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shazkea · 21-10-2011 08:21PM

jcsmum wrote: »

Well that will all depend on how big and luminous your sign made especially for me will be at dcm!

Eh well there's a funny story there. I had a smashing one made up for you and the dog ate it. Such a disgrace really as it was a masterpiece. Hours down the drain. Do I still get the cookie though for effort

jcsmum · 21-10-2011 08:33PM

shazkea wrote: »

jcsmum wrote: »

Well that will all depend on how big and luminous your sign made especially for me will be at dcm!

Eh well there's a funny story there. I had a smashing one made up for you and the dog ate it. Such a disgrace really as it was a masterpiece. Hours down the drain. Do I still get the cookie though for effort

I've a feeling the dog will eat the cookie too!!!

shazkea · 21-10-2011 08:35PM

Thursday Oct 20th

Nother rest day...

Friday Oct 21st

A run where everything annoyed me. Flipping jacket collar kept hitting me in the face, earphones kept falling out, keys bouncing in pocket, dogs, buggies, people. You get the jist!! Run done though so just one of those evenings.

Analysing it after I'm just frustrated at lack of fitness. On a positive note, lungs felt lack of fitness bad and not sick bad...if that makes any sense. This is good news tho coz it's something I can work on.

Plan: 3
Actual: 3.04
Time: 30:38
Avg Pace: 10.05

shazkea · 21-10-2011 08:38PM

jcsmum wrote: »

I've a feeling the dog will eat the cookie too!!!

I never knew you had a dog; isn't that a coincidence

shazkea · 22-10-2011 12:07PM

Sat Oct 22nd

Cycling on the agenda this morn and when I looked out the window and saw the wind/rain I was thrilled. Legitimate excuse to hop on the turbo trainer for the first time

. Its set up (thanks to D!) in front of the TV so perfect.

Following the endurance Tacx workout plans to build up fitness and will then move onto the workouts El Director gave me. Quick session for workout 1 done and figured out I hate the smaller gears and lower slope :rolleyes:

Time: 32 mins

shazkea · 23-10-2011 07:07PM

Sun October 23rd

Easy Run

AccuWeather told me when there would be a window of opportunity to get out without any rain...eh they lied! Very tempted to hop on turbo trainer instead but made myself get out in the "lovely" weather. Glad I did...it was gusty and raining but a lovely run.
Running completly by what feels easy at the moment and only using the Garmin to track my distance.

Plan: 3
Actual: 3.05
Time: 30:55
Avg Pace: 10.08

Nules10 · 23-10-2011 09:10PM

well done. thought i might have bumped into you en route.... but i obviously was up wayyyyy before you were

shazkea · 24-10-2011 07:50PM

Monday Oct 24th

Cycle - Endurance Session 2

Beautiful weather for a turbo session

. Session 2 of the Endurance sessions complete and still enjoying them. Still not convinced on that saddle though :rolleyes:

Time: 43 mins

shazkea · 25-10-2011 07:51PM

Tues Oct 25th

Quick Run
What a difference 24 hours makes. A beautiful calm evening in Malahide as the sun was setting and I was running past water pumps and cones cordoning off roads after yesterday. Tried to pick up the pace a wee bit, again just running on how I feel and not the garmin. One of those runs where I wanted it to go on forever so luckily I have a plan to keep my mileage in check :rolleyes:

Plan: 2
Actual: 2.05
Time: 19.24
Avg Pace: 09:30

shazkea · 27-10-2011 08:14PM

Thur Oct 27th

Run - LSR

Another fab evening for running. I did the Malahide - Portmarnock coast route again and I have to say I really enjoyed this. Hardly any runners out which is unusual for that route - twas great to almost have it to myself!
Weekly "lsr" time and I was full sure plan said a whole 4 miles :rolleyes:. My bad, plan was actually for a whopping 3 miles!

Plan: 3
Actual: 4.08
Time: 40.32
Avg Pace: 09:55

Nules10 · 27-10-2011 09:29PM

LSR of a thursday ?? and an extra mile too. I am at the stage where i refuse to do 20 m over what the plan says

shazkea · 27-10-2011 10:02PM

Nules10 wrote: »

LSR of a thursday ??

Ah there is logic behind that reason of an lsr on a thursday!
Heading home to the Mammy & Daddy for the w-end. As the Mammy is insisting I should still be resting after the chicky pox, I will not be lacing up infront of her! Otherwise it would be lecture time from the wise old mammy...and I cannot handle that for the entire w-end :rolleyes:

jcsmum · 27-10-2011 10:05PM

Mammy is always right! Don't do anything strenuous over the weekend, you need to be in full voice for Monday.

Nules10 · 27-10-2011 10:16PM

Aww shaz who am I going to have my crepe with on Sunday. They say not to do anything different before the marathon

jcsmum · 27-10-2011 10:44PM

Nules10 wrote: »

Aww shaz who am I going to have my crepe with on Sunday. They say not to do anything different before the marathon

Are you trying to give digger a heart attack!

Nules10 · 27-10-2011 10:54PM

jcsmum wrote: »

Are you trying to give digger a heart attack!

:D forgot about that comment he made alright. But you sure are on the ball tonight

jcsmum · 27-10-2011 11:03PM

Nules10 wrote: »

jcsmum wrote: »

Are you trying to give digger a heart attack!

:D forgot about that comment he made alright. But you sure are on the ball tonight

Can I blame taper madness?

shazkea · 27-10-2011 11:15PM

OMG have the pair of you not got a marathon to run on Mon - will both of you get off boards and go get some sleep...that's an order

shazkea · 01-11-2011 09:11PM

Mon Oct 31st

Spent the day giving out shiny DCM medals to some very happy folks...along with the odd grumpy git! Met some hyper boardsies at the finish line too and one boardsie swearing she was never doing a marathon again!! Yeah right

Great to meet up afterwards and hear about some cracking performances. Enjoyed some of the celebrations sweets too...thank RK

Well done to everyone yesterday who ran, helped out or came out to support.

Tues Nov 1st

Cycle - Turbo Endurance Session 3

AM: Day off today so finally convinced myself to get out of bed and hop on turbo to work off last nights beer. This was not pretty but job done and most of the beer sweated out of the system.

Time: 43 Mins
Distance: 17 km

Easy Run

PM: Out for a run this eve to make up for the session I missed yesterday. Lovely eve out and oddly enough not another runner in sight - funny that!! Run felt a bit harder that it should but prob to do with lack of water today. Anyway back on schedule for the week.

Plan: 3 Miles
Actual: 3.03
Time: 30:31
Avg Pace: 10:04

shazkea · 02-11-2011 09:36PM

Wed Nov 2nd

Cycle - Endurance Session 4

Good session with higher slope settings which oddly enough I much prefer. Those fast spins on easy gears do my head in, feel like I'm going to take off out through the patio door.
Ouch though, I really need to get a new saddle :eek:. Took me a while to pluck up the courage to sit on the couch after!

Time: 60 Mins
Distance: 21km

Mr Slow · 02-11-2011 09:48PM

[QUOTE=shazkea;75265045]Tues Nov 2nd[/QUOTE]

Today is Wednesday, it is a stormy day!:D

shazkea · 02-11-2011 10:08PM

Mr Slow wrote: »

Today is Wednesday, it is a stormy day!:D

Cheers...one day closer to the weekend!!

Stormy?? it's a fab eve here on the north side

Mr Slow · 02-11-2011 10:27PM

shazkea wrote: »

Cheers...one day closer to the weekend!!

Stormy?? it's a fab eve here on the north side

I am also on the North side and there's a window of calm but I've the wheelie bins tied down :eek:

shazkea · 03-11-2011 09:03PM

Thur Nov 3

Run - Easy Run

Getting a bit bored with the easy runs so decided to add some variety to it. Plan said 2 miles so not alot I can do with the short distance but added some interval work @ planned 5km pace (8.43 according to last 5km race). So workout went like this

W/U 0.5 Miles @ 10:46
Int 1 0.25 miles @ 07:56
Rec 0.25 miles @ 10:26
Int 2 0.25 miles @ 07:14
Rec 2 0.25 miles @ 10:35
Int 3 0.25 miles @ 07:19
C/D 0.27 miles @ 09:40

Emm intervals way too fast there so no wonder I struggled on last one - trying to track pace on Garmin in dark is a pain in the gicker as I'm too lazy to keep turning on light so just used it to track distances.

Plan: 2 miles
Actual: 2.02
Time: 19:22
Avg Pace: 09:35

Nules10 · 03-11-2011 10:07PM

shazkea wrote: »

Thur Nov 3

Run - Easy Run

W/U 0.5 Miles @ 10:46
Int 1 0.25 miles @ 07:56
Rec 0.25 miles @ 10:26
Int 2 0.25 miles @ 07:14
Rec 2 0.25 miles @ 10:35
Int 3 0.25 miles @ 07:19
C/D 0.27 miles @ 09:40

OHHHH look at you with your speedy intervals

good on ya.

shazkea · 04-11-2011 10:47AM

Nules10 wrote: »

OHHHH look at you with your speedy intervals good on ya.

Nope not good on me - everything apart from W/U was too fast. That and the fact I should really still be doing easy miles on mileage build-up phase! Should only be starting this stuff after a month back running.

shazkea · 05-11-2011 01:42PM

Sat Nov 5th

Run - LSR

A fab morning out but I had 1 layer too many on and should have left the jacket at home so I was roasting 5 mins into it.

Oh man am I annoyed after this run :mad:. I picked a route close by with a plan of gradually introducing back in some hills to the longer runs. So there are some small inclines and then the one hill (and I use the term loosely!) I was targeting. Now it's only about 0.5 miles long and I would say ~100ft incline so nothing really but it kicked my bloody ass

. Talk about a reality check as I had to stop near the top huffing and puffing!
Now I know this is only my 3rd week back and fitness is gone but honestly this is just not on. I know where I will be starting my hill intervals :rolleyes:
Just one of those days

Plan: 5
Actual: 5.05
Time: 51:16
Avg Pace: 10.09

Mr Slow · 05-11-2011 04:07PM

shazkea wrote: »

Sat Nov 5th

Run - LSR

A fab morning out but I had 1 layer too many on and should have left the jacket at home so I was roasting 5 mins into it.

Oh man am I annoyed after this run :mad:. I picked a route close by with a plan of gradually introducing back in some hills to the longer runs. So there are some small inclines and then the one hill (and I use the term loosely!) I was targeting. Now it's only about 0.5 miles long and I would say ~100ft incline so nothing really but it kicked my bloody ass . Talk about a reality check as I had to stop near the top huffing and puffing!
Now I know this is only my 3rd week back and fitness is gone but honestly this is just not on. I know where I will be starting my hill intervals :rolleyes:
Just one of those days

Plan: 5
Actual: 5.05
Time: 51:16
Avg Pace: 10.09

Every training run takes about two weeks to get into the legs, you'll be powering up that hill in a fortnight, or your money back!;)

shazkea · 06-11-2011 04:48PM

Mr Slow wrote: »

Every training run takes about two weeks to get into the legs, you'll be powering up that hill in a fortnight, or your money back!;)

Aye I know you're prob right but patience was never my strong point...am working on that, big picture and all that :rolleyes:.
No harm to get a reality check every now and again anyway.

However what's this money back scheme you speak of

shazkea · 06-11-2011 04:55PM

Sun Nov 6th

Cycle - Turbo Endurance Session 5

Turbo session set up in front of tv to watch the footie and then the NY Marathon. Great running so far by Mary but Buzu is catching!

As for my session, I can honestly say it's been a long while since I sweated so much (nothing to do with the beers last night :rolleyes:). Good stuff tho and I really love these turbo workouts - glad I invested in it.

Time: 75 Mins
Distance: 26.5 km

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