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2013 - we're going back

  • 16-07-2012 2:59pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,584 ✭✭✭✭


    Over the years my wife has known a few versions of me. The obese me that I was when we started going out. The sorta slim me when I got into triathlon. The skinny me when I trained hard. And finally the chubby red wine drinking me that I have been for the last two years. Turns out I am happy and easier to be around when I'm the skinny training me. She did her best this year to motivate me and so did friends. It just didn't happen.

    Long in advance of Challenge Roth we had "the ironman talk". It was a different style "ironman talk" to most households. I was told to draw up a list of all the races in the Challenege series and Ironman series and rate them based on certain criteria, then a decision was to be made as to which Ironman I would do in 2013. The caveat being if I don't train properly that that is it, game over, bike sold, sport retired from. Glenda had said that me going to do Challenge Roth held no excitement for her as she wouldn't be sitting there biting her nails "I hope be does x:xx:xx, he worked really hard for it, he deserves it". She be checking the splits but more from an "is he alive" perspective. The 2013 would have to be that nail biting "so much resting on it" type of experience. A spectatle, ala Austria 2010. She insisted that whichever race it was that the kids would be going to as she wasn't going to explain why they never went to races that Daddy did.

    So the things that would rule a race out.

    * Wave starts - she hates watching them. Challenge Roth gone
    * Challenge Vichy - too small, big race feel required
    * Challenge Copenhagen - Nordic races ruled out
    * Challenge Barcelona - made the short list but lost out for a few reasons
    * IM Resenburg - just no appeal to me nor her, plus had enough of Germans
    * IM Frankfurt - if I wanted to expose the kids to junkies and brassers in the rain we'd go into O'Connell street
    * IM Lanza - for some reason a yawn fest for me, some appeal of a family holiday after I admit
    * IM Nice - I love France, I spent many a summer on my relatives farm over there, I've experienced the heat of a typical summers day
    * IM Swizterland - pricey, plus hunny got punched in the face
    * IM Wales - HAHAHAHAHA
    * IM UK - HAHAHAHAHA
    * IM Sweden - Nordic races ruled out

    So that left one. Third time lucky in IM Austria. The cons of this race are:
    * Change of a non wetsuit swim
    * Been there twice already
    * Hardish to get to

    The pros of this race are:
    * Some of my best memories are from there in 2010, swimming in the lake with Aoibhe and her fasinated by a family of ducks
    * Been there twice already, I know the course, I know the area, I know where to stay, where the registration is, where the warm up is, where to position myself in the swim start. What the hills are like and where they are. I know the water is in cups
    * Glenda has been there twice already, she knows the course and the area. She knows where to watch the swim, the bike and the run.
    * The big one - the run is a figure of eight and Glenda and the kids will see me 8 times on the run. Big for them big for me.

    So once the decision was made it was a case of entering. Glenda was more anxious than I was on the night it opened and I think she wore the F5 button out.

    I got in!

    So after Roth was done we had another chat. She asked what my PB was over the distance (9:51) and she said "Right 9:30 is your goal time. Weekly training plans submitted to me on a Wednesday. I want a season overview, testing schedule and projected improvements. Don't put a session down if it won't get done. If you aren't training thats it, it stops and stops straight away." I asked why not training was defined as. "Six missed sessions". I asked was it six sessions a month, or a rolling three week window. The response "What is a rolling three week window? Six sessions means six sessions. Total."

    The offical goal is the one agreed with Glenda.

    So I've got a hard task master, a fully supportive one. So there we go - we going back.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,704 ✭✭✭✭RayCun


    tunney wrote: »
    "What is a rolling three week window? Six sessions means six sessions. Total."

    :pac:

    So for all the HTFU and SIU we see from you on boards... you're the soft one in the family :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 251 ✭✭handangeo


    Where did you get your Mrs?
    Does she have a sister who is as understanding?
    Can you organise a wife swap in 2014?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,883 ✭✭✭Younganne


    Best of Luck Tunney with the training and the goals.

    It must be fab to have such good support back at the ranch!!!!
    Keep on her good side;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,584 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    I was told that the season started today. Her birthday was Friday, my fathers 60th was Saturday and one of the kids was up all night last night. (39.3 dgree temperature this morning).
    I had a easy swim on the plan for this morning. I made a call this morning to move it to this evening after the kids go to bed. Mentioned that to Glenda this evening. Was told "I marked that down as a missed session". I asked for a mulligan and was granted one this once.

    The other part of the Ironman talk we had last week was on acceptable reasons for missing a session that would not count as one of the six.
    Acceptable reasons are:
    * Kid in hospital
    * I am sick or injured
    * She is so sick she cannot look after the kids

    Unacceptable reasons are:
    * Kids kept me awake at night
    * Kid slightly sick
    * She is slightly sick

    It appears she means this.

    The other session on the plan was an easy run. First 15 minutes were great, then the TFLs/ITBs tightened and it was unpleasant. I am sensing a night with a tennis ball stuck in my hip and a foam roller under me tonight.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,208 ✭✭✭shotgunmcos


    Thank you Glenda for this log. Oh and best of luck Tunney...


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,642 ✭✭✭TRR


    Just wondering why you're dismissive of IM UK AND Wales? The reason I ask is a friend of mine did his one and only IM in Wales last year in a decent time and loved it. Plans on heading back next year. Is it a poor relation of the others?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 126 ✭✭Murraythree


    Reading your intro I couldn’t help but think:
    He comes right out and says what she tells him to think - henpecked.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,888 ✭✭✭Dory Dory


    I think Glenda needs her own log here on the boards. ;)


  • Subscribers Posts: 19,421 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    I'd buy your wife a whip as a thank you present but I'd say she already has one. :) I will follow this with interest.

    And other unacceptable excuses would be doing daft stuff like catching your fingers in the chainring..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,762 ✭✭✭✭ecoli


    Dory Dory wrote: »
    I think Glenda needs her own log here on the boards. ;)

    I think she has one. Who knew that the old tunney persona was actually the woman behind the man:D

    Does Glenda do coaching? reckon she would have everyone in the DCM Mentors thread running sub 3 no problem :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,642 ✭✭✭TRR


    In fairness Tunney's wife doesn't wear the trousers in their house ............. because she doesn't allow trousers in the house :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,584 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    Thank you Glenda for this log. Oh and best of luck Tunney...
    Oryx wrote: »
    I'd buy your wife a whip as a thank you present but I'd say she already has one. :) I will follow this with interest.

    And other unacceptable excuses would be doing daft stuff like catching your fingers in the chainring..
    ecoli wrote: »
    I think she has one. Who knew that the old tunney persona was actually the woman behind the man:D

    Does Glenda do coaching? reckon she would have everyone in the DCM Mentors thread running sub 3 no problem :D

    Glenda has spent years around triathletes. With the exception of myself successful ones. Of the friends of mine she sees regularly, male and female, I think I am the only one without a National Championship title. She knows her HRMs from her PMs and can discuss the merits of a hub based PM versus a crank based one. Maybe she could give Peter a lesson in them? She knows whats what.
    Reading your intro I couldn’t help but think:
    He comes right out and says what she tells him to think - henpecked.
    TRR wrote: »
    In fairness Tunney's wife doesn't wear the trousers in their house ............. because she doesn't allow trousers in the house :)

    Totally henpecked, whipped, whatever you want to call it. Don't you just hate when the OH insists on being totally supportive and insists on doing things right. Even worse when they take it one step further and really try to motivate you to regain your passion, dedication and gra for the sport. Jesus, sucks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,584 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    Got to the pool last night for a quick 2500m swim. A little crowded but the water felt good. Main set being 3x200 steady +15s then 5x100 mod on 2 and some fast 50s.

    As I said the water felt good but I was surprised when I came in on the first 100m - 1:30. 2 and 3 were the same, 4 was 1:35 and 5 1:32. very surprised. So surprised in fact that after the swim I time a revolution of the pool clock to make sure it did actually take 60 seconds. Happy with the times for the amount of swimming but it was the RPE of the swims that was really fantastic. Gliding through the water.......

    Eoin sick still. He is a happy happy lad. Feed him and he is happy out. We typically know he is sick as he stops smiling. He has stopped smiling, stopped sleeping, has a temperature of 39.x and is refusing food. He has been to the doctors and they found nothing wrong so viral infection. He roared the house down last night which meant Aoibhe was up. As things are at the moment only Mommy can settle Eoin - which is handy as Aoibhe only wants Daddy. Have to work on getting Eoin to let me settle him. Anyways chez Tunney is tired today.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,642 ✭✭✭TRR


    tunney wrote: »
    Totally henpecked, whipped, whatever you want to call it. Don't you just hate when the OH insists on being totally supportive and insists on doing things right. Even worse when they take it one step further and really try to motivate you to regain your passion, dedication and gra for the sport. Jesus, sucks.

    Did we hit a nerve, we were only joking. You may need to HTFU :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,584 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    Weight.

    A topic that's important but I've not touched on.

    I've been fat (guts of 16 stone -2002 ish)) I've been skinny (just over 10st -2007/2008) and I've been goldilocks (10st 8 in 2009 and 2010). For the last two years I've been chunky (11st 7st - 12st).

    I'm under no illusions of the importance of weight and its something I bang on enough to people that I work with (not in an IT sense). The last two years I've given a half arsed attempt to get to racing weight but I've never committed to it and by the time Janurary rolls around its too late to get down to racing weight - can't loose weight and train properly at the same time. (I did choose to do neither in 2011 and 2012 however)

    Anyways if i am to take Austria 2013 seriously then I need to hit 2013 at 11st. Given I weighed in for Roth at 12st that will be fun.

    I've read Matt Fitzgeralds Racing weight and in it he talks about using all sorts of formulae to determine racing weight but then ends with "the best way to know your racing weight is to have been there".

    For the first 4 years in tri I thought my racing weight was 11st 7. I got there and then realised it wasn't. I then got down to 10st 4 or so and I thought that was it but I was not robust enough. A few pounds on and at 10st 8 I hit the happy middle ground - light enough to run often, long and fast but heavy enough not to break down. So slow and steadily I will return to that!

    So
    Date|Weight
    16th July 2012|12st


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,584 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    Eoins temperature hasn't been below high 38s, low to high 39s since Monday. Despite being pumped with Calpol and taken to the doctors on Monday. So Glenda has had to man mark him and Aoibhe is of the opinion that if Eoin gets to sleep with Mommy then she gets to sleep with Daddy. Sleeping with what is effectively a bag of cats somewhat hinders training (and work).

    Anyways he went back to the doctors this morning and he has tonsillitis on both sides and will be on antibiotics for ten days. Poor little lad, at least he should start to feel better in 24 hours and then the house can return to normality.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,454 ✭✭✭hf4z6sqo7vjngi


    Great to see the motivation back. Need to find new jokes as the fat ones will not stick in a few months.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭myflipflops


    tunney wrote: »
    Weight.

    A topic that's important but I've not touched on.

    I've been fat (guts of 16 stone -2002 ish)) I've been skinny (just over 10st -2007/2008) and I've been goldilocks (10st 8 in 2009 and 2010). For the last two years I've been chunky (11st 7st - 12st).

    What height are you? How long do you think it will take the drop a stone?

    Weight is something I am focused on at the moment too albeit I am much heavier than you, less fit and have lesser goals.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,437 ✭✭✭Izoard


    TRR wrote: »
    Just wondering why you're dismissive of IM UK AND Wales? The reason I ask is a friend of mine did his one and only IM in Wales last year in a decent time and loved it. Plans on heading back next year. Is it a poor relation of the others?

    Assuming that, in this case, it is all about the time, you need to find the fastest course - IMW and IMUK, ain't fast.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,584 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    Izoard wrote: »
    Assuming that, in this case, it is all about the time, you need to find the fastest course - IMW and IMUK, ain't fast.

    And you'd be wrong. Nothing to do with speed.

    Organisation - endless threads deleted by threat of legal action in the UK on this.

    Money - did HIMUK numerous times, same organisers, felt as if the organiser was following me around taking money from my pocket. Charging for things not charge at other races - £10 for brake tweaked, £20 for gears etc.

    Surveys - I was asked what I felt about one of their races, I told them in a constructive, polite, private fashion. I was savaged for daring to criticise their race. They had asked for constructive criticism.

    At the races I was at that the organisers did the athletes were treated, IMHO as an inconvience.

    Weather - I don't like 10+ hours in the rain and cold.

    Roads - I don't like bad surfaces, hurts the knackers

    Support - 188,000 people supported Roth on the roads. Similar for other euro races. The Brits don't get triathlon, nor supporting it. Plus alot of events in UK ruined by tacks on the road.

    All in all IM is a fun hobby for me, I'd like to keep it that way.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,584 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    What height are you? How long do you think it will take the drop a stone?

    Weight is something I am focused on at the moment too albeit I am much heavier than you, less fit and have lesser goals.

    I am 5 foot 10

    Dropping a stone, I expect to see a massive false weight loss in the first week or so as the glycogen stores and associated water stores (1g glycogen is stored with 2g water) are depleted. To actually lose the weight - that will take longer. Hampered somewhat by 3 weeks holidays in the next two months.

    However anything longer than 3 months and I would be disappointed with myself.

    Do drinking, no sh1t food, and actually training should help with the weight loss*.


    *I won't deprive myself completely, once a week a glass of wine and a packet of crisps.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,437 ✭✭✭Izoard


    tunney wrote: »
    And you'd be wrong. Nothing to do with speed.

    Organisation - endless threads deleted by threat of legal action in the UK on this.

    Money - did HIMUK numerous times, same organisers, felt as if the organiser was following me around taking money from my pocket. Charging for things not charge at other races - £10 for brake tweaked, £20 for gears etc.

    Surveys - I was asked what I felt about one of their races, I told them in a constructive, polite, private fashion. I was savaged for daring to criticise their race. They had asked for constructive criticism.

    At the races I was at that the organisers did the athletes were treated, IMHO as an inconvience.

    Weather - I don't like 10+ hours in the rain and cold.

    Roads - I don't like bad surfaces, hurts the knackers

    Support - 188,000 people supported Roth on the roads. Similar for other euro races. The Brits don't get triathlon, nor supporting it. Plus alot of events in UK ruined by tacks on the road.

    All in all IM is a fun hobby for me, I'd like to keep it that way.

    I take your point about IMUK, but "nothing to do with speed"?

    In your logs, your explict aim is always time - whether sub-9, sub-10 or now, sub 9:30.

    This is also supported by your choice of the 2 fastest courses in Iron distance for all your IMs - Austria and Roth.

    It is one of the reasons why they sell out so fast, after all....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,584 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    Izoard wrote: »
    I take your point about IMUK, but "nothing to do with speed"?

    In your logs, your explict aim is always time - whether sub-9, sub-10 or now, sub 9:30.

    This is also supported by your choice of the 2 fastest courses in Iron distance for all your IMs - Austria and Roth.

    It is one of the reasons why they sell out so fast, after all....

    Roth was slow this year. As was Austria.

    Plus I've done Frankfurt.

    Speed had nothing to do with it this year. It was all about logistics and more importantly doing my best to ensure a happy fun day for the family.

    Standing in a wet field in the UK drinking tea that they had to pay £2.50 for while having no childrens entertainment............


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,584 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    Izoard wrote: »
    I take your point about IMUK, but "nothing to do with speed"?

    In your logs, your explict aim is always time - whether sub-9, sub-10 or now, sub 9:30.

    This is also supported by your choice of the 2 fastest courses in Iron distance for all your IMs - Austria and Roth.

    It is one of the reasons why they sell out so fast, after all....

    Plus UK isn't as slow as people claim.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,437 ✭✭✭Izoard


    Looking at how the TTR ratings are put together, I think they are a very good indicator of the time potential for each course.

    http://www.trirating.com/course-ratings/

    Might be handy for those who do care about finishing times...:)
    Course RatingIM St. George- 13:29IM Wales- 08:55IM Wisconsin- 03:46IM Lanzarote- 03:11IM Korea- 02:32IM Lake Placid- 01:50IM Hawaii- 01:14IM UK01:14Challenge Wanaka01:40IM Louisville02:57IM Canada03:14IM Coeur d’Alene03:46IM Australia04:48IM South Africa05:20IM New Zealand05:30IM Arizona07:14IM France07:48IM Cairns08:29IM Melbourne08:55IM Texas09:44IM Cozumel10:03IM Regensburg10:04IM Western Australia11:27IM Switzerland11:54IM Germany12:11IM Brasil14:05IM Florida15:20IM Austria17:08Challenge Roth19:12


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,584 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    Izoard wrote: »
    Looking at how the TTR ratings are put together, I think they are a very good indicator of the time potential for each course.

    http://www.trirating.com/course-ratings/

    Might be handy for those who do care about finishing times...:)
    Course RatingIM St. George- 13:29IM Wales- 08:55IM Wisconsin- 03:46IM Lanzarote- 03:11IM Korea- 02:32IM Lake Placid- 01:50IM Hawaii- 01:14IM UK01:14Challenge Wanaka01:40IM Louisville02:57IM Canada03:14IM Coeur d’Alene03:46IM Australia04:48IM South Africa05:20IM New Zealand05:30IM Arizona07:14IM France07:48IM Cairns08:29IM Melbourne08:55IM Texas09:44IM Cozumel10:03IM Regensburg10:04IM Western Australia11:27IM Switzerland11:54IM Germany12:11IM Brasil14:05IM Florida15:20IM Austria17:08Challenge Roth19:12

    And the glaring problem with alot of this is what? Answers on the back of a postcard.........


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,642 ✭✭✭TRR


    tunney wrote: »
    And you'd be wrong. Nothing to do with speed.

    Organisation - endless threads deleted by threat of legal action in the UK on this.

    Money - did HIMUK numerous times, same organisers, felt as if the organiser was following me around taking money from my pocket. Charging for things not charge at other races - £10 for brake tweaked, £20 for gears etc.

    Surveys - I was asked what I felt about one of their races, I told them in a constructive, polite, private fashion. I was savaged for daring to criticise their race. They had asked for constructive criticism.

    At the races I was at that the organisers did the athletes were treated, IMHO as an inconvience.

    Weather - I don't like 10+ hours in the rain and cold.

    Roads - I don't like bad surfaces, hurts the knackers

    Support - 188,000 people supported Roth on the roads. Similar for other euro races. The Brits don't get triathlon, nor supporting it. Plus alot of events in UK ruined by tacks on the road.

    All in all IM is a fun hobby for me, I'd like to keep it that way.

    Thanks. Will mention some of the above to him. He did IM Wales and was blown away. It was his first IM and praised everything about the organisational side of things. Maybe he'd change his view if he had something to compare it against. Regards the time thing, he definitely has a time goal in mind so a faster course would definitely be a plus also.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,377 ✭✭✭pgibbo


    Izoard wrote: »
    Looking at how the TTR ratings are put together, I think they are a very good indicator of the time potential for each course.

    http://www.trirating.com/course-ratings/

    Might be handy for those who do care about finishing times...:)
    Course RatingIM St. George- 13:29IM Wales- 08:55IM Wisconsin- 03:46IM Lanzarote- 03:11IM Korea- 02:32IM Lake Placid- 01:50IM Hawaii- 01:14IM UK01:14Challenge Wanaka01:40IM Louisville02:57IM Canada03:14IM Coeur d’Alene03:46IM Australia04:48IM South Africa05:20IM New Zealand05:30IM Arizona07:14IM France07:48IM Cairns08:29IM Melbourne08:55IM Texas09:44IM Cozumel10:03IM Regensburg10:04IM Western Australia11:27IM Switzerland11:54IM Germany12:11IM Brasil14:05IM Florida15:20IM Austria17:08Challenge Roth19:12

    So this is basically the average time to complete the course based on all the finishing times - PROS and AG athletes?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,437 ✭✭✭Izoard


    pgibbo wrote: »
    So this is basically the average time to complete the course based on all the finishing times - PROS and AG athletes?

    Well, looking at his approach, it is a little more sophisticated...

    Point is, Austria and Roth are the fastest courses around, but randomly chosen by punters for the "fun" element:)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,584 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    Izoard wrote: »
    Well, looking at his approach, it is a little more sophisticated...

    Point is, Austria and Roth are the fastest courses around, but randomly chosen by punters for the "fun" element:)

    Frankfurt is fast, IMHO faster than Roth. Not sold out this year. First year in ages, if ever. Why? Could it have something to do with two years in a row of freezing cold and pi$$ing rain.

    Its all about the fun


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,557 ✭✭✭bryangiggsy


    tunney wrote: »
    Izoard wrote: »
    Well, looking at his approach, it is a little more sophisticated...

    Point is, Austria and Roth are the fastest courses around, but randomly chosen by punters for the "fun" element:)

    Frankfurt is fast, IMHO faster than Roth. Not sold out this year. First year in ages, if ever. Why? Could it have something to do with two years in a row of freezing cold and pi$$ing rain.

    Its all about the fun
    Or finally people have said f off to the 520 entry fee


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,584 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    Slipped off the "training" wagon yesterday.

    Whole house exhausted, got home, wrecked. 1:15 turbo to do. Was told that I now had two passes in a rolling six week period that could be used in "exceptional circumstances" and that the last week constituted one. So I said I'd have a glass of wine and relax (mid week wine is meant to be out). In the end one turned into three and I stayed up late watching the excellent programme on Ben Johnson. Combined with sleeping with a bag of cats when she heard me going to bed (can't do tough love on her as then she'd cry and its just so hard to get himself to sleep when he is sick that we let her away with it) meant that I slept in this morning. I had no pass for this morning's missed swim. uh oh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,584 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    Completely unrelated to triathlon..........

    I have very long eye lashes, so long that I am restricted as to what sun glasses I can wear. My Mam always told me I was like a camel.

    The kids are the same and yesterday as Aoibhe was playing in her sand pit my Mam told Aoibhe "You are like a camel with your long eyelashes". "Why Nana Ei?" "Camels have long eye lashes to keep the sand out of their eyes and you have long eye lashes like a camel". Aoibhe thought about this and smiled, then she picked up a handful of sand and threw it in her eyes - safe in the knowledge her camel-like eye lashes would stop it.


  • Subscribers Posts: 19,421 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    tunney wrote: »
    Slipped off the "training" wagon yesterday.

    Whole house exhausted, got home, wrecked. 1:15 turbo to do. Was told that I now had two passes in a rolling six week period that could be used in "exceptional circumstances" and that the last week constituted one. So I said I'd have a glass of wine and relax (mid week wine is meant to be out). In the end one turned into three and I stayed up late watching the excellent programme on Ben Johnson. Combined with sleeping with a bag of cats when she heard me going to bed (can't do tough love on her as then she'd cry and its just so hard to get himself to sleep when he is sick that we let her away with it) meant that I slept in this morning. I had no pass for this morning's missed swim. uh oh.
    Keep this up and we are going to start kicking your arse as well as your missus.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,454 ✭✭✭hf4z6sqo7vjngi


    I think your Mam might be on to something re the camel eye lash thing. Sure you have an abnormally massive shaped head like a camel. I heard you have to order custom sized bike helmets as nothing else fits*:)

    *may not be true

    Will need to get onto Glenda, she is being too soft on you giving you passes this early on.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,584 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    I'll be back on the wagan asap, as in today.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,584 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    I got a 910XT, it fogged up in intense sunlight. I got onto wiggle, I was told "garmin said this is normal". I told them it wasn't, we argued. I left it. It fogged up something fierce in Roth. I just lashed it in the post back to them with a stinker of a letter. New one dispatched this morning. I think about 30% of Garmins are affected like this - fingers crossed my next one is one of the 70%, and isn't a complete brick like some Garmins.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,144 ✭✭✭Bambaata


    Mine has fogged twice to date, once in Pikeman triathlon and last Wednesday. Im keeping note of the fogging as ive an open ticket in relation to other things.

    Hows the elevation data on your 910! I wasnt sure how mine was but what surprised me was when i went to smooth the elevation in GC is actually increased which i fund hard to believe. It said i did 545m gain in the Phoenix Park over 75mins!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,584 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    Bambaata wrote: »
    Mine has fogged twice to date, once in Pikeman triathlon and last Wednesday. Im keeping note of the fogging as ive an open ticket in relation to other things.

    Hows the elevation data on your 910! I wasnt sure how mine was but what surprised me was when i went to smooth the elevation in GC is actually increased which i fund hard to believe. It said i did 545m gain in the Phoenix Park over 75mins!

    Elevation not worth a sh1te


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,186 ✭✭✭El Director


    Bambaata wrote: »
    Mine has fogged twice to date, once in Pikeman triathlon and last Wednesday. Im keeping note of the fogging as ive an open ticket in relation to other things.

    Hows the elevation data on your 910! I wasnt sure how mine was but what surprised me was when i went to smooth the elevation in GC is actually increased which i fund hard to believe. It said i did 545m gain in the Phoenix Park over 75mins!

    For my 75min in the Park, 218m but I don't pay any attention to it. BTW yesterday my 910xt fogged a little before my swim but cleared pretty quick. Going to leave it out in the sun now...just to see!

    Anyway, best of luck Tunney for 2013, great to have the support, very important and look forward to seeing you hit top form once again!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 767 ✭✭✭duffyshuffle


    Good to see the resolve to get back to the pointy end of racing tunney, any upcoming races to see where you're at running or triathlon?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,584 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    Good to see the resolve to get back to the pointy end of racing tunney, any upcoming races to see where you're at running or triathlon?

    I'd like to do a tri but its going to be awkward to find one I can do.

    Holidays for two weeks in August.

    Away with herself in September for a week
    Away with the family for a weekend in September
    Wedding anniversary in September

    Trying to find a tri but given that the next 344 days will entail I am not going to push it.

    Running wise - I might drop into a race or two depending on how things are going.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,584 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    Date|Weight
    16th July 2012|12st
    23rd July 2012|12st 2.4


    Not *quite* what was meant to happen. Ate ALOT of crap over the weekend and did nothing so that could be the cause.

    Weekly numbers:

    Swim time: 1:52
    Swim dist: 5km
    Bike time: 1:07
    Bike dist: 35km
    Run time: 2:37
    Run dist: 33km
    Total time: 5:35

    Two weeks after Roth its acceptable. Plus I am now at least 7 months ahead of post Frankfurt as my road bike has been reassembled and prepped and my TT bike was removed from the bike box, prepped and stored, as opposed to left in the bike box until the week before TryAthy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,584 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    I love running. Some of the times. I've got a good ideal when I step on the scales in the morning if today is going to be a day that I love running.

    Between 11st 7 and 11st 10 I love running. I cannot think of a more pleasurable activity to do with your clothes on.

    Between 11st 10 and 12st I enjoy enjoy buts a struggle and I feel sore afterwards.

    When I'm under 11st 7 I almost feel like I am floating when I run. Under 11st and I could run all day.

    This morning I weight in at a mammoth 12st 2.4 - so I knew that todays run would be hell. And it was. 30 minutes of sweating sore painful hell. Fighting each step. I MUST PUT DOWN THE PIES.

    * Obviously its not all about weight as there would be a strong correlation between weight and activity level.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,208 ✭✭✭shotgunmcos


    Mammoth ? You make me sick...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,584 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    Its been three years but finally someone left me :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,584 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    Mammoth ? You make me sick...

    Yes 12st3 is mammoth for me. A few years ago it wasn't, it was slight but at 5 foot 10 and have a runners build I could safely go to 9st 13.9lbs if I was a pure runner. (Note I said safely not easily)

    That being said I need to seize the mojo thats there and use it to build more mojo.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,369 Mod ✭✭✭✭RacoonQueen


    What were you eating when you were at your lightest? Were you still eating crap just doing enough training to work it off? Think most on this forum are guilty for overindulging in crap food just be interestign to compare the diets, training and performances of the light and skinny people with those carrying a few extra pounds.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,584 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    What were you eating when you were at your lightest? Were you still eating crap just doing enough training to work it off? Think most on this forum are guilty for overindulging in crap food just be interestign to compare the diets, training and performances of the light and skinny people with those carrying a few extra pounds.

    No crap, no alcohol. I hit every meal hungry and then controlled portion size. If I was a bird I would have been accused of having an eating disorder. Being a bloke I was "just taking my sport seriously". Truth was somewhere in between.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 705 ✭✭✭ray o


    tunney wrote: »
    No crap, no alcohol. I hit every meal hungry and then controlled portion size.

    It really can be that simple. Pity it requires so much determination. If only we had to hunt for our grub.


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