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The Boggers Log
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ThebitterLemon wrote: »Happy with that TBH.
At last some positivity!!!!ThebitterLemon wrote: »either that or cop on fast! TbL
Go with that one. I had to cut my bike ride short on Sunday because the heat was unreal, how any of ye ran 10 miles, let alone raced in it is beyond me. Park it and move on. Also, a pair of runners are better than no runners at all
PS having the law on speed dial comes in very handy
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Hey C, I can imagine that it wasn't pleasant running in those conditions and I agree in relation to turning away from the wind. I find that in hot conditions when racing with no breeze or with the wind at your back there is just no air to be found.
Listen if the prospect of a weekend in SS with the "Adonis of the East" doesn't get you to cop on then I don't know what will
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Sorry about your Mullingar experience.
Your weekly update had me laughing out loud so thanks for that. I'm surprised a high-flyer like yourself has to book his own travel but I'm not surprised you got the day wrong - you were probably across the international date line when you booked it.
Packing the wrong runners? I've managed to do a club session and I think one actual race in ODD runners. Now that's a senior moment!
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Tuesday: travelled to Athens from Paris in the morning. Had meetings all day and then headed off on a 3.5 hour car journey to meet some colleagues. By the time I got to the hotel/resort it was too late to run. Unscheduled rest.
Wednesday: I've come to hate travelling lately but I'll make an exception for the place I'm staying in at the moment. It's truly superb, The Romanos Hotel & Resort, Navarino Dunes, Messinia, Costa Navarino. The place is fantastic, beside a beautiful beach, with two golf courses, excellent recreational and spa facilities and superb food. My room even has its own private "pool"!
Got up very early for a run around the path of the golf course and was joined by a few colleagues. Started off easy and picked it up as it was starting to get very warm, got 6 miles done @ 8.27. Hit the beach for a quick swim and a breakfast alfresco, lovely
After a day of meetings I decided to do yesterday's planned session in the gym.
2 mile wu/cd with 8 x 2 mins @ 6.10 pace off 2 mins recovery. The gym was nice with a decent treadmill but it was warm. Set a small incline and only did a mile warm up before getting stuck into the faster stuff. Found this a lot tougher than I would have liked and I wasn't getting the full benefit of the 2 min recovery coz it took a bit of time to bring the pace down. Was really puffin towards the end, I'd set the pace at 15.8km which is around 6.07 pace and I did the last 2 minutes at 16km to try and harden up a bit when suffering!
Happy enough with the day and got just over 11 miles done.
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ThebitterLemon wrote: »Tuesday: travelled to Athens from Paris in the morning. Had meetings all day and then headed off on a 3.5 hour car journey to meet some colleagues. By the time I got to the hotel/resort it was too late to run. Unscheduled rest.
Wednesday: I've come to hate travelling lately but I'll make an exception for the place I'm staying in at the moment. It's truly superb, The Romanos Hotel & Resort, Navarino Dunes, Messinia, Costa Navarino. The place is fantastic, beside a beautiful beach, with two golf courses, excellent recreational and spa facilities and superb food. My room even has its own private "pool"!
Got up very early for a run around the path of the golf course and was joined by a few colleagues. Started off easy and picked it up as it was starting to get very warm, got 6 miles done @ 8.27. Hit the beach for a quick swim and a breakfast alfresco, lovely
After a day of meetings I decided to do yesterday's planned session in the gym.
2 mile wu/cd with 8 x 2 mins @ 6.10 pace off 2 mins recovery. The gym was nice with a decent treadmill but it was warm. Set a small incline and only did a mile warm up before getting stuck into the faster stuff. Found this a lot tougher than I would have liked and I wasn't getting the full benefit of the 2 min recovery coz it took a bit of time to bring the pace down. Was really puffin towards the end, I'd set the pace at 15.8km which is around 6.07 pace and I did the last 2 minutes at 16km to try and harden up a bit when suffering!
Happy enough with the day and got just over 11 miles done.
TbL
Nice pic. I hope you used that pool for some aqua running to aid recovery.0 -
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Thursday: plan today another 4/6 mile easy double.
Another very early morning start and another loop around the golf course in the early morning heat. Only one of my colleagues joined me today, the rest probably suffering from excesses of the night before! Finished up with a swim in in the sea, great for auld legs. 3 mile sunny Nursing Home Special.
Too hot to run outside in the late afternoon so I hit the gym for 5 boring treadmill miles. Finished up with a blast of stretches and rolling my ass with the medicine ball to try and ease out the conked size knots!
8 miles for the day.
Friday: plan 2 mile wu/cd with 3 miles at 6.35.
Travelling all day from the resort to Athens to Dublin to Connemara, so no time for any running.
Sat & Sun: was heading up to Knockvicar near Carrick on Shannon for a weeks family holiday which thankfully didn't involve any aeroplane, hotel or long drive! Was absolutely wrecked though and I slept for 12 hours on Saturday night. Family stuff and TBH a lack of any real desire meant I got no running done. Mrs TbL had me warned not to wake the kids in the morning but if I'd any real determination like Double D, I could have climbed out the bedroom window and got some miles in!
Monday: really not feeling the love and another poor week last week left me considering taking this week off and starting again next Monday. Struggling to find some consistency and form at the moment. We were going to go to Enniscrone for the day today and I googled events and activities in the area and came across the Black Pig festival 5 & 10k. Decided to go off plan and to do this subject to higher authority planning permission which was granted subject to a number of conditions
It started lashing rain and the planning officer decided to abandon Enniscrone and do kids indoor activities, so we did bowling, pool and arcade games instead. I'm a bit compulsive and had had that Black Pig 5k in my head so when Mrs TbL said they were going to see Ghosterbusters, I said "who ya gonna call", "a taxi to Enniscrone"! She looked at me like I should be committed but didn't immediately rule it out so I called Carrick taxis and agreed a price from Carrick to Knockvicar to Enniscrone and back!!
Got to Enniscrone and eventually found the registration area and picked up my bib. The race started in the Main Street but was a bit surreal to be honest, the MC was as mad as a box of bats and the two races started within metres of each other but in opposite directions!!! Race eventually started after a couple of false starts with the MC saying "Go", "stop"!!! "no not ye, I'm talking to the cars not ye" as they frantically tried to clear the last few cars off the route!!
Race quickly broke up into 2 groups, 4 lads taking it out up ahead with me and the local kids puffing behind them. A bit of a uphill after half a mile and I was already starting to feel it. Reading lots around here lately about embracing the pain and you've always more left in the tank, but I seem to be incapable of doing it and I'm just full of excuses. Managed to pass the lad in 4th but had zero bottle/battle to chase 2nd and a sneaky hill at the start of mile 3 was the coup de grace as far as I was concerned, with the pace and my bottle petering out! No fight at all, and I can completely empathise with BnBlack after his last few races. I might just have notions above my station but only time will tell!! Luckily I've 18 weeks to San Seb and hopefully I'll have much less travel in August.
Finished in 19.5x, the winner won in 17 something, he was only 17 years old and he told me he came 7th in the senior Tri sprint nationals. Nice lad but he'd spots and 3 hairs on his chin for a beard and made me feel like a complete grandad. This was compounded by my taxi driver ambling over and saying "Jazus that wasn't bad for a man of your era". "You ready?" Just to piss him off I decided to stay and watch some of the 10k finishers. First home in 33.2x, incredible time on that course!
Stank the taxi out of it on the way home from the dearest 5k ever!
Splits:
6.09
6.18
6.32
Not even a sprint finish the bit was around 6.20 pace!!
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I was in Lough Key for the weekend and there was a big tailback heading back through Carrick on Sunday afternoon. Makes sense now. Must have been the Paparazzi blocking up the town chasing snaps of the Bogger..............either that of there was a wide load moving through the Main St
I can vouch for Lough Key parkrun. Welcoming crew, lovely route, great location and its FREE!!! Also plenty to do in the forest park for the rest of the clan.0 -
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There is a Parkrun in Lough Key every Saturday morning at 9.30 if your interested in another 5k race.
Plus one to this, its also very beautiful with stuff for all the family to do. Can't believe we were in Carrick On Shannon at the same time - clearly it's the place where all the beautiful people go :cool:
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I was in Lough Key for the weekend and there was a big tailback heading back through Carrick on Sunday afternoon. Makes sense now. Must have been the Paparazzi blocking up the town chasing snaps of the Bogger..............either that of there was a wide load moving through the Main St
I can vouch for Lough Key parkrun. Welcoming crew, lovely route, great location and its FREE!!! Also plenty to do in the forest park for the rest of the clan.
Ha! All the cool boardsies were in COS on Sunday so! Did you mention you came first in said timed run - no pressure C !!!
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hillsiderunner wrote: »I think we will have driven past the Bogger chalet on Sunday, are you in those wooden houses near the lake? *No* excuse to be skipping training with Lough Key forest so close. The Moorings has a good evening menu.
That's exactly where we were, are you in MI 6!! Ate in the Moorings a few times, foods excellent but they don't do kids very wellThere is a Parkrun in Lough Key every Saturday morning at 9.30 if your interested in another 5k race.
Tnx AdpRo your post got me doing this!I was in Lough Key for the weekend and there was a big tailback heading back through Carrick on Sunday afternoon. Makes sense now. Must have been the Paparazzi blocking up the town chasing snaps of the Bogger..............either that of there was a wide load moving through the Main St
I can vouch for Lough Key parkrun. Welcoming crew, lovely route, great location and its FREE!!! Also plenty to do in the forest park for the rest of the clan.
Another big smoooke lad coming down to the bog to pick up a handy park run win, why don't you try and win one in the Pale, oh wait...Lucky for them they didn't have to run fast to get those snaps.........
Says the 26.2 mile sponsored walkerPlus one to this, its also very beautiful with stuff for all the family to do. Can't believe we were in Carrick On Shannon at the same time - clearly it's the place where all the beautiful people go :cool:
Get to Loughkey whether you're parkrunning or not though
All the beautiful people plus a leathery auld Bogger, we could have organised a Boards run, the other lad would have been mad jealous
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Tuesday: we headed to Donegal for a few days to try and escape the rain! Stayed in a hotel just outside Donegal town. Got to the hotel late and only had a short window to run, got an hours easy running done up and down a bypass where most of the cars treated the speed limit as a minimum target. Not the most of uplifting runs.
Wed & Thur: travelling around Donegal a bit, got to Letterkenny, Jazus its hilly, the San Francisco of Ireland, without the high tech industry and the weather and the eclectic culinary experiences and the cultural diversity and the...
No running either day but I did get a nice swim in in Bundoran jumping in off the rocks! Beautiful natural scenery ruined by a decrepit run down town!
I'm obviously a few pounds of elite racing weight coz when I was getting ready to do my Greg Louganis impression off the diving board my young lad announced to the assembled crowd that "Dads belly is bouncing everywhere"!!!
Friday: another hours easy around Lough Key Forrest park while the kids did zipit. Got just over 7 miles done.
Sat: I'd forgotten AULDBOTs exploits at the Lough Key parkrun until I saw Adpros post above and I decided I'd give it a go. I thought that when the time came I'd lose my parkrun virginity in St Anne's but this was too good an opportunity to turn down so I headed over just before 9. Great organisation and very friendly, parkrun is a fantastic concept and it's just a pity there's not one closer to home or I'd be a Parkrun slapper like Murph
Not sure what's wrong with me and the shorter stuff but mentally I'm way off the pace at moment. Just under the 20 mins again today but another terrible run, I ran 2 out of the last 3 miles in the Athenry half at almost the same pace I ran the last two miles today!!! That can't be right.
I've entered San Seb, 119 days to go and hopefully I'll get a few consistent weeks in durning August while the work travel isn't as intense.
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Serendipity or what, your boyfriend lost his parkrun virginity today too. How sweet!!! Or is he my boyfriend? I can't remember who has custody anymore
Nothing to stop you organising a parkrun beside you that's how they come about. Apart from boards they're possibly the best running invention ever
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ThebitterLemon wrote: »Tnx.
You can have him!
Kinda reminds me of the old puerile joke:
What's the difference between a toilet and Tang?
The toilet won't follow you around for a month after you've used it
TbL
Once more I'll say, you were the one who brought the Roses the first time we met & the one that suggested some skinny dipping!!!0 -
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Today: back to what I do best, slow uneventful plods!
Did the first 1.7 miles with my daughter @ 11.20 pace and then did 12 more miles out and back to Rossaveal @ 7.40.
13.7 miles for the day.
Booked flights and hotels for San Seb, got a return Ryanair flight from Dublin to Madrid for €59 all in
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Monday: plan called for 7 miles easy. I'd no travelling this week and I was looking forward to getting stuck in. Got up on Monday morning and the knee was a bit uncomfortable and tight, same issue as a few weeks ago. Maybe it was a phantom injury coming out in sympathy with AMK in advance of our big day in November! Decided to take the day off and booked my physioterrorist for Tuesday.
Tuesday: plan called for 3m easy wu/cd with 20 x 30 seconds at 5k pace off 1 min jogged recovery. Didn't get to the physio until after work, I find her very good and hands on, I was prodded and poked more than Dakota Johnson in the unedited version of 50 Shades of Gray Hopefully it's not to serious but I need to do a hape of stretching every day. Decided to put off the session after consulting coach and just did a 4 mile Nursing Home Special.
Wed: plan called for easy miles, but I decided to try yesterday's session and if I felt any pain I'd drop it. Did this over near the wind farm at Barna golf course and given the wind that was blowing I was surprised that the windmills blades weren't rotating a lot quicker. Got the 3 miles warm up done and started the reps, found it ok given the generous recoveries and the paces ranged from 5.30 to 6.35 probably averaged out around 6.10. Only had time for a mile cool down as I'd a swimming date with my daughter. The sea was cold tonight but good for the legs. All considered happy enough with how today went.
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Thursday: plan called for 7 easy miles.
The auld body is crumbling and has become a doss house for niggles. The other muscles that tried to work harder to compensate for their underperforming colleagues have decided it's just not worth the effort and they've quit and joined the slackers in the niggle doss house too! Management has tried to keep the show on the road with a skeleton crew but production and output is significantly down! Consultants have been brought in to see if the undertaking can be resurrected.
My morning getting out of bed routine now involves a lot of trepidation.
- swing the legs outta the bed and come to a sitting position, are the knees sore/tender?
- gingerly try to stand up straight, are my hips and back clicking?
- is the pain in my arm the remnants of a dead arm from sleeping on it or have I been assailed by another enemy?
- right lets start some forward momentum and walk to the shower, are we gonna get the walking on hot coal effect from my disagreeable plantars today?
- between hammer toes, Mortons neuromas and plantar pain, wiggle the toes and check which ones are pointing up and those that have decided to point down.
- quick scan to see if my butt cheeks are sagging to expected auld man levels or has one cheek tightened up so much that it looks like it's winking at you from the mirrors reflection.
- check face to see if there has been any Japanese knot weed like hair growths from the nose.
- hit the shower and hope that less than a hand full of hair decides to come lose as as you wash it today.
- get the gear ready for today's run, I'm training for a sub 3 marathon
7 miles around the Dangan pitches @ 8.12
Friday: plan called for 3 miles NHS, got 4 miles done too fast @ 8.21.
#iwannabe40again
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