Festina lente

RayCun

10.98 in 58.12 (5.18 pace)

Wasn't going to run at all today, but got a text that some clubmates were meeting for an easy run around Marlay, so... PVincent took us around every inch of the park, the Garmin track looks like a drunk fly crawled over the screen...

this month: 23/243.17
this year: 144/1521.76

RayCun

5.3k in 29.25 (5.33 pace)

Very short, very slow run, just tipping around.

this month: 24/248.47
this year: 145/1527.06

RayCun

18.94k in 98.06 (5.11 pace)

Longish run around Tymon. Still not 100%, but getting there. I've packed the running gear for Spain, so will be keeping it up over there, mostly easy runs but maybe a couple of sessions...

this month: 25/267.41
this year: 146/1546

RayCun

Spain was too damn hot for running, and the town we were in was too damn hilly, and there was nowhere to run except on the tarmac roads or the concrete paths. So I just did some easy runs, and concentrated my attention on drinking, eating out, and sitting by the pool reading. I suppose it wasn't too bad after all...;)

May: 27/281.98

Month|2010|2011|2012
January|38.8|105.61|187.46
February|35.5|106.68|191.79
March|53.2|121.83|214
April|72|106.33|201.18
May|75.9|107.13|175.21
June|90.2|64.85|
July|118.1|126.92|
August|124.4|168|
September|154|171.75|
October|108.7|191.2|
November|58.4|128.9|
December|83|166.58|
Total|1012.2|1578.1|


Not a great month, but I suppose it was due.

June: 10 days of running/87.19 km
including the BHAA 1k and 2500m earlier this evening. I passed the 1000 mile mark last Friday, as far as I can tell...

this year: 158/1647.76

macinalli

Hmmmm, from a quick look at your log it seems that when you're training in Dublin you're doing on average about 10.5k per day. You go to Spain and it's 8.7k per day on hills. Someone needs to sit you down and explain the word 'holiday'!

RayCun

macinalli wrote: »

Hmmmm, from a quick look at your log it seems that when you're training in Dublin you're doing on average about 10.5k per day. You go to Spain and it's 8.7k per day on hills. Someone needs to sit you down and explain the word 'holiday'!

I was only running three days of four, AND they were all easy runs

RayCun

BHAA 1000m and 2500m

I didn't wear my watch, and the results aren't out yet, so I don't know quite how horrible my times are
Lots of excuses to choose from - I was travelling into Tuesday night and was short of sleep, haven't done any fast running in weeks, indigestion, stars in the wrong alignment etc... but the real problem is I wasn't mentally up for racing last night. But I'm determined to get a league prize from the BHAA this summer (could be the only prize I'll ever win :pac:) and I've had to miss two races already, so I had to run yesterday.
There was a lot of hanging around before the race yesterday - I walked into town from work, getting in around 5.30, and my first race wasn't until 7.45. The other races started at 7 so there was plenty to watch, but my motivation was slowly draining away. The 1000m is a bit of a blur really - hard to pace because standards 7 and 8 were running together, there was one guy I recognised from previous BHAA races that I passed after about 300m but after him I don't know who I was running against, someone called a time of 78 seconds at the end of the first 400 for a guy behind me but that's all the pace information I have. A bit frustrating because (as with the mile race last year) I finished feeling I could have run faster, but that could just be that I wasn't the same kind of wrecked as I would be after a 5k or longer race. My breathing was still wrecked for a while after the race, as if all my years of smoking had come back to haunt me
Another hour of hanging around then, getting colder, and not at all in the mood for the second race - and it showed. I felt bad from the start, fell back through the field, then off the back of the field, to finish second last, a good 100m after the guy in front. (who looked to be a good 20 years older than me :rolleyes::o)
Oh well - I suppose if my time is really bad I might get dropped down a standard, do better in the next race :rolleyes:

RayCun

10.03k in 52.25 (5.13 pace)

Back on the hamster wheel...
Run into work. Didn't mind the wind and rain (beats boiling in your own sweat:p) but don't like running with a bag. I tried to concentrate on my form this morning because I've seen a photo from Wednesday and my posture was terrible, arse sticking out and both legs in front of me...

June: 11 /97.22
this year: 159/1657.79

Mr Slow

RayCun wrote: »

10.03k in 52.25 (5.13 pace)

Back on the hamster wheel...
Run into work. Didn't mind the wind and rain (beats boiling in your own sweat:p) but don't like running with a bag. I tried to concentrate on my form this morning because I've seen a photo from Wednesday and my posture was terrible, arse sticking out and both legs in front of me...

June: 11 /97.22
this year: 159/1657.79

It's your pensioner's stride, be proud!

RayCun

BHAA results are up -
3.24 for the 1000m, which is okay, I guess :rolleyes:
9.23 for the 2500m, which is shocking - should have been at least 20 seconds faster

oh well, all points on the board...

Pisco Sour

RayCun wrote: »

BHAA results are up -
3.24 for the 1000m, which is okay, I guess :rolleyes:
9.23 for the 2500m, which is shocking - should have been at least 20 seconds faster

oh well, all points on the board...

What's with the silly distances? If they are going to do track races then why not 800 and 3000?

RayCun

Pisco Sour wrote: »

What's with the silly distances? If they are going to do track races then why not 800 and 3000?

25th anniversary race, it's usually an 800 and a mile.

RayCun

4.01k in 20.27 (5.06 pace)
4.02k in 19.54 (4.57 pace)

Up to Cherryfield park for a Saturday couch to 5k group, and run back home again. About 20/25 people showed up, which isn't bad - this is an extra session, the regular ones are Tuesday and Thursday

June: 12/105.25
this year: 160/166.82

RayCun

5k in 19.03 (3.48 pace)

An unexpected PB today. I've been feeling tired, and haven't got any fast running in (apart from the pretty terrible races in TCD), so wasn't expecting a lot. Still, there was a team competition to run, and it would be good to see where I was with a 5k, so...
Met up with the guys from the club by registration and we wandered down to try to find the start line, and warmed up with a bit of a jog. Some flooding on the planned course meant we had to take a different route, and a different star point. A lot of club singlets aroun for the start,a lot of teams entered by the look of it.
Th new route was very twisty, and very congested for at least a k, but at least everyone was going at a good clip. I went through first k in 3.45, second in 3.39, feeling good on both of them and working my way past people. Third k I didn't feel so good, down to 3.51, and the last 2k were a real struggle, especially the last k where I was fighting the urge to quit. Fourth k was 3.50 and a woman who had been right behind me all through it passed me at the end - I couldn't do anything but congratulate her. Last k I was dead on my feet and a Raheny guy I'd passed 10 minutes earlier went back in front. I wasn't watching the time at the end, but there was another woman closing on me, I just held her off with a 'sprint' at the end for 3.49 in that last k. Forgot to stop the watch on the line, so I might have been under 19 really, but I don't mind, I'm just happy that I ran reasonably well, better than I'd been expecting for the last week.

June: 13/110.25
this year: 161/1671.82

ecoli

RayCun wrote: »

5k in 19.03 (3.48 pace)

An unexpected PB today. I've been feeling tired, and haven't got any fast running in (apart from the pretty terrible races in TCD), so wasn't expecting a lot. Still, there was a team competition to run, and it would be good to see where I was with a 5k, so...
Met up with the guys from the club by registration and we wandered down to try to find the start line, and warmed up with a bit of a jog. Some flooding on the planned course meant we had to take a different route, and a different star point. A lot of club singlets aroun for the start,a lot of teams entered by the look of it.
Th new route was very twisty, and very congested for at least a k, but at least everyone was going at a good clip. I went through first k in 3.45, second in 3.39, feeling good on both of them and working my way past people. Third k I didn't feel so good, down to 3.51, and the last 2k were a real struggle, especially the last k where I was fighting the urge to quit. Fourth k was 3.50 and a woman who had been right behind me all through it passed me at the end - I couldn't do anything but congratulate her. Last k I was dead on my feet and a Raheny guy I'd passed 10 minutes earlier went back in front. I wasn't watching the time at the end, but there was another woman closing on me, I just held her off with a 'sprint' at the end for 3.49 in that last k. Forgot to stop the watch on the line, so I might have been under 19 really, but I don't mind, I'm just happy that I ran reasonably well, better than I'd been expecting for the last week.

June: 13/110.25
this year: 161/1671.82

A PB on that course is great was easily running 20-30 secs slow. I reckon mid 18 is not too far away. Keep it going

jcsmum

Wow Ray, fantastic time. And you're not feeling 100%. Super!

W.B. Yeats

18.58 Ray- well done, The clock doesn't lie- the 2 weeks of warm weather altitude training obviously went well;)
http://www.rahenyshamrock.ie/results

Younganne

Well Done Ray:D

Mr Slow

Fantastic Ray, Congratulations.

neilc

W.B. Yeats wrote: »

18.58 Ray- well done, The clock doesn't lie- the 2 weeks of warm weather altitude training obviously went well;)
http://www.rahenyshamrock.ie/results

Savage time Ray, congrats!!

RayCun

6.97 in 35.43 (5.08 pace)

Easy run into St James for my pincushion impersonation :eek: Couldn't get a good vein on my left arm - which didn't stop them making a painful attempt - switched to the right arm which is all soft and sensitive, not used to such harsh treatment

I think next time they'll just hang me by my feet from the ceiling...

(BP 105/70, heart rate 60, RBC in the high end of the range, WBC in the low end, platelet count in the middle)

June: 14/117.22
this year: 162/1678.89

RayCun

10.14 in 49.56 (4.55 pace)

Easy run home from work

June: 15/127.36
this year: 163/1689.03

RayCun

9.96 in 52.15 (5.14 pace)

Felt a bit creaky this morning so didn't worry about the pace. This is supposed to be week 1 of my half marathon training programme, but between races and blood donations it isn't going according to plan...:rolleyes:

June: 16/137.32
this year: 164/1698.99

RayCun

11.78 in 58.51 (5.00 pace)

Easy run home, finishing with 8 x strides in the little park next door. For the strides I spent 5 seconds 'running fast' with my usual stride followed by 5 seconds sprinting up on my toes - it seemed to work well.

June: 17/149.10
this year: 165/1710.77

pconn062

Are you doing Dunshaughlin Ray?

RayCun

pconn062 wrote: »

Are you doing Dunshaughlin Ray?

Yeah, it's a nice race, a nice tester before I start the half marathon training properly

Younganne

RayCun wrote: »

9.96 in 52.15 (5.14 pace)

Felt a bit creaky this morning so didn't worry about the pace. This is supposed to be week 1 of my half marathon training programme, but between races and blood donations it isn't going according to plan...:rolleyes:

June: 16/137.32
this year: 164/1698.99

:eek: Ray using terms like that is just inviting you know who :rolleyes: to comment on the older runner (ie O40) and the "creaking"....

RayCun

9.55 in 52.46 (5.31 pace)

Recovery pace run into work

June: 18/158.65
this year: 166/1720.32

Mr Slow

Younganne wrote: »

:eek: Ray using terms like that is just inviting you know who :rolleyes: to comment on the older runner (ie O40) and the "creaking"....

That was a very subtle means of attacking poor old Ray there Anne, shame on you!:P

Younganne

Mr Slow wrote: »

That was a very subtle means of attacking poor old Ray there Anne, shame on you!:P

Ha ha!!