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Then up to Tallaght for the kids' races (passed Meno on the way up, running past the Spawell in a Donadea 50k top) to see the kid run in the 4x100m relay.
Did you pass me on car or foot? I was running back from work in my first t-shirt + shorts combo of the year. Lovely weather for it. I may even have taken a bit of sun
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under 9 girls? Bros Pearse would have crushed you anyway :cool:
(in fairness to the organisers, I was getting a headache just looking at it. Races starting every few minutes, different age groups, relays of different distances, kids so young they have to be set in place, all funnelling on and off the track :eek: )
U10 and I don't think SO
Don't get me wrong it was fantastic and that race was the only real error I spotted all day long. Really enjoyable. I just felt bad for our girls (few tears and all that)
Just watched a video of the final there and yous were very unlucky not to win. I think that decision could have gone either way.0 -
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BHAA Maynooth XC - 4 miles in 26.47
Probably my last XC of the season, so although my legs were still a bit tired from Thursday I decided to give it my best shot.
Got out to Maynooth early, which was just as well, because after parking my car in the shopping centre I wandered over to the north campus to try to find the race. Met a couple of other runners over there, similarly lost, and one of them had the bright idea of checking the directions. We should have been in the south campus. :rolleyes: I didn't know there was one
Got a lift over from one of them, so we all made it to registration with a few minutes to spare.
Got up to the course just as the women's race was starting. The sunny morning was starting to turn bad - clouds appearing, wind picking up... it looked like it was going to start lashing rain, but in the end it held off.
Did a few minutes warmup eventually, and then lined up for the start. Wanted to make sure I didn't get stuck at the back again, so this time I was probably to close to the front, only a few feet back, so the first, small lap of the field saw a good few people pass me out as the field sorted itself out.
The first big lap was still a bit crowded, but by the second there was enogh room for everybody. I was already feeling Thursday's session in my legs, and my splits show a steadily declining pace - 4.01 for the first k, 4.18 for the last full k. But I was in the nice position of still being faster than everyone around me, so I could work my way through the field, closing on one runner after another. Much easier to push the tiredness to t back of your mind whenyou're passing people out.
My legs were pretty much gone by the end. One guy passed me with about a k to go, and he became my target but I just could not reel him in. I closed the gap on him and the other runner in front over the last 500m but, especially with the wind on the last straight, just couldn't put in enough speed to catch them. I was wrecked when I finished, too tired to care about stopping the watch and sat down to catch my breath for a minute or two before I even left the chute.
Met beeduybe just afterwards and had a quick cup of tea (no brack!:eek:) before rushing off...
this month: 3/26.07
this year: 63/634.42
edited to add: results out now. 89th of 198, up to standard 11. Won't be doing any standards-sharking in the summer league, that's for sure...0 -
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7.66k in 37.03 (4.50 average)
Club session tonight. Fartlek? I guess you'd call it... we ran a route about 2.5-3k long, fast from traffic light to traffic light and at each light double back for a 50m recovery loop, and then fast to the next light. 4? 5? breaks in the distance, but some further apart than others. Break of a few minutes at the end, then back the same way we came.
I was feeling pretty tired from the last couple of days, so took the first couple of runs easy. Sped up a bit after that so each interval was faster than 5k pace, but still not really pushing it - didn't wantt to risk anything before Sunday's race. It helped that most of the faster runners weren't around tonight, so there was no-one just a little faster that I'd be tempted to chase. (Did have to sprint a couple of times to stop someone catching me though
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19.18
(gun time 19.22, chip time matches the Garmin, 19.18)
Maybe it was the sun (I don't do well in the heat) maybe it was doing too much during the week, maybe it was just all in my mind, but I never felt good running this. I was near enough to the start to avoid congestion - there didn't seem to be an elite pen this year, but the very front of the race seemed to sort itself automatically into club runners- and the first k was on target, 3.39, but it felt like work from the beginning. Second k much the same, 3.43, but harder than it should have been. Third k is always a pain, that long stretch along the canal, and it was pretty slow this time too, 3.55 - I wasn't watching the splits, but I was checking my average pace and it was creeping up. Fourth k and at least we're on the way back. Some guy started closing on me from behind, breathing like a horse, flapping his lips with every exhale
He passed me after about 500m and I'd swear he stopped making that noise as soon as he did :rolleyes: Between trying to get away from him (or at least hold him off) and the internal HTFU lecture this k was a bit better, 3.49. Last k though I was wrecked, no other gear to find, 3.48 was the best I could manage. Turned back onto Dawson street and my 'sprint' lasted about 50m, so that extra 112m took 22 seconds (3.18 pace)
this month: 18/189.39
this year: 78/797.740 -
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