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Well done on your race anyway BG, sorry I wasn't there to cheer you on, I was away.
Will you be back for the Leinster Masters which we're hosting in January? We will ensure that the grass is no longer long for that race...
Excellent! And while you're at it maybe put the sprinklers on for a few days beforehand
Will you be racing ? Or organising ? Or both :eek:?0 -
Bungy Girl wrote: »Excellent! And while you're at it maybe put the sprinklers on for a few days beforehand
Will you be racing ? Or organising ? Or both :eek:?
I will pray for rain for you BG!
I've had to ditch the XC this season I'm afraid! My new sprints programme calls for track only - imagine. It was a tough call forgoing all the fun of XC - maybe I'll be back next year. The track plan involves a massive c. 900-1200 meters running a week. I know, pick yourself up off the floor BG! Oh I forgot about the 800 meters part of the warm up and cool down LOL. It's like a different sport. I am reading about your LSRs with envy!0 -
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Monday – Easy
Lovely night for a run. Headed out towards the Bull Wall. Met some running friends and joined them for a couple of miles before turning back to head home.- 5.0 miles (grass, path)
Tuesday – Club Session
Enjoyed this despite the cold. Jogged there and back with Murph and Ferris B. Missed the first rep while battling with my leggings :rolleyes: so had to do the last one on my own after everyone else had finished
. Session was 12 x 400m with 45 sec recovery. Be grand if I could hold that pace for JB .
400m x 12 pace in min/mile
06:24 06:21
06:19 06:24
06:16 06:12
06:21 06:07
06:20 06:19
06:26 06:11- 8.9 miles total (path, track)
Wednesday – Easy
Loops of local park in the daylight just before dusk while BG Jr. was outsourced. Nearly lost my reason when I came across 3 men with 4 dogs off the leash, fighting and growling (the dogs, not the men) and realised that if there was any malice intended I was a sitting duck as I was on the wrong side of the park and there was no one else about. Not a fan of dogs off the lead at the best of times anyway. Nothing to report and I felt a bit silly after the fact for getting into a big panic.- 3.6 miles @ 8:55 (grass, path)
Month 2016 2015 2014 2013
January 141 101 86 0
February 134 109 75 0
March 114 124 109 0
April 127 129 101 24
May 127 133 95 81
June 110 110 86 72
July 139 181 2 101
August 91 208 31 37
September 136 133 83 43
October 144 155 93 64
November 147 170 107 69
December 113 119 94
1410 1666 987 585
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Thursday – REST
Can’t remember a thing about Thursday. No doubt catching up on the million things that need to be done between now and Christmas.
Friday – Easy
Headed to Howth to cheer a clubmate running the back to back marathons. Joined her for a mile or so but left her to the hills to keep the legs fresh for Jingle Bells and continued on the flat before doing some strides on the grass in front of a posh housing estate. Got some odd looks. No, I am not scoping out your house, I am doing my strides. Sheeesh.- 3.5 miles (path/grass) @ 8:36
Saturday – Jingle Bells 5K (PB 20:44 :cool:)
Today was a good day. Wanted a PB (20:50 from the summer in perfect conditions after a season of track work/speedy stuff) but wasn’t sure if it was on the cards. Arrived on the D3 bus with Murph and Anna. Loads of time to spare (thanks, guys!) and met Laura, Annie GYR and Nop. Bit of a warm up before discarding the layers and chose a spot in the pen a few rows back from Murph and around the usual suspects/nemeses. The plan had been to race naked but a quick glance at the stop watch passing the first Km showed 4:20 :eek:. Way off target so the naked racing went out the window and I checked the stopwatch and tried to do sums at each Km marker (watch was still in miles :rolleyes:). So I HTFU’d up Chesterfield Ave after that wake-up call and was passing out runners. Alarm bells went off when mile 2 beeped at 6:51 pace. Yikes. Even a sub 21 was looking unlikely at this point. A clubmate was cheering on the Upper Glen road at the S-bend section and shouted ‘It’s all downhill from here’. It’s not really but I took the encouragement and started to dig a bit deeper. The final kick in the pants motivation came from Nop appearing on my shoulder with maybe half a mile to go. I found another gear and ran like there were demons chasing me instead of a Flying Dutchman
. Thought the finish would never appear. Clocked 20:45 on my watch and glad to get another second back on the chip time. Oh, and a prize for 1st in my age group, whoop! And a spot prize for answering this question: What is the name for a word that’s spelled the same forwards or backwards ?
Palindrome.
Met some of the Graduates who were all pleased with their results: Wubble Wubble, TBO, SpaceyLou, The Muppet, FitzA, ESV, congrats to you all and lovely to see you. Delighted for AnnieGYR, Laura, Denis_B and Nop who all got PBs. Murph was within a second or so of his, clocking a course PB. All good.
Ate ridiculous amounts of brack at the prizegiving, then did a couple of miles cooldown after I got home.
Splits (in miles ): 6:49, 6:51, 6:22 (6:24)- 6.1 miles total (tarmac, path)
Sunday – LSR
Just over 10 cold, damp, slow uneventful miles. All on the path as it was dark by the time I got out after a surprisingly fun few hours at Panto. He’s behind you!- 10.2 miles (path) @ 9:27
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Well done on the PB and first prize! Fantastic!
You really did speed up in that third mile didn't you!
Thanks. The downhill had a lot to do with the pace on that last mile. Gotta love gravity.well done on the PB, and prize(s). All the hard work in the Summer paying off.
Thanks, A. Definitely got a bit of confidence from that race.Annie get your Run wrote: »Congrats again! brilliant run and super acceleration tactics when Nop appeared on your shoulder
How did you get on last night?! You really need to get on Strava
Nothing like someone with intent appearing on your shoulder to make you HTFU! Last night was good! I'm waiting for Murph to post his account so I can cut and paste it. No to Strava :eek:Impressive running G, well done on prize and pb!!
Thanks Spaceylou, and straight back at ya! It was great to see so many people happy with PBs.Well done on pb, tought under 20.30 was on for sure, knew there wasn't enough
downhill For sub 20 Anna suggested, defiantly going in right direction.
Hey G, I had no idea how it was going to go and wouldn't have had the confidence to set out at 20:30 pace. I won't rule it out but without the downhill it would still have been 21:xx so still plenty to do!0 -
Bungy Girl wrote: »
Nothing like someone with intent appearing on your shoulder to make you HTFU! Last night was good! I'm waiting for Murph to post his account so I can cut and paste it. No to Strava :eek:
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Hmm well thanks to strava we already know Murph's account :pac: glad it went well
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Monday – REST
Scheduled.
Tuesday – Alsaa Winter League (Track) – 1 mile (6:06 PB)
An excellent write up from Murph here which saves me doing a report . Thanks Murph ! Felt really good for this and having someone to race/chase made all the difference. Conditions were perfect too - barely any wind and perfect temperature. Garmin awarded me a PR of 6:02 for the mile which just shows how inaccurate the GPS can be on a track.
Approx splits from timer (1:30, 1:35, 1:33, 1:28)- 3.5 miles total (track)
Wednesday – S&C & Easy/Recovery
Usual Pilates. Good class although I was suffering a bit from cramp in my feet, no doubt due to Tuesday’s exploits in spikes. Followed by some easy miles up and down the main Clontarf road parallel to the promenade. Windy enough on the way back.- 4.0 miles @ 9:37 (grass, path)
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Bungy Girl wrote: »Monday – REST
Scheduled.
Tuesday – Alsaa Winter League (Track) – 1 mile (6:06 PB)
An excellent write up from Murph here which saves me doing a report . Thanks Murph ! Felt really good for this and having someone to race/chase made all the difference. Conditions were perfect too - barely any wind and perfect temperature. Garmin awarded me a PR of 6:02 for the mile which just shows how inaccurate the GPS can be on a track.
Approx splits from timer (1:30, 1:35, 1:33, 1:28)
Indeed. It gave me 5:59. :rolleyes: I actually had a dream after that the race was long, probably because someone has actually laid down a 402m strava segment for the ALSAA track. 0 -
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