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If this is a Mid Life Crisis Im loving it......
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Saturday 18th.... Donadea 50K...3.52.07...Avg Pace 7.28....
Reality Bites Liamo On The Ass
The few days prior to this run were far from ideal. I had a slight chest infection and was a bit under the weather. However there was no way I was missing this so despite Mrs L's protests I got up nice and early Saturday morning, had a good breakfast. plenty of fluids and off I headed to Donadea.
I didnt really want to run this on my own so from looking on the Donadea thread I saw I had two possible options :
Follow TFBubendorfer ( 7.45mm til halfway and 7.15mm until the end )
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Follow Krusty ( 7.12mm til mile 20 and then 6.50mm from there )... Given the way I was feeling tagging along with TFB would have been the sensible option but Liamo in his wisdom decided that KC's plan was the one so shortly after 10am we were off...
Laps 1 through 6 : Not a problem, everything was hunky dory. Had a great chat with KC, the laps flew by and even tough we were running closer to 7mm pace all was good. Near the end of lap 5 we caught up with Jeffontour whom I had'nt met before so it was nice to have a chat with him. My garmin for some reason died on lap 6 but this wasnt an issue as I was pacing off the two lads....
Lap 7.... Things started to go pearshaped for me halfway through this lap with no warning. Energy levels dipped significantly and I struggled to keep pace with the two lads. They quickly moved ahead and at this stage I knew I was frigged....
Lap 8.... Complete and utter disaster, wheels came off completely. My chest tightened up, got cold and was basically feeling crap. With about 1K to go on this lap I decided I was goting to pull up once I crossed the finish line. I dont know if it was embarrassment or the fact that I had'nt even completed marathon distance ( probably a mixture of both ) but on crossing the line I continued on..
Lap 9... A short distance into this lap I met up with Oisin11178 who was pacing the 5hr cutoff. I had a chat with Frank for a while before moving on and this seemed to steady the ship a bit....
Lap 10.... Last lap thank God so didnt give a sh!t. Just plodded around as fast as my body would allow. The irony of the whole think was with 1.5k to go the legend that is TFB ghosted by me looking fresh as a daisy.. The fecker
. Of course I tried to follow him but just could'nt up the pace. Got to the finish line and was just so relieved it was over....
Was bloody freezing so didnt hang around. Straight home to lick my wounds!!
Reflection... I've had a couple of days to think about what went wrong so here it goes :
( 1 ).... Feeling under the weather was definately a factor but I'd b foolish to blame my performance solely on this. The reality is I've basically not trained hard enough for the last couple of months. Took it easy on too many occasions and as a result I naively thought I was in better shape..
( 2 ) Nutrition... Cant put my finger on it atm but my race day nutrition for events longer than marathon distance is lacking something. Will have to figure it out between now and Conn....
( 3) Pacing.. Im going to have to reevaluate my target time for Conn. Will definately start off slower than I had intended and c how I progress....
On the plus side Im still happy I ran this. Very valuable lessons learned that I will take with me to future events...Also I could have taken the easy way out and retired at the end of lap 8 but stuck at it... Im definately mentally stronger now!!! ( and yes im off the Cigs for good this time )
Big thanks to Anto and his crew for staging this great race. Its easy to turn up on the day and compete but alot of work goes on in the background so take a bow lads and ladies
Sunday 19th.... Rest Day
Milage For Week : 67.08
Milage For Year : 423.870 -
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theboyblunder wrote: »hard luck liamo. we all have oof days and it wasnt your goal race. illness cant have helped.
tks TBB... still time to get things right before Conn... Good to see u back.. Have u decided what ur plan is for April 1st ???RacoonQueen wrote: »You looked in some state when you passed me. Note I say 'passed' me, I was still feeling great and you still shuffled by me you fecker.
Yep I've felt better alright!! I actually remarked to myself that u looked fresh as I passed.. Pity about the stitch but still great going.. Well done....0 -
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tks TBB... still time to get things right before Conn... Good to see u back.. Have u decided what ur plan is for April 1st ???
Yeah im just going to run the half with a mate and have a few beers the night before
Im just getting back to regular running now and couldnt handle anything more than that unfortunately at the moment0 -
Myself and a mate are meeting at 1pm in the Park on Friday for a 30 miler @ approx 5:45-6:00/km pace if that suited time-wise?
I know it'll be very slow for yourself but sure if you're interested let us know.
Tks Belcarra... Saw that alright but not around Friday unfortunately....theboyblunder wrote: »Yeah im just going to run the half with a mate and have a few beers the night before
Go easy on the Jammie 0 -
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