AuldManKing wrote: » Just love reading your log, you never know what to expect. Ran a marathon for the craic last week...... Just a slow 4km in Marrakech. Took in the sights of Paris lat week on a leisurely 8 miler $hite 5k in Carnmore at the weekend. Keep it going TBL, your one of the reasons why many of us still log on here.
Murph_D wrote: » Hard luck - just goes to show you a 5k PB isn't always as soft as you think. I'm no TbL but I've failed at least three times to lower my own, which is nearly as old as I am at this stage.
menoscemo wrote: » Haha it's a clash of the Tallaght coaches. A cranky aul old school coach and a young buck with his new, modern, fancy methods (i.e. he has actually read some coaching books )
TRR_the_turd wrote: » 14 marathons, 13 of those sub 3 hour and 4 of them sub 2.40. I could write my own fcuking book!
ThebitterLemon wrote: » By the sounds of things lately Ricky it would be a cookbook Will your grasshopper be logging his training, always good to keep an auld eye on the competition! TbL
menoscemo wrote: » No I won't, it'll all be done in secret As for your first comment; did you not see the results on Saturday??
ThebitterLemon wrote: » No but I saw the results from the cross country last week!!!! So when does this secret training allow a race outing, might turn up myself to keep you honest TbL
ThebitterLemon wrote: » Originally I was to run 10 miles easy yesterday but this was moved out to today to make way for the 5k waddle. Was told to see how I was going and pull back if necessary. I'm in Warsaw today and got to the hotel mid/late morning. Lucked out and got a very good hotel and an early check in. In my experience when your hotel room has a bath you're either staying in a Fawltey Towers type doss house, where the "shower" is in the bath and the mildewed shower curtain persistently wraps it's slimey self around your arse or you're enjoying some 5 star exposure At least the previous occupants toe nails weren't embedded in the complimentary room slippers this time! It's a dark, damp, dreary and cold (but not freezing) here today. Decided as I'd be working late tonight to get the run in at lunch time. I haven't been in Warsaw in years and I hadn't a clue where I was going, the concierge gave me a small map and I headed off. I usually enjoy these city runs but never really felt the love for this one, very busy junctions, a couple of underground walkways and very little in the way of any interesting scenery made this run boring. It's a bad state of affairs when one of the most aesthetically please buildings was a blue Dell office tower! Eventually found a park but it was very small so didn't stay long there. Pulled the plug after 8.2 miles, pace wasn't great either at 8.43. If I can't find a better route for the morning I think I'll default to the hotel treadmill. TbL
snailsong wrote: » I was in Warsaw a few years back and found out and back along the Wistula to be the best option.
Murph_D wrote: » Log of the the year (among other honours). Congrats, well deserved!
Krusty_Clown wrote: » Absolutely disgusted (particularly as I'm name-checked in the very first sentence of this log ). Will drop over the keys to the executive toilet this evening, but don't be expecting a gift basket (though I might muster up a small bowl of fruit). Congrats and well-deserved.
Ososlo wrote: » Great log TbL. Always an absolute pleasure to read.
cianc wrote: » An Oscar worthy acceptance speech. I like to think you were fighting back the tears while writing it
ThebitterLemon wrote: » Haha Cian, I'll be taking the Marlon Brando approach to oscar acceptance speeches but instead of sending Sacheen Littlefeather to the formal ceremony I'll be sending Lori Poitin, the native Connemara Bogger TbL
