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Training for mountain running, without the mountains?

  • 18-04-2011 7:11am
    #1
    mfdc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 304 ✭✭


    I did the WAR on the weekend and the running absolutely destroyed me. Main problem far and away is that I've done nowhere near enough training this year, so I'd like to rectify that before the second WAR in summer. My problem is I live in Swords and don't drive, so I'm kinda stuck at how I can train with regards to mountain running...

    I'd consider myself a cyclist (a ****e one, but still :D) who does a bit of road running, and occasionally I run the trail around Howth Head. Somehow though I'm doubting that even repeats around that trail would have helped with the sustained 14% on Djouce! Anyway, my only ideas really are either lots and lots of hard intervals, spending a LOT of time over at Howth, or maybe locking the bike up when I'm down at 3 Rock and running the trails in Ticknock every couple of weeks.

    You folks definitely know better than me though, so I'm just wondering if anyone has any advice on what would give me the best return. I'm a realist - I'm not looking to win, or even to come top 50%, just to be able to run most of the course rather than plodding along feeling like my legs are made of lead!


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  • #2
    ocnoc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 830 ✭✭✭ocnoc


    Howth is perfect.

    If run around the trail clockwise. After the beach the trail begins to climb, it climbs up and crosses a road, instead of following the trail left, go straight up the hill. In 1.1km you climb 150m (ish) so thats should help.
    I wouldn't run it hard, just include it into your run and cruise up it. No point in killing yourself on climbs. Build, don't break.


  • #3
    mfdc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 304 ✭✭mfdc


    That sounds pretty good! I think I've been running a different trail so far - I normally head around counterclockwise starting from the Martello tower on the south, around by the lighthouse and then back onto Balscadden road at the carpark. There's no real sustained climbing along that way, other than a small bit up to the summit carpark. Whereabouts is the trail you're talking about?


  • #4
    nerraw1111
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,818 ✭✭✭nerraw1111


    Try this route: http://www.imra.ie/events/view/tab/maps/id/850/ Race there next month too


  • #5
    ocnoc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 830 ✭✭✭ocnoc


    Get off at the Dart station, head out towards the peir direction and follow the road around. Follow the Puprle signs. Its ~12km with 300m of climb, but if you throw in the extra climb, its about 400m of climb. Really nice route.


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