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I'm hoping that's mud on your legs and not the result of lack of shaving. Oh...that's right....this isn't the tri forum, is it?
Nice work going on here - hope you get to feeling 100% soon! And Larry Brent's posts on JB's thread were brilliant. I know I learned a thing or two.
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Saturday
Back to the Saturday hill intervals. Jogged up to Tymon and met 4 people from the club who were joining the session (two more arrived a little later). Same session as always - 30 minutes of fast uphills and walk/jog downhills. A little tricky on the uphills because there was some frost on the path, but not so bad. I think everyone else enjoyed the session too, so I'm obviously not the only crazy person around :pac: Went out a bit later for a recovery jog. The morning session must have taken a lot out of me, because I started coming down with a headache in the evening, something I used to get sometimes after long, hard runs.
Who're you calling crazy? Great session alright. 0 -
Monday
11.06 in 53.03 (4.52)
Tuesday
8.75 in 51.41 (5.55)
7.7 in 41.03 (5.20)
Recovery run into work. Went along to training in the evening, but didn't feel up to a session so just went for a jog.
Wednesday
14.45 in 70.19 (4.52)
Run didn't feel very smooth tonight, but not so bad. But then I stopped at a traffic light and when I started again had a sharp pain in my knee Usually it's okay when running, sometimes a bit of a dull ache, but no real pain. I ran it off and continued home, but this isn't getting better on it's own. Next step- a few rest days. I think the problem is just overuse, so maybe after a few days of underuse I can start overusing again... 0 -
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a good run
13.26 in 60.43 (4.35 average)
Today was handy enough in work - got to spend time on my feet, and support my leg at other times, so my knee felt fine. No tiredness either at the end of the day - a combination of the couple of days off and the EPO iron tablets I've started taking? For whatever reason,anyway,I was full of beans when I finished work, so I charged off on the run, under 4.30 pace.
First few minutes I thought I was in trouble. I was feeling every step in my knee, discomfort radiating up and down the leg. But then it faded away The other usual twinges, and the consciousness of the bit of effort I was putting in, came to the forefront and the knee ache just faded away. Interestingly it came back for a second as I was leaving Bushy park. It was about 8k into the run and I was starting to tire a little. My knee started to complain again and I noticed I was sitting back on my stride - I pushed forward again and it went away.
Finished off with some strides, which I haven't done in months. Taking my life into my hands in the local park full of off-lead dogs and feral owners 0 -
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the good
I'm still feeling full of energy compared to the previous couple of weeks. Either those days off or the iron were really needed. Funny how you get used to feeling tired all the time, until you aren't. (I'm in to give blood again in a few weeks, so I'll found out then if I'm ODing on Fe)
the bad
I'm limping around the office all day. Sore yesterday all the way up my thigh and down my calf, driving hurts, and I'm looking for any excuse to walk around and stretch my legs or put my foot up.
the good again
club training last night, my knee was a bit achy in the warmup but completely fine then. chased theboyblunder up Stocking Lane a few times, getting further and further away each time :pac: with no pain whatsoever. Except in the lungs :pac:
so, I'll keep up the icing, and keep standing through as many meetings as possible, but I'm feeling optimistic about the running again and looking forward to Bohermeen 0 -
club training last night, my knee was a bit achy in the warmup but completely fine then. chased theboyblunder up Stocking Lane a few times, getting further and further away each time :pac: with no pain whatsoever. Except in the lungs :pac:
My group actually thought we heard the sound of talking and dare I say it, laughing from your group going UP the hill yesterday. :eek:
I was hardly able to talk on the way DOWN.
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Out to Santry again this morning for the Indoors. Had to be there for 9.20 so set the alarm for 6. Mouthful of juice, threw on the gear, and out into the dark. Ran up to Tymon but it was too dark to do my usual muddy circuit, spent most of the time running on the path. 5(?) laps in gradually growing brightness and back home to throw some food in, step in and out of the shower, and drive to Morton Stadium. Then sit there for about an hour before the first race :pac:
21.64 in 1.49.51 (5.05) AHR 146 MHR 159
Pretty slow out there. I won't enter any 6.30am races:pac: AHR only climbed over 150 on the last few k, when I left the park and started home and the pace started to climb too.
Knee is still uncomfortable, a hot point developing sometimes on the front of the kneecap, but generally feels ok to run on. Fixing my hip position and footstrike helps. Driving though is not pleasant Starts uncomfortable and gets to sore pretty quickly, especially when I have to use the clutch.
km this week: 109.12
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Monday
12.49 in 58.47 (4.43) AHR 156 MHR 170
Very old-school run this one. Full of energy at the start, flagged in the middle, felt strong again at the end. Pace seems to have been more or less the same throughout, but HR looks high.
Tuesday
8.66 in 47.75 (5.31) AHR 142 MHR 159
recovery run. More conscious of my knee on these runs than on most runs. Maybe I run differently, maybe I don't have the distraction of other aches and strains?
7.12 in 32.02 (4.30) AHR 153 MHR 183
Club session, back to the 800s. Pretty consistent, 2.48 to 2.52 - though I did take a break between 4 and 5 to talk to the NATIONAL 400M CHAMPION
Wednesday
14.5 in 68.03 (4.42) AHR 156 MHR 169
The usual midweek medium long run, around UCD and home.
The knee is still a problem. Fine on fast runs, I can feel it on slower runs, and sitting down/driving is getting worse not better. Off to a physio on Saturday - only about a month overdue:pac: - so we'll see what the word is.0 -
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Thursday
8.69 in 49.03 (5.39) AHR 145 MHR 160 (must have run across a road?)
recovery run the morning
8.74 in 43.12 (4.57) AHR 152 MHR 165
and an easy run home.
Knee very sore during the day, and still tender as I ran home
Friday
no running :eek:
Saturday
8.6 in 44.5 (5.08) AHR 152 MHR 174
had planned to do the hill session in the morning but my knee was tender again as I ran up to meet the others. I knew I'd be able to get through the session, but also that I'd pay for it later so I turned around and went home.
Today
8.96 in 43.56 (4.54) AHR 155 MHR 165
just an easy jog
After yesterday's run I went up to B2R to the physio there. The good news i that there doesn't seem to be anything seriously wrong with me, just a bit of tendonitis. But my muscles are all rock hard - she asked me to squat at the start and I went down about 2 inches - so everything is being pulled around. Got a massage, and have lots of icing stretching, and rolling to do before I go back again after Bohermeen. By then I should be a bit looser and she'l be able to confirm the problem, and do some more specific work.
Then I spent the afternoon at Tallaght track, in the snow, watching the relays. Not the recommended post-massage recovery I'm sure.
this week: 77.76km
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21.21 in 82.17 (3.53) AHR 175 MHR 185 39th overall, 4th M40 (but 2 and 3 were five minutes up the road)
I arrived in Bohermeen in style, chauffeur driven by Lady Penelope in one of her little run-arounds (thanks again for the lift guys, driving myself would have been very sore) Met up with most of the large contingent of boardsies down there, all of whom seemed to have good races. I started getting antsy around 11.30 and went out for a warmup, I wanted to make sure I was good and loose before the start.
The start was a bit late - the only thing I'd fault the race for, I think, it's a bit frustrating to be lined up at 12.00 and see a steady stream of people jogging down from the race centre. We got off anyway, and after a few minutes I find I'm right behind Pauline Curley, going at about 3.30 pace... time to slow down a bit. Unfortunately I never really settled into a pace during the race. I was constantly looking at my watch, seeing 3.5x (or sometimes 4.0x later in the race) and trying to speed up, I very, very rarely looked down and saw the right pace.
The first lap went by fairly easy. I was working through groups, trying to find one going at the right pace and pushing on. Looking back now I can see that I was behind pace for most of the first half, but it didn't feel like that. By the end of the lap I'd left all groups behind and as far as I could see there were only three other runners to think about - a Celbridge guy 10/15m ahead, St Coca's guy in front of him, and a Clonliffe guy right behind. Clonliffe guy was persistent. For 2 solid miles he would surge up behind me and draw level, then I'd speed up again and put in a bit of a gap - but never really get closer to the guys in front. We ran like this for over ten minutes, but at the 9 mile marker there was a sharp turn so I said **** it, took the corner hard and put in a bigger gap. 15/20m? Far enough that I couldn't hear him breathing.
I was really starting to suffer now though, glutes were sore, quads were sore, and I was dog-tired. Mile 10 marker (63.x) and a bus came by, 5 runners in a good group (where were they earlier?:rolleyes:) and I couldn't follow them. Mile 11 we hit the hills, and Clonliffe is behind me again. Mile 12 he's beside me, and all the last mile we are running side by side down the road, both trying to drop the other, neither giving an inch. Finally I see the turn for the finish line ahead and manage to pull away. Round the corner and down the finishing straight in some shambling impersonation of a sprint, expecting him to take me any second, but I held him off.
So, not the result I was looking for, but not too bad. Having that guy to race helped a lot (him too, he's off to Rotterdam and was very pleased with his time today) I could easily have been slower again. The problem was not so much with my knee but with the issues it caused, the tightness everywhere else and the lack of solid training last month, so I'm happy enough that I'm on track. Will still give sub-80 a bash in the summer.
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RunningKing wrote: »That Philip guy also works in the same place as me and ran a fantastic 5k race last Thursday, finished 2nd.
Yep, 16:44! How did you get on in it yourself RK?
(It wasn't short by any chance?? ) 0 -
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