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Starting from scratch
hi, 46 yo male. Want to start training again. 15st 5lbs. Haven’t run in donkeys. Starting with c25k. Day 1 today.
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If I didn’t log it, it didn’t happen
I’m usually a pretty patient person, but I’m also competitive, so trying to regain fitness and make progress with my running is a real challenge after struggling for over 4 years with a foot problem. First some history to bore you all (boring detail may become a theme). I’ve always played sports, gaa and soccer growing up…
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A ship called consistency
Hi all, I am taking some inspiration from @echancrure and his log which I have enjoyed reading of late. I am a deeply average recreational runner and have been for a number of years now. My PB's are as follows: Marathon 3:42 (Dublin 2023), Half 1:39 (Dublin Race Series Half 2018 😫), 10Km 44:20 (Run Killarney 2026). I have…
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55, aiming for sub 2:47
Hi all, I haven't posted anything on Boards for a long time, but I remember in my early running days (2013/2014), I learnt a lot from this forum (thought for TFBubendorfer), so why not try to contribute something and also keep me in check. Quick background: I am a 55-year-old male. I focus on marathons (28 started, 26…
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My sporadic running blog
Running is not a regular pastime of mine but I'm doing it a bit more lately to try keep in some kind of shape. Realistically it is just something I dip into every few months and do a few runs here and there. I would like to start improving my times a little (they are shocking). It takes me just over 35mins to do 5km, but…
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Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads
Starting this really to be accountable to myself in general and in advance of the DCM come October. I'm following the novice thread, which is great. Background I got into running in 2011 thanks to C25K (via boards). I moved to 10k and generally kept that going. Personal stuff reduced my interest in running quite a bit…
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8 months into year 1
About this time last year, my brother set out to train for a marathon, and asked was I interested. I was, but I'm a bit of a yes man, not always great on the follow-through aspect of things. The date was set for September in Kilkenny, he was training away, I was you know, not quite training. I didn't have zero base,…
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Don't stop moving...
A few people around these parts might recognise my name (tho I doubt it!), I’ve been a long time lurker, part time poster on here since ~2012/2013. Was even a graduate of the DCM novices thread in 2014. Why a Log First off, I’m not sure this is even worth it. I’ve been toying with the idea, but not sure if my log would be…
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Only slow running for marathon prep?
This may not be correct place for this so please remove it if it isn't. I started running 6 months ago because I was 16 stone and had some raised blood pressure. I'm 47 and 5 foot 11. I started with 5km every day and have built up gradually to now 145 kms this week. My aim was to lose weight and be healthier so I just did…
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Background.... Soon to be 37 year old male runner. Started running last year around June when I took part in a 5km and 8km race. Picked up an injury in the second race and was out of action for a good few months and only really got back into it in January. Anyway in January I signed up to the Great Ireland run in the…
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Middle aged guys trying to run quickly, it never ends well.
A long-time reader and occasional contributor to this section, I might as well give the diary/log/blog/documented stream-of-consciousness a go. The title is a little nod to the phrase I must have uttered a thousand times in the last few years. Basically I'm a runner when I'm not injured, which hasn't been often. And I seem…
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Its all about Time...
Probably a good idea that I put up a training log as all the best people around here seem to be doing the same… Here's a bit about me: Male Age 43 5:11ft 76kg Living in Dublin. Started running back in 2006, but that was just for a bit of fun, and trying to stave of the middle age spread. Never did sport as a kid or in…
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13 Years Since My Last Dublin Marathon - Older, Slower, and Needing More Gels
I used to love this forum back in the day. Had a training log here years and years ago. Got great feedback at the time. Looking around now, it doesn’t seem as busy, I’m guessing everyone’s off flexing their splits on Strava instead of typing here, but sher I’ll give this another go. It’s been 13 years since my last Dublin…
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"It's what you do next that counts"
Hi everyone,I have decided to start a training log as I enjoy reading other peoples so maybe people will enjoy reading mine, any advice would be warmly welcome, a little backround I first started running in 2001 to 2002 in order to loose weight and just found that I loved it and became an addict. A few race times from that…
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First 5k on Saturday, Longford
thought i might start a thread for own journey so far, and as a way to catalogue into the future. Im 48, about 99kg, started a couch to 5k program on 12th June with the goal of running a 5k at the end of august (kinda bit of a dare / agreement with a runner friend of mine). Im signed up for Longford on Sunday which will be…
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The road least taken
I thought I would start a new log as my old one has served it purpose https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2057991515/my-first-marathon-and-first-log-log/p1 Current best recorded times, all 2022 1km 3.39 1ml 5.58 5km 19.42 Parkrun 19.18 10km 43.01 HM 1.31 Marathon 3.18(race) I'm running with a bit of a sore hip at the moment…
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Berlin Q or Bust: Road to sub 2:45
I've decided to stop trawling through others' logs for tips and information and instead, start my own. Bio: I'm 35 and I've been 'running' for just over a year. Played soccer for years, but 2 ACL ruptures and ops put paid to that about 5 years ago. Had gotten into the gym at that point, was in decent enough shape. Got…
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Training Advice
Hi All, looking for some advice. For background, I have recently in the last 12 months run 2 marathons, just under 4 hrs for both. I’m planning to run a half in September but crucially will only be running 3 times per week for a variety of reasons. (Middle age / kids etc) I have an entry for another marathon 5 weeks after…
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Godfather Syndrome
"Just when I thought I was out...... They pull me back in." I'm a 4 time marathon runner, all DCM in 2014, 17,18 and 22. First one was my best time at 3hrs 45. After the one in 22, which was 4 hrs 20, I swore off Marathons. "Never doing that again" I said. I didn't run since. Well in Feb 2024 I went up to 220 lbs, for a…
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PB or not PB...that is the question
Right...New Year New Log I was going to continue a zombie log I had back in 2013 but a lot has changed since in terms of my running and life in general - * My number of children has now doubled so training budget is even tighter * Also have a bunch of exams to do this year so will have to allot some time to getting my head…
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The second coming of a runner
After several years of basically 0 exercise, I started a couch to 5k last summer (and I was a true "couch" in this title) and got myself back to 5k. Life kind of got in the way for the few months before Christmas, but I've been determined to get back into since Christmas. And I have been doing some running since. Last…
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Older, hoping for wiser...
There's an old log buried in here somewhere with a username long disused. But I still run. I did log before, and I found it very useful. I was never great at taking advice but always enjoyed considering advice offered, and occasionally following it. I'm starting on my logging journey again as the main benefit it offered me…
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Last of the Summer Wine
BQ or Bust is no more. It was a log I enjoyed writing, particularly during the ‘improver’ stage of my running arc: becoming a club member, training more extensively and (hopefully) more intelligently. I’ve been lucky enough to be quite resilient, rarely injured and therefore able to benefit from prolonged progression as I…
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Barca bound...
So...I am signed up for the Barcelona marathon (10 March 2024), so I've decided to start a log to keep me honest. By way of background I'm 42, have been running since 2011 when I went from couch to marathon (DCM) over the course of 7 months or so, finished the marathon in 4.39:14 but was walking/hobbling for last 10k of…
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Odysseus's Journey
Hi to anyone who reads this, I think these logs are great idea especially to work on self motivation. Its a pity for me that they are so new, eariler in the year this would have been great for me, as I was training for specific goals. Whereas now once the Dublin marathon is over, I will be taking a well deserved six week…
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Initium Novum
Hey! Some of you might remember me, I use to log my training here a few years ago. But for anyone who doesn't know me my old training log was called Positive Vibes. Negative Splits. My last race was in August 2020 which was a 3000m on the track in a time of 9:59, and before that in July 2020 another track race 5000m in a…
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Every mile tells a story; every datapoint tells the tale
A walking cliché enters the bar.. Mid 30s unfit dad of three with a couple of lbs to shift having hit my heaviest ever this year. In a previous live I was quite sporty however starting out from absolute scratch looking to looking to put a story to the data sets intended to use to hopefully get me to become a runner. Coming…
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The breaks even out in the long run
Right....I've decided to give this internet logging thing another shot with a new, fresh and hopefully fluff free log. I've got over all of my injuries and started to get some consistent training in if you can count consistency in weeks:pac: but it's a start and the best II've put together in a few months. Motivation is…
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Running Aimlessly Down Under - From 54 to 53 sec 400m
New Country, time for a new log. I previously had a log on here in preparation for the Rotterdam Marathon. After travelling around South America and New Zealand for three months I arrived in Melbourne just before Christmas. I am still far from settled but slowly I am getting there (still need to find a job so I can stop…
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Often becomes easy when the easy is often..
The spawning of this log reminds me of the time I came up with the name 'Atmos-hire' many moons ago. I had this mad brainwave about starting up a rent a crowd company that struggling publicans or restaraunt owners would call on on slow nights to fill their venue and get the buzz going. I would bus in a few dozen people,…