The Hundred mile week dream.

12.25 miles for my longish mid week run. 01:56 and averaging 09:27 miles.

Wednesday

A few hills which will be needed having seen the Dingle profile.
I hope to use this loop as the basis of the weekend long runs. Some back roads but traffic isn't that bad.

Parkwest was a good recovery run after Bogtrotters.
Even though I didn't feel good for the first few kay I cam round and was better for the second half. Probably because I gave up on keeping up with Xebec and dropped off his pace slightly. Came in in 48:27 so that was good. Its a PB but I have never really raced the distance before.

For the 100 mile it looks like I will be trying to get there this week as I have been running well enough so far.

10.65 Monday, went out for a shorter run and did double what I intended.
7.75 Tuesday, Went for run with the brother. A jog basically.
12.25 Wed, Did one lap of my intended long run for next weekend.

Will do 8 tonight, 6 tomorrow and then 30 and 26 mile long runs at the weekend. That should give me the 100.
The long runs at the weekend will be done at 10 min mile pace. This would be about 8 1/2 hours for Dingle but I would expect to drop a good bit of time on hills etc there.
It is a lot easier to run these evenings than it was last Jan.

Woundedknee. wrote: »

Maybe Dingle should be your 100 mile week.* Based on your 9:27 min mile it would take you 16+ hours to complete 100 Miles and thats a lot of time on your feet.* That will increase your risk of injury and lengthen your recovery time.

I am missing your point I think. I won't be running 100 miles in one go. Otherwise I would be off to Connemara.

The two long runs this week will take 6 and 5 hours each at 10min miles. The Dingle week I will only be doing a few 5 mile runs and the weekend before Dingle will be 2 runs less than 10 miles each.
Three weeks before Dingle I plan a 10k race on the Saturday and a 30 mile plus run on the Sunday. After that the longest run is 15 miles as I taper down.
If I am to do a 100 mile training week now is the time to do it. If I don't feel good I will bring the mileage down but I am actually feeling quite good this week after the marathon and 10K last week.

8.25 miles in 1:15. About 9:09 pace so a bit quicker than I thought.
No real feeling of stiffness or soreness.

Wednesday Run

Getting a bottle of chocolate milk into me directly afterwards and am not feeling the hunger pangs so much then.
This weeks weekday runs all starting around 8 which is a bit of a drag as the day is then gone. Will be home by 6 next week which will make it a bit easier.

Saturday Run 30.1 Miles

Alarm in phone went off at 5:30 am. I had cleverly placed the phone at the other end of the bedroom beside the door so that I would have to get up to turn the alarm off.
I had also, not so cleverly, plugged the phone into the charger; the other end of which was plugged in to the socket beside the bed. So I hauled the phone over to the bed and turned the alarm off.
I eventually rose at 6:30 and got ready for the run. Can of red bull, banana, tea and I am ready for the off.
The weather was ideal for a run with no sun and overcast conditions. I secreted a bottle of water inside my brothers house wall and was on my way. I had a long loop of just over 11 miles and had a bottle of water at a Mace shop after about 7 of those miles. I also had a packet of Lucozade orange glucose tablets and 5 Hi 5 Gels.
The last 5 miles were the most difficult. I ran up to 26.22 miles apart from the water buying stops at shops and glugging outside the brothers house.
For the last 3 miles I was just running around Newbridge to make up the 30 miles. I think if I had a definite path to follow it would have helped.

Still it went about as well as I expected. Hopefully I will be able to get up earlier in the morning and achieve the target distance for the week.

Sunay 25 miles run

Well I didn't get up early. Actually walked across room at 5:30, turned off alarm and went back to beD. At 6:30 looked at clock and tought, give it another 5 min. Next time I looked at clock it was 7:30.

Finally out running just after 8. No Red bull today but had 3 hi5 gels and the trusty lucozade orange tablets.
Did my long 11.2 loop of Roseberry and Newbridge without any problems and then threw in a short loop of Roseberry to bring me up to the 15 mark.

Decided to run out and back to the Curragh to complete the run. Didn't feel great for miles 15-18 but felt absolutely awful for miles 19 and 20. Was out in the grass of the Curragh at this stage and the 2 miles I did there bought me back to life. It is a beautiful place to run on a day like today. Once you have master the technique of dodging the sheep ****e anyway.

Last 3 miles were grand apart from the last where a car pulling out of a drive nearly mowed me down. But managed to do the last mile as the quickest mile so happy enough with the run.
Well that is 100 miles in one week. What can I target next?

woodchopper wrote: »

There are easier and more sensible ways to run 100 mile weeks without running a 30 miler and a 25 milers two days in a row, but since you are running a ultra I will leave you to your own devices. Good luck

Ah sure I know that it wasn't the most sensible way to go about it but I was due a few long runs back to back.
The drinks during the football yesterday did more damage than any of the runs.

From one extreme to the other. Took yesterday off as a rest day and went for a run this evening. Only intending to do 5 or 6 but had to call into the brothers to help him put a flat packed computer desk together.
Thought the desk would take half an hour tops.
Two and a half hour later, 2 rows and 3 mugs of tae later the desk was complete ( with two bits left that didn't seem to fit anywhere) and I was being offered some wild berry pie with cream by his better half.

So todays total is 1 mile in 9:05.