On your marks...Set. (General chat)

Yeah at this stage I have no interest in tshirts so quite happy if they give that option

Oh absolutely. I dont mine race prices going up really, that happens. But its them going up 3 months in advance of a race and calling it "late entry" that annoys me.

I am running a half marathon shortly in Donadea, what is the surface like? Are road shoes ok or should I use trail shoes?

Thanks for that!

Anyone else ever feel like throwing a martial art kick at a dog walker?

This is really funny but I just got sent this article about half an hour ago about this fella and then I open Boards and see this lol.

I know him :)

Hes a pretty good fighter, did martial arts in Thailand as well.

His mother is a lovely woman and he was well raised.

But not sure what happened him over the past few years as I lost touch with his family. Its a shame to end up inside.

I hope he doesnt end up on drugs or worse after that spell.

Obviously I'm not justifying what happened.

On a separate note, I remember jogging along Drumcondra where the path is split with the cycling lane.

Its a pretty wide path and this woman was coming towards me power walking.

We made eye contact. I made sure I was jogging to the left side beside the bike path as she was on the right close to the houses.

She then decided to walk towards the path on my side after we made eye contact and she saw me steering as left as I could to avoid her.

She thought I would move into the cycling lane so she could take up the entire path.

I raised my fist to my shoulder just as I reaslised what she was going to do.

She shouldered me while passing but instead of getting my nice soft shoulder and pushing me into the cycling lane she got the knuckles of my fist into her shoulder.

She was disgusted and I said to her that I wasnt going to get hit by a passing bike just so she could take up the entire walkway.

I was watching out for a car for the entire run, thinking she might go home and get her husband and come after me.

But the move was totally an aggressive and dominance kind of stunt on her behalf and I wasnt in the humour for it.

I've had similar experiences, can be very annoying when it's a blatant aggressive move on the other person's behalf. Unfortunately some people are not very nice.

A fun geeky post about track measurements...

https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2024/01/running-track-measurements-a-brief-rabbit-hole.html

Back to crappy weather for training !!

Tolka Estuary Greenway is developing well. It is not finished yet but you can get into it along the sea in East Point or below the Circle K garage in the docks:

This RTE bit might interest some of the locals

Basically its from research carried out at DCU which incorporated over 150 hours of data analysis leading to the creation of the Running Injury Continuum(nice name). This model identifies nine levels of injury, from minor niggles to severe issues, highlighting the physical, psychological, and social effects of injuries on runners. On first reading it seems the basically assess the importance of recognizing and managing early signs of injury, like niggles, to prevent more serious problems, probably obvious to most around here but interesting non the less

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