Be still my beating heart

RedRunner wrote: »

No club session for me this week. Think I might try those mile reps and liven up my log a bit too:pac::D

What I really like about your approach to training Ososlo is your willingness to try different things. You've done the lots of miles bit (incidentally your total thus far this year is not exactly shabby), you tried the HR training and now you are on a journey with Stazza trying something new. My support for you doing a race soon is probably more out of eagerness to see you do well. But you have the patience to go through the programme and bide your time so fair play to you for that. I actually think you're very lucky that someone is taking the time to guide you like this and really hope it works out well for you.

I think all the contributions to this latest topic have been really interesting, some more entertaining than educational of course:) . Keep up the good work. Looking forward to reading of the fruits of your labour later in the summer

Yes 4 x 1 mile at 5k with 90 sec rec is where it's all happening these days:D Give it a go and see what happens:D Dare you:pac: It might end up as a discussion on threesomes but if you're willing to give it a go...
Thanks RedRunner and yes I do feel very lucky that I got superb help last year with the hr stuff and again this year with a new approach. Boards has been very good to me.

Monday 9 June
35 mins recovery
Wasn't feeling 100% since Saturday's bailout. Slightly swollen glands and sore throat but much better today. Probably a bit below par still so kept it at recovery effort and extremely slow. I was actually glad I felt a bit off since Saturday as it put the whole 'thing' into some kind of perspective. However, I am getting some blood tests done Monday to ensure all is as it should be. It's last August since I got them done so I think it's about time. I know my B12 levels can slip a bit even with a supplement. I think I'll get some sleeping tablets for emergencies also. I really hate taking them as I know they effect my running (make me slower:rolleyes:) so want to avoid them unless really necessary (if I need to function better for work stuff etc).
Tried out my new Puma faas 300s this run and they'll be a lovely little shoe for racing I think. They're so comfortable and light. I really shouldn't have bought them whilst sleep deprived though as they are bright pink:eek: like, cerise pink. What was I thinking Well I obviously wasn't! I bought them on Sunday when my head was addled from all the stuff going on my log and had had no sleep and a bit of a hangover. I wanted to keep low profile for a bit but no chance of that with these babies:D

Tuesday 10 June
40 mins easy
Normally would have done a double today but obeying orders and cutting down a lot while in the intense part of my training. Throat felt a lot better. I must say I really love getting out twice a day when working from home so did miss the extra run. Did some housework for a change instead on my break:rolleyes:

Wednesday 11 June
The controversial 4 x 1 mile session today (Attempt 2)
Pampered myself all day. Hydrating well, eating well, resting etc. Sleep was ok for the last 3 nights and I was in a very positive frame of mind. I said to myself that I'm not bailing on another session and have to suffer the consequences on my log so I'm all fired up for this one!
Warm up, drills. Feelin goooooood
On the warmup the watch starts beeping that it's running out of battery. It keeps going but keeps beeping. Very disconcerting heading into the reps.
I go on to do the first rep unsure of how long it's going to last me.
Pace very hard but on 7:45 target. About 3/4 way through the first mile, it dies completely. FFS!!!! The Running gods are conspiring against me on this session. I remembered the watch beeping on my last few runs but I forgot to charge it up last night. I used to be great at uploading runs straight after my runs but got lazy about it recently. Lesson learned.
Just finished it off easy to do ballpark 4? miles total to save my energies for the next attempt. On my warm down, this foreign dude on a bike stops and gestures that he wants to ask me a question. Presuming he wanted to know the time or to tell me to get off the cyclists' path or something so I stopped my run to answer his question. "Vvvuuud u like to go out on a date wid me sumtime?" WTF? Is that how single guys are doing it these days? Cycling around the Phoenix Park looking for sweaty female runners to hit on? AS IF!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sprinted back to the car in 400s style:p

Thursday 12 June
4 x 1 mile at 5k pace (Attempt 3)
No sleep. Not one wink. The pressure was really on me to do this today as I'm away at a wedding for a few days so this was last chance saloon before the week is out. As per usual, when the pressure's really on me to sleep, my body never fails to let me down and I don't sleep. It let me down...:mad:
Decided to try it anyway as I won't rest easy until it's done and it's been hanging over my head now for almost a week and has been built into this monumentous 'thing' in my head that I have to get through.

Was so sick of the Phoneix Park and St. Anne's and my local park and I couldn't think of anywhere else to do it. Then I had a revelation! To do it on the beach in Portmarnock.
AIS, warm up, drills, yada yada yada. Obviously it was going to be a bit winder going in one direction being the beach and all, so decided not to get too stressed if the first and 3rd reps were a good bit slower than they should have been (which they were). Didn't really focus too much on the watch to be honest for this as the main objective was to get through the session. Simple strategy adopted today. Run hard for a mile, 90 sec jog/walk/crawl x 4.
7:59
7:45
7:55
7:42
avg: 7:50 (jumped into the water at the end! bliss)
Yes it's a little slower (2 secs) than the last time I did it but it's DONE DONE DONE and I can move on now:D It was painful and I was on my knees by the end of it but it's done.
It was always going to be a little slower/harder as I didn't sleep last night AT ALL, I felt more pressure on me than usual due to the previous shenanigans on my log and didn't want to fail again and create another big drama. Plus it was on sand so even though it was very compact and even underfoot, it's probably worth a millisecond here and there. I think I'm going to do more sessions on the beach when it's not too windy. I love the open spaces and I can huff and puff as much as I want and wear as little clothes as I want and not feel self-conscious about it due to the wide open spaces. It's actually ideal once it's not windy.
And yes, before anyone;) says anything, I know I shouldn't do sessions on no sleep, but for my sanity after the recent drama, I just had to do this today regardless. I feel fine now but if I wake up sick then yes you have full permission to say 'I told you so'. But it won't happen:) as I'm a hardy gal:p

THE END and Ososlo lived happily ever after. Well until the next session anyways....

Progression run Sunday if feeling ok (wedding!) and I can't believe I'm saying this but I'm actually looking forward to the 400s next week. Now that I have this one behind me I feel much more positive about stuff.

AuldManKing wrote: »

Nah, I have a date with some bird I picked up in the park.......

good disguise;)

Friday 13 June
35 mins recovery
Legs felt great despite the sand session previous day and wearing the new Puma faas. No issues with hips, knees or ankles which can be a problem for some people running on sand from what I've heard/read. So far so good...But it is very compact sand and there is no slope on the beach so I think I'm ok to do it again.
Lack of sleep caught up with me today. Felt pretty dreadful. Some days are worse than others and I just don't function well. I'm getting really sick and tired of not sleeping:mad:
Very muggy run but most enjoyable and one which put me in ever so slightly better form. AIS before. I do it every single day without fail but sometimes forget to log it. It's second nature at this point. If you have't tried it and get niggles, give it a go. You've nothing to lose and possibly a lot to gain. My legs feel super duper these day.

Saturday 14 June
No running.
No time.

Sunday 15 June
Plan: 65 in progression run
No point in doing it as woke up with horrific stomach pains along with a bit of a hangover. Felt horrible (not all due to the hangover ).
Went out this evening to do a few recovery miles and for some odd reason I felt wonderful when running. Maybe it's the strong painkillers. Was sorry after all that I wasn't doing the progression run but decided best not to be running harder with a load of painkillers in my system. Maybe it'd have been great
4 miles total
Weekly total: 28 miles:eek: Lowest week EVER! Between the 2 days away, sore throat earlier in the week and purposely holding back on the miles, it's very low but 28:eek::eek::eek: Gavlor must've run more that me this week:D
Plan now is to knuckle down and work hard this week. Progression run tomorrow and 400s Thursday.

Monday 16 June
65 min progression run
Slept very well last night but probably due to the effects of the strong painkillers I took yesterday and last night.
Got some blood tests this morning so hopefully if there's anything awry it will show up. I hate needles but have learned to deal with my fear as I'll do pretty much anything that might possibly help my running:D
20 mins AIS.
Felt a bit sluggish going out to do this. I struggle in the heat even when not running but stupidly did this at 2 o'clock, the hottest part of the day:rolleyes:. Hard to fit it in later though as I had a few clients to meet this evening and don't like doing faster stuff too late in the night as it might possibly contribute to poor sleep.
10:33
10:03
9:46
9:31
9:10
8:31
7:59
I like to end up these in a sprinting fashion working my way in the last mile to 5k pace and get faster and faster but it was just too hot and not worth it today. I decided not to exert myself too much more as the effort felt harder all along than the paces show due to the heat. This is meant to be a 'medium effort' workout and not a hard one so I didn't want to push myself too much. I must say I did really enjoy this though despite the heat. Wore the Puma Faas again today. All good with them but I feel they're too pink and girly looking to give me the necessary psychological boost that the Brooks give me:o. How can something so pink be taken seriously?
I might use the Brooks for racing and keep these for sessions. They do feel comfortable and light but they don't make me feel 'fast' if that makes sense! Plus they don't go with any of my other running clobber. What goes with cerise pink? Yellow? No. Purple? No. Blue? No. More pink? Possibly:eek:
8.7 miles total

W.B. Yeats wrote: »

Good job missus- nice set of 400's
We're all capable of running fast, and we all have mothers that tell us we can't do x or y. Don't listen to her- if we had listened we'd still be crawling around and wouldn't have teetered and tottered around on our little legs to get walking!

Thanks! I rang her last night to thank her and she's on board for further negative 'pep-talks' if necessary. It's all about the reverse psychology. Works on me!

ThebitterLemon wrote: »

You'll never ever beat 23 mins for a 5k Ososlo, you just don't have it in you, you're weak, and not mentally tough enough. Take up pitch & Putt.

How about that for a "pep" talk and reverse psychology

TbL

:mad: gggrrrrrr :mad:
Yeah that might just work:D Thanks!