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The Good Mood Cookbook
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Interval run this morning. I felt a bit weird for the first one of these. I couldnt tell if it was my torch or my eyes but the road got a bit blurry and wobbly and I definitely wasnt running well.
I put it down to being a bit dehydrated maybe. Finished the run as planned but not as hard as I should have. 40 mins 6.32k. 0 -
Interval run this morning. I felt a bit weird for the first one of these. I couldnt tell if it was my torch or my eyes but the road got a bit blurry and wobbly and I definitely wasnt running well.I put it down to being a bit dehydrated maybe. Finished the run as planned but not as hard as I should have. 40 mins 6.32k.
Too much Christmas cheer last night, eh?
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Club swim tonight. I had been told the set was hard but I honestly loved it. I was slow but I got a lot from the IM main set. We finished up with 25m sprints and this was the first time in 8 months I worked really hard without having issues with a racing hr or burning out. Ended the set grinning like a loon.
Hi Dilbert I did not mean to ignore you. We were all busy 0 -
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Group turbo tonight. I gave a set that I didn't think was too bad, z3 with short sprints mixed in, but a few of the guys were literally steaming, and found it maybe a bit tough. I did the set but didn't push on the last bit which was min on min off hard gear sprints. I need to have legs on Saturday. We did core afterwards, the first part of which was hanging from monkey bars, it made a change from crunches!
Just one more short leg loosening run before Saturday, and then we will see if the plan I have been on is much cop. And the forecast is abysmal, 16mps winds and pouring rain. I can tell it will be interesting.0 -
Clonakilty was interesting.
The good: I am very philosophical and laid back about the race being cancelled.
The bad: Leaving it till an hour before race start to tell everyone it's off is completely not how to handle a situation like that.
The ugly: I am more hungover than Ive ever been in my whole existence due to post no-race drowning of sorrows.
When I heard the race was cancelled I was all togged out anyway, so along with quite a few others I went out for a run regardless. Ended up moving at a pretty sharp pace with a guy from Waterford. The wind was insane, the rain was painful, and there were lakes in the roads. We picked up the marathon route and followed it until we somehow missed a turn... maybe a sign blew away. We then took to the boreens and just got a bit deliberately lost. Finally made it back to Clon like drowned rats with 30k done in 2h42. It was a very hard run and I only considered finishing out the distance momentarily before realising I was pretty done in and heading in to the bar
No medal. No feeling of accomplishment, and a very bad impression of the race organisers. But a mad run in the bag. So its not all bad!0 -
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It takes a long time to get over an epic hangover. Give me a marathon any day, its easier than drinking. A club swim tonight was my first training since the weekend and it was hard sprints. Of course it was. I did ok times for me I guess. 1.39 to 1.43 for the 100s and 3.45 / 3.40 for the 200s. Yeah yeah slow. Im surprised I got it finished at all. Bloody miracle. 0
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Ugh. Trying to avoid CollierYou escaped the pool today before I got to impart a relevant piece of "wisdom", Dilbert-style (as Dory might say)...here goes..."pain is weakness leaving the body"...
I had a session with Collier. He made me laugh. Especially when he was rolling that glass coke bottle on my fractured femur. I'll have to have a chat with him if you want weakness to leave your body. 0 -
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I had hoped to do 3 swims this week for the first time in ever, but Tuesday came and I was goosed. Couldn't summon the mental or physical will to do the club set. This ennui continued the next morning when I missed my indoor bike session. Not quite sure what happened, but I just didn't have it in me. But I took it as a sign I'm a bit worn out and moved on from it. Did a fun club turbo Wednesday evening, where the group worked harder than I did, tho my hr did push into the 170s for the main set AND I still had to call the instructions while not sounding under pressure at all. We had Christmas sweets and hats and even one bike was fitted with twinkly lights, so it was a good nights work to set me back on course.
I ran the following morning, 47 mins ez. Again, another good way to reset. Last night I went skating and managed not to break anything, so made it to the early swim today for a set I had to read and re-read to understand. Lots of technical stuff I was meant to do with my hands and elbows and head which I didn't manage half of. Still, I did do
600 oc wu
6 x50 polo
400 fc alt 50 hard 50 ez
6 x50 one arm head up/ head down
400 fr alt 50 hard 50 ez
800 fc ez focus on key points in stroke.
This did fly by and was not too hard. Somewhere near 75 mins give or take. I still feel a little like someones let some air out of me, but hey, its nearly Christmas. Just. Keep. Going. Mince pies and Irish Coffee on the way!0
) and was on the back foot straight away. Glad to hear you had a good swim - was a bit worried about you after your post this morning. 
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