Tom Brennan 5k

bewleys berry

Surprised no one started a thread on this....good way to start new year and a chance to get in some good speed work when ur not gonna be able to go with the ''big boys'' up front....

violator13

yes should be a good race.Credit to liffey valley for putting it on

Running Bing

Did this today and it was a good race.


Dont know whether it was the Christmas indulgences but I found it very tough. Did it in 21.29 by my watch which I was delighted with (wanted sub 22). Nice course but my god I thought I was going to get sick on the final straight:D

Just out of interest what sort of heart rate measurements do people usually get when running 5k races?

misty floyd

Babybing wrote: »

Just out of interest what sort of heart race measurements do people usually get when running 5k races?

Good stuff I did it in 23 3?. I can't speak for everyone especially cause I'm a good bit overweight but my heart rate was averaging 180. My max was 193 according to my garmin forerunner.

Time to loose the pounds and get fit

dtf

I finished in 23 minutes on the dot. Was happy eoungh as I had a late night last night, but stayed off the gargle.
Thought I was stone mad to be running at the start, felt really tired and cold, but you can't beat the feeling of satisfaction at the end of the race. Great way to start the new year/

Running Bing

Anyone know when the results will be up?

Woddle

20:10 for myself. Great course and great weather and a great way to kick of the new year.
I ran todays race with an average HR of 89% which for me is 182 bpm and a max of 194, I have run them in the past were I'm more at 91% of MHR.

Congrats to all who ran today

Running Bing

Woddle wrote: »

20:10 for myself. Great course and great weather and a great way to kick of the new year.
I ran todays race with an average HR of 89% which for me is 182 bpm and a max of 194, I have run them in the past were I'm more at 91% of MHR.

Congrats to all who ran today

Well done Woddle...good going after the festivities and you should break 20 pretty handily this year.


I asked about the heart rate because my Garmin says that I was at 96% max from about one mile on which I though was very high.


P.S. What was the name of those supplements you told us about Woddle?

bewleys berry

was a good race on a very fair day...that finishing straight doesn't get any shorter does it:rolleyes:

they say on liffey valley website that results will be up shortly and they're normally pretty good about that.......

ran my same time as last yr....16-40 ish so not much changes in a year lol.......

Woddle

Glucosamine and Chrondoitin, I swear by them, I also take a vit c supplement also. What I think is the problem with you getting a reading of 96% is that your max is a little more than what you think it is. On yout training centre software what reading did you get today for your max HR for todays race, as your max HR won't be too far of this number providing you went all out in the rave. For example my Hr reached a max of 194 in todays race but I know my MHR is 199 if not a little more. I think theres a few threads about calculating your MHR but I reached 199 at a recent race so I use this figure. Well done yourself on your time.

Woddle

bewleys berry wrote: »

was a good race on a very fair day...that finishing straight doesn't get any shorter does it:rolleyes:

they say on liffey valley website that results will be up shortly and they're normally pretty good about that.......

ran my same time as last yr....16-40 ish so not much changes in a year lol.......

Still a great time. Well done, I'd love to break 20 never mind 17

Running Bing

Woddle wrote: »

Glucosamine and Chrondoitin, I swear by them, I also take a vit c supplement also. What I think is the problem with you getting a reading of 96% is that your max is a little more than what you think it is. On yout training centre software what reading did you get today for your max HR for todays race, as your max HR won't be too far of this number providing you went all out in the rave. For example my Hr reached a max of 194 in todays race but I know my MHR is 199 if not a little more. I think theres a few threads about calculating your MHR but I reached 199 at a recent race so I use this figure. Well done yourself on your time.

I used the method of max heart rate in a 5k + 5 BPM..my max today was 195 and so Im assuming 200bpm. Your probably right though I imagine thats not the most accurate measure.


How did your mile splits go Woddle? You looked good at the start today...I lost you pretty quickly;)

Woddle

M1 6:18
M2 6:34
M3 6:37
0.13 in 40 seconds
Still went out a bit fast :rolleyes:. Whats your next race

Running Bing

Woddle wrote: »

M1 6:18
M2 6:34
M3 6:37
0.13 in 40 seconds
Still went out a bit fast :rolleyes:. Whats your next race

Havent really thought about it Woddle.


I think Ill I just focus on training for the next couple of months and see how that goes and then Ill decide in March whether to do Dublin or stay focused on the shorter stuff.


Ive never really done speedwork before so Im going to start easing that into my training and see how it goes.

You doing the Raheny 5 mile?

Woddle

Results are up http://www.liffeyvalleyac.com/home.html

thirtyfoot

Been a while since I've seen DCH winning a team comp. The Gebrezgi girls with a 1-2.

Stupid_Private

A few pics of todays race were posted by robinph - they're on racepix365.com. I was running so didn't take any. I saw loads of people taking pictures mind... I thought it best not to throw cards at them as I was running... probably wouldn't be the safest thing in the world. They're will hopefully be a few more pictures over the next few days up there.

robinph

I'm still uploading more at the moment but I got a bit delayed due to a computer crash earlier. With any luck the rest will be uploaded overnight, assuming I don't have another crash...

robinph

...seems that my laptop did crash again as I know there was another shot of Woddle queued to upload and it hasn't appeared online yet. I'll have to give my PC a stern talking to when I get back this evening and, then the rest of the pics will be uploaded.

Stupid_Private

Wahey - for the first time on the site I've been caught on camera... granted I'm not the centre of attention in the shot... but I'm still there!!

robinph

I think you must be in another shot from looking at the picture numbers, but for some reason I decided not to upload it. There were a few completely rubbish out of focus ones though so that could have been why, I'll check it out again this evening though and see how bad a picture it was.

hawkwing

Got up at 1500 yesterday after overdosing on rum etc so no 5k for me.At least there's another 363 days left to run this yr!

robinph

Yup, the missing picture of Stupid_Private is just a blurry mess, must be because you were running so fast. I did manage to get the road sign and spectators in the background to show up nicely in a few pictures though.

Anyway, all of the half decent pictures that I took are now online for everyones viewing pleasure.

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A SELECTION OF EVENTS FOR THE FIRST HALF OF 2009


(List prepared by David Hawcroft, Trim Athletic Club)

Double check with event organiser, in press or web nearer the date.



January

18 Howth Winter Hill Race 1100 8.5k x 200m

25 Raheny 5m (1500)

February

19 Armagh (International) 1830

28 Trooperstown Hill Race 10.6k x 380m 1100

March

8 'Between the Bridges' 10k Belfast

17 KBC St Pats Day (Dublin) 4m 1000

Fr Murphy's (Athboy) 5m 1200

21 Omagh ½ marathon 1200

22 Connemara races half marathon/marathon/ultra

28 Larne ½ marathon

29 Dunboyne 4m 1500

April

1 Queens Univ, Belfast 'Round the River' 5k 1900

5 BUPA 10k Phoenix Park (entry e35

18 Kepak 8mile 1430 (+plenty of meat afterwards!)

Armagh 10k 1400

19 Wexford ½ marathon (inc a relay) 0930

22 Bray Head Hill Race 5.0k x 274m 1930

26 AAI 10k Navan

29 Howth Hill Race 8.5k x 200m 1930

May

2 RTE Donnybrook 5m 1100

4 Belfast marathon (and relay and walk)

Bray 5m 1100

15 Simon Cumbers (Navan) 4m 2000

16 Inishbofen ½ marathon 1000

17 ASICS 5m (Walkinstown) 1200

20 Powerscourt (Wicklow) Hill Race 6.5k x ?m 1930

23 Intel BHAA (Lexlip) 10k 1100

26 Bob Heffernan (Enfield) 5k 2000

MULLINGAR Harriers trail series at Belvedere House throughout the month TBC.

June

1 Womens 'Mini-marathon' 10k Dublin

Cork marathon (and relay) 0900

5 South O'Hanlon (Navan) 4m 2000

6 Rotary 10k Enniskillen

Wicklow Way Relay 0700 120k x (much) climbing

9 ESB Beach race 5K Sandymount

14 Tom Byrne (Lucan) 5k

16 BHAA (Dunboyne) 5m 2000

19 Patrick Bell (Bohermeen) 5k 2000

27 Dunslaughlin 10k 1930