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The Boggers Log
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AuldManKing wrote: »Its been 3 days - who has the Lemon??
The taxidermist if I'm not careful!!!
Friday: plan called for 7 easy miles, I was to finish up in London early on Friday and fly into Dublin to meet my young lad and Dad to fly to the Manchester for the Stoke v Man City on Saturday. Didn't finish on time and had to get the train up to Stoke. Got a rushed 7 miles done along Sir Stanley Matthews Way @ 8.26. I'm also trying to manage a painful foot niggle (on top of everything else), this really concerned me as it was this niggle that ultimately led to a stress fracture and been out for months in 2014. This time I know how to manage it and am having it looked at on Monday.
Saturday: plan called for 4 miles recovery. I kept waking up durning the night alternating between roasting and freezing while slowly turning the bed into a water attraction! Felt crap before the match and the result didn't help, drove down to Galway last night but was so bad I stayed in my parents house rather than drive home. I also seem to have pinched or somehow strained a muscle in my back!! No run. Today I was supposed to do a 18 mile LR but again feeling terrible and have a serious toothache to add to the litany of crap I'm dealing with. (Walter Mitty couldn't make this stuff up).
Was really looking forward to this as I badly need to get a long run done, although I must have been doing them wrong coz Tailgunner was "bored" on his LR today wondering which hand to hold his Lukozade in! I've usually more pressing concerns like which part of my body is hanging off now and not to stray too far from the nearest defibrillator
I'll have to put those joys aside for another day, no run.
If anyone needs an excuse for poor performance just read this log and you'll find something appropriate! I've a massage booked for early tomorrow morning and hopefully the OAP express will be back on the road tomorrow unlike Toyboy who had some serious misfortune yesterday. (Best of luck with the recovery)
What started off as looking like banking a 3rd decent week ended up with a poor 40.5 miles.
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Today: as my wife says I'm all excuses and no action so I won't go into a Victor Mildrew like moan about the state I was in today
Plan called for 2 mile wu/cd with 4 miles at HMP.
Got an early morning massage that hopefully has the foot niggle on the mend but she didn't have time to finish the back and it's still sore, and the knee ...
Anyway I dashed over to the pitches in Dangan at lunch time and started on the warm up. Place was quite busy with lunch time runners out getting their fix! A loop of the two big GAA pitches is half a mile so after the warm up I decide to do 8 loops to get the HMP miles done.
On the first corner I almost did a pirouette, the ground was so slippy so I had to do at least 50% of this run on the grass. Found this a bit tough and I'm hoping it's because I'm still not 100% rather than coz I'm just a clapped out auld lad! Important week for me this week as I'm probably long hauling it next week. Anyway the freight train is back on the track and I need to see less talk and more action over the next few weeks!
HMP splits:
6.39
6.41
6.40
6.37
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Today: plan called for 7 miles easy.
Was flying to London later in the day so needed to get up early to ensure I'd get this one done. I've become very bad at getting up early to get the runs out of the way, it sets you up nicely for the day but lately I seem to need more beauty sleep, I'll be napping in the afternoon soon! Got 7 miles easy done @ 7.53 in manky weather.
Was pretty stiff by the time I got to the hotel and the physio told me that all the travelling was contributing to tight muscles and to try a walk or stretching after travel. Feck that walking crap, I hit the gym for 4 recovery miles followed by some stretching.
11 for the day.
Rant of the week: "ladies" that wear those cut away denim shorts 4 sizes too small!!!
Was waiting for my taxi in Gatwick and noticed this woman with the most ridiculously tight blue denim shorts, they were only suitable for a small child. The waistband was under more pressure than Pat Hickeys defence and two vast pasty white melon like orbs of flesh were bursting out from the end! There was definitely more of her arse outside the garment than inside. I would have taken a photo to share but I was afraid if she caught me she'd do physical harm
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You know you can turn off the camera sounds on your phone so no one realises when you take a sneaky pic
(for future reference) although as Anne says your description is epic, we all have a mental image of yer wan now (and I'm off to throw out my denim shorts :eek:) 0 -
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Plan today called for 14 miles steady.
Wasn't looking forward to this at all, although I used to love these runs I haven't run that far at that pace in months. That coupled with a "feeling my age" day had me dreading this. Also logistics conspired against me and I ended doing this on an undulating out and back route over Seanadh Pheistin. After a slow "warm up the aul engine" mile things picked up and I was feeling surprisingly good. Turned at mile 7 and realised why, a decent head wind caused the pace to drop. Tired towards the end. The splits were all over the place but I'm blaming the wind and hills!
7.46
7.09
7.18
7.57
7.30
7.13
7.42
7.17
8.01
7.35
7.16
7.36
8.01
7.09
Happy enough to have that in the bank and if I can stay consistent and injury free this log might see some action
14 miles @ 7.32 for the day
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Today: plan called for recovery miles.
Big test of my mettle/consistency coming up this week as I'm travelling and usually my motivation and miles drop off but I'm gonna try and take the Double D approach to this and get the miles in come what may!
Got 5 nursing home special miles done early this morning, no watch but it was nice and handy.
Had to come up to the big schmook this afternoon and I'm flying outta Dublin tomorrow, so staying at a hotel near Santry. Rather than stuff my face with room service I decided to use the park across the road to get some more easy miles done. Park was fairly busy and a squad car crawled up the road behind me for a couple of hundred metres towards the entrance. Thought it might have been Tang looking to see how real men train for a marathon
Got 5.5 miles done @ 8.57.
10.5 for the day, happy with that but let's see what the rest of the week brings...
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Today: plan called for easy miles.
Was travelling to San Fran today so got up about 6am to get some miles in. Didn't fancy running loops of the Bogger Plaza (formerly known as Ososlo Park) so I ran up to and out past the airport. Lovely morning for a run and I got 7 miles done @ 7.57.
Plane was late taking off as we had to return to the gate coz apparently there was something wrong with the planes flaps, I think Tang periodically suffers from something similar
I'm staying in a nice hotel, The Palace, that was established in 1875 and was San Frans first luxury hotel and the largest in the world. By the time I got to the hotel I was wrecked and the eyeballs were popping outta my head Marty Feldman style. Was also fairly stiff so I decided to go for a short jog, got some Irish style directions that eventually had me running along the waterfront wharfs overlooking Alcatraz out in the Bay. The place was packed and the pace was slow enough at just over 9 minute miles. Got 6.5 miles done.
I'll need to find another place to run tomorrow as I've a 14 mile run to do and my head would be melted trying to do it through those crowds.
13.5 miles for the day
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ThebitterLemon wrote: »Was also fairly stiff so I decided to go for a short jog, got some Irish style directions that eventually had me running along the waterfront wharfs overlooking Alcatraz out in the Bay. The place was packed and the pace was slow enough at just over 9 minute miles. Got 6.5 miles done.
I'll need to find another place to run tomorrow as I've a 14 mile run to do and my head would be melted trying to do it through those crowds.
It's nice to run along there in the early morning (which may suit the jetlag), it's pretty busy with runners, skaters, etc. but not full of tourists at that time!
Here's a 13 mile run I did out to the Golden Gate bridge earlier in the year (I didn't cross it though, it was very dark and I had no idea where I was and how to get up to it ) and including a small nose around Fisherman's Wharf: https://www.strava.com/activities/499634023 0 -
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martyboy48 wrote: »Are you planning on lining up with the "elites" again on Oct 1st??
I'm debating if I should race it, do it as part of long run, or not bother at all.
I'm sure there'll be a few tri guys lined up for you to look up to
Don't think I'll be doing it this year Marty as thanks to Toyboy Tang I'll be doing the 3/4 marathon the following week.Why would someone want to go to Starbucks for breakfast?
Do you ever look at Strava local for running routes?
https://www.strava.com/local/us/san-francisco/running/routes
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Today: plan called for 7 miles easy.
I got an overnight flight from San Fran to San Jose, in Costa Rica, via El Salvador. Staying in a hotel on the outskirts of San Jose, the weather isn't great, heavy thunderstorms and besides there is no place nearby that's safe to run outside. San Jose is a bit of a dump and I'd like to be able to stay a few extra days coz the rest of Costa Rica is supposed to be stunning
Was very tired and didn't like the thought of 7 miles on the treadmill so I decided to try and do it over two runs. Checked into the hotel and went straight to the gym, got 5 tired recovery miles done all the while mulling over yesterday's poor session, I know (think/hope) I'm better than yesterday's session would suggest but I gotta start delivering rather than talking about it!!
Hit the pool and hot tub in the lashing rain in between meetings.
Went to the gym again later in the evening and got another 5 miles very easy done to try and ease out the travel related stiffness and burn off enough calories for the surf and turf dinner! This run felt a lot easier than the earlier one.
10 very easy miles for the day.
Thanks for all the route suggestions in San Fran, I should flag up my future travel here to get some decent route pointers
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