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Bliain Faoi Thrí
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Bad luck. Given the high HR I'd put my money on lack of sleep. After the 5 mile result it sounds like the target is within reach. Maybe a slower start ? Next time.
Possible a slower start would help, and more sleep. And better training. And being a better runner! Which goes back to better training! It's a focus for training in the future, anyway!shotgunmcos wrote: »
:D:D LMAO
I'm only half-joking about the L plate! The only swim cap I have is the one I was given at the Loughrea triathlon and I'd say I look the right knob struggling to complete a length with a "look at me, I do triathlons" cap on
. Like cycling a Cervelo P4, but with stabilisers :D 0 -
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I haven't updated the log in a while, and there really isn't all that much to update. My running is crumbling to a run a week, and ambitious targets for Athenry are falling to the wayside. I suppose I'm not too concerned, as the start of the new year will be a new start for training. I'm sticking to the swimming, which is a plus, but I've abandoned the bike entirely.
Saturday
Swim
4 x 100m
4 x 50m
4 x 25m
Sunday
A nice run, started out with my wife as part of my warm up. She was suffering from pains in her knees, and where I would have given up (and justifying it by saying that I was saving myself!), she toughed out for her longest run to date. Same route as last Sunday, bits on road, bits off road, bits being chased by horses on a bog road, bits suffering up a hill. Mostly bits
suffering as a result of abandoning interval training and noticing the absence in both lungs and legs.
Route: Bóthar Nua
Distance: 10 miles (.5 mile w/u, 8 miles, 1.5 c/d)
Time: 01:20:52
Prescribed Pace/Actual Pace: 6:49/6:56
Perceived Exertion (out of 10): 8
Personal Satisfaction: 6.5 (a realisation that no training results in slowing down)
Weather: Cold and calm
Monday
The second week of the zero to 1650 saw my max distance go from 100 metres to 200 metres. Wrecked at the end of the session, but it's all (slow) progress.
1 x 200m
4 x 100m
4 x 50m
4 x 25m0 -
A year to the day since my first post in my first log (and over a fortnight since my last post). Another birthday today, and a second consecutive year not spent in the pub on January 2! I'm glad to report that, whatever about various athletic targets, my Bliain Gan Beoir challenge went well and I went through 2010 without a drop of alcohol! I had my first beer at 1:30am on New Year's Day, a bottle of Old Tom Strong Ale, followed by a can of Guinness. I missed the Guinness...
For my own posterity, I'll write up a review of the year tomorrow, and outline my targets for 2011.
Since my last post on 16 December, I've done one run (six miler), four swimming sessions and I've done in my back, resulting in no training since about a week before Christmas.
By the way, does anyone know if you can change a thread title, as I'd rather keep the log together rather than starting a new one from scratch (the name "Bliain Gan Beoir" won't work this year). 0 -
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2010 has definitely been my best running year so far. I ran more races, ran faster, and basically ran more often. Every race bar two saw a PB, which I suppose indicates my poor running until now, but all in all, it’s been very satisfactory.
A slight downer to the end of the year, in that it’s been over a fortnight since my last run, due to a back injury, but there’s no harm in winding down before winding back up again… is there?!
Looking back at the first post in this log written a year ago, I wrote “I’m not too sure how to set my time targets for the year, as 2009 was such an improvement that I don’t know if I can go much further with it. I think it’s best to set slightly ambitious targets though and if I don’t reach them, at least I know I will have tried.”
So, the targets were:
Marathon: 3:40 Actual Time: 3:15:08
Half marathon: 1:35 Actual Time: 1:30:17
10k: 45min Didn’t do a 10k in 2010, had intended to do Athenry, but was postponed
Gaelforce: 4:30 Actual Time: 4:44:17
Nice to exceed targets, and even Gaelforce can be explained away by some course changes
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All in all, I ran 839.18 miles (1350 km’s sounds better though) in 2010, paltry compared to many hardened Boardsies, but more than I've ever ran in a year. I became a club runner for the first time (some strange looks down west for the obscure Boards AC vest!). I had my highest ever race finish (5th place in Leenane) and a bundle of top 10 per cent finishes. I met loads of people at races through Boards, and I really enjoyed some great logs. I also found my arch nemesis for 2011 (the evil Catweazle).
Favourite Race: Dublin Marathon, absolutely delighted with my time, and a very enjoyable race running with pacers and with people I had met through Boards.
Most Disappointing Race: A tie between the Kildare Half (for missing sub 1:30 by 17 seconds), and Gaelforce West (for missing out on a top 100 place). Hindsight tells me that being disappointed after missing arbitrary targets makes little sense, especially as I put all I could into both races.
Worst Race Performance: Loughrea Triathlon… so slow coming out of the water that the December freeze was beginning to set in (the race was run in September!). The bike was very average, and a torn stomach muscle put paid to any running performance.
Best Organised Race: Hats off to Craughwell for a fantastic debut race.
Friendliest Race: Leenane… hands down.
Races run in 2010:
Tuam AC 8k 60th 33:35
Trysport Duathlon 8th
Predator Duathlon 14th
Craughwell 10 77th 68:38
Connemara Half 73rd 1:38:25
Kildare Half 63rd 1:30:17
Kilcornan 8k 12th 31:21
Salthill 5k 9th 18:39
Black Forest 5k 137th 35:32
Gaelforce West 116th 4:44:17
Loughrea Triathlon 151st 1:25:25
Dublin Marathon 907th 3:15:08
Leenane 5 Miler 5th 31:10
Black Forest 5k 7th 18:53
Targets for 2011
For 2011, the focus will be triathlons, which means considerably upping my training from the paltry average of three days a week in 2010. Things are looking good already though, as my wife bought me a Garmin 310xt for my birthday yesterday. Yippeee!
My swimming is abysmal and my biking pretty much non-existent, but now is the time to start putting that right. I won’t do a marathon this year, with the Galway Ironman 70.3 my primary aim, but I do intend to get the half-marathon time under 1:30. I had hoped to do a better job of Gaelforce for 2011 but seeing as it’s so close to the Galway event, I’ll have to let it go by this year. As for the divil drink, I'll use the log to keep a track of that also, as I've put a limit of 72 pints in place for 2011 (I could easily go off the rails otherwise, following an abstemious 2010). So, for the record, I'm two pints down: 2/70
I’m not sure yet what races I’m aiming for so here’s a provisional and aspirational list:
Tuam 8k
Limerick Duathlon(s)
Kinvara 10k
Craughwell 10
Harlequin Adventure Duathlon
Connemara Half Marathon
Limerick Half Marathon
Connemara Adventure Challenge
Spiddal Triathlon
Portumna Triathlon
Galway HIM
Loughrea Sprint
Athenry 10k
As for time targets, I’d like to have a crack at a few of the time in the Big 8 challenge. Achievable ones for me, I reckon, would be the sub 1:30 half, sub 40 10k, sub 20 5k. What the hell a sub 60 minute 10 miler is doing mixed in with those other times, I’ll never know!
Finally, a big thanks to everyone who has posted advice and encouragement on this log over the past year, and thank you for the pleasure of your own logs. Happy New Year, and may it involve swift, injury-free running!0 -
Looks like Spiddal will be our place of battle. I started last year off with an Olympic and it was a real struggle so I may do the sprint out there this time and ease myself in. Havent entered Galway 70.3, its not looking good for me, i am just struggling to justify the expense
A few suggestions to your schedule (keep your friends close and your enemies even closer)
You need to make sure you have enough cycling in, coming off the bike after a 90k cycle is a real killer. Have a look at a few sportives like the Lap of the Mask and others that are coming up, time in the saddle is important and they are very enjoyable. Factor in a pint of cider at the break if I am along on it
Dont do too much racing, my main problem was that I was signed up for a load of Sprint tris and half marathons and I realised after that I would be much better off doing a long training session instead. You tend to ease off for a day or two before the race as well so you lose three/four days for not much benefit
Have a look at the Hell of the West or Brian Boru Olympic instead of Portumna. Swinford is 6 weeks out before Galway, look at entering a relay perhaps and do the swim or cycle section. Its a nice sheltered swim so it might be the ideal confidence builder for you, the bike section will also be similar to Galways if the wind is helpful on both races
You might be throwing money away entering Loughrea a week after Galway, I could hardly swim 100m for a few days after Swinford last year, it really does take it out of you.
I know there are going to be some fairly good looking series of duathlons organised by Tri Lakes and Predator end of January. Pgibbo will know more about this and whether you will be able to enter them but they certainly will be more travel friendly than Limericks.
Also there will be aquathons in Salthill and Loughrea again this year over varying distances in the summer, these are well worth entering
Will we be seeing you enter the SCR challenge this year, shotgun will be watching out for you!0 -
Thanks Catweazle, some good advice there to take onboard. I was a long time toying with Galway 70.3 myself due to expense, but in the end, I thought it a shame to let such an event go by, especially since it was on my doorstep, and there was no travel or accommodation costs involved. On the same principle, though, I've held off signing for the Connemara half and am not sure yet if I will or not. I think I'll be paying a lot more attention to value for money.
Spiddal should be good, I was thinking of going with the Olympic but might reconsider considering your post. I feel like I should do an Olympic by May, though, especially considering my inexperience. As for the bike, I guess it's a case of putting in miles, and the time, which is a pretty rare commodity these days. Swinford as relay is an interesting idea, as is an aquathlon.
I probably won't be signing up to many events too far ahead of time but will judge things as they come by closer. You intend to do much running in 2011?Looks like Spiddal will be our place of battle. I started last year off with an Olympic and it was a real struggle so I may do the sprint out there this time and ease myself in. Havent entered Galway 70.3, its not looking good for me, i am just struggling to justify the expense
A few suggestions to your schedule (keep your friends close and your enemies even closer)
You need to make sure you have enough cycling in, coming off the bike after a 90k cycle is a real killer. Have a look at a few sportives like the Lap of the Mask and others that are coming up, time in the saddle is important and they are very enjoyable. Factor in a pint of cider at the break if I am along on it
Dont do too much racing, my main problem was that I was signed up for a load of Sprint tris and half marathons and I realised after that I would be much better off doing a long training session instead. You tend to ease off for a day or two before the race as well so you lose three/four days for not much benefit
Have a look at the Hell of the West or Brian Boru Olympic instead of Portumna. Swinford is 6 weeks out before Galway, look at entering a relay perhaps and do the swim or cycle section. Its a nice sheltered swim so it might be the ideal confidence builder for you, the bike section will also be similar to Galways if the wind is helpful on both races
You might be throwing money away entering Loughrea a week after Galway, I could hardly swim 100m for a few days after Swinford last year, it really does take it out of you.
I know there are going to be some fairly good looking series of duathlons organised by Tri Lakes and Predator end of January. Pgibbo will know more about this and whether you will be able to enter them but they certainly will be more travel friendly than Limericks.
Also there will be aquathons in Salthill and Loughrea again this year over varying distances in the summer, these are well worth entering
Will we be seeing you enter the SCR challenge this year, shotgun will be watching out for you!0 -
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Hurrah! 600 consecutive metres (I know, I know) of swimming. I'm beginning to finally have faith in the zero to 1650 programme, as it's not that long ago where 100 metres in the pool was a genuinely difficult effort. Yesterday's swim was a great morale-booster, even if my "technique" (snatched from articles and videos!) was falling apart at the end of the session. The masters sessions start in Galway tomorrow, but I really don't think my swimming would be up to it yet, as I'm a combination of endurance-short and really slow. I might look at taking a few private lessons once I get the 1500m swim out of the way in a few weeks time.
Done:
1 x 600m
1 x 300m
4 x 100m
4 x 50m
Total: 1500m0 -
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