Onwards and upwards...and....fasterwards.

RacoonQueen

RacoonQueen wrote: »

:eek::eek:

I know!

I actually woke up on the sofa at 7:30 and the lesson was at 8 so I went to bed and I slept right through til 6

RacoonQueen

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I know!

I actually woke up on the sofa at 7:30 and the lesson was at 8 so I went to bed and I slept right through til 6

Sounds like a good call then. Can be hard to know if you're just being lazy or if you actually need to rest. If you're sleeping right through like that, sounds like the sleep was the better idea.

Ok ok so I have some confessions to make.

I temporarily hated running there for most of Sunday.

Ran my 45 minutes easy on Thursday as per graduate plan, took the rest day Friday, wasn't on my own for any part of Saturday so had to give that short easy run a miss.

Then yesterday I was meant to run for 75 minutes. I went for a swim, brought the mutt for a long walk, and just didn't want to go running. Not even laziness, because I was fidgety and full of energy, I just decided that I did not want to run. Was having a little panic that that was it and my running life was over and then by 10 last night I was going to head out and get it done but went to bed instead as I was going to the gym at 6:30.

Woke up this morning at 5:15 dying to go out for a run :rolleyes:

I decided not to - and just to jump back into the graduate plan tomorrow.

So went to crossfit this morning and will swim tonight and then run early tomorrow morning again.

TL:dr fell out of love with running for a day, fell back in love last night. State of me face.

mbarr

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TL:dr fell out of love with running for a day, fell back in love last night. State of me face.

Felt the same yesterday, mad to get back to it today

annapr

Just found this log, I'm behind on running and everything else! Best of luck with the targets and don't let the imperial bullies intimidate you

I have sub-50 10k as a target too so will be interested to see what plan you land on.

mbarr

mbarr wrote: »

Felt the same yesterday, mad to get back to it today

Hope today went well!

I suspect running will be sore tomorrow after this morning's squats.

annapr wrote: »

Just found this log, I'm behind on running and everything else! Best of luck with the targets and don't let the imperial bullies intimidate you

I have sub-50 10k as a target too so will be interested to see what plan you land on.

You're a lot closer than me Anna! I'm very very slow at the moment. I'm dreading doing a race because I don't really want to know how bad I am

500 metres swimming done tonight.

I just followed the graduate plan this week.


Week 2|
Monday|OFF
Tuesday| 45 minutes easy
Wednesday| 30 minutes easy + 6*100m strides
Thursday| OFF
Friday| 15 minutes recovery
Saturday| Race
Sunday| 30 minutes very easy

Nothing overly exciting. Except that I got Thursday and Friday mixed up.

The Tuesday session was nothing more than a shuffle because squats!

There was also swimming and more S&C. Very easy week.

I himmed and hawwed over doing the jingle bells 5k, I had been talking about it for a couple of weeks and was really quite worried about finding out how slow I had gotten. I knew well there would be no PB for me which I was ok with, but I didn't want to know quite how bad it had gotten. I finally signed up five minutes before the deadline, and on Friday night I had the worst nights sleep. I did a marathon just 6 weeks ago, and here I was losing sleep over a 5k. I had been talking to my friend about my nerves, and she did me up a "race plan". This was being based on my running under 30:59 which was where I decided was probably my realistic best case scenario taking all variables into account. So that's what I planned for.

Her plan in short was to go out very slowly for first 500metres, settle into 6:13min/km pace for the next 2k, hang on for dear life until 3.5km which is where I always hurt the most and in this case, where the course gets lovely.

So I did exactly what she said.

Race report:

I didn't have a very orthodox warmup for this race. I got stuck in heavy traffic coming across the city and had to pick up my number before 10:30. I was late and there was no parking anywhere - I ended parked up where I thought was close-ish to donore clubhouse and took off sprinting up the road, it was not as close as I thought and so I sprinted for nearly 2km. Arrived to the clubhouse late and completely out of breath. Was told to relax by a very nice man and handed a bell and pointed toward the registration table. Leaving the clubhouse same nice man told me again to calm down that I had loads of time (it was 10:40).

Briskly walked to the start line and missed the bag drop. Jogged back to that and met some other DCM graduates which calmed me down.

I couldn't see sub 30 signs so moved back a good bit back from the sub 25 group and settled in with folk who looked at my level (not that you can ever tell really!), people were in layers of clothes and I in a wee vest getting the funniest of looks.

False start meant moving backward and losing the grouping I was in, I now felt I should have been farther forward but I was where I was.

Decided to run this one by feel to make Dubgal proud!

Start
Off we went again, took it very handy, was being passed swiftly at this stage by people I knew I would be seeing again. The wind was at our back here until we turned into Chesterfield avenue and it had no effect on up here. There were people walking already, people who had run past me just a couple of minutes before.

Km1-3
Settled nicely into my steady pace, tempted to pass people out but decided against as I didn't want those same people go by me later on for my mistake. I was very comfortable but afraid to push on too soon. I did have a stitch at this stage, but I always have a bloody stitch and I remembered pconn's post in the how to race thread and I reminded myself that I have to have the ability to suffer and so the stitch remained but I didn't let it in. There were some folk I just couldn't pull away from, their running was erratic and when u tried to pass I was almost taken out of it by a buggy so I was getting a bit frustrated here but held back until I got a clear pas.

3-3.5 I was no longer comfortable, I was hanging on here for the glen road. Hanging on for dear life to be honest, but I knew it was close and then I could just beast my way to the finish.

3.5-4.5
No more holding back, just running as fast as I could manage and ignoring the stitch and suffering on. I was starting to pick people off at this point - mostly by their santa hat or antlers!

4.5-5
Tried so hard to push harder here but I hadn't got it in me still I was passing people and only one girl passed me at this point. Bitch. If I could push it I would come in under 30minhtes but I thought if I ran any harder I would puke, so kept the pace steady. Crossed the line and was absolutely delighted with how I had ran. Good bit off my PB but really happy with how the race went.

Considering I ran by feel and only checked my watch at the end of the race, I'm feeling pretty pleased with my splits;

1 - 6:26
2 - 6:13
3 - 6:11
4 - 5:50
5 - 5:34

Garmin time 30:14

So that's where I'm at. I may need to reassess my goals, but I'll give myself another 6 - 8 weeks before I do that.

Kennyg71

What's the story Whopsa, that Jingle bells knock stuffing out off you, are u
Taking a rest. You won't believe my key ring turned up, one of Lads picked it
Up in pub and brought down to club on Wednesday, so I now have 2, so if you
Short let's know and I can return one.��

Well now you've got two!

I still have a couple left over so you're grand.

My current state of affairs is that my sciatica has flared up again. I've been doing a fair bit of strength and conditioning and swimming buy my running has come to a halt. I'm not too concerned, I'm going to work on strength in my glutes/lower back and try and knock this sciatica on the head once and for all and I'll be much better for it. So another couple of days off running but hopefully by middle of the week I'll be back out for an easy trot

Kennyg71

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Well now you've got two!

I still have a couple left over so you're grand.

My current state of affairs is that my sciatica has flared up again. I've been doing a fair bit of strength and conditioning and swimming buy my running has come to a halt. I'm not too concerned, I'm going to work on strength in my glutes/lower back and try and knock this sciatica on the head once and for all and I'll be much better for it. So another couple of days off running but hopefully by middle of the week I'll be back out for an easy trot

Good to hear your on top of it, hope trot goes well and your back soon:)