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Yep, Sligo Athletic Club
great thanks for your help. Training tonight
Will keep a track on how many miles i'm running a week etc. Hopefully tonight goes well. 0 -
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Ohh is this the deciding round of the smack-down with CL? If I wasn't working I'd be out to see that
We are not racing each other on Saturday!
Re Berlin - yes, Brian - different ball game altogether. I'll be racing to make into the (Men) 10 round numbers table, while Digs huffs and puffs his way into the (Women) 10 round numbers thread... :rolleyes:
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Ray, if I try to log my session from last night will you come and translate it into real good club speak please….
I just translated it into maths... and speaking of mathsRe Berlin - yes, Brian - different ball game altogether. I'll be racing to make into the (Men) 10 round numbers table
sub-3! You go, girl0 -
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average_runner wrote: »You must of got soaked on Tuesday? I take it you wear a jacket but did you not get too warm?
No jacket for me, I just get wet 0 -
average_runner wrote: »You must of got soaked on Tuesday? I take it you wear a jacket but did you not get too warm?
HTFU T, tshirt and shorts. I got soaked on Tuesday within a half mile but was dry when I got home 0 -
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BHAA RTE 5 mile 8.03k in 31.20 (3.54 pace)
(plus a mile and a half warm-up before the race)
Another weekend, another good BHAA race...
A lovely day for a race over in RTE, sunny but not too warm, no wind to speak of. Warmed up with a jog around the course, met huskerdu, beeduybe, and a few clubmates on the way around. It's a bit of an odd course - 4 and a bit laps, half in the RTE grounds and half on the roads just outside. Very flat, but some tight turns and narrow sections.
Over 400 runners so the start was quite crowded, especially since we went through one of those corners and tight sections right after the start. It took a few minutes before I could really run, it was just too crowded. First half mile was pretty slow, slower than 6.30s, but pulled it back to a 6.15 first mile.
There were lots of reports from previous years of the course being short, and it was easy to see why. I'm sure the course was measured accurately, but it would have been measured on the road, and most of the runners I saw spent a lot of time on the path. When you're coming out of RTE, you're on the road, but if you take the corner tight you end up on the path. Even worse than that is a section just after the start - there's a really wide corner on Anglesey Road before you go back into RTE. If you run on the path, as most did, you'd take 3/4 metres off at least on every lap.
Anyway, I got the first mile down to 6.15 pace, but the average pace reading stuck to that point stubbornly for all of the second mile. I felt like I was running well throughout, but every time I glanced at the watch the pace was the same. I was passing people consistently from the start, I don't think anyone went past me after the first half mile, just not fast enough. (Actually some people did go past me twice - at the corner of Anglesey on the 2nd and 3rd laps when I stuck to the road and they took the path - but that gave me the determination to pass them again almost immediately)
Mile 3 I started to slip, down to 6.19. My goal in the race was to get under 31, and I think realising that I wasn't going to hit that pace lead to me easing off. It was worse in mile 4, down to 6.25 :eek:. As the last mile started there were three runners in front of me, that had been in front for a while but had held their position as others fell behind - a guy in a yellow top, and Airbus guy, and the 3rd woman (I heard someone shout '4th woman' at someone as i passed them) Airbus guy I recognised from previous races, he'd finished just in front at the K Club and Raheny races. I had no confidence in my ability to take them in a sprint finish, so I started moving up sooner, and pased the two guys by the time we reached Anglesey. This time I cut the corner too, because I was ****ed if I was going to lose back those places because of excessive honesty :pac: 3rd woman stayed stubbornly in front - I closed the gap, but not enough, and she beat me by 4 seconds, the same gap I had on the guys behind. Last mile pace was 6.05 - and was also 20m shorter than the first four.
Sportsworld next week, for a race that I expect to be exactly 5 miles, with no corner cutting, and want to get under 31...
eta - should point out that the Airbus guy is M55
72nd overall, 8th M40, standard moves down to 8...
this month: 5/48.07
this year: 126/1326.660 -
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Well done yesterday Ray. How confident do you feel about hitting 30:xx next week in Terenure? given the numbers expected, it could be a slow start
Hmmm, I don't know. It was a very slow start yesterday, and I'll probably push closer to the front next week (a lot of the extra numbers next week will be walkers). But the problem yesterday was more in miles 3 and 4 than the start. but the good thing about running 2 races of the same distance a week apart is that you learn a lot from the first that you can apply in the second....
Better than 50:50, I think. I'll give it a bash anyway.0 -
21.03k in 1.47.25 (5.06 pace)
Longish run up around Tymon, the usual muddy loops of the pitches. Plenty of other people up there taking advantage of the holiday - us runners know how to live
Could have gone for another half an hour comfortably enough, but I had a deadline for getting home. That also meant this turned into a progression run, more or less, about 5.14 pace for the first 10k, about 5.00 for the last 10.
this month: 7/75.53
this year: 128/1354.120 -
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