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2013; Eat my dust Meno!
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Ugh – look I don’t have the energy right now to recreate the masterpiece illustrating the return to running at the weekend…maybe later for my own memory but for now:-
Saturday 26 January (14-15 mile LSR)
Back felt good. Got up. Ran to Marlay for laps in case I needed to quit. Felt strong in the legs and lungs. A windy hilly 15 miles. Absolutely delighted to get it done.
15 @ 7:56
Sunday 27 January (Raheny 5)
Training run. Faster than planned but couldn’t help it. Felt ridiculously good throughout. No warm-up, no warm-down; just a bite from Digdigs apple and raspberry muffin as I headed towards the startline of my fun run. Passed people for the entire 5 miles. No one passed me. Had an absolute ball. Loved the goodie bag. Worth the drive.
5 @ 7:xx – 37:04 on the chip0 -
Wednesday 30 January (6 miles recovery)
AM
Snooze – giving the back a break of course
PM
A windy but uneventful late run home from work. Legs felt grand as I just sat back anytime I got a bad gust of wind or a stinky incline. Easy breezy happy days.
6 @ 8:51
Thursday 31 January (Rest)
Rest
Altered the schedule slightly because of other work-related commitments.
Friday 1 February (LSR – 16-18 miles – pace: whatev!)
AM
5:15am – alarm – snooze. 5:17am – alarm – up. 5:18am –light on – Digdig blinded out of the leaba. 5:30am – out the door. A lovely morning for a good run albeit a little early.. In fact it was still the middle of the night in normal person speak. Nothing too exciting to report. We took it nice and comfortably. The first 10 miles were the same as my route on Tuesday and thank god the experiences were at opposite ends of the scale. Today was loverly. Ran by the office and headed back out of town with Digs. We went our separate ways at Bushy Park at the 12.85 mile mark where we were at an average pace of 8:35. I turned and headed back to town via Milltown and a bit of DCM route. Brought the average pace down to 8:29 and then threw in 2 final faster flat miles for my sins; 7:28 and 7:07 respectively. Very happy with that altogether.
18.15 @ 8:19
Legs have felt good all day. Didn’t fall asleep at my desk or fall down the stairs backwards at any stage so that can only be a good thing!
Will do a few recovery miles in the morning before heading off to Austria for a week to hit the slopes. Am really looking forward to the break but a little apprehensive in a taper-madness sort of way! I’ll be the safety queen on skis for the week and will have my UBER-cautious hat on!0 -
Will do a few recovery miles in the morning before heading off to Austria for a week to hit the slopes. Am really looking forward to the break but a little apprehensive in a taper-madness sort of way! I’ll be the safety queen on skis for the week and will have my UBER-cautious hat on!
Well, hopefully you won't fall as often as when you're running 0 -
claralara wrote:Friday 1 February (LSR – 16-18 miles – pace: whatev!)
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5:15am – alarm – snooze. 5:17am – alarm – up. 5:18am –light on – Digdig blinded out of the leaba. 5:30am – out the door. A lovely morning for a good run albeit a little early.. In fact it was still the middle of the night in normal person speak
Jasis that is some dedication! !! I was only turning over for the second half of my sleep at that hour!!
Fair play to ye!!! Enjoy the holidays you two! 0 -
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Ugh – look I don’t have the energy right now to recreate the masterpiece illustrating the return to running at the weekend…maybe later for my own memory but for now:-
Saturday 26 January (14-15 mile LSR)
Back felt good. Got up. Ran to Marlay for laps in case I needed to quit. Felt strong in the legs and lungs. A windy hilly 15 miles. Absolutely delighted to get it done.
15 @ 7:56
Sunday 27 January (Raheny 5)
Training run. Faster than planned but couldn’t help it. Felt ridiculously good throughout. No warm-up, no warm-down; just a bite from Digdigs apple and raspberry muffin as I headed towards the startline of my fun run. Passed people for the entire 5 miles. No one passed me. Had an absolute ball. Loved the goodie bag. Worth the drive.
5 @ 7:xx – 37:04 on the chip
Good to see you out running last Sunday after your back problem, not sure if you spotted me on the coast road, but I gave you a wave from the sidelines. Would have expected to see you further up the field but now I know why after reading about your injury.0 -
Jasis that is some dedication! !! I was only turning over for the second half of my sleep at that hour!! Fair play to ye!!! Enjoy the holidays you two!
The bloody dedication better start paying off...it's not looking so hot right now!! Holiday was sauvage - cheers! Delighted to be back though of course...:rolleyes:Good to see you out running last Sunday after your back problem, not sure if you spotted me on the coast road, but I gave you a wave from the sidelines. Would have expected to see you further up the field but now I know why after reading about your injury.
I did indeed spot you. But as I was staring, I thought you might not recognise me so I redirected my creepy gaze just as you did – unfortunate timing! I’m so glad the back problem has passed – it’s such a debilitating pain in the rear as you well know. Make sure to take it easy yourself now!0 -
Saturday 2 February
6 @ 8:53
Easy pre-travel run – no real recollection.
We headed off to Zell in Austria for an apprehensive safety-queen week on the slopes. Runs for the week were done on a perfect track around the lake – conditions varied from near-perfect to 2/3 inches of fresh snow and/or ice underfoot, from running in darkness to being blinded by the glare and from very enjoyable mild conditions to mild frostbite!
Sunday 3 February
3 @ 8:53
A pre-breakfast snowy run IIRC… I don’t think I enjoyed this too much. I do think I was very hungover if not a little drunk!
Apart from Sunday, I think all of the runs while we were away were easy, comfortable and generally enjoyable!
10 weeks to Boston – a ski-slash-recovery week:
Monday 4 February
5 @ 8:53
Tuesday 5 February
4.1 @ 8:28
Wednesday 6 February
Sneaky AM
3.1 @ no idea - VERY handy but no Garmin evidence
Bold PM
7 @ 8:40
Thursday 7 February
Rest (from running)
Friday 8 February
Rest (from running)
Saturday 9 February
3 @ no idea - VERY handy but no Garmin evidence. Just wanted to loosen the legs out after the long day travelling and see if they’d be in any shape for the planned LSR 14 hours later.
Sunday 10 February
I had been a bit worried about this after the flight on Saturday. I went to bed feeling quite feverish, fluey and a little chesty. Having woken up in buckets of sweat a number of times during the night, I was a little fearful I would be dehydrated. In any event, when I didn’t feel any worse on Sunday morning, I got up and tried to get my head in the game. Took a couple of shots of some manky isotonic drink for an hydration quick-fix but was soon to be discovered, it didn’t work! Myself, Digs and PaulieC hooked up with the pot of Stews for this. The others were out for 14 Donadea-focused miles (with the latter 7 to be at 7:40 pace). Our resident sadist had us down for 18 miles (or as far as we could go). To make what felt like a very long story short… it was an awful run. I got a stitch about 3 miles in which I battled with for the duration. Mixture of dehydration, talking and letting the breathing get out snyc before the muscles had warmed up and running the downhills at the beginning of the run I suspect... I know it sounds strange but I feel like I’m more prone to stitches when running downhill…this is something I’ll have to think about with regard to Boston. Anyway, the tummy and surrounding muscles were hurting like hell although the legs felt strong. I just wanted it to be over and must apologise again for being such ho-rren-dous company! Actually I’ll amend my point about the legs feeling strong to say that ‘legs felt strong up to somewhere between 11-12 miles”. After that I was KAPUTT! Brekkie went down a treat and brought me back from misery to life so many thanks for that MS! There was every chance that this could have been an out-and-out disaster (as opposed to the mild disaster that it was) so despite how tough I found it, it wasn’t worrying; just disheartening. At the time, I never wanted to eat, sleep, drink, walk, talk or run again. I felt that dying from starvation and frost-bite would have been more enjoyable than the previous couple of hours. In hindsight, I can from the PMA side of my brain, that it was character building.
17.1 @ 8:00 (7 @ 8:20 - 7 @ 7:40 - 3.1 @ 8:00)
39.3 miles for the R&R week (!); the last 15 miles of which were a law unto themselves. That is all!
I’ve just realised that I ran the exact number of miles this week (over 7 days) that I did in Connemara last year (in under 5 hours 50 minutes) and the latter felt like a walk in the part compared to the former… Strange how things can go!!
9 weeks to Boston – a “coach is clearly on the rampage” week!:
Monday 11 February 5/6 Recovery – as slow as possible
I didn’t need to be told twice how to run this one. The legs were tired and I still wasn’t feeling 100% so I just sat back into it and focused on getting home from work to catch the last 30 minutes of the Liverpool West Brom match…NOT!! It’s strange how the stitch pain lingers – it must be a muscle strain of some sort.
6 @ 8:59
Tuesday 12 February Club Session OR 5 mile tempo run @ 7-7:15
AM
20 minutes foam rolling / 5 minutes stretching
LUNCH
Had to ask for an alternative as knew I wouldn’t make club this evening. Headed out at lunchtime for this and it pretty much blew. Not in the way Sunday’s run blew. On a whole nother level! I felt like I was racing and I felt really mentally weak. Route was a pain with roads, traffic, pedestrians etc. Got to 2 mile at 6:58 average pace and had to stop at a road – I nearly gave up altogether at that point. Took a few moments to regroup and decided to try do each mile at a time and that each one covered would be a bonus. At that stage I thought if I could do 4, I’d call it a day – bearing in mind that coach had said re being completely recovered from Sunday which I was not. Got to 3 miles @ 7:00 average. Decided it’d be no harm to cool the jets and at 4 miles, the average pace had dropped to 7:04. And then I obviously found something for the last mile and finished up with 5 miles at an overall average of 7:02. I felt bloody fantastic afterwards and can’t really remember it hurting now, but I have to be honest and say that it did. As I said – a mixture of mental agony, heavy breathing and tired legs. I don’t know whether I could have gone any faster! Going to hit the foam roller again tonight and am considering booking a massage for tomorrow evening… there better be more positive signs of life in this body asap!
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Your are doing those paces while not feeling 100% plus beating yourself up about them - crazy person! I think you're allowed have one or two under par performances a year.
Fantastic running!
I think I saw you ignoring me this morning…at about 7:25 around the shops at Marlay? You would have been heading home – I was only on my way out?
I’m not beating myself up over the runs of the last few days as such. I’m just not feeling the love and I don’t like that. I also have issues with this head cold as I DO NOT DO being sick. I’m not a bad patient; in fact, if you were to ask the Master of Manflu was I even mildly under the weather this week, he’d probably sneeze and look for a foot rub himself.. I just hate having a muzzy head and not feeling my usual wonderful happy and positive self around the clock
Wednesday 13 February (10 @ 8:00 – faster if desired)
10 slog-fest miles into work this morning. Lovely weather for shooting ducks as a friend of mine would say! Felt like I was racing along at the same pace as yesterday for the first 5 miles which were nice and undulating. Please note that I don’t use the word ‘nice’ in the pleasant sense. It took me 3-4 miles to get down to the planned pace from a first mile of 8:21 so once I did, it was just a matter of holding on. It got easier from then (not least because the latter half of the journey consisted of 2 mostly downhill miles and 3 flat miles – although the roads and paths were good and busy for this part which made me feel I was running like pacman!) The stitch reared its ugly head which was where a fair bit of my displeasure came from – I think it was just the remnants of the weekend though as opposed to a brand new one – the way it feels, I expect to have a big stinking bruise around my ribs/upper abs but I don’t.
10.1 @ 7:56… Any faster? Desired it was not!
Neither of my regulars available for a sports massage over next couple of days so I absolutely have to get the foam roller out. Need to figure out how to massage the muscles between my front and back ribs too. Urgh. Ouch. Urgh.0 -
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holy **** balls. I opened this up and decided I'd come back and read it later tonight when I have freed up 5 hours or so. Does your keyboard have any keys left on it? serious tap-tapping. At least you didn't manage to mess it up and delete it like an ejit 0
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Fair play for digging in and getting through the last couple of weeks dealing with the sniffles! You know the mojo and performance is in there CL, all you have to do is find it!! I have every confidence in ya that you will!! 7 weeks, loads of time!!
*just please please beat digger 0 -
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7 weeks is more than enough time to get into shape to run a pb ......... also plenty of time for one (ahem digger) to fcuk it up
In fairness, he hasn't gone a la carte in a few weeks and is coping quite well with the set menu at the minute. We should save our a*s kicking words for his next gem - a fartlek progression LS medium R with hills and sprints on the 10th of April!0 -
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Screw all this pace talk! CL, with less than 7 weeks to go we have more important issues to deal with....like....have you given any consideration to your stunning running race day apparel yet? To paraphrase Coco Chanel, they'll never remember your finishing time...but they'll remember what you were wearing when you finished.;) 0
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In fairness, he hasn't gone a la carte in a few weeks and is coping quite well with the set menu at the minute. We should save our a*s kicking words for his next gem - a fartlek progression LS medium R with hills and sprints on the 10th of April!
There'll be a bit of XC in there too but I'll have a week to recover before Boston so all will be fine 0
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