DCM Class of 2011- the continuing challenge

BobMac104

twas thanks Anne. Was out this morning too and the foot feels great. Legs are a bit heavy but tis to be expected. I know, all those LRS on the way....

BobMac104

Name|Weeks Sessions|Weeks Total|Monthly Total|Yearly total|Comments
BobMac104|6|53|140.5m|503.9m|Milage getting back to where it was before ballycotton. 17m LSR. |
Younganne|||69.43m|205.67||
red face dave |||22|180.5|
Nules10 ||||227.7|
run44|||77.55m|265.4m||
shazkea|||64|64|
KittyMittens|||38.8|38.8||
Cutex||||78.8|
Alitoast|||34.11|83.94||
scriba |||46.59m|80.69m||


t-t-table time.

Good enough week. took a few days to get mallow out of the legs. start of the LSRs yesterday for cork. 17m @8.04 felt good. very strong at the end. Delighted with this as i thought my endurance had gone to pot. Beautifull day for it too.

scriba

Name|Weeks Sessions|Weeks Total|Monthly Total|Yearly total|Comments
BobMac104|6|53|140.5m|503.9m|Milage getting back to where it was before ballycotton. 17m LSR. |
Younganne|||69.43m|205.67||
red face dave |||22|180.5|
Nules10 ||||227.7|
run44|||77.55m|265.4m||
shazkea|||64|64|
KittyMittens|||38.8|38.8||
Cutex||||78.8|
Alitoast|||34.11|83.94||
scriba |4|25.03|68.11m|102.21m|1st 40k week, 17.41km LSR Goal this week is to fit a fifth run in (5-6.5k easy somewhere!)|

BobMac104

nice one scriba!!

red face dave

Name|Weeks Sessions|Weeks Total|Monthly Total|Yearly total|Comments
BobMac104|6|53|140.5m|503.9m|Milage getting back to where it was before ballycotton. 17m LSR. |
Younganne|||69.43m|205.67||
red face dave |4|19|46|199.5|Good mixture of training
Nules10 ||||227.7|
run44|||77.55m|265.4m||
shazkea|||64|64|
KittyMittens|||38.8|38.8||
Cutex||||78.8|
Alitoast|||34.11|83.94||
scriba |4|25.03|68.11m|102.21m|1st 40k week, 17.41km LSR Goal this week is to fit a fifth run in (5-6.5k easy somewhere!)|

ecoli

Hey Folks

Apologies for last week was a bit of an oversight I thought I had given you schedules up until this week and only looking at it now to find that I missed last week:o

Hope everyone is going well and no major illness or injury concerns

here is this weeks plan

|Mon|Tue|Wed|Thur|Fri|Sat|Sun|
|Rest|4m|1 mile easy, 5x800m (.5 on Garmin) @ 10k pace with 2 min recovery between reps , 1 mile easy|4m|rest|30min @ MP|90 min easy

Cutex

Thanks Ecoli. I'm off this week with an ear infection, I'm on antibiotics so will to finish them before running again-better to be safe than sorry!

Training has been going well up to this so I'm not too worried. If I don't get my target time in Great Ireland Run then I have the Samsung night run too:D

run44

Hi all,

So after much back and forth over the past few weeks, I decided to run the Barcelona marathon, which I had booked months ago when injured to motivate myself. Due to work stuff I hadn’t been able to do as much training as I would have liked but still, decided since I was going to be there anyway and had gotten one 18mile run and two 20 milers under the belt that I may as well give it a shot! It was an absolute scorcher of a day for running. When we kicked off at around 8.30 it was already very warm and I’m told it reached heights of 19-20 degrees when we were running, though it felt like more!
Despite my worries about the temperature and, you know, collapsing with sun stroke, it went incredibly well and I really enjoyed it. The course is fantastic, quite flat apart from a few long upward drags and takes you around some of the best sights in the city. Didn’t go off with any specific target in mind, just to finish really.
Starting off I felt much better than the nervous wreck I was in Dublin in October. Heart rate started much lower than in Dublin and I tried to keep it below a certain level until the last section of the course. Was tough in parts, especially the section by the sea where there was no shade from the sun, but somehow I managed to pull a PB out of the bag! Also, hilariously and unbelievably managed to run negative splits (though just barely!), which is something I never thought I’d be able to do.

First half - 2:06:40
Second half – 2:06:06

Chip time – 4:12:45 … a PB by almost 9 minutes.

A few cold drinks and plates of tapas rounded off a great day!

PDCAT

Well done run44, sub 4 has to be next target.

Younganne

Congrats Run44 on a wonderful time, especially in the heat and coming back from injury. I hope you are delighted with yourself. Onwards and upwards now!!!:D
Fair play to you.

Younganne

Name|Weeks Sessions|Weeks Total|Monthly Total|Yearly total|Comments
BobMac104|6|53|140.5m|503.9m|Milage getting back to where it was before ballycotton. 17m LSR. |
Younganne|4|27.26m|96.70m|234.94m|ran 4 times this week...feeling good:)|
red face dave |4|19|46|199.5|Good mixture of training
Nules10 ||||227.7|
run44|||77.55m|265.4m||
shazkea|||64|64|
KittyMittens|||38.8|38.8||
Cutex||||78.8|
Alitoast|||34.11|83.94||
scriba |4|25.03|68.11m|102.21m|1st 40k week, 17.41km LSR Goal this week is to fit a fifth run in (5-6.5k easy somewhere!)|

Got out for 4 runs this week, not my usual days but fitted around what's going on, Went out Tue, Wed, Fri and Sun...didn't have a LSR as such but did 9m Fr and 7m Sun...

BobMac104

Woah well done run44 fair play!! That heat could not have been easy.

Nules10

wowser well done run44. fantastic stuff.

Nules10

Name|Weeks Sessions|Weeks Total|Monthly Total|Yearly total|Comments
BobMac104|6|53|140.5m|503.9m|Milage getting back to where it was before ballycotton. 17m LSR. |
Younganne|||69.43m|205.67||
red face dave |4|19|46|199.5|Good mixture of training
Nules10 ||||256.3|no running for me off with a hip flexor problem :rolleyes: again
run44|||77.55m|265.4m||
shazkea|||64|64|
KittyMittens|||38.8|38.8||
Cutex||||78.8|
Alitoast|||34.11|83.94||
scriba |4|25.03|68.11m|102.21m|1st 40k week, 17.41km LSR Goal this week is to fit a fifth run in (5-6.5k easy somewhere!)|

BobMac104

SOrry to hear that nules. hope it comes right sooner rather than later.

Younganne

Hey Nules, heres hoping its better soon and even if it is improving by Sunday, Conn probably wouldn't be the best run to come back with...isn't there few slopes or little inclines on that route????:eek:

run44

PDCAT wrote: »

Well done run44, sub 4 has to be next target.

I think so! Will give myself a bit of a break before going for that though I think.

run44

Name|Weeks Sessions|Weeks Total|Monthly Total|Yearly total|Comments
BobMac104|6|53|140.5m|503.9m|Milage getting back to where it was before ballycotton. 17m LSR. |
Younganne|||69.43m|205.67||
red face dave |4|19|46|199.5|Good mixture of training
Nules10 ||||256.3|no running for me off with a hip flexor problem :rolleyes: again
run44|4|32.3m|109.85m|297.6m|A good week |
shazkea|||64|64|
KittyMittens|||38.8|38.8||
Cutex||||78.8|
Alitoast|||34.11|83.94||
scriba |4|25.03|68.11m|102.21m|1st 40k week, 17.41km LSR Goal this week is to fit a fifth run in (5-6.5k easy somewhere!)|


Nules, sorry to hear about the injury... hope you'll be back in action soon

red face dave

Well done Run great running. Fair play to you and in the heat great achievement. Brilliant. Defo under 4 hours for you before the end of the year.
What's next?

run44

Thanks Dave. Not sure whats next really. I'll definitely do the race series leading up to DCM, maybe the Kildare half... Not sure.

I've recently bought the P&D Advanced Marathoning book so think I'll start to use one of their plans for the next big one!

What races are others planning on doing in the next few weeks/months?

Younganne

Name|Weeks Sessions|Weeks Total|Monthly Total|Yearly total|Comments
BobMac104|6|53|140.5m|503.9m|Milage getting back to where it was before ballycotton. 17m LSR. |
Younganne|4|27.26m|96.70m|234.94m|ran 4 times this week...feeling good:)|
red face dave |4|19|46|199.5|Good mixture of training
Nules10 ||||256.3|no running for me off with a hip flexor problem :rolleyes: again
run44|4|32.3m|109.85m|297.6m|A good week |
shazkea|||64|64|
KittyMittens|||38.8|38.8||
Cutex||||78.8|
Alitoast|||34.11|83.94||
scriba |4|25.03|68.11m|102.21m|1st 40k week, 17.41km LSR Goal this week is to fit a fifth run in (5-6.5k easy somewhere!)|

Just adding myself back in.:D

Younganne

run44 wrote: »

I've recently bought the P&D Advanced Marathoning book so think I'll start to use one of their plans for the next big one!

Hey Run44, I got the P&D book for Christmas and its great reading. I am planning to use it for DCM this year and hoping for an improvement in my time!!! I'm trying to keep the mileage up in the meantime at about 25-30m per week to see if i can manage it !!!

I'm doing Boyne 10k on May 6th in Drogheda and after that a few smaller ones in the area and then the Race series!!

run44

Younganne wrote: »

Hey Run44, I got the P&D book for Christmas and its great reading. I am planning to use it for DCM this year and hoping for an improvement in my time!!! I'm trying to keep the mileage up in the meantime at about 25-30m per week to see if i can manage it !!!

I'm doing Boyne 10k on May 6th in Drogheda and after that a few smaller ones in the area and then the Race series!!

Yeah, think I will use it for DCM too to try to get nearer the 4 hour mark.

Fair play Anne, I find it quite hard to keep the mileage high every week. Hmm, might take a look at the Boyne 10k myself

red face dave

My plan for the next few months should be something like this
Good Friday 8k race Emo Court.
29 April 10k (Laois)
12 May Half Marathon Ballina
June Half Marathon (Waterford) or 5 mile (Dublin)

BobMac104

Name|Weeks Sessions|Weeks Total|Monthly Total|Yearly total|Comments
BobMac104|6|51.65|18M|555.55m|happy enough again with this weeks running. 18m LSR |
Younganne|||69.43m|205.67||
red face dave |||46|199.5|
Nules10 ||||256.3|
run44|||77.55m|265.4m||
shazkea|||64|64|
KittyMittens|||38.8|38.8||
Cutex||||78.8|
Alitoast|||34.11|83.94||
scriba |||68.11m|102.21m||

18m LSR yesterday @ 8:03 went great and very steady the whole way. feeling strong on these and felt i could have done another few so very happy so far with the long runs. only one speed session though. 8x400m @ 83/84 sec. Must bring in a decent tempo run this week.

Younganne

Name|Weeks Sessions|Weeks Total|Monthly Total|Yearly total|Comments
BobMac104|6|51.65|18m|555.55m|happy enough again with this weeks running. 18m LSR |
Younganne|4|23.04m|9.01m|255.98m|ran 4 times this week...but didn't get the full weeks plan done...must get back fully to it this week. |
red face dave ||||199.5|
Nules10 ||||256.3||
run44||||297.6m||
shazkea||||64|
KittyMittens||||38.8||
Cutex||||78.8|
Alitoast||||83.94||
scriba ||||102.21m||

I was shattered all this week..the clocks changing last weekend mucked up my system!!!:eek: I didn't get the full weekly plan done so hoping to get back fully to it this week..might have to chop and change sessions to fit with Easter and "Kids stuff" over the weekend!!!


Great running Bob!!! 18m LSR and you still feeling fresh...all the training is paying off for you so

BobMac104

Thanks Anne,
ive pulled back the mid week miles a small bit so the overall milage hasnt changed so i think that has helped so far. plus the weather is helping big time!

run44

Well done guys - good week of running there!

I took this week off. With work stuff I probably wouldn't have had much time anyway as it turned out. Hoping to get back to it tomorrow after giving the legs a decent break!

scriba

Name|Weeks Sessions|Weeks Total|Monthly Total|Yearly total|Comments
BobMac104|6|51.65|18m|555.55m|happy enough again with this weeks running. 18m LSR |
Younganne|4|23.04m|9.01m|255.98m|ran 4 times this week...but didn't get the full weeks plan done...must get back fully to it this week. |
red face dave ||||199.5|
Nules10 ||||256.3||
run44||||297.6m||
shazkea||||64|
KittyMittens||||38.8||
Cutex||||78.8|
Alitoast||||83.94||
scriba |2|10.36|0|112.57m|A very hectic week, only got to run an easy 8k on Friday, and a 45min tempo run on Sat, MUST do better this week.|

I'm pleased I got anything done at all, but I need to do much more this week. I need to switch back to morning runs once deadlines are out of the way, make fitting runs in much more manageable. Late nights have completely diminished my ability to get up in the mornings.

Great running Bob and Anne!

red face dave

Name|Weeks Sessions|Weeks Total|Monthly Total|Yearly total|Comments
BobMac104|6|51.65|18m|555.55m|happy enough again with this weeks running. 18m LSR |
Younganne|4|23.04m|9.01m|255.98m|ran 4 times this week...but didn't get the full weeks plan done...must get back fully to it this week. |
red face dave |4|22.5||222| Good solid week
Nules10 ||||256.3||
run44||||297.6m||
shazkea||||64|
KittyMittens||||38.8||
Cutex||||78.8|
Alitoast||||83.94||
scriba |2|10.36|0|112.57m|A very hectic week, only got to run an easy 8k on Friday, and a 45min tempo run on Sat, MUST do better this week.|