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Last Year of My Twenties (C25K and Beyond)
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Edit: Thanks for the kind words lately, some nice messages / PMs and worried family / mates really made this an eye opener for me.
28/09/14
Tiptoed around, walked in places, generally to find out will this pain reappear. It didn't and was a nice run in the end.
9.36km @ 6:18min/km avg.
29/09/14
4 Miles easy, not easy enough though. Down as a rest day but wanted to bump up this week to 40+ miles.
7.01km @ 5:55min/km avg.
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30/09/14
5 Mile Easy
Back to the plan with 5 easy miles.
8km (ish) @ 6:05 (ish) min/km avg.
Battery for iPod Shuffle ordered which should fix this gammy watch once and for all. Very difficult to source the original Garmin battery for small money so I'm hoping this will sort it.
Edit:
Month's End: 178km. A poor tally for September but I'm not complaining! 0 -
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Garmin Forerunner 110 - Battery Change
Bought a cheap replacement battery for an iPod Shuffle (2nd genertion) as the OEM one was impossible to find. (3.7V 200mAH PD3032). This is a rectangular battery but fits perfectly in the space of Garmin's coin battery.
As you can see mine was pretty fecked, full of condensation, display gone crazy:
Square peg, round hole:
Changing the battery is simple, undo the 6 screws, pull the ribbon for the screen, pull the socket for the main board, desolder the battery connections, solder in the new battery.
* This was actually one of those rare occasions when you are able to put back together something you took apart. And it turns on, phew!
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The Watch
Died in my race today, that's what I get for putting a cheapo Chinese battery in. Have a super battery on the way should sort it out.
The Human Race 30KM
Woke up this morning at 3:50am to a group of scumf*cks roaring and shouting outside my house. Having a wee party for themselves under a tree just under my sons bedrooms. I'm still getting used to living in a housing estate / interacting with other humans so I scared the feck out of them in me jocks. ****. By the time everything settled down it was 5:30 :mad:
Woke up at 9am wrecked, got the weetabix in and hit the road. Arrived at 9:45am and see they were still setting up the start/finish
. No bag drop. :mad:
Finally got going at half 10, a good bit late. The start line has two lanes separated by a fence. I was surprised to see I was heading off in the wrong direction and had inadvertently joined the half marathon start. Hopped the fence and settled into a nice slow pace. No stress.
First 10K was nice and easy, plenty of water stops and bananas. Lots of people doing 10km and HM races so it was easy to get dragged into a race, but really trotted around and settled into Lap 2.
Upped the pace a little, but kept the breathing and HR sound. Not much craic this lap ran most of it alone. Plenty of liquid onboard, kept her handy.
An angel gave me some jelly babies starting Lap 3. I dropped my gel earlier when warming up so no Popeye moment for me. Water and half a banana down and was feeling confident. Decided pushing on for the last 10K would be a laugh. Boom! ****ing flew the last 10km at MP or better, finished very strongly. Passed lots in the last 5km too which was refreshing.
If I'm honest I emptied the tank in the last 10K didn't leave much out there.
Strong stuff though and a great confidence booster, so glad I moved up to the 30km. Got a great rub down, first time with a physio so he gave me the shpeel, had to take a business card. That pain is awesome though.
No sandwiches, no hot drinks, as they say in Limerick, noahnattin. Just more feckin bananas.
All in all a good honest days work and really good prep for 3 weeks time. I'm gonna miss the LSRs!
30km @ 5:42min/km avg.
That's right exactly at 4hr pace.
(I went against all good advice, sorry lads)0 -
SeanPuddin wrote: »The Watch
Died in my race today, that's what I get for putting a cheapo Chinese battery in. Have a super battery on the way should sort it out.
The Human Race 30KM
Woke up this morning at 3:50am to a group of scumf*cks roaring and shouting outside my house. Having a wee party for themselves under a tree just under my sons bedrooms. I'm still getting used to living in a housing estate / interacting with other humans so I scared the feck out of them in me jocks. ****. By the time everything settled down it was 5:30 :mad:
Woke up at 9am wrecked, got the weetabix in and hit the road. Arrived at 9:45am and see they were still setting up the start/finish. No bag drop. :mad:
Finally got going at half 10, a good bit late. The start line has two lanes separated by a fence. I was surprised to see I was heading off in the wrong direction and had inadvertently joined the half marathon start. Hopped the fence and settled into a nice slow pace. No stress.
First 10K was nice and easy, plenty of water stops and bananas. Lots of people doing 10km and HM races so it was easy to get dragged into a race, but really trotted around and settled into Lap 2.
Upped the pace a little, but kept the breathing and HR sound. Not much craic this lap ran most of it alone. Plenty of liquid onboard, kept her handy.
An angel gave me some jelly babies starting Lap 3. I dropped my gel earlier when warming up so no Popeye moment for me. Water and half a banana down and was feeling confident. Decided pushing on for the last 10K would be a laugh. Boom! ****ing flew the last 10km at MP or better, finished very strongly. Passed lots in the last 5km too which was refreshing.
If I'm honest I emptied the tank in the last 10K didn't leave much out there.
Strong stuff though and a great confidence booster, so glad I moved up to the 30km. Got a great rub down, first time with a physio so he gave me the shpeel, had to take a business card. That pain is awesome though.
No sandwiches, no hot drinks, as they say in Limerick, noahnattin. Just more feckin bananas.
All in all a good honest days work and really good prep for 3 weeks time. I'm gonna miss the LSRs!
30km @ 5:42min/km avg.
That's right exactly at 4hr pace.
(I went against all good advice, sorry lads)
Well done Sean!! There was some strong gusts out there today and some hills we won't have to deal with in DCM. Great confidence booster! I went against the advice too.0 -
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martyboy48 wrote: »just don't do anything silly now
Silly?! I'm letting the gimp out of his cage if anyone disturbs my sleep tonight!!
Will get a chance to catch up with all logs tomorrow hope Athlone was good to you.0 -
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martyboy48 wrote: »Hope it sorts itself out. PM me if ya need a chat..
Jaysus not the live version!
Thanks Marty, pints shall be spilled soon enough boss!0 -
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19/10/14
8 Mile LSR
No watch so had to kind of guess my way about. Did the usual route backwards to include 4 or 5 really long and straight drags, just to get in the mood. Tagged on a few extra loops and smaller drags to get around in 9.65 miles (15.5km). Final LSR of 2014 complete!
Thought I nearly wouldn't run at all earlier, when driving home out leaps a large feckin deer straight across my path. I was at a fair lick but managed to get the anchors down, thankfully I barely tipped her. ( I literally stopped and she fell into the car, don't panic out there). The bastard would have come straight through the windscreen at me. Went to head off again and couldn't find the clutch, I'd hit it so hard I bent it into the bulkhead. Oh Dear!
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martyboy48 wrote: »Jasus, I send you out to do 9 miles and you nearly kill a goat or a dear or something like that
I won't be sending you for a pint of milk
Take her handy now, hard work done, but proper taper just as important...
It wasn't an old biddy I can assure you of that! There'll be plenty more taper capers where that came from 0 -
20/10/14
3.1 miles (5km) at recovery pace. Out in the wind and rain doing everything in my power not to bate on home. Around 11min/mile (6:42/km). Legs feel great now.
New Garmin 220 finally arrived and it is definitely twice as good as the 110. (See what I did there?).
Toenails are cut and FINALLY the 7 day countdown begins. 0 -
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