best for me.

Anyways bro enough of your lurking on everyone else's log. when are you gonna get your own? :pac:

mrslow wrote: »

Hello? What about puking, not having the energy to spit and tears? Do as I say but not as I do, I see!

I had a fair bit of sick in my mouth at the end of every rep horse

The 2nd last rep, I was doubled over after for at least a minute.

As I say, i noticed they were a fair bit more comfortable than last week :pac:

I got down to Limerick With Aimman and RQ on saturday afternon and after doing a 2 hour stint on the pacers stand we went off for a meeting and then a bite to eat with the other pacers. We decided it would be no harm to have a few drinks with and after dinner. Anyways, at about 11pm and after about 5 beers I placed the first of a few bets that night with Brianderunner. He was pacing the half to 1:40 and me the full to 4hrs. we both decided on a goal time (1:39:30 for him and 3:59:20 for me) and bet on who would get closest :pac:

I didn't sleep too well that night with the noise in the hotel from the travellers wedding, but that was no big deal as I never do the night before a race. Got up, had a bit of breakfast and we were up at the start line by 8:20 to stick on balloons and have a chat with the runners.
The race itself went grand. Myself and Kandikane had a nice little group of about 25 running with us and it looked like we would get most of them home. when we reached mile 20 there was a hill and one of the local runners assured us it was the last one of the course :rolleyes: so we encouraged the group up the last hill nice and slowly, ensuring them it was all flat from there. Unfortunately there were two more biggish hills (at Thomond park Mile 22 and the Gaelic Grounds Mile 24) so the pacees must have been cursing us for lying. We lost about half the group on mile 22 and the rest on the last hill. We did manage to pick up some stragglers however and bring them on to Sub 4 finishes. As I was going up the finish straight I realised I had some seconds to spare so turned, running backwards and then slowed to walk, all the while shouting encouragement to the people finishing behind. Carefully I crossed the line just as my watch told me was the right moment:

26.3 miles in 3:59:21. The official result is 3:59:20 :pac: Brain was delighted to show me his stopwatch when he crossed the line (1:39:32 by the watch- his official time is 1:39:34) but I was more then happy to give him the bad news- unlucky son, nice try

A great night was had by all afterwards as usual. Metmaorphosis, Brain, RQ, Xebec, Aimman, Lacheile, Oisin, Kandikane myself and a few others made our best efforts at drinking the whole city dry:pac:

Weekly total: WTD: 6 Runs 72.6 miles
Longest ever mileage week and I'm supposed to be doing 5k training :rolleyes:

Monday 2nd May
3.2 miles recovery jog along the canal. Legs (and head) fel fine. I should be good for speedwork tomorrow

Month|No. of days Runnning|Miles
January|28/31|256.3
February|24/28|236.9
March|23/31|221.9
April|22/30|150.2
May|2/2|29.5
Total|99/122|921.1