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Thur 12th May
Plan: easy 3 mile run followed by dessert :rolleyes:
Not the best run I've ever had but first run since Sat so it was good to get it out of the way. The ice-cream after made it all worth while
. Running that route will not be a common occurence!
Not feeling a sub 2 in the legs at the moment so decided to shelf that plan for Sunday. Instead I'll work towards Enniscorthy half for that and just try for an improvement on PB on Sunday.
Distance: 3.03
Time: 28:41
Pace: 09:28
Best of luck on Sunday
I wouldn't rule out your sub 2 effort yet
You don't know how that run will turn out until you start it.
You'll wake up to the joys of life on Sunday and could blow your target away!0 -
Best of luck Sunday Shaz. The excellent training you had for the three or four weeks before last weekend will reallly help you come Sunday. The weeks rest might be exactly what you needed. As W.B. says, you may end up blowing your target apart. Either way, it's a nice to go into the race with no pressure or high expectations. Just enjoy it and anything can happen;)Thur 12th May
Plan: easy 3 mile run followed by dessert :rolleyes:
Not the best run I've ever had but first run since Sat so it was good to get it out of the way. The ice-cream after made it all worth while. Running that route will not be a common occurence!
Not feeling a sub 2 in the legs at the moment so decided to shelf that plan for Sunday. Instead I'll work towards Enniscorthy half for that and just try for an improvement on PB on Sunday.
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Sun May 15th
Don’t know where to start with this report and to be honest I don’t even want to write it. But the purpose of this log is to record the good, bad and crap days so here goes...
My head was a bit all over the place on what my strategy was for this race. Line up behind the 2 hr pacers or just go for a safe PB/enjoy the race.
In the end I lined up behind the 2 hr pacers to give it a lash with Nules and we took off (late but not going to discuss organisation here). The first couple of miles went ok if not a bit fast from the pacer but so far so good. But then the first test of the quad was the hill into the curragh which didn’t go very well. I had to stop and walk it – just really sharp pain which is never a good sign. I tried to ease it out on the downhill portion afterwards and it responded a bit so put the foot down and managed to catch up with the balloons.
The worst was that it didn’t even have to be a big “hill”, just any incline was causing me major grief. So this was my new strategy...walk the hills and try and catch up on the flat...not the most efficient I know. So on I trudged like this and was still on target at mile 9....just about.
Coming into Kildare town was my breaking point which was just after mile 9. I had to walk into Kildare and out of it which resulted in a 10:13 mile...my worst for the day! I realised at that stage the game was up and my sub 2 was gone and boy was I in a foul mood. I ran along with Nules for a little while at this point but I had a puss on me that would stop traffic – sorry hon was not in my most sociable mood
It was really hard to motivate myself to keep going knowing that was gone and having to stop to walk up over flupping railway bridges annoyed the hell out of me. It flattened out a bit so tried again to get going and got to mile 12 at 1:51....maybe still an outside chance I thought so put the boot down. Again came to frigging halt on the last hill drag back into the curragh...aaagghh 2 hours beeped at 12.92 :mad::mad:. So I just jogged back in over the finish line. Final Garmin time 2:02:22
I’m really gutted to be honest but not going to use quad as an excuse. It didn’t help but if I had been faster on the flat I would have made it. Simple reason not fit enough and needed longer LSR’s in the build up.
It’s hard to take positives from today but I have to learn from this to move forward. I gave it my best but it was just not good enough on the day. There will be other days.
Last year this was my first half which I did in 2:23 so it is a ~21 min improvement in 12 months.
I took over 5.5 mins off my previous PB (2:07:58) but if I’m honest that’s really hollow right now.
So Garmin stats...
Distance: 13.18
Time: 2.02.22 (PB but not the one I wanted
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Avg Pace: 09:17
Congrats to Nules on her PB and apologies for being a moody cow!!0 -
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Geez, post injury, walking the hills, and you STILL get a 5 minute PB?! Go easy on yourself girl!
Pity I didn't meet you today. I was right beside JBSki (the 2 hour pacer) for about the first 4 miles, looking out for Boards tops, but didn't notice you... next time maybe? :rolleyes:0 -
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Jeez shaz, can't believe you walked some of the route and STILL got an amazing time.
You are fully entitled to be peed off and vent - what's what we're here for.
I think though that you are being a bit hard on yourself, you're clearly not back to full fitness or anywhere near.
Imagine when you're injury free - the sky's the limit
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Time to update the target table and regroup after yesterday.
2 PBs so far and most of the other targets I have hit during races but I would prefer to record them in that distance race. Hit the 10km target so thats complete.
10 mile and Half marathon are the ones I want most right now. Still slightly disappointed with yesterday but just have to SIU and move on to next target race. Still deciding on what next target race should be - 5 mile race series or go for another half in June.
Distance | Target | Previous PB | New PB
5km| 25:45 |27:58 (Mar 2011) | tbd
8km|42:26| none |tbd
5 Miles| 42:40| 50:58 (Jan 2010) |tbd
10km|53:29 |55:32 (June 2010) |53:04
10 Miles|1:29:36|none |tbd
Half Marathon| 1:59:00 |2:07:59 (Jan 2011) |2:02:220 -
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Guys and Gals, you're fantastic! You really know how to pick a persons spirit up so a huge THANK YOU.
Bit of a self indulgent post/rant yesterday as I was really disappointed (as I'm sure you could tell). Onwards and upwards...
Well done yesterday. Nothing wrong with being disappointed with your time, think I've been happy with my finish time two or three times. I get a lot of stick for being 'negative' but there's nothing wrong with expecting more from yourself, especially when you know you're better than where you finishd, and a sub 2 will be easy as pie for you next time out. :pac:0 -
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ah go on, show us the photos!
Eh let me think about that for a sec...yup done thinking and ans is still No
I can post a pic of the state of my battered legs after last nights sports massage if you want :eek::eek:.
My thigh is now this swollen unrecognisable deformity with a "lovely" black/green/purple colour covering most of it. I seriously thought about wearing a loose soft tracksuit into work today but thought that wouldn't go down too well!! Shins less deformed but still very colourful! To quote someone...ouchy
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Hey Shaz! Sorry about my delayed response - only catching up on everyone's logs now. Well done in Kildare. It might not have gone exactly according to plan but you did fantastically. You had a great run, and you were right to take the walk breaks that you needed. I have no idea how you made up such good time after them. That in itself is something to be proud of - there's obviously some juice in those legs so don't be so hard on yourself. Two hours is so within your grasp now - onwards and upwards!! 0
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Weekend...
Nada, zilch, zip...instead spent most of the weekend drinking, eating, watching sport or hungover.
Even though I am a Red Army woman had to celebrate that comeback...although Sunday morning I was cursing ye :rolleyes:. Not to worry we'll be celebrating this weekend
Mon May 23rd
Dawned on me yesterday that I have only 10 weeks to go to Kilimanjaro so need to step up the gym sessions massively. Fitness level right now is rubbish. I've done high allitude hiking before so I know exactly where I need to get to. Hammered the gym then last night and legs were like jelly when I was leaving...good session
Tues May 24th
As RK pointed out to relay team earlier, only 2 weeks to Cork so time to get back out on the road. Plan was 3 easy miles but it didn't go exactly to plan. This ranks with one of the toughest runs I've had in a while. Away with work and it was 30 degrees out with no shade which nearly killed me. Only managed 2.5 miles before I had to make an emergency return to the hotel...sure sign for me that I was dehydrated...tmi I know!
Got a "lovely" round of applause from the local cool dudes...would love to take it as a compliment but think it had more to do with them mocking the pudgey snow white legs :cool:. We can't all be skinny and tanned like the locals here!!
Distance: 2.55 miles (not those bloody kms that some are posting :P)
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Fri May 27th
Another blaa run...only good thing about it was that I was back in the cold; don't like running in very warm weather.
Not feeling the love for running at the moment - enjoying the gym much more. I was going to do 10 at the w-end but think I'll just keep to short runs until I get that loving feeling back again :rolleyes:...I know it'll be back again soon so not too worried.
Distance: 3.03
Time: 28.52
Avg Pace: 09:31
Oh i know the feeling except the only thing i am loving at the moment is wine and chocolate, and that is getting me out for my run 0 -
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rainbow kirby wrote: »All things in balance
Very true.... before i would have had the wine and chocolate and did no run i have learned alot 
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Just wrote similar in my log, loving bootcamp at the moment.
Feel myself getting better at it, cant really feel myself getting better at running.
Sure at least we are doing something!
ilovered about a year ago i was doing the same. I did a BC in malahide and loved it but my times for running were pretty brutal. And i came onto boards and asked why... someone suggested that BC wasn't doing my running any good!!! i kept with my BC as it motivated me loads and i loved it. But due to the recession and the cost of BC i stopped going and got out for more runs instead... was cheaper. But my times have improved in running too. But as someone said to me on here if BC motivates you to exercise keep doing it. 0 -
ilovered about a year ago i was doing the same. I did a BC in malahide and loved it but my times for running were pretty brutal. And i came onto boards and asked why... someone suggested that BC wasn't doing my running any good!!! i kept with my BC as it motivated me loads and i loved it. But due to the recession and the cost of BC i stopped going and got out for more runs instead... was cheaper. But my times have improved in running too. But as someone said to me on here if BC motivates you to exercise keep doing it.
Nules, yeh this makes sense I know that myself, I dont really run enough to be giving out about my times ( whiich I have phases of!).
But I had no fitness what so ever when I started bootcamp last June, because of bootcamps I have been able to run, something I never thought I would do. I like the banter of working out with others. I do love running tho when I have the love for it:p, its just I find it much eaisier to head to bootcamp then headout for a run. I love long runs at the weekend with Maria, short ones squeezed in in the evening after a days work and the kids to bed are tough work!0 -
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Oh i know the feeling except the only thing i am loving at the moment is wine and chocolate, and that is getting me out for my run
Snap...btw you sure that's all you're loving :PJust wrote similar in my log, loving bootcamp at the moment.
Feel myself getting better at it, cant really feel myself getting better at running.
Sure at least we are doing something!
Do you want to change this entry after your weekend LSR. It's funny how quickly it all changes isn't it and how two people on the same run can feel very different 0 -
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I am loving life Shaz and cycling as a spectator only
So where is your plan leading you to????
My super new plan is leading me to the olympics...seen as I didn't get any bloody tickets, gotta get there somehow!! Not sure what event yet but I'm thinking of trying cycling...know anyone I can get some tips off 0 -
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Tues May 31st
Plan was an easy 3 mile run but again awful run. I'll be honest and say nothing has felt right since that deep tissue massage almost 2 weeks ago. Think it may have done more damage than good as I'm still bruised from it and feeling aches where there was never a problem before. Not sure what to do really but def feeling worried for Mon now.
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