The Boggers Log

Am up in Cavan for a couple of days.

Finding it hard to get out with all the clan in tow. Threw an extra few glasses of wine into the missus last night and booked her into the spa for tomorrow so got planning permission to head out this morning.

Had arranged with Tom Joad to do between 8-12 miles. Met TJ outside Staghall church and after some quick pleasantries and a rapid assessment to ensure we didn't fit the psycho serial killer profile (I did notice TJ had to give me the twice over ) we were off.

Absolutely beautiful day for a run and after a couple of slow warm up miles were got stuck in. Great chat along a lovely route and the miles flew by. TJ brought me through some lovely quiet country roads, and on a trail through an old country estate. (The scouts have a headquarters there). We even ran into another jurisdiction!

Thanks TJ, great run and tour and if your running dreams don't come to pass there's always a place on the Cavan hurling team for you

13 miles

TbL

How do you get a fifty pence piece off a Cavan man?

With a spanner

Some seriously fine houses up this direction, and I was surprised by how clean and tidy the whole area is. Belturbet would put most of the towns and villages in Galway to shame. Seems to be a good sense of community spirit around.

TbL

Today: did a couple of laps around the Slieve Russell hotel.

The path is tarred and every 500m marked. The total distanced around the loop is marked as 2471mtrs.

Bit of a hill on the loop that takes it out of legs.

Legs were a bit dead today as I've been doing the kiddie decathlon, tennis, hurling, football, swimming, and chasing after the young lads arrows that he was firing from his kiddie bow.

5 miles @ 7.46

Going to take it handy enough between now and Limerick.

I definitely feel that I'm in PB shape (sub 3.15), but after the abject fail in Seville I'm not as confident of a sub 3.10.

I had a provisional plan of running the first couple of miles with DocQ (he's pacing the sub 3.15) and taking it from there, hoping to hit half way in 1.36 and then assessing if the 3.10 is on in the later stages of the race.

Just thought I'd throw this out there to see if any of the more experienced guys think this is reasonable or not.

The thought of not at least going sub 3.15 in Limerick is something I don't want to countenance.

Tnx for any input.

TbL

Tnx for AMK, appreciate the input.

I might have run lots of maras but I've feck all experience of racing.

Seville really hit my confidence hard so the last few races were great from that perspective.

I think I'll stick with Q for a while till I settle and push on if I can.

Will we be able to put up with each other for an hour

Thanks again.

I'll be up in Dublin a bit over the summer so if Cianc starts cheating on you, maybe we could hook up again!

TbL

drquirky wrote: »

You'll be completely fine. Roll with me for a bit then push on to glory. You ran Conn and thats a good deal harder. Looking forward to meeting you as I've only shouted at you before...

And keep up the shouting Q if my arse starts dropping!

Likewise, and I'll see you on the 4th.

Nice ten miler last weekend by the way, especially with the mid race recovery run.

TbL

Mayor Quimby ha ha!

Thanks for that Gavlor, that was my initial plan, but the fear of another Seville like meltdown was holding me back.

Have you previously experienced difficulty in running for more than 4-5 miles with Q

TbL





QUOTE=Gavlor;90099246]Starting a pace 5 minutes below target is a lot to make up if you ask me. If you're planning to stick with mayor quimby then do so for 4-5 miles max and progress your pace to hit the 3.10. The only issue could be isolation, can't imagine many people looking for sub 3.10 starting off at 3.15 so you'll prob end up on your own a fair bit once you start upping the pace

I don't think you'll have any problems with the target pace.[/QUOTE]

menoscemo wrote: »

A little birdie tells me a certain famous boardsie will have the same strategy as TbL, so he might have a bit of comapny.
Hint: it's not me but some say it's one of my relations

Feck ya Meno,

You can't leave it like that!

TbL

Ok, I've just seen Q's post, after responding to RayC so 12 miles easy tomorrow it is so.


TbL