The main thing is keeping the main thing, the main thing

Nice going AMK, that's some solid mileage you're holding, and not a niggle in sight.

Gavlor wrote: »

I'm running ferrycarrig and fungarvan aswell, you can pace my sub 60 attempt!

Sub 60 for Ferrycarrig - don't be holding AMK back

AuldManKing wrote: »

No problem - I'll look after pacing the 1st 200 meters of the 10 miler.

What time you hoping for in the 5m?

No idea, I'll have to see how I'm fixed once I get back training

AuldManKing wrote: »

Monday 18th: 5m @ 8:10 HR 133

Tuesday 19th: 10.06@7:27 HR 145 (inc 3 Tempo)
3 Tempo (6:30 / 6:26 / 6:15) HR average 155 for 3xT


Just realised I'm at 1496 miles for the year - thats a load more running than 1122 in 2012 - but at least I ran a marathon in 2012!

Happy with where I am running wise right now - from next week I might add in some intervals, just to get different stimulusususus adaptations.

Not going to murder myself on the intervals - been reading a lot of running stuff lately and less is definitely more when it comes to this (especially at my age)/

Difficult part of doing intervals in winter is finding a place to do them in the dark - I suppose Chesterfield in PP isn't too bad at night for this.
Other alternative is to swap the long run to mid week and do intervals at w/e.

Might pop over to Lucan Park Run on Sat (only ever done Malahide) - does this make me a park run tourist?

They love Parkrun tourists there, a guy called Paul was race director when I ran it, make sure to introduce yourself, they're a very friendly bunch (it's a Parkrun thing:D) Great to see you back on track and congrats to T on the Dublin squad, it must be the good genes:)

drquirky wrote: »

Ummmmmm join a freaking club? Tallaght AC trains Tues and Thurs nights on a lit up track :D:D

Not a patch on Brothers' Pearse or Sportsworld's home turf I hear...

AuldManKing wrote: »

Difficult part of doing intervals in winter is finding a place to do them in the dark - I suppose Chesterfield in PP isn't too bad at night for this.
Other alternative is to swap the long run to mid week and do intervals at w/e.

I do my intervals on Saturdays, and long runs on Sundays. When I started running I followed Hal Higdon plans and this is a legacy from these. I find that this works for me. Sometimes the legs might feel a bit stiff at the start of the LSR on the Sunday, but mostly I barely feel the speed session in the legs.

(P&D doesn't have this formula and while training for Cork I found it strange to be running short and easy on the days before my LSR)

drquirky wrote: »

IMO this is a really bad idea. Doesn't allow for proper recovery and can lead to injury .

I do hear you. And maybe I've just been lucky.

I should expand a bit.

Part of the reason I have my weekends like this is, as I mentioned above, a legacy of Higdon plans. I also have my weekends like this is for purely logistic reasons. The only time I can be guaranteed to get a run in during the week is in the early mornings (usually starting between 5:15 and 6:15) and the body can struggle with GA pace at that hour, LT pace is very tough, and I don't want to even think about anything faster (admittedly I've never tried).

Obviously I don't know for sure but I don't feel I can attribute any injuries I've had to my weekend schedule. The last significant injury I've had was during a PD training plan (which doesn't have this type of weekend set-up, here I think the injury was due to the weekly ramp up in mileage).

[I'm just remembering now as I'm typing that P&D does have three weekends where a 17 mile LSR follows the day immediately after a race (8K to 15K race distance I think). My PD injury occurred before this part of the plan.]

I should probably also add that when I say LSR, I'm generally thinking 12 to 16 miles. Anything longer and I would adjust my speed session, and would probably avoid intervals.

This post is rambling a bit, sorry.

Nice session that. What's the main thing now?