I've been avoiding this....

Hopefully I will shazkea- I'd love to for the boyne 10k since its a local race but unless I can really pull it out of the bag on the day I think 52 will be more realistic aim. The end of the summer I'll get it under 50!
Hopefully you're getting on great in Star of the Sea- I used to run with them when I was a teen -I probably still have what would be now a retro signet in my mothers attic!
More resistance training today then:p 6.15 miles with 6 up hill intervals in the middle with 150 yard approx sprints (my sprints!!) Was meant to go out yesterday but bottled it with the weather! So tried to get a bit of everything into this run! Felt great too- probably the few days rest, if today had to have been a race day I would have been in great running form!
325.44

5.3 Not much of a run- it was supposed to be a lsr but the wind is too string- I ended up telling the dog to pull me to get me moving into the wind:D
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Younganne wrote: »

Madon...this is exactly the position i'm in. My current PB is 54.00 (Boyne 10k 2010) and nearest time to it since was 56.27 last July...i have being doing the hills & intervals for the last few months so should realistically get the 52, sub 50 would be the dream....but will hopefully get that by end of 2012!!!
Maybe we should pace each other!!!!;)

LOL- extra pressure! I reckon you can well do under 50- you're running great if I'm aiming 52 you should do sub 50:)

Today ran 6 mile, got stopped on the way back by an old man who called me 'one tough fit woman' I laughed all the way home!
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2.74- Was just to get out and loosen the legs out, life got in the way the past few days do I hadn't even thought about running. Had stitch and a big heavy feeling in my stomach today but it probably had a lot to do with the:o big mac meal:o I had for dinner.
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54.58:( gutted. I felt crap at the start- mouth was really dry and I couldn't get my breathing sorted but once I got water around 4k I was fine- nerves settled and I really thought i was running great Hit half way at 31 minutes and I felt that I ran the second half so much better- I knew I was nowhere near 50 or even 52 but I thought I'd get in under 53. My garmin is playing up and not holding the charge and switched off at 5.73 miles time was 49.01 minutes- I ran the last stretch very fast I powered up the hill, so, as much as I know the chip time is accurate I just don't know where it went wrong
I'm not one for throwing personnel things in as a reason but we lost someone very close very unexpected during the week so it seems trivial to be disappointed that I didn't run a minute or so faster when I should be happy that i'm out there doing it.

Thanks for the encouraging words- the week that was in probably did effect the run when I thought the run would be a way of getting it out of my mind for an hour or two.
There is something wrong with the time too, my gross and net are the same, my bro- in law who I started with has over 50 secs difference between his and a girl I know that started in front of me and I came in in front of has a quicker time so my chip most not have registered at the start line. Sure such a bad race might make me more determined on the next 10k:)

Today I went for a recovery jog- I noticed looking over some pics of Sundays race that my body was always twisted to the side so I became vry aware of this on todays run- I tried to keep myself faced forward and found it very difficult! Going down hill I especially noticed my body twisting side to side. I'm going to have to really concentrate on this now. Besides that I have a little niggle on my hip- that proves to me I did put effort in on Sunday. The niggle loosened up as the run went on. I'll ice and tiger balm it tonight though.
I don't know what to do know! I'll just take things easy this week and see what the next move is- I'm still determined to get below 50 this year but I have to find a race to do it.

Today 4.85 miles plus Sundays 6.21=356.84

4.74 miles tonight- Stopped and started a good bit- met the family in the middle of the run, had a packet of randoms and continued on. I wanted a nice run before a few Coronas and thats what I got!
Miles this year 368.26

4.4 mile slowly, the wind is very strong (again:rolleyes:)!
Been very bold this week and haven't ran too much but the rest is probably doing me good and since I have no plans for any target type races in the immediate future I might as well take the break!
378.91

7.15 miles nice and slow, was a lovely evening beach was gorgeous nice warm breeze! I felt slightly sluggish but it kept me slow!
389.25

3.5 miles- was planning to go a little further (maybe the 5.75 I need to bring me to 400 miles this year!) but I was a mile in when I realised that my back was a lot more sun burned than I thought! I should really have put on sun cream before I started painting the fences today. I fought with myself over what to do and decided better safe than sorry. Kept it about 10 min mile.
397.75

Another 4 miles- just ticking over:D
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Younganne wrote: »

Well done on reaching the 400+

Do you know that Ecoli post a weekly training plan on here, if you wanted to follow it. The training is aimed at the min at the 10k in Dunshaughlin on June 23rd. After that he will be posting a weekly plan for the Dublin marathon

Thanks Anne- I'm going to give it another week or so of doing very little, I'm going to start HH half marathon plan again mid June- thats giving me an extra week or so in case I don't get out when on holidays!
I'll have a look at some marathon plans in the mean time to see what I need to commit but the summer months is going to be tough trying to get out for runs as it is. I might leave the marathon until Spring, I seem to have more time to run in the winter.
Last night 4 painful miles- it was very warm and I ran too soon after dinner.
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