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    #422
    rainbow kirby
    Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 26,928 Mod ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    tHE vAGGABOND wrote: »
    So did you get the new crib sorted?

    Yup, put the deposit down this evening and I'm moving in at the bank holiday weekend. :)


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    #423
    Brianderunner
    Registered Users Posts: 3,049 ✭✭✭Brianderunner


    metamorphosis wrote: »
    Nice to finally chat with ya for a bit today.

    See you for the 10 miler.

    remember - Brians gets NO couch.

    Get in line mate, foreign guests take preference!!


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    #424
    rainbow kirby
    Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 26,928 Mod ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Brianderunner wrote: »
    Get in line mate, foreign guests take preference!!

    Fight to the death, that's something people from Limerick should be familiar with :pac:


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    #425
    rainbow kirby
    Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 26,928 Mod ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Last night involved lots of stretching, as flexibility was on my schedule. Tonight was 45 minutes easy - did 7.32km / 4.55 miles @ 9.54/mile average pace. Legs felt alright generally, mind wasn't there at all tonight. Starting to get very frustrated at how much fitness I've lost over the last while (generally about 30s/mile slower for a given effort than I was about 4-6 months ago) and I think that's starting to get to me a little bit. :mad:


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    #426
    tHE vAGGABOND
    Registered Users Posts: 6,686 ✭✭✭tHE vAGGABOND


    You need to move in from the sticks, and live near a huge park in the middle of town so training is less drama :cool:


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    #427
    rainbow kirby
    Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 26,928 Mod ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    tHE vAGGABOND wrote: »
    You need to move in from the sticks, and live near a huge park in the middle of town so training is less drama :cool:
    Funny you should say that :pac::cool:


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    #428
    RacoonQueen
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,364 Mod ✭✭✭✭RacoonQueen


    Somewhere like Dublin 8 - all the worlds coolest people hail from Dublin 8.


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    #429
    ecoli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,762 ✭✭✭✭ecoli


    rainbow kirby wrote: »
    Last night involved lots of stretching, as flexibility was on my schedule. Tonight was 45 minutes easy - did 7.32km / 4.55 miles @ 9.54/mile average pace. Legs felt alright generally, mind wasn't there at all tonight. Starting to get very frustrated at how much fitness I've lost over the last while (generally about 30s/mile slower for a given effort than I was about 4-6 months ago) and I think that's starting to get to me a little bit. :mad:

    Your easy runs are not for running quick. Would prefer to see it translate in race results and you will once we get some consistent miles into you. Remember 4 months ago you were coming to the end of marathon block training so you obviously were in best shape of your life aerobically. We will get you back there


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    #430
    rainbow kirby
    Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 26,928 Mod ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Need to be getting myself a bike soon too. Gonna x-post this (non-running-related) from the cycling forum in case anyone has words of wisdom:
    rainbow kirby wrote: »
    Currently looking at:

    Giant Avail
    Felt ZW95
    Trek Lexa
    Specialized Dolce (slightly more expensive, but pretty :D )

    Anything that stands out there? Also, most of my commuting is going to be city centre-based, and leisure cycling in the Phoenix Park. Apart from a really, really good lock, what will I need gear-wise?


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    #431
    Brianderunner
    Registered Users Posts: 3,049 ✭✭✭Brianderunner


    rainbow kirby wrote: »
    Need to be getting myself a bike soon too. Gonna x-post this (non-running-related) from the cycling forum in case anyone has words of wisdom:

    To cycle a mile and a half to work is it, why? You can have my old bike for free. I only got it brand new a month before i took the London job.

    If your using it for training well thats a different story.


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    #432
    rainbow kirby
    Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 26,928 Mod ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Brianderunner wrote: »
    To cycle a mile and a half to work is it, why? You can have my old bike for free. I only got it brand new a month before i took the London job.

    If your using it for training well thats a different story.

    The plan would be to use it for a bit of cross-training, yeah. If your old bike is going in the meantime though that would be handy.


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    #433
    rainbow kirby
    Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 26,928 Mod ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    8am sports massage today - needed to be done just to loosen up a few things.


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    #434
    RacoonQueen
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,364 Mod ✭✭✭✭RacoonQueen


    Specialized bike because they are so pretty and it's the best one there. You can get good entry level bikes for about €500 - cycleways have an amazing looking specialized for around that - or they did a while ago anyway.


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    #435
    DigiJem
    Registered Users Posts: 1,029 ✭✭✭DigiJem


    I have the Avail, a nice bike for the money, although that Specialized looks very nice. Got mine through the cycle 2 work scheme and I got a helmet, rain-gear, lights, locks & a pump with it. Got padded shorts later on, made life a lot more comfortable :)


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    #436
    rainbow kirby
    Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 26,928 Mod ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Recovery run this evening - 2.8 miles, no idea of pace/times because I forgot to charge my Garmin and the battery ran out after about 5 minutes. D'oh!


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    #437
    Mr Slow
    Registered Users Posts: 6,554 ✭✭✭Mr Slow


    rainbow kirby wrote: »
    Recovery run this evening - 2.8 miles, no idea of pace/times because I forgot to charge my Garmin and the battery ran out after about 5 minutes. D'oh!

    Did you feel liberated without it?


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    #438
    rainbow kirby
    Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 26,928 Mod ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Mr Slow wrote: »
    Did you feel liberated without it?

    Not really! Kinda like having my data...

    </nerd>


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    #439
    rainbow kirby
    Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 26,928 Mod ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Planned for today: 20 mins easy, 3x 5 min tempo with 2 min recovery, 20 min easy. Did the tempo segments on grass... horribly cold and wet and probably made the session harder than it was meant to be. Also managed to feck up the timing, hit "stop" instead of "lap" at the start of my second tempo interval and missed about the first 3 mins of it! Overall distance covered (when the distance covered that my Garmin missed is factored in) 9.3km / 5.8 miles. Assuming that the 3 missed minutes were at 5 min/km pace (which is consistent with the other intervals), average pace for the session was 9.55/mile (due to second 20 minute easy run being closer to recovery pace because I have bog all energy on Thursday nights :mad: ).


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    #440
    rainbow kirby
    Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 26,928 Mod ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Tonight's run was planned as 45 minutes easy. It ended up being 9 minutes easy. :eek:

    Note to self: If one of your good sports bras is on the line, just put it on damp. The old stretched out one at the bottom of your running gear drawer will be the cause of much discomfort. :(


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    #441
    Nules10
    Registered Users Posts: 1,585 ✭✭✭Nules10


    Ouch :eek: not good. Nothing worse :(


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    #442
    Mr Slow
    Registered Users Posts: 6,554 ✭✭✭Mr Slow


    eck02.gif :pac:


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    #443
    rainbow kirby
    Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 26,928 Mod ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Planned for today - 30 mins steady with strides. Ended up throwing on a little bit more than the specified 30 minutes anyway. Total distance covered 6.56km / 4.08 miles, average pace 9.30/mile. I like strides, they always make you feel really good right at the end of the run. :)


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    #444
    rainbow kirby
    Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 26,928 Mod ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Planned 1 hour easy for today. Did 10.02km / 6.23 miles @ 9.47/mile average pace. Felt like a bit more effort than it should have, tbh - this doesn't bode well for next Monday! :eek:


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    #445
    jcsmum
    Registered Users Posts: 3,156 ✭✭✭jcsmum


    rainbow kirby wrote: »
    Planned 1 hour easy for today. Did 10.02km / 6.23 miles @ 9.47/mile average pace. Felt like a bit more effort than it should have, tbh - this doesn't bode well for next Monday! :eek:

    Why? What's happening today?
    Sounds like you are doing great though...


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    #446
    rainbow kirby
    Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 26,928 Mod ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Bay 10k next Monday. Am not in good shape for it at all!


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    #447
    RacoonQueen
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,364 Mod ✭✭✭✭RacoonQueen


    You might surprise yourself. Sometimes races have a funny way of forcing you to pull something out of the bag you never knew was there.

    Don't be so negative. :pac:


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    #448
    rainbow kirby
    Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 26,928 Mod ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    RacoonQueen wrote: »
    You might surprise yourself. Sometimes races have a funny way of forcing you to pull something out of the bag you never knew was there.

    Don't be so negative. :pac:

    Meh, got feck all to lose anyway. The race will tell me a lot in terms of where my fitness is at right now - though I'm not sure if I *really* want to know that! :eek:


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    #449
    rainbow kirby
    Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 26,928 Mod ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Plan for tonight - 30 mins easy + flexibility. Did 5.11km / 3.17 miles @ 9.50/mile average pace, enjoyed that. :) Average HR 163, note to self: dampen the damn HRM strap, spikes skew the average on shorter runs...


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    #450
    dolliemix
    Registered Users Posts: 4,048 ✭✭✭dolliemix


    You're so consistent with your training. It will stand to you. Did you get someone to pick up your number for Bay 10k? PM me if you want me to pick it up for you. I just moved house in June. Its hard work!


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    #451
    rainbow kirby
    Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 26,928 Mod ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    dolliemix wrote: »
    You're so consistent with your training. It will stand to you. Did you get someone to pick up your number for Bay 10k? PM me if you want me to pick it up for you. I just moved house in June. Its hard work!

    It's sorted, but thanks for the offer, I really do appreciate it :)

    Moving on Sunday, then racing on Monday and (hopefully) later a few drinks to celebrate and chill out. Tbh I'm just hoping for a block of nice, boring, consistent training for the next while and then have a really good crack at the Rathfarnham 5k in late September and a few other autumn races.


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