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A/R 5k Anniversary TT 24th April
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Thanks for organising this, I’ve had a rough few weeks and definitely wouldn’t have attempted a 5k TT without this initiative.
The body has been in a heap for weeks and I’ve had low grade constant pain (that peculiarly doesn’t get much worse while running). I’d the physio twice this week and only decided last night I’d try it and if I was doing it I was going all out!
First mile was too fast at 6.03 but despite a struggle at the end I was happy with the way I hung in.
Garmin says 3.12 miles in 19.02
Strava says 3.11 miles and 5k PB of 18.58.
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So it turns out that the source of my so' ass is my psoas :-)
Had a good loosen out last night (Achilles had gone a bit tight as well) so will take it handy today, light run tomorrow evening maybe and then have a crack at the 5K TT on Sunday at some stage.
I should possibly recalibrate my goal but I'll leave as is for now I think
It’s going to be a DNS for me I’m afraid :rolleyes:
Popped out for a mid paced 9K last night to see how I was shaping up and while the run itself was fine there was a disconcerting grumble from my hip a couple of times.
I probably need to rehab the psoas properly while continuing with low intensity low mileage. As tempting as it is, I don’t think hammering out a full effort 5K today is a good idea in the long term.
Good luck to all - hopefully the virtual run era is coming to an end soon
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https://www.strava.com/activities/5187637978
Take 2 - 32:42
I hope I was allowed to do it again - feel like I've cheated a little bit giving it another go!! Feeling I could do it again made me wonder could I pushed a bit more and perhaps drop those 7 seconds from yesterday and get 32:xx :eek: - but bearing in mind Womble Hill and OBM were in the 2nd and 3rd miles. The whole way round I tried to balance between trying to make up for the time I was going to lose on OBM and not go too hard too soon to make it tougher than it had to be. As it turned out when I got to it I didn't feel so bad, so rather than sacrificing time to it unnecessarily and leaving myself with more work to do for the last stretch I kept the pace up! Get me!!
I stuck to yesterday's plan of pushing to the Whitestown Roundabout and then give it everything until you get passed the bottle bank (no stopping before it!
) The last part was a complete and utter mind game - from if you're thinking of anything else other than surviving you're not going hard enough to damn it I've gone too soon I'll never make it - the bottle bank is moving further away!! So I remembered Swashbuckler's 'yes it hurts but its for a good cause' and I brought everything back down, focused on what I doing and fupping ran!!! . Must have checked the watch a gazillion times to make sure it was the correct distance .
Thanks so much to the organisers. If a second go counts thanks even more. I'm flamin delighted with me life either way . 0 -
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Kurt, if completing the twelve monthly challenges is your main motivation, then you might want to have another go at this. The first 5k of this run is neither a looped course, nor an out-and-back run, so I’m not sure it qualifies as a legitimate attempt. I won’t make the final call on this, but better be safe than sorry.
+1 this will count towards the monthly challenges so rules be rules.
On that, thank you to everyone who took part. Still a few to go. The Challenges had approx max of 20pts on offer. So, we'll do results like last year for starters.
I'm thinking for the challenge
10pts for everyone who completed (+ReeReeG)
5pts if it was a DNF as having a go is having a go
To make up an additional 10pts
+2 if you equal or beat last year's time
+3 if you got within 5 secs of prediction
+2 if you got within 10 secs of prediction
-2 if you were 60 secs faster than prediction!
+5, +3, +1 for 1st, 2nd, 3rd per category
Any objections?
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Well done!! Multiple attempts aloud of course but only the brave will attempt more than one 5k :eek:Hannibal_Smith wrote: »https://www.strava.com/activities/5187637978
Take 2 - 32:42
I hope I was allowed to do it again - feel like I've cheated a little bit giving it another go!! Feeling I could do it again made me wonder could I pushed a bit more and perhaps drop those 7 seconds from yesterday and get 32:xx :eek: - but bearing in mind Womble Hill and OBM were in the 2nd and 3rd miles. The whole way round I tried to balance between trying to make up for the time I was going to lose on OBM and not go too hard too soon to make it tougher than it had to be. As it turned out when I got to it I didn't feel so bad, so rather than sacrificing time to it unnecessarily and leaving myself with more work to do for the last stretch I kept the pace up! Get me!!
I stuck to yesterday's plan of pushing to the Whitestown Roundabout and then give it everything until you get passed the bottle bank (no stopping before it! ) The last part was a complete and utter mind game - from if you're thinking of anything else other than surviving you're not going hard enough to damn it I've gone too soon I'll never make it - the bottle bank is moving further away!! So I remembered Swashbuckler's 'yes it hurts but its for a good cause' and I brought everything back down, focused on what I doing and fupping ran!!! . Must have checked the watch a gazillion times to make sure it was the correct distance .
Thanks so much to the organisers. If a second go counts thanks even more. I'm flamin delighted with me life either way .0 -
Great reading all the excuses reports coming in, that's what I love about this place - thanks to the organisers for making us all feel like we're racing together!
Boards 5k Anniversary TT 25th April 2021
After a fairly consistent bank of training earlier in the year, I've been grounded recently for a number of reasons only do the very odd jog here and there or walking/jogging combo. Not the best prep this week with two longish bike rides on Wednesday and Friday and yesterday was spent sitting in a car for 3+ hours on day trip to the beach (1.5 hours each way). I was determined to run this as best I could but not to overthink it, or worry about any of it in the way I normally do. I found a 'pro pacing' thing on my watch which allows you to set up distance and desired time and it calculates the pace for you, quite handy! Saved that in my watch last night. Woke just before 7am this morning, had coffee and porridge with berries for brekkie and stole downloaded Shotgunmcos's easy run playlist onto my watch thinking it would probably be perfect for my race pace. Did some warm up high knees, jogging and hamstring stretches in the back garden. Faffing complete, I set off for an easy warm up jog to the park. I'm getting quite good at running easy, the nose breathing is helping hugely to keep the pace and HR low as it should be. Reached the park but had forgotten to check the start of the parkrun loop, having never done one in this park! Decided not to worry about it did a few more quick drills before pulling up the Pace Pro workout and off I went.
Mile 1 9:20. Straight away the pace was hot, I was aiming for 3 x 10 min miles, my watch was showing me 7:15 :rolleyes::rolleyes: I had told myself earlier not to go out too fast as per usual but.... slowed dramatically trying to find 10 min mile pace but still too fast, mile 1 came in at 9:20. It felt okay but I knew I'd pay for this toward the end and there went my aim of a sprint finish!
Mile 2 9:43. Still trying to slow the pace I was starting to feel the heat and wondering why I hadn't worn my singlet instead of a black t-shirt. Tried to bring the breathing under control with deep long breaths through the nose as well as the mouth (not at the point where I can nose breath while running fast - yet!!). I focused on fast cadence and narrow stride, also trying to bring the arms in to do a bit of the work, remembering to smile and trick the body into thinking it was having a ton of fun! The park was starting to get a little busier but people seemed to notice I was 'racing' and kindly moved aside so I didn't have to. Looked at the watch a few times to see how much further before this second, never ending mile would end.
Mile 3 9:57. Had to give myself a good talking too now, thoughts of stopping and quitting were strong but I slowed again and just tried to maintain a pace that was hard but not going to break me. A few heart palpitations that I sometimes get when running in the heat reared their head and again I focused on controlling the breathing, the watch was now on distance display and I probably did more harm than good glancing at it every few seconds to see it stubbornly staying put :rolleyes:. So happy to hear the beep for mile 3 and finally, the pace was almost the target of 10 min miles...
Last bit How far is .11 of a mile anyway, the watch will beep any second now, aaaaannnnyyyy second now...... still running, WTF? The screen was still on distance for fear my Pace Pro wouldn't actually stop the watch (it didn't) so as soon as I saw 3.11 the watch beeped to say I'd completed the distance but the workout hadn't stopped. Paused on 3.12 for 30:15, faster than the 31 I predicted and straight away I was thinking FFS I could have done sub 30 if I'd paced it properly!
Walked the 1.69 miles home browsing in some shop windows along the way enjoying the lovely sunshine, what a beautiful day!
Analysis How to run a race on zero training and in fact, zero running!!!! Have to say I'm happy with that, it was hard (very hard) but I'm buzzing now. The new runners (Reebok Floatride Energy 3 Shoes) were lovely to run in, nice and springy. The foot was a bit niggly when I got home but it's okay now.
Thanks so much to the organisers and participants who make this place such a fab community to be part of! This gives me an incentive to get back training sooner rather than later.
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shotgunmcos wrote:I'm thinking for the challenge 10pts for everyone who completed (+ReeReeG) 5pts if it was a DNF as having a go is having a go
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Beat my 30 year old self by 20 seconds today :eek:
17:55
Get in!!
Check out my activity on Strava: https://strava.app.link/4OJceXsoKfb
The 4th km was grim central. Every step into a headwind. I was fading physically and mentally. Lost 10 seconds on previous split. Got it back by the end! Progressing nicely, happy days 0 -
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Annie get your Run wrote: »What about May?
Ha ha.. I rarely drink.. 2 beers and I forget what month it is yes, May for fun not pain! 0 -
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So it was a DNF for me
Had planned to go out today although it was later than expected having had to drop a little to the park to meet her friend.
The training has been inconsistent and only easy miles for the last 2 weeks so was going out to try and see where I was at.
Getting up to the top of the Tolka Valley park the wind was much more blustery than I expected so I thought I'd take it behind me for the first k, work nto it for the next 2 and then behind again for home. Started steady and didn't tear off, which was nice for a change, got into a rhythm and then turned into the headwind. At 1.7k I looked at the watch, not for pace but just out of suffering, headed up the hill and at 2.5k I just stopped it. Comfortably uncomfortable was just uncomfortable.
There was only 500meters to go until I turned the corner and had the wind behind me but I just couldn't do it. It's a really strange feeling to quit but I think I just wasn't ready for it.
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Had a go, knocked time off last years effort.
Not training for speed but delighted to knock over a minute off last year
Cursed my decision to use Tramore Valley park with it's hills. (Had to compare like with like, having done the last one there...)
Cursed Rob Heffernan for putting his name to a trail with so much hill in it.
Cursed my decision to switch to a different loop on the second lap.
Cursed that lap for having an even steeper uphill drag that took what little good was left in me.
Cursed every brain cell I had for not realising that the second lap plus the first lap didn't equal finishing at my starting point, meaning;
Cursed my poor calves & lungs as I finished up hill
Cursed the intense pain these piddly distances inflict - there's nothing like to long slow burn of a proper distance :P
Subsequently:
Laughed at Lambay Island breaking into a bloody deserted park in Dublin to do his TT :rolleyes:
Daydreamed that with a little practice and a level course, I might break 20, someday, somehow ...0 -
Had a go, knocked time off last years effort.
Not training for speed but delighted to knock over a minute off last year
Cursed my decision to use Tramore Valley park with it's hills. (Had to compare like with like, having done the last one there...)
Cursed Rob Heffernan for putting his name to a trail with so much hill in it.
Cursed my decision to switch to a different loop on the second lap.
Cursed that lap for having an even steeper uphill drag that took what little good was left in me.
Cursed every brain cell I had for not realising that the second lap plus the first lap didn't equal finishing at my starting point, meaning;
Cursed my poor calves & lungs as I finished up hill
Cursed the intense pain these piddly distances inflict - there's nothing like to long slow burn of a proper distance :P
Subsequently:
Laughed at Lambay Island breaking into a bloody deserted park in Dublin to do his TT :rolleyes:
Daydreamed that with a little practice and a level course, I might break 20, someday, somehow ...
Fair play! You're doing some great training. That sub 20 won't be too far away once you stop running laps with hills0 -
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I gave it everything and came in at 21:17. I even thought I was going to puke which usually means I'm doing it right :P
Slower than my predicted time sadly but I can honestly say it was all I could do on the days.
Thanks so much for organising this and the race reports have been great to read
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Absolutely gutted here, I done my weekly runs Monday / Wednesday / Friday and felt great - my Friday night run was propably the most enjoyable run I've done since I started my C25K plan in February so I had high expectations of beating my time Saturday morning. Ran 7.3kms and loved it.
(Now for the petty excuses )Got up at 8am Saturday morning and straight away I was feeling off, runny nose and aches in my left leg up near my hip / groin area. Thought I had just slept funny. Had breakfast and thought I would be able to walk it off, it felt a little better after an hour or that so I decided to put on my running gear and head out for the TT. I always warm up with a brisk 5 minute walk and I started to get sore after about 2 minutes - kept going to the 5, set the watch and headed off running - I got about 300m and had it didn't feel right so I decided to stop, I was barely able to walk. My first running injury.
I walked slowly back to my house and relaxed for the day and it fely better by that afternoon, so much so I done a spin on the bicycle. Got up yesterday morning and said I'd do it today but walking down the stairs it got sore again so I said no running for me for a few days, I went for a spin on the bicycle instead (doesn't cause any pain at all) Ironically I'm feeling fine today but am still not going to chance running for a few days. A good friend of mine is a physio so if i'm still sore wendesday, I'll go see him.
Very disappointed here as I was looking forward to it and was hoping to beat the 32 mins for only the second time. Looking at my friday times if i take out the first kilometer (which includes my warm up walk) I done the next 5k in 34:13 and that was at a leisurely pace so I know i wold have been near or better than my target time of 32:20.
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Very slow with the final results here. Not like last year.shotgunmcos wrote: »Up the walls.. Tomorrow. Some dubious results though. Short of 5k, no links etc..
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Final Results!
Some amount of work to transition from google docs to a table :cool::( Plus the usual tracking links through Strava etc.. :cool: Big thank you to both ReeReeG and Zico10 for supporting this month. You really helped and its so much appreciated!
Final results, judges decisions applied. Unless there is a glaring mistake, we move on
Well done to all who participated, and particularly those who scored PRs, came close, beat last year or just had a great story to tell.
The Results are sorted by the Monthly Challenge points. If you have not been taking part in those, its a series of monthly running challenges and this month your points will count towards the overall total. Well done to LaineyFrecks who topped the lot in this months challenge with a maximum 20 points
The "AG" column is your percentage vs the world record for your age group, if thats something of interest. Podium results are below and a breakdown of how points were applied is below too.
Name |Cat |Prediction|2020 TT|Actual|AG|Challenge Pts
ReeReeG|F|00:00|21:56|DNF||5
Laineyfrecks|F42|20:30|20:36|20:28|77.1%|20
Hannibal_Smith|F44|33:00|35:42|32:42|48.3%|15
AGYR|F45|31:00|29:04|30:15|53.7%|5
Bluesquare|F45|24:30|24:11|DNS||
deconduo|M30|24:59|00:00|25:47|49.8%|15
Crisco10|M35|19:00|18:33|19:00|71.0%|13
Diablo Verde|M35|17:15|17:59|17:19|77.9%|15
Fletch|M35|16:59|00:00|16:59|79.4%|16
jackc101|M35|22:00|22:34|21:25|63.0%|12
Lambay Island|M35|19:59|16:56|19:28|69.3%|10
Simonw|M35|20:34|00:00|20:53|64.6%|10
Swashbuckler|M35|16:55|18:06|DNS||
ClashCityRocker|M36|18:29|17:27|DNS||
Kander|M37|21:00|00:00|21:17|63.4%|10
Dubh Geannain|M38|16:59|17:51|17:13|78.3%|13
MrMacPhisto|M38|16:54|17:48|16:45|80.5%|17
Cartman78|M40|18:59|00:00|DNS||
healy1835|M40|17:29|17:30|18:11|75.0%|15
Oonegative|M40|20:00|00:00|DNS||
Sandwell|M40|18:00|00:00|DNF||5
shotgunmcos|M40|18:30|18:53|17:55|76.1%|17
zico10|M40|15:50|16:24|16:22|83.3%|17
MisterJinx|M44|20:30|20:03|DNF||5
jamule|M45|16:55|17:45|18:34|78.0%|15
Woody1|M45|19:40|20:01|DNF||5
CharlieIRL|M46|32:30|00:00|DNS||
slow_runner|M47|19:55|20:37|19:53|72.8%|18
MrSkinny|M49|21:42|22:30|22:50|63.4%|9
axetogrind|M50|18:45|00:00|19:47|75.8%|13
DeepBlue|M50|23:45|21:16|23:27|64.0%|9
TFBubendorfer|M50|21:00|19:44|21:24|70.1%|11
Thebitterlemon|M50|19:40|00:00|19:02|78.8%|15
En Passant|M60|21:59|23:42|22:21|72.0%|15
Murph_D|M60|19:55|21:03|20:26|78.8%|14
Pherekydes|M60|33:00|31:36|31:25|51.2%|11
Kurt_Godel|M45|||34:05|42.5%|10
Ladies Top 3
1. LaineyFrecks 20:28
2. AGYR 30:15
3. Hannibal Smith 32:42
Fellas Top 3
Zico10 16:22
MrMacPhisto 16:45
Fletch 16:59
F40
1. LaineyFrecks
F45
1. AGYR
2. HannibalSmith
M30
1. deconduo 25:47
M35
1. MrMacPhisto 16:45
2. Fletch 16:59
3. DubhGeannain 17:13
M40
1. Zico10 16:22
2. Shotgunmcos 17:55
3. Healy1835 18:11
M45
1. jamule 18:34
2. slow_runner 19:53
3. MrSkinny 22:50
M50
1. TheBitterLemon 19:02
2. Axe2Grind 19:47
3. TFBubendorfer 21:24
M60
1. Murph_D 20:26
2. EnPassant 22:21
3. Pherekydes 31:25
The dodgy 5K podium :rolleyes::cool:
1. Murph_D 4.94k
2. Mr Skinny 4.96k
3. Deepblue 4.97k
Challenge Points
+10 if you competed a 5k TT
+5 if you gave it a go and didn't finish... fair play
Bonus Points
+2 if you equal or beat last years TT
+3 if you were within 5 seconds of your prediction
+2 if you were within 10 seconds of your prediction
+5, +3, +1 if you got 1st, 2nd, or 3rd overall or per AG
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I stand over my 5k, on a parkrun course with known start and finish points. And there was no 'watch 5k rule'.
But I'll accept the judges' decision and take the deduction in my stride. (Boo, hiss!)
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Thanks a mill to the organisers
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Hi All
Updated Monthly Running Challenge Table after the TT. Plenty of moves this month.
So, we have at least one idea to go ahead for the May Running Challenge and that will kick off very soon. It is VERY different to any we have done so far
However, if you have any ideas for the series please let me know. It would be cool to keep it going all year and there might just be something at the end of it
Pos|Runner|Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|Total
1|fletch|19|18|15|16|70
2|jamule|15|19|13|15|64
3|crisco10|18|17|11|13|61
4|axe2grind||18|20|13|52
4|Murph_D|18|8|11|14|52
6|Shotgunmcos|16|2|15|17|51
7|Kander|10|17|10|10|49
8|Omeceron|20|13|9||44
8|healy1835|18||10|15|44
10|Lambay Island|14|18||10|43
11|mister paul|12|16|10||40
12|Comic Book Guy|11|14|11||38
12|TFBubendorfer||16|11|11|38
14|En Passant*|7|3|10|15|37
14|Zico10|1|11|7|17|37
16|Dubh Geannain|2|9|10|13|36
17|ReeReeG|5|11|10|5|33
18|Annie get your Run|9|15||5|30
19|Kurt_Godel|1|15|2|10|29
19|dna_leri|4|13|10||29
19|Laineyfrecks|1|7||20|29
22|Antrim Glens||20|5||26
23|Swashbuckler|18|5|||24
24|eyrie|18|4|||23
25|jackc101||10||12|22
26|BeginnerRunner|20||||20
26|Conor74||20|||20
28|Pherekydes|1|6||11|19
28|py||19|||19
30|eposhea||17|||18
30|slow_runner||||18|18
32|MrMacPhisto||||17|17
32|Unknown Unthought|17||||17
34|DiabloVerde||||15|15
34|HannibalSmith||||15|15
34|Thebitterlemon||||15|15
34|deconduo||||15|15
34|edinrunna||14|||15
39|Dudda|13||||13
40|racersedge||12|||12
40|Strawberry Swan||12|||12
42|Wubble Wubble|10||||10
42|Simonw||||10|10
44|Deepblue||||9|9
45|MrSkinny||||9|9
46|skyblue46|8||||8
47|omicron|6||||6
48|Sandwell||||5|5
48|woody1||||5|5
50|Huzzah|3||||3
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I stand over my 5k, on a parkrun course with known start and finish points. And there was no 'watch 5k rule'.
But I'll accept the judges' decision and take the deduction in my stride. (Boo, hiss!)
I too will take the deduction with my customary good grace -(in other words the organisers are all now dead to me :pac:).
I've about 30 "matched runs" on that route and it's a bit eye opening in regards to the variability of GPS results. Over a 5K there could be plus or minus 20 seconds which is significant enough. On the upside some results look a lot better in hindsight if I go by actual distance and not GPS distance. Anyway all that is probably for another thread.
Hopefully next year I'll be finishing a 5K training block when this comes around again. Thanks to the organisers for their time and effort. 0
. I think I'm broken :eek: :pac: 
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