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Great racing account and race B. Not winding you up BUT do you think that your studied approach helped. It certainly comes across as though it created a lot of positivity and certainty about your strategy. Its hard to beat a strong pacey finish like that. Well done.
Thanks! I kind of hinted at it, but I was probably over-prepared for this race. Knowing the course well is far less important than having a positive mentality and knowing how to respond to how you're feeling while actually racing (time-trialing?). I basically got my A goal because of two faster kms (3rd and 8th) on top of fairly consistent splits, and a sprint at the end. None of these were planned in advance, they were responses to where I was and how I was feeling at the time. I knew I had to hold something back for the hill near the end, but other than that most of my local knowledge was only really useful for running somewhat close to the correct racing line.
Whenever I finish a race with a sprint I'm always left wondering why I was able to do so - though today I got a good shout from my family, while staring straight at a possible A goal time on the finishing clock and also it was downhill all at the same time, so maybe my central governor was suitably distracted
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Annie get your Run wrote: »That's fantastic B,we'll done although I'm not sure there was enough discomfort for a 10k race
It was definitely tough and I certainly worked hard this morning. I might have been still buzzing from the race, while quaffing a sneaky lunchtime bellini writing the race report, so maybe I brushed over the anguish and exhaustion a bit too easily :pac:0 -
Back to regular transmissions... actually this week was kind of interesting, even without the 10k PB.
On Monday I did last week's longer run, as I decided to do a recovery run on Sunday after Saturday's McMillan session. Monday was pretty hot and sunny, and I was enjoying running in the heat... up until mile 10 when I kind of fell apart and jogged uncomfortably home at recovery pace. Heat bonking is no fun.
On Saturday I popped over to River Valley parkrun where they were celebrating their 1st birthday. I only had a few miles with strides on the plan, but I reckoned I could get away with a steady enjoyable run without killing my Fingal 10k ambitions. There were a load of nice awards given out at the start, and a good turnout on the morning which all made for a good atmosphere. I didn't go out hard at all, but I ended up in 4th after about the 1st km and was on top of the 3rd runner. We exchanged placed a few times over the course before I realised that I could be doing some damage, so after the 2nd lap of the terrible hill I started conversing with your man who exclaimed that he was close to throwing up and cursed the existence of the hill. After recovering from the hill I sped up a bit to see if he'd follow, and he did, and when he kicked for the podium position I was more than happy to let him go. I finished in 20:46, so by no means all out but definitely not steady. I had a few chats with folks after, and clickerquicklic introduced himself and we had a good natter. The rest of the day was spent on my feet and with a 3 year old on my back, and I was feeling more than a little tired by the evening.
This week I also may have... *cough*... whisper it... joined a club. As much fun as this cycle of training has been, it's just easier to run with other humans, especially when you're doing sessions. I've thrown some money towards Crusaders and I intend to show up on Tuesday. Worst case it's a good way of funnelling money from Silicon Valley investors to Irish running clubs (we have some sort of scheme in work where I can claim back athletics club subscriptions), best case I actually show up regularly and do some running
One more thing. I've been wondering how to approach the Disneyworld Marathon in January. There are lots of reasons why it's a terrible target race - I'm on holiday, it's at 5:30AM in the morning, it's just after xmas, the weather in Orlando is kind of unpredictable, the field is really weak... while picking up some groceries in the Pavilions during the weak I saw a lad in a Donadea 50k t-shirt. I had an immediate epiphany. Disneyworld is now a training run for Donadea (presuming it's on in February!).
Date|Distance|Pace|Notes
17th July|12.5 miles|8:27|Really enjoyable 10 miles followed by a terrible 2.5 miles thanks to the heat
18th July|5.4 miles|9:09|Recovery miles, went the long way to the bus via Donnybrook
19th July|3.6 miles|8:10|Another work lunchtime run, this time in the rain with a footballer of decent standard who's recovering from an injury. Not very conversational pace.
19th July|10.1 miles|8:23|A run home in the pi$$ings of rain.
20th July|4 miles|8:40|Easy running to the bus once again, this time around different parts of D2 and D1.
22nd July|4.2 miles|?|Previously mentioned parkrun with some half-a$$ed warmup and cooldown.
Total: 47.9 miles
Next week: Meeting the Cru.0 -
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Disneyworld? You're mad
I think treating it as a training run for a 50k is a great idea. Most importantly it will take some pressure off you for it around the holidays which at the end of the day are likely more important looking at the bigger picture than sweating over a (pun intended) Mickey Mouse marathon .
Sounds cool though - 5.30 is not exactly a standard start time!0 -
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Disneyworld? You're mad
I think treating it as a training run for a 50k is a great idea. Most importantly it will take some pressure off you for it around the holidays which at the end of the day are likely more important looking at the bigger picture than sweating over a (pun intended) Mickey Mouse marathon .
Sounds cool though - 5.30 is not exactly a standard start time!
Yeh, I feel a lot more relaxed about it now that it's just a training run. I'll probably do 26.2 @ 50k pace but I might end up stopping for a few selfies on the way so we'll see
A lot of USA races are on at ridiculously early times it seems, the SF marathon also starts at 5.30. For Disney, you need to be on a bus at latest 4AM to get to the start line. At least jetlag should work in my favour here!0 -
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Entries are now open for Donadea 50k, its on the 10th Feb. Entry forms available through their facebook page.
Oh, nice one. I haven't yet been approved for the Facebook group, I asked to join a couple of weeks ago. Is getting into this like getting into the Barkley Marathon or something?
Time to send a PM to anto...0 -
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Very nice week, B. Have done that club session a couple of times - maybe a bit complicated for what it intends (multiple paces), but you get used to it after three or four marathon seasons. Ferris is a big fan of that particular one, maybe he can help you unpick it!
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A bit late with my weekly update, I'm sure you were all beside yourselves
Not an amazing week of running last week, life has been getting in the way with plenty of social events, lack of good sleep, work being busy and picking up a cold along the way. I did enter Run The Line as some sort of interesting long-run to do in the build-up to January's marathon and February's 50k, which should provide some motivation for some hilly runs later on in the year.
Date|Distance|Pace|Notes
7th August|5.1 miles|9:44|Some very easy miles around Swords before we went up to Monaghan, including wandering around the trails in the deep dark forests of River Valley - I think there's a way to get through to Knocksedan but I haven't found it yet.
8th August|3.3 miles|9:25|A few pre-breakfast post-wedding miles, the first couple done with my better half around the grounds of Castle Leslie - very fancy though a bit of a mudfest in most directions.
9th August|3.4 miles|8:43|Lunch run with a lad who's in Novice DCM training in work
9th August|10.2 miles|8:34|Commute home.
10th August|9.6 miles|?|Popped over to the club, though I had woken up a little sniffly and thinking I was in the early days of a cold. The coach wasn't around and I was trotting around warming up when a bunch go by at speed including one lad who I was running with last week. I caught up and went along, expecting them to be doing the prescribed session... which seemed to be going a little too fast for what I thought it was meant to be. I went along for a bit, started to tire and after 10 minutes I decided to not blindly follow them and do something a lot closer to what I was expecting. I ended up doing 10, 8 and 8 minutes off 2 minutes at HM effort 6:39, 6:48, 6:49 paces - not great but hard enough given the onset of the cold.
11th August|9.1 miles|8:58|Full on cold mode commute into work in the morning
12th August|5 miles|8:35|Not content with just having a cold, I also had a hangover today but wanted to do something useful, so did 6x12s hill sprints and 6x30s strides.
13th August|15.2 miles|7:59|Starting to feel less cold-ish and not hungover, so treated myself to a decent Sunday run.
Total: 61.1 miles
NextThis week: Nothing too crazy, probably the club on Thursday again. Given that my racing plan for the forseeable future is all long I should probably get back to running lots of longer long runs...0 -
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The Muppet wrote: »There's no path through to knocksedan from the park that I know of . Lived in the jacko when I was a kid.
The easiest way through is into ushers over the fence up by the lake to the house and out the avenue assuming nothing has changed in there in the last 40 years.:D
Well, Chivitto is always trying to encourage people into track events, this might qualify as high jump, or pole vaulting?!! 0 -
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. Hope your PB household got to celebrate tonight, well done to you and the missis. 
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