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MarkY91

john mayo 10 wrote: »

Wed 20th may
4 miles.

Fri 22th may
3 miles
25.10
Ran this as close to race pace as i could. Kept pace the same all the way.
Average pace was 8.35/m

What are you training for?

john mayo 10

MarkY91 wrote: »

What are you training for?

Focusing on 10k this year with a few 5ks threw in aswell. PB for 10k this this year is 47.50. PB last year was 44.56 for 10k but missed 6 months after that with tendonittis in right knee. Injury is nearly gone now.

MarkY91

john mayo 10 wrote: »

Focusing on 10k this year with a few 5ks threw in aswell. PB for 10k this this year is 47.50. PB last year was 44.56 for 10k but missed 6 months after that with tendonittis in right knee. Injury is nearly gone now.

Youre like me then. Im focusing on 10 milers for now, i wa focusing on 5 miles this year so far. Going to work my way up. Good work!

john mayo 10

Had planned to do a half marathon this year,but will the knee just coming right i dont want to rush it. Best of luck

john mayo 10

Sun 24th may
11k LSR
1hr 5mins
average pace 5.57/k
early morning run.

john mayo 10

Wed 27th may
4 miles
37 mins

Fri 29th may
7k tempo pace
36.07
Average pace 5.10/k
Ran this as close to race pace as a could. Pace slowed over the last 2 k but thats down to fitness. Happy with the way things are going at the moment.

john mayo 10

Sun 31th may
11k LSR
1hr 4 mins
5.50/ k.
I'm beginning to enjoy these early morning LSRs. Kept pace steady throughout

john mayo 10

Just an update on where I am. Had to cut back on running for a while because of lack of time. Summertime is hectic ( farming , kids, etc ). Back running again with 2 weeks averaging 3 5k runs a week. I missed posting here so I hope to be able to keep this log more active. Enjoying the running

john mayo 10

Update
I missed a lot of running over the last few months. Wife is due in 2 weeks and she's had a tough pregnancy. Father in- law isn't well either so it's being a tough few months between hospitals and doctors. I still got out maybe once a week for a run. Started back properly 3 weeks ago. I have managed 3 runs a week consisting of some speed work, a 6k hill/ flat session and an easy session. I have dropped one of these the last 2 weeks and done a local parkrun.
28.50
26.40
Times are improving so I hope I can keep it up now.

Mon 30th Nov
6k easy. No time recorded

tang1

Best of luck on the return & immenent arrival.

john mayo 10

tang1 wrote: »

Best of luck on the return & immenent arrival.

Cheers tang1. I'm determined to keep it up.My pb for 10k is 44.56. Don't know if I will reach that again. I'm 2 years older now ( touching 39 ) but even if I don't so what. I just want to be able to run injury free again

john mayo 10

Thursday Dec 3rd
5k
Did a 1k warm up and a 1k cool down.
In between 16 x 200
8 @ 5.50 min/k
8 @ 4.55 min/k
Tough but good to get it done
Parkrun planned for Saturday morning

snailsong

john mayo 10 wrote: »

Cheers tang1. I'm determined to keep it up.My pb for 10k is 44.56. Don't know if I will reach that again. I'm 2 years older now ( touching 39 ) but even if I don't so what. I just want to be able to run injury free again

Good to see you back, John. Best of luck to you and your wife on the arrival.

39 is young. I started running g at 39, just starting to get the hang of it now.

Re parkrun in the morning, the forecast is horrendous. Westport and Castlebar are cancelled, Balina will call it in the morning. Check before you go.

john mayo 10

How's things with you snailsong?
Sunday 6th Dec
7k easy
Longest run in months. Kept the pace the same throughout. Average pace 6.01/k.
Didn't do parkrun y/day. Waited on an update on Facebook. Nothing was posted and I heard afterwards it went ahead. Bad decision in the end as only 13 runners showed up

snailsong

john mayo 10 wrote: »

How's things with you snailsong?
Sunday 6th Dec
7k easy
Longest run in months. Kept the pace the same throughout. Average pace 6.01/k.
Didn't do parkrun y/day. Waited on an update on Facebook. Nothing was posted and I heard afterwards it went ahead. Bad decision in the end as only 13 runners showed up

I was in your part of the world today for the Belleek 10k. Delighted to squeeze in under 40, 39:51. It was such a lovely day.

Hard to say if they were right or wrong to go ahead with the parkrun. I saw the picture of the 13 and they seemed pretty happy with themselves. I was down to do RD in Westport. We reluctantly decided to cancel on Friday evening in order to give people notice. As it turned out it was just about possible to run but I doubt many would have shown up.

john mayo 10

Did that race the last 3 years. Lovely route with the last few k through the woods. Did many do it

snailsong

109 runners.
Lovely course alright
Results at http://coretiming.com

john mayo 10

Friday 11th Dec
6k jog through belleek woods.
Didn't manage to get out all week due to a combination of work and weather

john mayo 10

Saturday 12th Dec
Ballina parkrun
25.59

Happy with this as my times are getting faster. 45 secs faster than 2 weeks ago.
Kept the pace just over 5min/k . Pace dropped to 5.22/k for the 4th k but ran the last k in 5.06
Splits 5.12 5.07 5.12. 5.22. 5.06

tang1

john mayo 10 wrote: »

Saturday 12th Dec
Ballina parkrun
25.59

Happy with this as my times are getting faster. 45 secs faster than 2 weeks ago.
Kept the pace just over 5min/k . Pace dropped to 5.22/k for the 4th k but ran the last k in 5.06
Splits 5.12 5.07 5.12. 5.22. 5.06

45secs in space of two weeks is a nice bit of progress, fair play.

john mayo 10

Tuesday 15 th Dec
7k LSR
42.35
Got out this morning for a lovely jog. Kept pace just over 6min/ k.
The better half had a baby girl on Saturday night. All is well and mum and baby came home yesterday. 4 women in the house now. Completely outnumbered.

tang1

Ah that's fantastic news, big congratulations to you and your wife. Nice little cheerleading squad your building for yourself.

john mayo 10

tang1 wrote: »

Ah that's fantastic news, big congratulations to you and your wife. Nice little cheerleading squad your building for yourself.

Thanks. All is well and healthy.

martyboy48

Congrats on the new arrival John, well outnumbered now

snailsong

Congratulations John. Can't have too many women in the house.

beertons

Congratulations John, you may go again to keep the testosterone levels up.

john mayo 10

Mon 28th Dec

5k jog with a running mate. Kept pace at 5.50/k till the 4K mark and ran the last in 4.35.
Have been getting out as much as I can over Xmas. Longest run is 7k to date.

john mayo 10

Wed 30th Dec
3 mile jog

Sat 2nd Jan
Parkrun
27.**
A real struggle to get through this. I cursed all the drink and **** food over the last few weeks

john mayo 10

Tues 5th Jan
4 miles steady pace with 3 running mates.

Sat 9th Jan
Parkrun 25.54
A PB since I started back running properly again. Started off way too fast. Forgot to bring GPS watch so didn't know what pace I was going. I was out of my feet at the halfway point so I just eased up to catch my breath. Got passed by a few runners from here to the 4k. Could hear the footsteps of another runner behind me so I pushed on as much as I could and held them off.
Found it hard to run without the watch to check my pace. Happy with the run all the same as I'm going in the right direction. I'm finding it hard to get much running done during the week with work, New baby etc so will try and fit a run in tomorrow and hopefully Monday as well.
Local 5k coming up in 2 weeks time so really looking forward to that.😊

john mayo 10

Sun 10th Jan
8k tempo pace
45.00 mins
Had planned a run at a much slower pace but the 2 lads with me had other ideas. Roads were dodgy too until the last 2k which was on a main road. Quickened up the pace from here on and ran the last 2k in about 10 mins. Beautiful morning for a run. Sure what else would u be at at 9 o clock on a Sunday morning