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Monday 16th January
Bike: 12.2 miles x 2 commute in miserable misty rain.
Tuesday 17th January
3.2 miles @ 10:56 avg HR 131
Headed up to the club and did a few laps on the track and back home again. The session was a tempo run but I was just doing some easy miles keeping a good eye on the HR.
Wednesday 18th January
Bike: 12.2 miles x 2 commute - perfect weather conditions for a change!
RUN: ALSAA paced mile - 1 mile @ 7:40(official result) (clock said 7:34 when I went under but watch agrees with official results)
Headed to Santry to give this a shot, having run some good times (for me) in the 2 mile league I fancied my chances at a 7:15 or 7:20 min mile tonight although secretly I was hoping for 7 - HA! Firstly (lets get the excuses in early shall we :rolleyes: I haven't done any mile specific training, or any consistent training of any kind, secondly I cycled in & out of work today, great prep... thirdly, well I have no more excuses! Unless you count that fact that the first lap was too slow (according to expert eye witnesses ie Singer) so pacer had to speed up for following laps. Conditions were absolutely perfect but I just wasn't up to the job, simple as that. My legs felt great but the lungs were struggling to keep up, I was last in my heat too just to add to the disappointment!
Stayed around to watch Singer absolutely knock it out of the park with a 5:50 mile and LOL at his blase comments post race. A couple of clubmates were there too and massive well done to the (youthful
) and speedy fletch who looked like he was jogging for a 5:02
Big thanks to Mrs KennyG who was there with mini KennyG and who cheered us on. The organisation of the event was fantastic and disappointment aside I did enjoy it. Lovely to catch up with The Muppet who did indeed leave me for dust in the last 100M, well done T, see you at the next one!
Anyway, onwards, I now have two mile specific plans to peruse and hopefully I can do some justice at the next one.0 -
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Annie get your Run wrote: »Unless you count that fact that the first lap was too slow (according to expert eye witnesses ie Singer) so pacer had to speed up for following laps.
I'm afraid the expert eye witness is probably unreliable, from looking at the splits it looks like it was the 8 mile group that went around the first lap a bit slow... then again you weren't at the front of the group so maybe that's what I was thinking
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Annie get your Run wrote: »Splits! I thought I didn't have any because I hadn't hit my own watch on the way round but I forgot it was chip timed....
Mine were .04 1:48 1:55 1:58 1:56, it was never going to happen was it :rolleyes: We never did a warm up either, next time I'm skipping the talk and doing a few laps while the other groups are running.
Indeed I was thinking that myself afterwards , at least you nagged me reminded me to do a cool down, thanks for that.
Someone asked me at the startline if I was the pacer so at least I must have looked the part of a 7 minute miler.
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Bungy Girl wrote: »:eek:
I know, I know.... and reading the plan you sent me it says the importance of a warm up for a 1 mile race, rookey mistake I blame singer, he was the experienced one :pac: 0 -
Annie get your Run wrote: »I know, I know.... and reading the plan you sent me it says the importance of a warm up for a 1 mile race, rookey mistake I blame singer, he was the experienced one :pac:
Singer didn't warm up either :eek:. Tut tut to the lot of yis. The shorter the race the longer the warm up! Sheesh!0 -
Annie get your Run wrote: »I know, I know.... and reading the plan you sent me it says the importance of a warm up for a 1 mile race, rookey mistake I blame singer, he was the experienced one :pac:
Yeah I agree , Singer made us not do it.:D0 -
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Do you reckon taking in slower mile, in paced mile just before you are due to
Run would work as warm up, say if going for 6 mins doing 8 min mile.
Instructions are as follows:
'About half an hour before the race loosen up your legs with 10 to 15 mins easy jogging, followed by a set of four to six 20 second strides to get your wheels spinning and your heart humming'. (wheels?! is that what the 5 min milers were using?! no wonder I was so slow!!!). 0 -
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Annie get your Run wrote: »Instructions are as follows:
'About half an hour before the race loosen up your legs with 10 to 15 mins easy jogging, followed by a set of four to six 20 second strides to get your wheels spinning and your heart humming'. (wheels?! is that what the 5 min milers were using?! no wonder I was so slow!!!).
Thanks AM, sounds like a plan.0 -
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The Muppet wrote: »Yeah I agree , Singer made us not do it.:D
Wait, i was just reading how Singer is a far more wiser runner these days
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Thursday 19th Jan
24.5 miles on the bike in and out of work. No running
Friday 20th Jan
24.5 miles on the bike commute, again, no running but 4 days on the bike this week for a total of 97.8 miles, should I go out and do a loop of the village on the bike?!!
Saturday 21st January
Cabinteely parkrun 35 min pacer - 3.1 miles avg hr 147 official time 34:45....oops, a bit too fast although I did mange to get a few folks in well under the 35, went through the chute and ran back down the hill to encourage a few more in. Fantastic atmosphere today with a whopping 217 runners, we normally have around 70.
Sunday 22nd January
Women's meet & Train: 2 mile in 16:50
avg HR 174, max 187 (1 beat off my actual max).
I was about to type 'disaster' but that's probably a bit over the top. My worst XC performance this season though (even slower than cow park). Didn't have a great night sleep the last couple of nights and wile the dizzy spells are gone I'm still tired and, as tang keeps reminding me, I"m an aul wan, so I knew this morning this wasn't going to be pretty. I did my best though as the HR shows and I can't ask any more than that. We were down 2 runners on my team so had the minimum 4 so no chance of crying off. Did a decent enough warm up as per El Caballo's article of 1 mile and then some strides & dynamic stretches followed by a cool down lap post race, Total miles for the day just under 4.
Positives: Passed about 8 runners towards the end of lap one, only passed by 2 runners after that (and they weren't the girls I'd passed). Held off a Waterstown Warriers girl who made a good attempt to take me just out of the forest the 2nd time round.
Negatives: A lot, but no point crying over spilt milk (ridiculous at my level to get upset over a stupid race). I need to get back on track with my diet as I've been eating far to much rubbish and I know that impacts how I'm feeling. Dry January didn't go too well either but will start again from now and continue into February. Luckily we have some real runners on our A team and they finished in 1st and 3rd place 😃0 -
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Annie get your Run wrote: »Thursday 19th Jan
24.5 miles on the bike in and out of work. No running
Friday 20th Jan
24.5 miles on the bike commute, again, no running but 4 days on the bike this week for a total of 97.8 miles, should I go out and do a loop of the village on the bike?!!
Saturday 21st January
Cabinteely parkrun 35 min pacer - 3.1 miles avg hr 147 official time 34:45....oops, a bit too fast although I did mange to get a few folks in well under the 35, went through the chute and ran back down the hill to encourage a few more in. Fantastic atmosphere today with a whopping 217 runners, we normally have around 70.
Sunday 22nd January
Women's meet & Train: 2 mile in 16:50 avg HR 174, max 187 (1 beat off my actual max).
I was about to type 'disaster' but that's probably a bit over the top. My worst XC performance this season though (even slower than cow park). Didn't have a great night sleep the last couple of nights and wile the dizzy spells are gone I'm still tired and, as tang keeps reminding me, I"m an aul wan, so I knew this morning this wasn't going to be pretty. I did my best though as the HR shows and I can't ask any more than that. We were down 2 runners on my team so had the minimum 4 so no chance of crying off. Did a decent enough warm up as per El Caballo's article of 1 mile and then some strides & dynamic stretches followed by a cool down lap post race, Total miles for the day just under 4.
Positives: Passed about 8 runners towards the end of lap one, only passed by 2 runners after that (and they weren't the girls I'd passed). Held off a Waterstown Warriers girl who made a good attempt to take me just out of the forest the 2nd time round.
Negatives: A lot, but no point crying over spilt milk (ridiculous at my level to get upset over a stupid race). I need to get back on track with my diet as I've been eating far to much rubbish and I know that impacts how I'm feeling. Dry January didn't go too well either but will start again from now and continue into February. Luckily we have some real runners on our A team and they finished in 1st and 3rd place 😃
Great work here, it showed that you weren't prepared to just sit back and take Position X. The fire is very much alive! A lot of the other things are things that you can control, so I'm confident of much more improvement to come 0 -
Bungy Girl wrote: »Meet & Train ain't getting any easier that's for sure! 144 runners out today :eek:.
You can only give it your best shot on any given day. Take heart from the positives, fix what's fixable and don't dwell on the negatives.
I should probably take that advice too :rolleyes:
Yup, good advice there, will try and stick to it - congrats to you on your great run!! I didn't realise Fiona was second too, Crusaders vests everywhereThat's a great week of biking AM This meet and train, it's not a race but it is a race, sort of?
Nice pacing on the park run
Oh it's very definitely a race!! It's a Women's cross country league, about 20 or so clubs I'd say going on yesterday's volume! From Dublin, Kildare, Meath and possibly Wicklow (can't remember). Calling it Women's 'meet and train' sounds like a lovely little get together.....it's very competitive :eek:Wubble Wubble wrote: »Great work here, it showed that you weren't prepared to just sit back and take Position X. The fire is very much alive! A lot of the other things are things that you can control, so I'm confident of much more improvement to come
That's the thing about racing in a team, and I'm the 4th scorer so every position really does matter, I knew I was going to place worse than previously but I wasn't going to jog around either, especially with the club captain standing on the sidelines!0 -
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Annie get your Run wrote: »Thursday 19th Jan
24.5 miles on the bike in and out of work. No running
Friday 20th Jan
24.5 miles on the bike commute, again, no running but 4 days on the bike this week for a total of 97.8 miles, should I go out and do a loop of the village on the bike?!!
Saturday 21st January
Cabinteely parkrun 35 min pacer - 3.1 miles avg hr 147 official time 34:45....oops, a bit too fast although I did mange to get a few folks in well under the 35, went through the chute and ran back down the hill to encourage a few more in. Fantastic atmosphere today with a whopping 217 runners, we normally have around 70.
Sunday 22nd January
Women's meet & Train: 2 mile in 16:50 avg HR 174, max 187 (1 beat off my actual max).
I was about to type 'disaster' but that's probably a bit over the top. My worst XC performance this season though (even slower than cow park). Didn't have a great night sleep the last couple of nights and wile the dizzy spells are gone I'm still tired and, as tang keeps reminding me, I"m an aul wan, so I knew this morning this wasn't going to be pretty. I did my best though as the HR shows and I can't ask any more than that. We were down 2 runners on my team so had the minimum 4 so no chance of crying off. Did a decent enough warm up as per El Caballo's article of 1 mile and then some strides & dynamic stretches followed by a cool down lap post race, Total miles for the day just under 4.
Positives: Passed about 8 runners towards the end of lap one, only passed by 2 runners after that (and they weren't the girls I'd passed). Held off a Waterstown Warriers girl who made a good attempt to take me just out of the forest the 2nd time round.
Negatives: A lot, but no point crying over spilt milk (ridiculous at my level to get upset over a stupid race). I need to get back on track with my diet as I've been eating far to much rubbish and I know that impacts how I'm feeling. Dry January didn't go too well either but will start again from now and continue into February. Luckily we have some real runners on our A team and they finished in 1st and 3rd place ��
great cycling mileage, this might have something to do with the tiredness!!
As the others have said take encouragement from the positives and work on the things you have pinpointed as causing issues.
Head up you are doing great for an auld one;) He puts me in that category!! :rolleyes: We'll see how good he is when he's in our age category in a few short years!!!:D0 -
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