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What's the 5k in Athenry?
It's in Newcastle rather than athenry, in aid of Scoil chroí Naofa. There's no info up on it yet. http://www.athenryac.com/2011-newcastle-school-run-5km. Going by last years results it'll be a fairly small field with quite a few at my end
Might be a good one for MrsMac?;)
Same.... i put pressure on myself to up the mileage and everytime I go over 5 miles the itb plays upI put pressure on myself to get a certain mileage in each week and now Im injured again:( Sorry for the long winded ramble:)
I'm sticking to 5k for a few weeks before attempting anything longer.meathcountysec wrote: »Glad you're back out with us again. Try to get into some sort of a habit/routine, then build on that consistency.
That's what I'm trying to do anyway:rolleyes:
I know... getting from no or sporadic running to regular/ routine running is the hard part
anyway... reading reports from Craughwell yesterday had me back in here, reading about and thinking about running again so hopefully that means I've got my mojo back!0 -
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rainbow kirby wrote: »This scares me
yikes sorry Rk
Lets just say it's probably my age.... in which case you'll be fine
I do think it's a game of patience with the itb and just not pushing it too far so at the minute I know I'm good for 3 miles but not for 6 so that's what I'll do for another couple of weeks. There's no point in pushing it. 0 -
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3 miles in the woods this morning in 10.52/9.25/9.19 (total 29.37), average pace 9.53 after which I was rightly pooped I don't think there'll be any pbs anytime soon:p. The woods, though lovely to run in, always feel a bit harder than road running for some reason, maybe it's the varied surfaces and dodging branches and tree roots etc
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4 miles in 39.26, ave pace 9.51, ave hr 168.
10.45/10.15/9.13/9.15
The stats are a wee bit misleading as I stopped after 3miles and took the last mile as a sort of interval type run, first by trying to keep a decent pace up the hill with a bit of a break at the top.
An enjoyable run overall. I wore the hrm for the first time in ages.... interestingly my hr for the first .1 mile was 56/57 and that's after having walked a bit while waiting for the gps to kick in it didn't take long to skyrocket though 
I must figure out my resting hr properly. 0 -
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3 miles this morning with the dog. Average (moving) time 30.01, pace 10.01, hr 171. Miles 10.17/10.28/9.41. I used moving time and pace due to the numerous pitstops. The dog behaved reasonably well despite a minor incident with another dog :eek: In fact I was sitting at 9.45 for the last mile with a half a mile uphill drag to go and the dog actually pulled me to run faster uphill bringing the time down
HR a bit higher than it should have been but that may have been due to the lack of breakfast + yesterdays run.0 -
3 miles this morning with the dog. Average (moving) time 30.01, pace 10.01, hr 171. Miles 10.17/10.28/9.41. I used moving time and pace due to the numerous pitstops. The dog behaved reasonably well despite a minor incident with another dog :eek: In fact I was sitting at 9.45 for the last mile with a half a mile uphill drag to go and the dog actually pulled me to run faster uphill bringing the time down
HR a bit higher than it should have been but that may have been due to the lack of breakfast + yesterdays run.
...but isn't that cheating?:D :rolleyes:0 -
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slow quick quick slow.
A night-time better than nothing treadmill run. Slow 11 min warm up, then two miles @ 9.17 and a slow slow cooldown mile, slowing down to a walk by the end, so over 12 mins. I only intended a half mile cooldown but my thoughts ran away with me and I found myself at .8 so carried on. 0 -
Fri. Slow 3m.
Tomorrows race is all about getting the feel for races again. My 5k pb is "about" 27 mins... I won't even get close to that. My time for this course last time was 27.55 I think. To be honest I don't think I'll touch that either :o. I'll be happy to break half an hour:rolleyes: 0 -
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Fri. Slow 3m.
Tomorrows race is all about getting the feel for races again. My 5k pb is "about" 27 mins... I won't even get close to that. My time for this course last time was 27.55 I think. To be honest I don't think I'll touch that either :o. I'll be happy to break half an hour:rolleyes:
Don't think about pace. Don't cut a stick to beat yourself up with.
Your racing again. Plenty of time next time out to target times.
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Newcastle (Athenry) 5k Race Report.
Since I haven’t been running anything resembling regularly since October and really only getting some motivation back in the past couple of weeks I knew a pb wasn’t going to happen but based on very recent runs I reckoned 9.20/mile was a reasonable estimation of what I could expect. That would see me finish in about 29 minutes but having run the route before I knew the long uphill drag from 2 to nearly 4k could change that... you know... me’n’hills..:rolleyes:
I was awoken this lovely mothers day morning with a cup of tea, lots of cuddles and many many home made cards ... I’ve only got 2 children I mooched around for a while getting myself ready but couldn’t find my garmin ... not got a clue where it is! So I resigned myself to having to do it the old fashioned stopwatch and k signs way which would mean challenging my brain to have to think in kilometres and do sums along the way. I reached Newcastle early, registered and said hello to the very nice MickRice who was the man in charge. Time ticked on and I wondered why no one was turning up for the race. At 11.50 surely we should be off to the startline? The penny dropped..... I was early early rather than just early as the race was at 1, not 12. So, more mooching, tea (on Micks insistence) and chatting with the nice Newcastle people and I was ready to go (again) an hour later.
Off at the start without a clue of pace, into a nice downhill/ flat first kilometre. I hit the first k marker at 5.30, grand, happy with that, the aim was to keep it between 5.30/6 mins. From there on it was a long drag, not steep but unrelenting up to about 3.8k. The second k was done in 5.50, the brain stopped working for the next two but I was happy I was within my target. I never felt the need to stop or walk and the hill didn’t feel bad at all:). Once we hit 4 k after a bit of a plateau it was all downhill and I was happy to see 28.xx on the clock as I approached. I put the boot down a bit and finished the last k in 5.20 with (I think) 28.45 on the clock so about 28.40 for me. (yes I started the stopwatch too soon and then forgot to stop it:rolleyes:). Now my brain is functioning again I’ve done the sums and that equates to 9.13 min miles. I’m happy with that... the fact that I didn’t find it too hard, was feeling grand and talking away within seconds of finishing tells me I probably had a bit more to give. In fact I know I did... but hey it’s grand for my first race of the year and gives me an indication of what to aim for in the Castlebar women’s mini marathon 10k
on 1st May.
Said hello and had a quick chat with Magnet but had to hotfoot it in to Galway to meet up with the clan (an hour later than planned:o) so I didn’t hang around.
Lovely race, lovely route, nice people, nice tea 0 -
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3 miles on the treadmill. My aim is to average no slower than 9.20 min miles in Castlebar in less than 3 :eek: weeks time though I think it'll be a testing enough course.
According to this table the equivalent treadmill pace is 8.49 min miles or 6.8 mph setting.
So I did half mile very slow warm at 5.5 (11mm), followed by 2 miles at 8.49 and slow warm down half mile. Total 3 miles in 28. 30.
By the time I was finished Mr was home so after a quick shower I went off out for a glorious leisurely 3 mile walk with the dog. 0 -
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