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Berlin 2016: Back to Basics
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TRR_the_turd wrote: »If there is one thing you should have learnt this week, it is that you can trust nothing on the internet!
Very true.
Ok How about the average time for the 3 of you must be 3.39.20 +/- 10 seconds. So basically 3.39.10 to 3.39.30 (inclusive). However you are not allowed to do any mickey dazzling or stalling on the home straight.
You hit your target I buy you guys a pint each.
You miss it, meno and AMK buy me a pint each and Gavlor gives me a kiss on the lips while wearing his Mrs's red lipstick!
I open to some negotiation but I won't budge on the red lipstick!
I'm so sabotaging our time
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Technically our target is 3:39:30 so our range should be 3:39:20-3:39:40, however last year we all came in at 3:39:50-3:40 cos it's good to slow up a bit at the end and roar people on..... Can we move our Goal to 3:39:40??
3:39:20 is what I would class 'too fast', though Gavlor will probably be happy with anything between 3:30 and 3:40......
Ok ill 3.39.40 isn't an issue. It's the slowing on the home stretch to roar people on that's the issue. Some call it encouragement, I call it mickey dazzling. Sure you could be 2 minutes ahead of target and stop for 110 seconds a couple of metres from the finish. That's not been a good pacer. That's been a Cnut
NO MICKEY DAZZLING!0 -
TRR_the_turd wrote: »Ok ill 3.39.40 isn't an issue. It's the slowing on the home stretch to roar people on that's the issue. Some call it encouragement, I call it mickey dazzling. Sure you could be 2 minutes ahead of target and stop for 110 seconds a couple of metres from the finish. That's not been a good pacer. That's been a Cnut
NO MICKEY DAZZLING!
Grand so, pacers get elite entries so our finish videos are publically viewable.........amk and gavlor, if we are ahead of schedule we will stop about 800m out before the cameras can spot us 0 -
Grand so, pacers get elite entries so our finish videos are publically viewable.........amk and gavlor, if we are ahead of schedule we will stop about 800m out before the cameras can spot us
Feck off. I will be all over that finishing straight like digger on junior cert night at a teenage disco!0 -
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dublin runner wrote: »Planning to do many more of these type of sessions? Might try and jump in late next month before the intermediates (if you allow me!). I can confirm your athlete is in great nick for next weekend.....gonna run a good one. For a Yank.
Hopefully. Probably either Saturday or Sunday mornings nice and early. I was a bit worried with the 9am start this morning.
As you are well aware ecoli has a reputation for been late or sleeping it in. I sent him a text and he was awake at 8.30am. According to his Facebook profile he is now in a "relationship" (with a woman believe it or not) so maybe he is maturing and becoming more dependable. I'm not sure if his current exile is linked to his new relationship status. I always suspected he was trying to find himself a boyfriend on this site. He seems to have settled for a woman and closed his account! Typical 0 -
TRR_the_turd wrote: »As you are well aware ecoli has a reputation for been late or sleeping it in. I sent him a text and he was awake at 8.30am. According to his Facebook profile he is now in a "relationship" (with a woman believe it or not) so maybe he is maturing and becoming more dependable. I'm not sure if his current exile is linked to his new relationship status. I always suspected he was trying to find himself a boyfriend on this site. He seems to have settled for a woman and closed his account! Typical
Might have got rid of him on the site, but no chance he'll leave the country now. Yer stuck with him!0 -
Monday: 7 handy miles along the canal. No watch but was nice and handy. Legs feeling good overall but I must have twisted or jarred my left knee slightly on the Sunday session. A little sore but not a major worry
Tuesday: 8 miles along the canal. No watch again so have no idea of the pace but was moving at a decent enough clip. Got the full brunt of the tail end of that storm or whatever it was categorised as. Feeling good. Knee slightly better.
Wednesday: 9 miles total including a pyramid of 1-2-3-4-5-4-3-2-1 minutes on, 1 minute easy jog between. Knee perfecto and felt really fresh going into this session. I was knackered last night so went to bed early and the 10.5 hours of uninterrupted sleep did wonders. Found this tough (as usual). I normally have company for this session and although we are all at different levels. I take some corners wide, they cut some others so we always finish in close proximity to one another. To be honest I find this a great help as I wouldn't do this session alone and the banter (me generally taking the piss out of them
) during recovery takes your mind off the reps. I find it hard to do solo sessions when I don't have a major goal race on the horizon. Anyway, this served a purpose and the majority of reps were on grass. The last 3 we popped back onto the footpath and ran the last 30 seconds of each rep really hard. Just to try and simulate the lactic burn at the end of a 5k. It worked
Would really recommend this session to anyone trying to pop out a 5k or 10k. I never bother looking at the pace and have gone from 15 minutes hard running to 25 minutes in a matter of weeks so it's gentle progression stuff.
Will try and fit a 12 mile run in this week and also plan on doing another hard session on Saturday. Plan at the moment is for a park run in or around 17 minutes followed by 6 or so 150 metre bursts. Session of 1k or mile reps would be more beneficial but I need the focus of heading to a park run to keep me off the beer Friday night, a planned session wouldn't do that 0 -
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Will you have your beer boots on Monday??
Yep hope so. That's why I'm doing the parkrun. Trying to save myself for Monday. Have also agreed to give my folks a lift to the airport at the crack of dawn Sunday morning so that will keep me on the straight and narrow Saturday night. One day at a time and all that I'm starting to sound like an alcoholic! 0 -
TRR_the_turd wrote: »Yep hope so. That's why I'm doing the parkrun. Trying to save myself for Monday. Have also agreed to give my folks a lift to the airport at the crack of dawn Sunday morning so that will keep me on the straight and narrow Saturday night. One day at a time and all that I'm starting to sound like an alcoholic!
Nah you're grand. A proper alcoholic would be heading to bed late on a oWednesday night having argued with the wonderful staff at the river lee hotel about the stupid uncontrollable aircon in the room.0 -
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I know you have a low opinion of the Pacer hero's, considering them lazy, overweight, smug, etc... please burn this image to your brain. By the way, those bright orange lock laces are available in all good Tri stores...
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