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Sorry, I thought you said get faster before the 100th Marathon
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It was tough going let me tell you, but you know me, I'm never one to shy away from a challenge
Glad to hear it. This starts tomorrow, I got you a late entry. You can go straight to your holiday when you are finished
:D
Monday - 5M recovery run in a girly pink top (spolis of the Frank Duffy 10M) Right knee fees a bit weird. I think the change in running technique is either putting some muscles under pressure in different wyas, or I'm doing it all wrong. Might need to work on some squats and lunges to bulid up the knees
5M in 48:08 (9:38 pace, Avg 79% MAx HR ... so not quite in the recovery zone for the whole run)0 -
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Thursday - 4.1M handy pace 37:47 (9:13 pace, Avg 78% Max HR)
Saturday - Craughwell Marathon, Inaugural marathon today, comprising of a slightly extended route of the AC's 5k loop, run 8 times. Good turnout for the start.
First half went very well, running a comfortable 9min miles to hit the first half in 2 hours. Landing on ball/mid foot comes handier now however I think the body is not fully adjusted to it yet and with the emphasis on speed, lots of squats and lunges and not getting in many longer distances, the legs started to hurt on the 14th mile with the left hammer complaining and the right knee stiffening up.
Also started to experience that sticky tacky sensation in both runners and I realised what was going on
Hello toes, I want to play a game. Aimman forgot to cut his toenails and now you must suffer for his negligence. You must run a marathon as fast as you can. The longer it takes you, the more the nail on the toe beside you cuts through the skin and deeper into the flesh until severing a major artery and you will bleed to death.
Also had to back off from the new running style in the 2nd half due to twinges in the back and hips. I think while I slowed down, I was skidding down onto the ball of the foot instead of dropping gracefully onto it, putting pressure on all the joints etc.
Finished out in 4:25 with a lot of hobbling afterwards.
Feet up tomorrow I think and start again on Monday. Not too bothered at the moment as I don't have any goal runs coming up, just want to get the speed back up to the 'pre ultra' training madness and take it from there.
(apologies for the massive Jigsaw. I resized it but when it was posted, it went back to full size and no idea how to fix it back.)0 -
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career_move wrote: »Hahaha I laughed at the Meno bit .... he did that to me too
That's so untrue.
I wasn't expecting to see you, and as for Aimman, I am not sure what he means. I actually stopped turned around and chatted with him for about 10 seconds. By the time I turned back around I had lost my pacee and had to bust a gut to catch back up with him.
What I learned from Aimman,s post is that we have discovered the identity of the annoying 'click cadence' guy so many on the logs have been complaining about lately :pac:0 -
That's so untrue.
I wasn't expecting to see you, and as for Aimman, I am not sure what he means. I actually stopped turned around and chatted with him for about 10 seconds. By the time I turned back around I had lost my pacee and had to bust a gut to catch back up with him.
What I learned from Aimman,s post is that we have discovered the identity of the annoying 'click cadence' guy so many on the logs have been complaining about lately :pac:
In fairness you did (after I shouted out to you:D) But I left that bit out becuase this is Shock Journalism and that's what sells
Is there a phamton Click Cadence runner on the loose? I'd love to find out who it is. I didn't even tell anybody yesterday what I was doing in case I got funny looks from people. I even just wore the left earphone in case the officials pulled me to one side because they'd think I was listnening to SlipKnot on full volume in both ears and that I wouldn't hear the traffic trying to get past me. I was very discrete. :rolleyes:0 -
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That's so untrue.
I wasn't expecting to see you, and as for Aimman, I am not sure what he means. I actually stopped turned around and chatted with him for about 10 seconds. By the time I turned back around I had lost my pacee and had to bust a gut to catch back up with him.
Me thinks he doth protest too much :P
Ah only rising you Meno You actually get the good samaritan reward for suggesting belcarra and I give our medals (which we had no value in) to two kids (which made their day because it was the same as their mum's) 0 -
slowsteady wrote: »The guy I was moaning about was with the 1:35 pacers and had his clicker in his right shorts pocket so it wasn't you... unless you had left ear transplant surgery recently.......:)
That would be the second worst transplant I'd want, just after have a nose transplant in the same area! :eek:career_move wrote: »Me thinks he doth protest too much :P
Ah only rising you Meno You actually get the good samaritan reward for suggesting belcarra and I give our medals (which we had no value in) to two kids (which made their day because it was the same as their mum's)
Meanwhile, Meno manages to hang onto his own medal, crafty. 0 -
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(I'll say something nice about you in tomorrow's log. )
Monday - Ran with the legend aka Menoscemo for 7M around the Shire of Tymon. Brought the ticker earphone to get into the pacing habit.
7M in 1:03 (9:00 pace, Avg 83% Max HR) Felt like I was going faster. HR was high for this too.
Tuesday - In Kilkenny working for the next few days. Ran with the legend aka blockic. Garmin couldn't get a fix on the location. For the first half hour of the run I was getting questions from my watch like- Are you indoors?
- Are you more than 200km away from the last place you used your Garmin?
- Can you give me some sort of clue as to where the f**k we are
Just kidding for all those Kilkennians. It's a great city that has more pubs
than my liver could handle in a lifetime.
Kept the effort handy and put my life in the hands of this expert navigator winding through paths of unchartered GPS lands. 10k @ 9:10 pace.0 -
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Still in Kilkenny and I got locked...
Sorry, my Garmin got locked...
Take 3.... Garmin finally locked onto a signal in Kilkenny:cool:. Was planning on doing some intervals this week, but blockic invited me along to the club's 3k time trial so I guess it would be 7.5 x 400m intervals with nada rest in between. Got there early, so did a few laps solo and then when the rest arrived, did a few more laps. The plan was to try achieve 7 min miles for the duration (running flat out, but hoping to hit 7min/mile anyway). At the end of the session on the Garmin, the time was 13:26 and pace 7:01, but was aprehensive of measuring pace on a track so put the time and distance into a pace calculator to find out I was running 7:12 pace
Consoled myself having Italian food in a tasty restaurant next to the Castle with the most brilliant Glass Floor looking down into the massive wine cellar. Windows in the floor looking down on all those tempting bottles:eek::eek:. Like an Alcoholic's Version of Amsterdam! :pac::pac::pac: Took two bouncers to finally drag me out of the place. I was like one of those bugs bunny cartoons, trying to cut a round hole in the floor with a saw.:rolleyes:
Total for today - 4.8M0 -
Thanks for coming along tonight Aimman and for the company last night! Hope you enjoyed your Kilkenny running experience!
Hope you enjoyed the Italian, as while you were eating, I was slogging it out on the ring road! ...:)
Thank you, come again! :pac:0 -
Thanks for coming along tonight Aimman and for the company last night! Hope you enjoyed your Kilkenny running experience!
Hope you enjoyed the Italian, as while you were eating, I was slogging it out on the ring road! ...:)
Thank you, come again! :pac:
Cheers for the tour. Well I have a few new routes now to do when I'm down next. I think Mick followed me back to the hotel with an application form, so I'll probably be back for a track session soon. lol.
Italian was well recommended, cheers. Advanced carbo loading for Saturday :rolleyes:0 -
Right, have a bit of time to pick up the log again so...
Saturday 21st - Staplestown Marathon
First East of Ireland marathon in the Kildare area. Six mile loop to be done four times after a 1.1M out and back loop at the start to make up the marathon distance. Hung onto the Chi Form for the first half and then eased back for the the remainder of the run, stopping off at the water station for the last couple of passes to grab a few jellies and drink. I was surpried how many people I passed on the last loop as the heat was building up and taking it's toll on the runners. Because the water was available only every 6 miles, I was building up a bit of a thirst on the last lap and with three miles to go, a woman pulled up in a car and handed me a bottle of water. With just over a mile to go, Another car pulled up and a woman handed me a lovely cool bottle of Lucozade Sport. Both were gladly received and the body was sponging up the fluid as soon as I was drinking it. Despite the thirst, I was running fairly well. Not fast, but somewhat consistant for the second half despite not taking any gels for the whole race.
At the end of the run (4:24, exact same as Athlone without the cramps) I discovered that there was no one driving the course with extra water for the runners. HOW BAD MUST I HAVE LOOKED IN THE LAST THREE MILES FOR TWO RANDOM PEOPLE TO HAND OUT DRINKS TO ME??!!
Haha.
Enjoyed a champion feed of sambos, cakes and biscuits at the finish line.
Sunday - Feet up for Grand Prix and All Ireland.
Monday - Forgot HRM, 5M at lunchtime in 42:26 (8:29 pace)
Tuesday - Upped the pace this lunchtime. Should have really done an interval session, but ran 4.9M in 37:22 (7:36 pace Avg 84% MAx HR)
Wednseday - Felt guilty not doing any Mid Week MLRs for a while so hit Phoenix Park for 10 miles. The plan was 9 min miles, but after the first mile warming up, the pace was already up. I felt like I was running with great form. It was like all the principles of Chi Running fell into place tonight and I was running with very little effort and the breathing was very relaxed and could up the pace at will as I wanted. Even mile 7 and 10 were sub 8 min miles, so ended up being an unexpected good evening session
10M in 1:24:18 (8:26 pace, Avg 84% Max HR) Long time since I did a 10M training run under 8:30 pace, happy days)
Thursday - 5M in 45:13 (9:06 pace, Avg 80% Max HR)
Friday - Was planning 4M in recovery zone, but then again, form was mostly all there so enjoyed the slightly faster running
4M in 32,49 (8:12 pace Avg 86% Max HR)
Saturday - Was planning to do the St. Anne's PArkrun, but with a night of little sleep listening to people outside, I opted for a later start and a nearer parkrun. Started off well and tried to hold 7 min miles instead of trying to go faster, but I think with all the fater running this week, I ran out of Speedy Credit and the pace kept dropping off.
5k in 22:45 (7:38 pace, Avg 87% Max HR)
(Ironic to think I ran a whole 5 miles on Tuesday at a faster pace then the 5k)0 -
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career_move wrote: »Never mind looking bad I think you just have a way with the wimmen
Now you mention it, they didn't hand the bottles to me, they were thrown at me while the car screamed away. Fine chance of one of them shaking a can of diet Coke and handing it to me. 0 -
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