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ThebitterLemon wrote: »Today: plan called for 4 miles recovery, as I'm playing squash tomorrow I decided to switch the days around and I did tomorrow's in today.
Had a hour of one on one yoga and was wrecked after it, jezus it feckin tough and afterwards I ended up doing 6.2 miles easy around the pitches in Dangan. I was in sh1te form, tired, cranky, contrary and generally moaney, hated every minute of this and the company I had for 4 miles will probably never run with me again!
While I'm at it I might as well get in a mini Rant: what the fok is wrong with young wans/lads behind cash registers these days!!
Bought some paracetamol and ibuprofen in a chemist and it came to €10.53, I handed the young wan a twenty and she rang it into the till: change €9.47. I found a one euro coin and preferring a tenner in the change I handed it to her and explained that I wanted a ten in the change. Jezus, you should have seen the look on her face, you'd think I was holding the joint up at gun point! She muttered something and then called over another young wan and they had a conflab in a little huddle. One of them pulled out their mobile and started tapping away, showed it to the other wan and she handed me my change, apologising, saying "me maths ain't great!"
What are they teaching kids in school!!!
I'm off to bed.
TbL
Nice running & even nicer ranting
Good to see you living up to the name - hope bed improves your form 0 -
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Yesterday: plan called for a 4 mile Nursing Home Special. I had an hour of PT, strength & core, she said my strength was getting better but I was nowhere near where I should be with the core work! Shortly afterwards I played 50 mins of squash that had me wrecked so I canned the run and retired to the couch with a pack of Buffalo flavoured honky dorys. They're grand when you're eating them but a blast of buffalo repeating burps would have one wondering what sort of ****e is actually in them and forced the missus of the couch (must remember to keep a pack handy when moving the missus of the couch was the actual plan
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Today: plan called for 6 miles easy, weather today is shocking and with the summer almost at an end I can't remember a full weekend of sunshine! Glad to be heading off to some heat & sun on Monday! Got 6 very easy miles done.
I'm looking to race a half in Sept/Oct and was considering the Athlone flatline or Charlieville, was leaning towards Charlieville, anyone done both and got a recommendation? Tnx.
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ThebitterLemon wrote: »Glad to be heading off to some heat & sun on Monday! Got 6 very easy miles done.
I'm looking to race a half in Sept/Oct and was considering the Athlone flatline or Charlieville, was leaning towards Charlieville, anyone done both and got a recommendation? Tnx.
TbL
you coming to Dublin again so? beautiful weather up here today
I've done Athlone but it was 23 degrees last year so it was a total sufferfest, I remember thinking how they're allowed to call it 'flatline' its not pancake flat but then I suppose where is it was very well organised, they had lots of pacers but support out on the course was thin on the ground. Hopefully a proper runner has done it and can give you a better idea 
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Monday: plan called for 3 miles recovery. Travelling on holiday so got no run in.
Tuesday: plan called for 6 miles easy. Hiroshima like sunburn coupled with copious mosquito bites in the most unusual of places left me in no humour to run, o retired to the air con with the after sun.
Today: plan called for 2 mile wu/cd with 5 x 1k off 3 mins recovery. This auld bogger doesn't do sun holidays very well, it's 35 degrees, I'm leaking sweat like the Irish water network leaks drinking water, we're in accommodation that you couldn't swing a cat in coz the fooker would die of claustrophobia the minute you brought him in the door and to top it all off the place is full of bloody foreigners
I decided to try and give myself another day to acclimatise and postpone the session till tomorrow, got out at 10.30pm (it was still nearly 30•) and got 3.2 miles done very easy.
Ba humbug to holidays it's gonna be hard to get any quality done!
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Think you're best to just go with the flow & get in what you can - you don't want to be getting cranky on your holidays now, do you ??
You're probably right Kit, I'd say I'm driving the clan daft, was messing with them in the pool today and the missus held me under the water for an inordinate length of time, didn't look to apologetic either, when I finally came up blue in the face
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Late to the Charleville/Athlone party!!
Having done Athlone it's a fast course and the fact it has 1:25 pacers swings it for me. (well ok; that and the fact I am going to the Andy Lee fight the night before Charleville).
I'll still be able to get the early train back to Dublin to watch Tyrone in the All Ireland the day after the Lee fight. The only question is whether it'll be the Dubs or Mayo in the final Charleville would leave that a bit too tight. 0 -
Late to the Charleville/Athlone party!!
Having done Athlone it's a fast course and the fact it has 1:25 pacers swings it for me. (well ok; that and the fact I am going to the Andy Lee fight the night before Charleville).
I'll still be able to get the early train back to Dublin to watch Tyrone in the All Ireland the day after the Lee fight. The only question is whether it'll be the Dubs or Mayo in the final Charleville would leave that a bit too tight.
You away in the sun too then - watch that heat stroke - can lead to serious delusions 0 -
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Yesterday: was supposed to do the session but another day of sun and a severe lightening storm last night meant no running again. Am getting a little perturbed by missus TbL's attitude, she was positively encouraging me to go out in the deluge and lightening!!! Pity any poor fooker in a tent last night as they'd have needed Noah's ark to survive the night.
Today: managed to get out just after 11pm to get the session in. Was sweating bullets after a few paces. Decided to only do 1k warm up and I decided to plod on and see how many of the 1k reps I could do. The pace was 4.00/4.10, off 3 mins recovery. Recovery was generous but I knew I'd struggle this early in the cycle with that pace in the heat.
Considered stopping after 3, then 4 and had to stop after 260m of the last rep for an ice cream puke
1. 4.10
2. 4.06
3. 4.13
4. 4.20
5. 4.31 (running time )
Only got in .5k cd.
Found that inordinately tough and it's just as well that there's 18 weeks to target marathon.
In other news, I'm now a certified auld codger. I've finally succumbed and bought a pair of Croc things, twasn't by choice, my cool hipster Billabong sandals from the 80's finally passed away and the only thing the local shop had that fit me were those awful auld man Crocs. I was tempted to wear my work shoes to the beach
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Late to the Charleville/Athlone party!!
Having done Athlone it's a fast course and the fact it has 1:25 pacers swings it for me. (well ok; that and the fact I am going to the Andy Lee fight the night before Charleville).
I'll still be able to get the early train back to Dublin to watch Tyrone in the All Ireland the day after the Lee fight. The only question is whether it'll be the Dubs or Mayo in the final Charleville would leave that a bit too tight.
cough, cough , splutter... any other delusions you'd like to share with us, Meno? :pac:0 -
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