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Mum on the Run

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,355 ✭✭✭Bungy Girl


    Ososlo wrote: »
    Have a great race tomorrow BG!

    Thanks Ososlo, hoping it's not as windy as Dunboyne :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,606 ✭✭✭RedRunner


    Bungy Girl wrote: »
    Thanks Ososlo, hoping it's not as windy as Dunboyne :eek:

    Don't worry. I make a great wind breaker;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭hillsiderunner


    Good luck to you BG (and adrian, aquinn and RR).

    Sub-44 no bother to you :).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,936 ✭✭✭annapr


    Go BG! Best of luck tomorrow, will be sending good vibes to you all!


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 16,586 Mod ✭✭✭✭adrian522


    Best of luck tomorrow, great time there for the taking, nice course but watch out for the uphill finish.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,355 ✭✭✭Bungy Girl


    adrian522 wrote: »
    watch out for the uphill finish.

    :eek:

    Really ? Well I guess it can't be any worse than Ardgillan last week. Can it....?


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 16,586 Mod ✭✭✭✭adrian522


    Nah, just a slight incline really but noticeable when you are pushing at the end of the race.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 10,897 ✭✭✭✭Murph_D


    All the best G - confident you'll get that PB. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,014 ✭✭✭Mimojo


    Very best of luck tomorrow, cant wait to read the race report already!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,009 ✭✭✭Firedance


    Good luck to tomorrow G! Bring on the pb :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,355 ✭✭✭Bungy Girl


    Saturday - BHAA K-Club 10K
    44:43 (gun time) equal PB* :D:D

    *but I am claiming a moral PB based on the fact that it took about 10 seconds to get to the start line and my watch (started at the gun) said 44:42 :D

    No time to write the report today but just to say a massive thanks to Redrunner who got me to the 5K marker bang on target and as a result the whole race was really comfortable, compared to my usual style of overcooking it initially then dying a slow and painful death for the rest of the race.

    Congratulations to Adrian, aquinn, Firedance, Chickey2, Meno, AMK and Career Move – lovely to meet you all and some great PBs there too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,044 ✭✭✭chickey2


    Well done! Was lovely to meet you.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,606 ✭✭✭RedRunner


    Bungy Girl wrote: »
    Saturday - BHAA K-Club 10K
    44:43 (gun time) equal PB* :D:D

    *but I am claiming a moral PB based on the fact that it took about 10 seconds to get to the start line and my watch (started at the gun) said 44:42 :D

    No time to write the report today but just to say a massive thanks to Redrunner who got me to the 5K marker bang on target and as a result the whole race was really comfortable, compared to my usual style of overcooking it initially then dying a slow and painful death for the rest of the race.

    Congratulations to Adrian, aquinn, Firedance, Chickey2, Meno, AMK and Career Move – lovely to meet you all and some great PBs there too.

    You're giving me more credit than I deserve BG. you did all the hard work in the second half of the race. I was hoping to get you to 8/9k and then let you go but alas the fitness is just not there yet. I think you can definitely claim a PB as the times seem to be all over the place. I'd go by your watch time since you started it at the gun.

    Well done on a great performance, I hoped I at least helped with blocking the wind!:)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,009 ✭✭✭Firedance


    Well done again! Super race for you, look forward to the report :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭hillsiderunner


    Congrats BG, sub-45 is incredible! No doubt more to come off that....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,014 ✭✭✭Mimojo


    Very well done BG, super super time :-)


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 16,586 Mod ✭✭✭✭adrian522


    Well done today great running!

    Great to get under 45...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,272 ✭✭✭Dubgal72


    Hey, well done! And yes, take that moral PB, damn shame that there is no starting mat :mad: Get writing those emails to the organisers "less cake, more starting mat!" Actually what a silly idea..."cake AND starting mat!" :D
    Looking forward to the report...tomorrow ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,915 ✭✭✭✭menoscemo


    Well done today and nice to meet you.
    The 5k I was telling you about (as posted in Adrian's Log) actually has an 8pm starting time not 7. So maybe that would suit you?
    https://www.facebook.com/BobHeffernan5kRoadRace


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭career move


    Well done BG. Good running in the conditions. Nice to meet you afterwards :)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,008 ✭✭✭barryoneill50


    Good stuff...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,936 ✭✭✭annapr


    +1 to all of the above, BG, you nailed it! Congrats!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 10,897 ✭✭✭✭Murph_D


    Never in doubt! ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,355 ✭✭✭Bungy Girl


    Race report: K-Club 10K, 11th April.

    44:43 Official (gun) time (=PB :D)

    I’m really happy with this race for a few reasons. My last standard 10K was Dunshaughlin in June 2014 and it was a goal race I’d been working towards for a long time. Sub-45 was the holy grail and I killed myself to get there (almost literally – I was out of action after it for a couple of months for various reasons). Gun time then was 44:53 and net (watch time from the start line – no starting mats in Dunshaughlin either) was 44:43. So even though officially I can’t claim the K-club race as a PB, I am claiming a moral victory ;)

    1-5K (22:17) Stopwatch splits from the gun were 4:32, 4:18, 8:51 (missed the 3K marker) 4:35.
    I mentioned further back that RedRunner very kindly paced me to halfway, getting me there bang on target and very nobly pardoning my stepping on his heels several times. I was very possessive of him, I have to say – at one stage this guy in a blue top tried to muscle in behind RR and in front of me and I had to politely nudge him back in his box. Reminded me of Room on The Broom where the animals scare away the dragon, saying ‘BUZZ OFF, that’s MY witch!’. I realise that won’t be remotely funny unless you have small kids but that was my thought process mid-race…..

    6-10K (22:25) Splits were 4:37, 9:00 (missed 7K), 4:32, 4:16.
    RR let me away at this point (probably wanted to salvage what was left of his heels) and pointed out a girl ahead who was keeping a similar pace. So I focused on her and kept her pace. She started to pull away around 8K and I felt it was a bit early for me to try to follow her. In retrospect I should have gone with her because I was able to put the boot down for the last Km and finished quite strongly and in reasonable comfort.

    Like Raheny 5 where I fell a few seconds short of the A-goal, the lack of an (official ;)) PB here doesn’t bother me because I’d be confident now of a faster time with 10K-specific training and a goal race at the end of it. I’m really happy to have done a decent 10K off 5K training and not so fresh legs. Dunshaughlin 2015 let’s be havin’ ya!
    • 6.5 miles incl. 10K race (and a poor excuse of a warm-up. Next time more warm-up, less chatting).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 10,897 ✭✭✭✭Murph_D


    Ah G, you were a bit harsh there. The witch had a dog and a cat and a half dozen other critters on there. Plus Robbie is tall enough to hide a football team behind. Nice running!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,355 ✭✭✭Bungy Girl


    Murph_D wrote: »
    Ah G, you were a bit harsh there. The witch had a dog and a cat and a half dozen other critters on there. Plus Robbie is tall enough to hide a football team behind. Nice running!

    I didn't want to share! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,936 ✭✭✭annapr


    That's not a moral PB.... that's an actual PB, if you go by the gun times!!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,388 ✭✭✭laura_ac3


    Well done again G. As I said, you know the improvement is there and training is going well. Great signs.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,420 ✭✭✭Ososlo


    Great running yesterday BG!
    It's all going in the right direction for you!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,355 ✭✭✭Bungy Girl


    Finished off the week with a nice and easy recovery run up to the Wooden Bridge and back. Had a few tweaks and twinges after yesterday but they eased out as I ran. The sea looked very blue and sparkly this evening. Lovely run :D
    • 50:00 (5.2 miles)

    TOTAL WEEKLY MILES: 32


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