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2013; Eat my dust Meno!
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Thursday 7th July
Plan: 10 miles @ 9.28 – 9.58 GA
- Actual: 10 @ 9.31 Av Pace
Bad lunch choice made itself known after about 3 miles – a tuna wrap with no less than a fisherman’s annual quota (ugh!) – did not sit well in the tum! Managed to get through it… That’s one thing about running 5 miles away from home – you have to get back somehow! Lesson learned though and will not be having that lunch in advance of an evening run again Legs were pooped for the last mile but struggled through. Twas a nice run otherwise – out the N11, mount merrion hill was a killer into the wind and back down to Blackrock, in along the coast. Still don’t understand how the wind can be against you the whole time when you do a loop though!!
Friday 8th July
Plan: Rest / Cross Training
Was dying for a rest day but work errands this morning saw me taking in 5 miles on foot all over this fair city. I am done and done for the day now! Junk food in the office kitchen simply because it’s a Friday and steak and a pre-hydrating beer tonight… J0 -
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With P&D a lot is going to be demanded of your body, fuelling it properly is vital.
Yep, lesson learnt! Porridge and honey for brekkie today, banana at 11, and just had a big bowl of quinoa, tomatoes, broccoli, cucumber, spring onion and mixed seeds with my own homemade dressing in anticipation of 10 miles tonight. A little bit of preparation goes a long way! Only made that quinoa stuff for the first time for my packed lunch. Don’t know much about it but have heard it’s good for you…. Any ideas to spice up my packed lunch menu Mr ‘My Body is a Temple’?!
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I hope Ray isn’t reading this but because of a number of things, including the 5miler on Saturday and getting stuck in work late on Tuesday when I was due a 10 mile run, I’ve tweaked the plan for the week. Still getting the mileage done but in a different order and at slightly different paces.
Tuesday 12th July
Plan: 5 miles comfortable
Actual: 5.11 miles @ 8.52 Av Pace
I’m an eejit. Simple as! Took off like a bat out of hell and did the first 2 miles at 8.15 or something equally ridiculous. Then I had to stop to cross the road and couldn’t get going again at all. It was very stop/start with the traffic and I kept bounding off at stupid o’pace for a few hundred meters and then crashing! Don’t know what I was thinking!! Anyway, it’s done now. Another lesson learned this week!
Wednesday 13th July
Plan: 10 miles GA (9.28-9.58)
Actual: 10 miles @ 9.36 Av Pace
Getting a bit bored trying to plan routes for these longer midweek runs. Plus I wanted to keep it flat and I had to go straight from work – therefore the only option was to stay in and around town. Left the office at baggot street and headed all the way up the canal towards the park, down into the memorial gardens and up and back by the river – there were loads of people out eating and drinking and picnicking in the sun while I was sweating my little brains out. Jealous much!! Then I headed back in along the quays to inhale some fumes of rush hour traffic and rub shoulders with the city’s finest on the boardwalk…good god – enough said! It was slightly congested and I had to stop at a couple of junctions but it wasn’t too interfering. That said, I won’t be taking that route at that time again – that’s what I get for being lazy and trying to avoid climbs! I’m surprised at the 9.36 pace as I really felt quite hot and tired and very very slow but again I suppose the lazy flat route helped!
Thursday 14th July
Plan: 4 miles Recovery (10.28-10.58)
Actual: 4 miles @ 10.52 Av Pace
Couldn’t have taken the recovery aspect of this run any more literally than I did this morning! It took a few hundred metres to be certain that I was actually lifting my feet and moving forward… Really felt the benefit of this though and after a couple of miles it felt like there was some blood flowing in and loosening of the legs which was nice for a change!!
Friday 15th July
Plan: Rest
Actual! REST! Yaay… I cannot wait!
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It's great that you're a week ahead of me with P&D, I can cog all your training paces, no more melt-the-head VO2/LT calculations See you Saturday. Are you aiming sub-40?
Feel free to pikey any of my thoughts and actions but don't some crying to me when you catch the disease which makes you a crappy runner as a result...:D
It's pretty tough going innit?!
Wouldn't have a sub 40 in my legs for the life of me on Saturday! Are ya mad?! :eek:0 -
tHE vAGGABOND wrote: »Good work!
Thats some plan your following, your doing great with it
Cheers dude! It's going alright so far anyway. Though I did have a 'christ - only week 3 of 18' thought this morning... It passed though. I had some cake to get over the shock and I'm happy again!
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Good work, Nice to see you doing the recoveries right. As the miles increase this will stand to you as they really do freshen the legs up.
I must have nearly bumped into you on Wedensday, i too was running along the quays around the same time and at about the same speed! (my Recovery).
I think if you give the 5 miler a blast you would be pretty close to sub 40, but it's understandable if you want to take it at about 1/2 mara pace (like me) 0 -
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