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    #122
    tunney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,583 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    Xzavier Spicy Chain wrote: »
    Better to plan for and do 5hrs training a week than planning 10hrs and only managing half that and beating yourself up over it.

    I was only planning 6, will get 5 down :)


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    #123
    tunney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,583 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    RacoonQueen wrote: »
    I find it hard to have the training mojo when I don't have anything to specifically train for...too early to start for next tri season. This is a total limbo time of year. Have you rejoined a running club? Target cross country season along with bit of swim and cycle?

    I was going to join Clonliffe Harriers a few months ago - but work decided I needed to work late every day since. Hope to be able to do something like this soon. However the tri club is revamping and reorganising completely so that should meet my motivational needs.
    j0hn1 wrote: »
    Just run for a few months instead, take the pressure off yourself.
    Better bang for your training hours buck.
    Plenty of running races to target in the new year, give yourself a chance to a hit a target.

    I do enjoy running, I am better at it than the other two sports - but I love all three!
    Xzavier Spicy Chain wrote: »
    Better to plan for and do 5hrs training a week than planning 10hrs and only managing half that and beating yourself up over it.

    Agreed and I wasn't doing that. Stuff came up that meant all dropped. Will go into things in more detail off line.

    Also this is most likely my last self coached week should be different then.


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    #124
    Kurt_Godel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,157 ✭✭✭Kurt_Godel


    tunney wrote: »
    I was only planning 6, will get 5 down :)

    "Do as I say, not as I do" :)

    Care for a friendly wager? Any race, any distance, any discipline; this side of 2015.


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    #125
    Oryx
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    There-Can-Be-Only-One.jpg


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    #126
    sconhome
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    Kurt_Godel wrote: »
    "Do as I say, not as I do" :)

    Care for a friendly wager? Any race, any distance, any discipline; this side of 2015.

    Oh jesus!! :eek:

    Did you not see the result last year when his left hand threw down the gauntlet and his right hand picked up?


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    #127
    Dory Dory
    Registered Users Posts: 6,888 ✭✭✭Dory Dory


    Kurt_Godel wrote: »
    "Do as I say, not as I do" :)

    Care for a friendly wager? Any race, any distance, any discipline; this side of 2015.

    Beer mile???? :D


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    #128
    mossym
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 8,766 Mod ✭✭✭✭mossym


    images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ8yZau5Qen3EZ4KMQ8sZEZWaU5P_BB2D9BocBYwnIzhEOFHWUj


    so many gifs that work here ...overload overload


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    #129
    tunney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,583 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    Kurt_Godel wrote: »
    "Do as I say, not as I do" :)

    Care for a friendly wager? Any race, any distance, any discipline; this side of 2015.

    5km or 10km road race, late November early December.

    Bring it baldy


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    #130
    tunney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,583 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    tunney wrote: »
    5km or 10km road race, late November early December.

    Bring it baldy

    While trying to find stuff to bait "The Eagle" with I found this

    391890.jpg

    My one and only time leading a 10km and it only last about 600m (and it turned out to be a 9km)

    Everyone thought I looked terrible and that I look healthy now. I think the opposite.


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    #131
    Kurt_Godel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,157 ✭✭✭Kurt_Godel


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfldkNcLSNg


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    #132
    mossym
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 8,766 Mod ✭✭✭✭mossym


    don;t waste beer like that, my seasons over on saturday, send it to me, i'll galdly take care of it for you..:)

    this thread really needs some eye of the tiger in the background now.


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    #133
    BTH
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    tunney wrote: »
    While trying to find stuff to bait "The Eagle" with I found this

    391890.jpg

    My one and only time leading a 10km and it only last about 600m (and it turned out to be a 9km)

    Everyone thought I looked terrible and that I look healthy now. I think the opposite.

    And running alongside Andy Bolt, impressive. Who won on the day??


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    #134
    tunney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,583 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    Kurt_Godel wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfldkNcLSNg

    So thats how you get good running form, lose 10kg and 10 years?


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    #135
    tunney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,583 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    BTH wrote: »
    And running alongside Andy Bolt, impressive. Who won on the day??

    Number 828? (or is it 829?)


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    #136
    BTH
    Registered Users Posts: 3,075 Mod ✭✭✭✭BTH


    tunney wrote: »
    Number 828? (or is it 829?)

    Yup. Sound lad.


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    #137
    Kurt_Godel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,157 ✭✭✭Kurt_Godel


    tunney wrote: »
    So thats how you get good running form, lose 10kg and 10 years?

    It'll help toward losing the 3kg I'll need for a sub 19 5k, or sub 40 10k.

    10 years???... since you last dreamed of those sort of times!


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    #138
    hf4z6sqo7vjngi
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    You looked taller back then, now just the same height as me, give or take an inch.


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    #139
    tunney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,583 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    BTH wrote: »
    Yup. Sound lad.

    It was running under someone elses name then.

    He finished 204th
    829 DANIEL KIRWAN 00:36:34

    I was 9th in 31:10


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    #140
    tunney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,583 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    Kurt_Godel wrote: »
    It'll help toward losing the 3kg I'll need for a sub 19 5k, or sub 40 10k.

    10 years???... since you last dreamed of those sort of times!

    31 minutes in a 10km definitely 10 years ago since I dreamed of that.

    Sub 40 10k - did that last year hungover :)


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    #141
    Kurt_Godel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,157 ✭✭✭Kurt_Godel


    tunney wrote: »
    31 minutes in a 10km definitely 10 years ago since I dreamed of that.

    Sub 40 10k - did that last year hungover :)

    And that complacency will be your undoing :)

    Winner pays €50 to others kids GAA or swim club?


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    #142
    tunney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,583 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    Kurt_Godel wrote: »
    And that complacency will be your undoing :)

    Winner pays €50 to others kids GAA or swim club?

    Fair enough.

    Any race other than the ones on the weekend 4/5/6 December - abroad for that.


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    #143
    Dory Dory
    Registered Users Posts: 6,888 ✭✭✭Dory Dory


    Kurt_Godel wrote: »
    And that complacency will be your undoing :)

    Winner pays €50 to others kids GAA or swim club?

    Brilliant!! ;):)


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    #144
    Kurt_Godel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,157 ✭✭✭Kurt_Godel


    Dory Dory wrote: »
    Brilliant!! ;):)

    Obviously I meant winner pays his kids club from the losers pocket... obviously! ;)


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    #145
    tunney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,583 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    Tuesday 1st September 2015

    A 0500 start to the day, and a very long day it was. Anyways sat on the turbo for the first time in donkeys about 2000 and had a nice session. Some complaints from VMOs in the harder bits. Felt good to be back on the turbo to be honest. Will probably sleep like a log tonight, won't say like a baby as experience has shown they sleep really badly.


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    #146
    tunney
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    Wednesday 2nd September 2015

    Up at 0530 to leave the inlaws to the airport, thought I might as well get my hour run done then. Legs blocked and slugglish. Rec fems and hip flexors tight. And still half asleep from the last few nights.

    Heard a great expression yesterday:
    "there is positive stress - when you are under pressure, you have all the responsibilty but you also have the control and power to affect the outcome."

    "and there is negative stress - when you are under pressure, you have all the responsibilty and you have no control no power to affect the outcome."


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    #147
    tunney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,583 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    I actually swam this morning. A proper set and in the water at 0640

    Mad ould b1tch was there. She swims like a nutter (and badly) and bullies everyone out of the lane so she has a lane, the best lane to herself. I'm not inclined to be bullied so hopped in. Within 200m she had punched me in the mouth. I just kept ignoring and swimming on. She never checks if its safe to kick off the wall, so she ploughed into me. Another time she missed timed her turn I misplaced my foot as a result of her turn and it was placed on her ribs.

    So frustrating that she cannot swim with the lane for cappers or at least let people through. On a plus side it keeps you sharp and you cannot go into a trance and its good OW practice too.


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    #148
    tunney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,583 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    Also there has been a completely boycott of sleep in our house. Bar Aoibhe. She sleeps through everything. But I am wrecked


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    #149
    hf4z6sqo7vjngi
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    tunney wrote: »
    "there is positive stress - when you are under pressure, you have all the responsibilty but you also have the control and power to affect the outcome."

    "and there is negative stress - when you are under pressure, you have all the responsibilty and you have no control no power to affect the outcome."

    Dont mind the first one but hate the second one.


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    #150
    Bambaata
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    That granny is crazy! Fortunately ive not come across her in 2 months, as i havent been to the pool :P Thinking of making a comeback though! Are you in NW for the foreseeable future? If you are planning on a dip any morning let me know, the motivation to meet someone there might help me from bed!


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    #151
    tunney
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    Bambaata wrote: »
    That granny is crazy! Fortunately ive not come across her in 2 months, as i havent been to the pool :P Thinking of making a comeback though! Are you in NW for the foreseeable future? If you are planning on a dip any morning let me know, the motivation to meet someone there might help me from bed!

    Will be in the water three mornings a week from here on. In tomorrow morning. Although I suspect my present pace is well below yours. Not swam much in a few years.


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