The Boggers Log

Unknownability wrote: »

Hey, I see you've signed up to Antrim to have a crack at @ 1:29.

I've the same goal, have you decided what plan you'll be using?

Best of luck with it.

No plan as of yet but given my back issues it will probably have to be a tailor made one and the mileage won’t be huge. I won’t start specifically training for this until around the second week of May.

TbL

pmac180 wrote: »

Hello, I have a question. Did you get rid of your elbow issues. My elbow is really sore, stopping me doing pull ups or chin ups. Any advice, or stretching that worked for you. Cheers

This won’t be much help but you need to ascertain the source of the pain, for me I initially thought it was golfers elbow and spent weeks doing some stretches to relieve it and even ended up wearing a band just below my elbow to try and take some pressure off the joint. It didn’t really help as it transpired that the issue was coming from the bicep/tricep. The way I was holding my phone while lying on the couch in the evenings didn’t help either.

TbL

The stretch below is a basic one for golfers elbow

Stretch the affected arm out in front of you, with your palm facing upwards.
Relax your wrist, allowing your hand to rest and fall back.
Using your other hand, pull the affected hand back and towards your body.
Hold the stretch for about 30 to 45 seconds.
Have a break (about 30 seconds).
Repeat three times.

Another unstructured week finished and again a bit all over the place. On the plus side the back finally seems to have calmed down, the sea swim every day definitely helped but I ended up with ear infections that required a trip to the doctor!!! Is there a wwwbodyzone.ie where I could pick up spare parts!

Sun: 11 miles @ 8.35 over Seanadh Pheistin. Always enjoy these runs. My trusty Garmin 910xt, I’ve had it for 10 years gave up the ghost and went to Garmin heaven. That’s watch has been through the wars with me and I really liked it as it had a decent size screen which is great when your eyesight is as bad as mine.

Mon: early morning visit to the physioterrorist to try and release the back and glutes, ouch!!
Easy 4 mile plod

Tue: 5 miles very easy with my daughter @ 10.36

Wed: back felt a bit better so I decided to try a session in Dangan. wu/cd 10x400m hard off 1 min. Was very happy with the way this went, paces for 400’s; 6.06, 6.15, 6.11, 6.03, 5.55, 5.58, 6.12, 6.17, 6.05, & 5.58.

7 miles in total

Thur: 5k recovery on local pitch

Fri: work buddy 10k, hadn’t run with my buddy since December! Enjoyed some adult company on this and the pace was a bit quicker. 6.4 miles @ 7.44

Sat: didn’t get up till 12.15, watched Stoke play out a boring nil all draw with Preston and was in no humour to run at all. Drove up to the pitch listened to some music and got 5k done @ 9.46

Sun: 9 miles very easy @ 10.30. Brought my daughter over to Seanadh Pheistin for the first time. Enjoyable plod in the dreary drizzle.

We’ve both entered the Antrim Coast Half at the end of August. I’d like to try for a sub 1.30 but I’ve an awful lot to do. The back is up and down and it’s hard to balance the sessions with increasing mileage. A couple of my runs every week are in the 10 min pace range so I’d probably need 16 weeks and a bit of luck with the back to have a chance of running 1.29 odd.

TbL

Ps. The attached pic shows the glute work I’ve been doing has paid off

OOnegative wrote: »

Ah here ya haven’t resorted to botox injections in your hole!!! Hanging around with AMK to much!

The Connemara Cardasian

TbL

Haven’t really been enjoying running lately, the last few weeks I’ve had almost constant low grade pain and discomfort. It’s unusual in that it doesn’t get manifestly worse when I’m running. I’d to see the physio twice this week to try and keep the show on the road, I also doubled down on stretching and swam in the sea everyday to try and get some relief. To add to my collection of woes my IT band was like bubble wrap and I was getting stabbing pains in my left calf and under my toes on the left foot.

Mon: easy 5k post physioterrorist bashing, she’d to almost slide me off the table to get me out.

Tue: easy 10k @ 9.36

Wed: easy slow achey 5k plod around the local pitch which was very busy with lots of runners out. I’d usually be like a dog chasing a balloon with so many runners out but I just kept my head down and trundled along.

Thur: felt a bit better and had a very enjoyable day. Coffee in Salthill followed by a nice jog along the packed prom. Nearly fell of the prom and onto a flock of young wans sunbathing on Ladies beach

After the run I’d a quick dip in Blackrock and then sat on a bench in the sun in Salthill park with a cold Diet Coke and protein bar. Bliss!

5 miles easy.

Back at the physioterrorist, had the arse and back needled and some ultra sound on the tfl.

Fri: another easy 5k plod around the pitch, stabbing in foot almost gone and pain in calf and IT band more bearable. Decided if things didn’t get worse I’d do the Boards 5k TT. More sea swimming and stretching.

Sat: 4 miles easy in glorious sunshine and another swim at high tide. After cooking a ton of meat on the BBQ, I spent an hour stretching.

Sun: walked the dog just before 7, quick coffee and drove up the village a bit to get a decent out and back route for the 5k. No absailing, wind or gradient assistance for this one

Wore the magic carpets and calf sleeves, the shoes are a sizeable advantage but they feel bloody awkward with all sorts of noise emanating from them, at one stage I looked behind me as I thought I was being chased by a dog to only realise it was the bloody shoes!

I decided I was going all in and had three 6.10 miles and whatever was left in the tank planned. Was prepared for a spectacular blow up if it came as I’ve done very few sessions the last few weeks. Did about 1.5 mile warm up with some dynamic stretches and got stuck in.

The first half mile had me at sub 6 pace and I was worried that I’d shot my bolt but I was feeling ok, nothing from the foot but slight twinges from the calf. Hit mile 1 @ 6.02/3 and tried to focus on not bleeding too much time from mile 2, which came in at 6.07.

I turned back by now and was feeling some hurt, but knew that unless I’d an almighty blow up that I’d hit a decent time. Gave everything to mile 3 and was ecstatic to see 6.08 on the watch but I’d fcuk all left for the bit!

3.12 miles on Garmin and 19.02
3.11 on Strava and 18.58

I’ll take either as both are big PB’s

Happy with that but its tempered somewhat by waiting to see how the body reacts in the coming days.

Stretched and had breakfast al fresco, what a day.

Well done to all Boardsies that completed the TT.

TbL