Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
The Good Mood Cookbook
Options
Comments
-
-
Early run over hills dales dunes and beach today. Started with freezing fog, then did some cattle rustling, on to scrapy leg mind yer ankles trail, finishing with a looong trot along a strand littered with beached mackerel fry. No accurate distance, technology was not obeying orders today (and my 910xt breathed its last on Wednesday. RIP my trusty lil watch
) It took and hour anyway. Coffee as the sun finally warmed the air, a Carlsberg of a training session. 
0 -
-
-
-
Advertisement
-
Hr still messing me about today, and energy low, but I had a turbo set to lead so I put on my 'retail face', smiled and got on with it. The warmup was tough (I did a high cad w/u) but I settled into a groove for the rest of the OG set and had fun. Core afterwards was focussed on glute activation and although we are all adults, we giggled like big kids as we did our snappy hips clenchy glute thing.
I feel better now. Hope tomorrow is the same.0 -
Went for a run this evening but I had eaten something an hour before and oooeee my body did not like that. Heartburn developed into nausea then full on GI issues. I made it back without puking but it was close. I still feel sick But the run was fine. 6 or 7 k in 35 mins. 0
-
Out on the town last night so it was hard to haul out of the bed and run this morning. But I did. Even if I was ditched by my run buddy.
45 mins easy felt great, no issues this time. No garmin so no distance but the time was ok for the route I took.
T minus two days till I am back in structured training. Which is quite exciting 0 -
-
-
Advertisement
-
Day one of the new training year... here we go!
An easy start with a 35 min ez run, with a focus on form that felt like falling with style. Hr did a spike for no reason early into this but I walked it back to the right zone.
Later on I had a 15 minute strength session which looked easy on paper. Just 4 basic moves. But it was a cunning little set and my arms are in bits. At the end of each set of the 20x tricep dip reps I was making cartoony noises like mmmmnnngggghhhhh... which is a good thing! 0 -
-
First coached swim of the winter schedule. Not long, 1700m but wow my swim fitness is not great. Or my heartrate is still out of whack. Either way my timed 100s were too embarrassing to commit to print. Ill just commit them to memory and work on them. Loved being back into a routine though. 0
-
Turbo last night. Long high cad intervals that had us all dripping with sweat. I got some dirty looks and it was remarkably quiet for most of this set. I think the group found it a bit hard
Run intervals this morning. I had to get out early to do this, which meant a headtorch. It was my first proper run in the dark since the race in March. Brought back memories but I have better legs under me this time. 4 x4min hard with 2 min recovery, 55 mins including warm up and cool down. I thought my legs would feel this more than they did. Intervals were tough but very doable. No metrics as garmin still away in hospital.0 -
-
Tempo run. Or pain run. Whichever, its all the same to me. Ran on a beach with the ever loyal Mr Stark, bless his heart, but if last week was Carlsberg, this week was cod liver oil - good for you but completely horrible.
I had no proper watch, no torch, and neither of us were awake. The tide was in so no real hard sand to run on, and rogue waves kept making us sprint up the beach onto the heavy gravel. And that was before the tempo part. But we are Team Peninsula and we kept going. The tempo was ugly, for me anyway. I hated the lack of grip in the sand, hated the pace, hated the endless beach that showed no progress. My head was not in a good place. Turned halfway through, and because the 'back was broke of it' I handled it better then. Tony trotted along like twas nothing, even deciding not to dodge the waves and do an aquatic run. Mad yoke.
I was very glad to get (just) 20 mins done and ease back and trot the last bit. The next time I see the word tempo in a plan I'm running on the damn ROAD.
60 mins, distance est maybe 11k.0 -
-
Rest day yesterday. Bit of a misnomer; I did not train, but rest? No chance.
Early early run intervals today. With warm-up and drills to wake me up first. These were 6x 2min hard, 2 min ez and I liked them! First time in a long time I've felt like I'm actually running at a pace rather than being dragged with weights out of me. 55 mins in total as daylight crept in. I liked being out with the torch today, it was chilly and quiet. I frightened a few patrolling cats, but otherwise never saw a soul. Lovely. 0 -
-
-
Advertisement
-
-
Turbo tonight with a good crowd in so it was fun. We did 5 reps of a gear pyramid for the main set. Plenty of recovery so noone suffered too much. They all hated the standing start sprints at the end tho.
Core was short and snappy, crunches and planks including a new one on me: wheelbarrow. Done against the wall. Really tricky!
Felt good, wasnt under pressure at all tonight, great set.0 -
-
-
-
-
-
Long run today. No tempo! No intervals! Love it! It was a jesus o'clock headtorch start, when me and my matching run buddy headed out, but we stayed off the stupid beach today so it was much easier. I felt the pace was a bit hot at first, and thought Id never stay the distance, but I seemed to settle in after that and ran comfortably. Halfway point reached at 43 mins, the sun was coming up by then, somehow that helped. Ran and equal split on the return leg, with an extra section tagged on to bring the time up to 90 minutes as per my schedule. 17.59k done. More than happy with that, 7 or so weeks out from the marathon.
Coffee while watching the sea afterwards made it a pretty damn perfect morning, all told. 0 -
-
Advertisement
-
. I still cant pass that place without thinking 'not getting me this time!' 
Advertisement