But its cold outside

Leg is much better today. I can take the full weight on my foot so thats definitely an improvement on the last time.

Back for Physio next Thur evening so i probably wont be able to race the Frank Duffy 10m and i'll have to wait and see if i'll be able to do it at all!!!

Lizzy C wrote: »

That's so unfortunate for you Anne. Hope you're not feeling too down about it. Fingers crossed this is just a blip that I've no doubt you can overcome.... better happen 10 or so weeks out, than nearer the time. When you're back in action, I look forward to some midweek runs with you in the Park

Thanks Liz, i'm allowed to keep running so maybe we'll get to meet soon...i'll know better tomorrow when i venture out for a trot!!

Week 9, Run 2 – 21 Aug
Headed for the Polo grounds at lunchtime to do this session and I have to say I really enjoyed this session. :DI fell the fact that I was doing it on grass it was giving my legs a break from the hard ground of the road and the fact it was on the grass meant that I would keep the paces to where they should be and not let me go too fast……the sun was beaming down on me and it was just glorious. There were even two semi naked men :cool: doing a bit of a run too, but they were way too fast for me to catch up with them!!!!!
Not a peek out of the legs while running but they are a bit stiff now after so more foam rolling again this evening….

I set the program up on the Garmin but my sound is almost gone so I missed the end a few times and this is quite annoying…the more sweat that amalgamates under the watch the lower/quiter the beeps go!!!

Anyway the warmup was
½ mile on the road and ½ mile on the grass @ 9.53/154
and then (and i hope my conversions were correct......)
1 mile @ MP pace – Plan 8.57, Actual 8.53/169
.75m (1200m) @ HMP – Plan 8.30, Actual 8.20/173
.50m (800m) @ 10 k pace Plan 8.00, Actual 8.04/175
.25m (400m) @ 3k – 5k pace – Plan 7.40 Actual 7.29/175
.13m (200m) @ mile pace – Plan 7ish Actual 7.10/163
Cooldown mile, few stretches and then ran instead of walked back to work as the rain started coming down and by God was that some shower, thunder and lightening too just to remind us that its summer….5mins later the sun is beaming again…and you just have to love the Irish weather!!!!!
1.75 m @9.39/160 I even ran a lap of the building to bring total up.
Total 6m @ 9.48

Most of the splits were ok with only the 800m one a bit off and this might have been due to me trying to fix my Garmin as the strap had loosened and it was about to fall off.

Totals
WTD: 10.65m
MTD: 67.33m
YTD: 705.37m

beeduybe wrote: »

I think it's time to change the name of your log :pac:

Hey Barry, you know in about 4 weeks we'll be back to complaining about the cold and the dark evenings!!!:D

red face dave wrote: »

Good on you Anne seems like that injury has cleared up.

Thanks Dave, its not cleared up fully, still there just not impacting me when running for the moment. But its sore to rub it or roll it etc... The dry needling is doing its magic...back for more this evening!!

Are you doing the 10m on Saturday?

Update
no running since last Wednesday...i was at the Doctor on Tuesday as i couldn't handle my sinusitis anymore, between the headache and the Fatigue and generally not feeling well, i decided seasonal or not i needed to get it sorted....anyway after 1 day of medicating i was feeling a good bit better but this morining, i'm on the early shift, and the headache is back so definitely no running today..there is a touch of migraine in some of the headaches so i have to be careful as i get visual disturbance with my migraines. Doc says once the fatigue and headache clear i'm good to go back running. So heres hoping to get a run in on Fri, Sat & Sun...

My leg is responding well to treatment and i reckon this enforced rest will help it too!!!

Week 10, Run 1 - Sunday 2nd September
Well after 10 days of no running I was very apprehensive about going out to do this one and I kept putting it off until I just said get on with it to myself!!!:o I wasn’t even sure how far I was going to run so decided I’d get to the 2.5m point of turnaround and see how things were going...

At the start I was very conscious of my legs and I had lots of twinges and niggles but decided to see what they were like after getting warmed up.....I was delighted that everything fell into place and the pace was nice & slow and comfortable and I wasn’t paying any attention to it so it was fairly constant.

Once i got to the 2.5m point I decided to go another bit and ended up going to 4m, turned around and headed for home.....took a peek at the watch and it was 40mins so was happy enough with that. Got to 5m point and then decided to see if I could manage the last 3m @ MP....the first one was very tough and I was beginning to think it was a bad idea but then I had to prove to myself that I could do it so I had to continue, the 7th mile was much more comfortable and a bit too fast so had to pull back from 8min per mile to 9min per mile!!!

The 8th mile was fine but i had to work a bit at keeping the pace for this one, as there's a long uprising slope for last half mile, so I got to the gate at 8m and decide to go a little bit to aid cooldown, so up the road as far as i could go, here the 1inch hard shoulder disappears and the grass verge disappears too.:( Anyone who know the N52 will know how narrow and windy it gets so i have never run beyond this point!!!

So over all 8.6m @ 9.38/164
9.52/155, 9.59/154,10.00/154, 9.58/161, 10.05/162, 9.04//176, 8.51/178, 9.01/1`79, (.60)10.03/171

The fecking ditches wer ealive and there was so much scurrying that i nearly jumped into the middle of the road on many an occasion!!!:eek: :eek::o Must bring music next time....

Totals:D
WTD: 8.6m
MTD:8.6m
YTD:718.28