Festina lente

7.3 in 47.58 (6.35 pace)

Super slow this evening. We brought the club down to do a lap of the Rathfarnham 5k course, get them used to the route before Sunday, and I went on sweeper duty at the back. It's much easier to manage all the different standards in the club when we're doing short intervals and coming back to the same start point regularly. On a longer run like this, even at an easy pace, we get very, very strung out

September: 18/204.18
this year: 251/2783.6

10.04 in 49.06 (4.54 pace)

Easy run home. Legs still feeling a bit blah, but there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel. The tunnel that my legs are going through. To get better.

No, I don't understand it either.

September: 19/222.93
this year: 252/2802.35

6.07 in 28.59 (4.46 pace)

Just a short and easy jog, with a few strides at the end. Legs feeling stronger, enough to give tomorrow a good bash anyway, but I don't think I'll be 100%...

September: 21/239.04
this year: 254/2818.46

Rathfarnham 5k 17.55 (chip time)

The more of these I do the less I can remember for the race reports - I think all the bouncing is damaging my brain:rolleyes:
I honestly wasn't expecting a lot from this, I've been tired all week and my knee was sore during the warmup. But, it's a local race, great course, there were about 30 from the club doing it (some as their first real race) as well as the boy and the OH, so there was no way I'd miss it.
Warmup was 5/10 minutes of easy jogging and then I got in position, good and close to the start because this race is always full of jokers. First k was fast. After telling all my clubmates to hold something back in the first straight, I hit 1k in 3.20 oops .
So, 4k of hanging on for dear life Things thinned out by the time I got to Terenure, and I spent most of the road up by Bushy Park swapping places with a guy from Raheny, which was great because it kept me focused during that long stretch. The pair of us slowly closed in on the group in front (though neither of us could do anything when one of the junior runners from Bros Pearse cruised by halfway down the road). ks 2 and 3 were 3.39 and 3.41, perfect
Turned the corner onto the home stretch again, and it was starting to hurt. Passed Mr Slow around the bridge, and got to the 4k mark in 3.36, helped by that downhill at the start line. Last k was long, but I managed to hold my place and pick up the pace a bit - 3.32 for the last k, including a sprint finish to pick up a place on the line

September: 22/244.04
this year: 255/2823.46

Nah, 3 years since my first 5k. About 5 minutes in the last 2 years

7.18k in 38.15 (5.20 pace)

Easy run into James' for my regular EPO injection platelet donation

September: 24/251.22
this year: 256/2830.64

9.52k in 48.34 (5.06 pace)

... and back in again. A bit damp out there? Or is it just me?

September: 26/270.3
this year: 258/2849.72

9.51k in 48.32 (5.06 pace)

and a run home. Exciting stuff.

September: 26/289.35
this year: 259/2868.77

9.52k in 49.24 (5.11 pace)

Into work. Pace is slipping :eek:

September: 27/298.87
this year: 260/2878.29

6.56k in 35.39 (5.26 pace)

I was wrecked after yesterday's run, very tired, and legs stiff and sore all over, so this was very slow and short recovery. Then off to the park to watch the kid (and a big crowd of his clubmates) run in the crosscountry. 700m today, 6th of 31

September: 29/327.82
this year: 262/2907.24

9.5k

Garmin must have got switched on in my bag, it was out of charge. Think I can guess how far this route home is :rolleyes:

October: 1/337.32
this year: 263/2916.74

8.71k in 45.29 (5.13 pace)
10.17k in 52.04 (5.07 pace)

Easy runs home from work yesterday and back in again this morning

October: 3/365.03
this year: 265/2944.45

RacoonQueen didn't remind me to do my end-of-month summary:mad:

Month|2010|2011|2012
January|38.8|105.61|187.46
February|35.5|106.68|191.79
March|53.2|121.83|214
April|72|106.33|201.18
May|75.9|107.13|175.21
June|90.2|64.85|150.09
July|118.1|126.92|242.21
August|124.4|168|240.27
September|154|171.75|203.69
October|108.7|191.2|
November|58.4|128.9|
December|83|166.58|
Total|1012.2|1578.1|


Distance down a bit because of all the races, but I guess I can't complain

Yeah, passed that mark in August I think :cool:

11.45k in 55.33 (4.51 pace)

Met up with a couple of the guys from the club for a few laps of the Novice course. We were going a bit faster than I thought. Good to try out the spikes again ahead of the race, they felt weird for the first 10/20 minutes.

October: 6/68.45
this year: 268/2975.69