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"I just wanna drink beer and train like an animal"
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15-04-2013 12:58pm#1New log time. Wasn't great with updating the old one so reckon starting afresh could give me a bit of motivation in that regard. I've made some ok progress over the last 12 months but have had trouble putting together good, solid consistent 6 month stretches of training and that needs to change.
Highlights (and lowlights) of the the last 6 months have included : a 17:06 5km at Malahide, a 28:24 5mile down in Wexford and yesterdays 37:05 10k at the GIR. That last result is pissing me off as I know deep down I could have run better. I definitely struggle with mental lapses in races and yesterday was a perfect example. Lost focus and pretty much jogged in to the finish line.
The next 6 months is gonna include a good few races until early July leading into a build up for a sub 2:45 marathon attempt in Budapest in October. along the way I wanna run sub 35 10k, sub 16:40 5k and generally harden up so what happened yesterday doesn't happen again.
Oh- I have one more thing I'm going to include in this log. I've suffered from panic attacks most of my adult life and they can be a big pain in the a$$ when it comes to hard workouts and running. I'm going to call them out in this log and document the impact they have on the training and racing for two reasons 1) I actually think logging them will help deal with them and 2) There might be others out there who suffer from them and if they do maybe seeing that they aren't alone will help to some degree. So to point out the first one- hit 1k to go yesterday and my monkey brain told me I was gonna have a heart attack so eased off and cost myself a good bit of time. F you panic attacks
Ok- thats enough I'm currently on a 10 day running streak so hopefully will head out tonight- I'll update this as I go29
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Oh- I have one more thing I'm going to include in this log. I've suffered from panic attacks most of my adult life and they can be a big pain in the a$$ when it comes to hard workouts and running. I'm going to call them out in this log and document the impact they have on the training and racing for two reasons 1) I actually think logging them will help deal with them and 2) There might be others out there who suffer from them and if they do maybe seeing that they aren't alone will help to some degree. So to point out the first one- hit 1k to go yesterday and my monkey brain told me I was gonna have a heart attack so eased off and cost myself a good bit of time. F you panic attacks
Good luck with the targets. From the Ferrycarrig 5 Mile, you look well set for an assault on that 10k time. And that wasn't the easiest of courses either!
I'd also have my issues with panic. Rarely when running for whatever reason, but I did have one race incident almost exactly as you described. By and large though, I think running helps.0 -
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11 miles very easy into a ridiculous headwind for the first half (83 mins). Was back in the PP for this one and was really struck by how much the crazy wind was affecting my effort- kinda rammed home what a tough day Saturday was. I was straight in the wind on the S bends and seriously struggling to hold 8 min pace lol! Good start to the week though will run 8 easy tomorrow, a tempo on Thurs, 8 steady on Fri, some sort of fartleg on Saturday and long run Sunday in North Leitrim. Targeting a the 10,000m at the graded meet on May 15 and a couple of 5ks coming up.
Probably should have took that handy with racing on Sunday
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Another day, another wind assisted (not) run. Plan was for 4 mile tempo down at Tallaght w/ Ecoli- wires got crossed and I ended up doing this one on my own.
2 mile warm up and then straight into the tempo. Half the track was fine, the other half had something of a hamster on a wheel effect on me where you could see my little legs going a million miles a min but couldn't see any movement forward. Impossible to judge pace in these conditions so tried to work off effort. Got halfway through and shifted the workout to 2x 2miles as the conditions were seriously sapping me and wanted to preserve this as a tempo workout and not a crazy race style effort. Sensible I think as I hit very even splits
1st 2 miles: 5:53, 5:58
2nd 2 miles 5:57, 5:56
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Na- I wish looks like I'm working that day. I'm gonna run that Leixlip Le Cheile 5k the day before then the 10,000m at the graded on 15/5- you racing the Tallaght 5k?
That's a pity, the Le Cheile race is a great one though. Raging it's the day before and not the following week. Yes going to give Tallaght a lash, have you keep the young lads in their place
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Monday 6 easy
Had a great plan for this week revolving around the Leixlip 5k on Saturday. But....our house has caught the worst cold/flu any of us had all winter. <Mine turned into bronchitis on Wednesday- nice.
No running since Monday- thought about doing 3 or 4 easy today but lungs still hurt and still hacking. Maybe an easy few tomorrow- not looking great for the race on Saturday, we'll see though. Major bummer as training has been going really well and was interested to see what kind of 5k I could run
There's another 5k next weekend in Lucan, if you've had bronchitis forget about this weekend! This is not medical advice, just common sense 0 -
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Tuesday: 8 miles easy @ 7:07 pace . Nice evening for a run. Felt very relaxed and am loving being out in this weather.
Weds- Sh&t workout. Didn;t want to do this at all. Headed to the PP at 9am in crappy conditions. Was not feeling like doing a workout but luckily the little man in my head wouldn;t let me skip this. 1 min w/u
12 x 400 @ ? w/ 1min recovery
To add to my general frustration, my GPS decided not to work after the warm up. This sucked as I have no idea what kind of pace I was running or if I was even running 400m. :eek: Just sucked the whole thing up and ran for 76 secs each time as this is what I was planning on running. Got seriously pissed off and this made me dig in and drill a couple of reps- started to get very lactic by the last couple so think I was going real hard but no way of knowing lol...
20 min cool down
Its done now though so happy enough to get in this w/o in less than ideal conditions. Also- just to note have been doing push ups and ab workouts for the last 2-3 weeks. I always neglect this stuff but I think it will help 0 -
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Saturday- first rest day in 8 or 9 days. Have a little bit of soreness in around my calf/ tibia where I've suffered from tedonitis before so need to keep an eye on it...
Sunday- 9 miles @7:03 pace. Nice easy run- with a race Tuesday took it handy and not very long. Have trouble not blasting miles which is usually a good sign for me but again need to watch it as I know my body and it needs easy easy runs to recover... lovely day for a run tendon stuff still at me a bit- maybe will have a chat w/ a certain club mate at Tuesday's race about it
Monday 35 mins dead easy. No watch and popped a few strides- going hard tomorrow - can't wait as have heard great things about this course- sub 16:40 is the goal.0
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