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Ain't nothing gonna break my stride....
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Nice run today. Pity I missed you at the k club. It was a busy room and hard to spot all the boardsies. :-(
Thanks Robbie. I was looking out for you too. I've never met you of course but I've seen a few photos and I thought I'd be able to spot you. I was a bit spaced after though so that probably didn't help
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Friday:
Rest. Was studying most of the day and I got a good chunk of my essay done. Only 500 more words to go
Saturday:
Run: Kclub 10k race
Woke early and was feeling very energetic so I decided to get all my jobs done and head to Straffan. I thought I had loads of time but it was 10:30 when I got there and then I had to join a massive queue to register. Which turned out to be the wrong queue when I got to the desk so I had to join another long queue before I could get my number. Queue me feeling very frazzled! Only had 8 minutes for a warm up so I jogged back to the car to get my watch where I bumped into posters in exile, jscmum and Sunflower Ro.
Had a quick word with AMK at the start and then I met Adrian who was looking pumped and ready for action. This is the third year I've done this race. I've gone too fast at the start on both previous attempts so the only plan I had was to run no faster than 4:15 for the first km.
I was pretty happy with where I had lined up. I had plenty of room and not too many people passed me before we turned on to the road. My breathing was good and my watch was reading 4:17 at the 1k marker. I had started it on the gun so it should have been pretty accurate. After the first k I ran by effort but although the pace on my watch was showing in km, the distance was still in imperial measurements so it was beeping for every mile split and I was looking at these. Adrian was about 30m ahead of me and looked to be going well. The wind was difficult in places especially on that stretch between the 2nd and 3rd k. Next time round was going to be fun :rolleyes: When we turned the corner out of the wind I had a guy on either side of me. The guy on my right was a garda and he was nice and tall so really I was hoping to keep pace with him when we turned back into the wind. Passed 5k in 20:50. We were closing the gap on Adrian but unfortunately for me, just before we turned the corner for the second loop my garda friend pushed on and I couldn't go with him. Kilometres 6 - 8 I can't remember much about apart from the suffering. Felt a bit nauseous at one stage and then I started to get a stich. Dialled back the effort a little and it passed. I remember Sunflower Ro passed me before the water station and said Well done. It always amazes me how people can talk in the middle of shorter races. I can hardly think never mind form words! Adrian and the garda had disappeared by now and then 4 more women passed me. I had nothing left to go with them and all I was hoping was to maintain the pace to the finish. I felt a bit better on the last k. Probably cause it's mostly downhill until you reach the roundabout. A lad in a red t-shirt sprinted past me before the start of the last uphill bit to the finish. I didn't want anyone else passing me and I managed to summon up a bit more energy to the finish.
Gun time: 42:50
Position: 188/424
That's 4 seconds faster than my time in 2013 when I was in the middle of Limerick marathon training. It's a bit disappointing that after 2 years I'm pretty much at the same level I was then!
Splits: 6:47, 6:51, 6:40, 7:03, 6:57, 7:02 (6:35)
I did a little cool down jog of about 10 minutes and then headed back to catch up with the others. Nice to meet everyone but I wasn't really zoned in so apologies if I seemed a bit distant. Didn't stay for too long cause I wanted to go for a swim.
Swim: 1.3k
200 easy
2 x 50 torpedo
2 x 50 sw
2 x 50 one arm extension
2 x 50 sw
2 x 50 side kick
2 x 50 sw
2 x 50 shoulder tap
2 x 50 sw
150 easy
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There's a PB for amount of times mentioned in someone else's race report.
Nice report and good running. I think it was a good race for you given you've been focusing more on swimming than running recently!
Haha thanks Adrian. I had a good position to see how you were running and it was interesting to watch you and the garda lad push on. Once we turned out of the wind ye seemed to really quicken away from me 0 -
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Ah ya I know. I'm just having a whingeYou have to take into account you had a fairly serious hip issue last year, coming back from an injury like that is like starting running from zero again. With all the swimming your doing i'd be amazed if you dont see big improvement in your times by years end. If you'd only knock that adventure/hide & go seek stuff on the head!!
I'll give it till the end of the year so and if I don't see massive improvement I'll be knocking at your door
Do you want to tell my team mates .....0 -
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tell us what?! I have a few giant tins of whoop ass in a press if necessarycareer move wrote: »
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career move wrote: »You shouldn't have been so bloody fast when you were marathon training
Blame Meno and trying to keep.up with you.0 -
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Still, not a bad run yesterday CM. As others have said, you've had a long term injury and also been concentrating on swimming. Have you started a structured running plan yet? That will pay off...as will joining a club (I know there are not enough hours in the day :rolleyes: ) 0
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Still, not a bad run yesterday CM. As others have said, you've had a long term injury and also been concentrating on swimming. Have you started a structured running plan yet? That will pay off...as will joining a club (I know there are not enough hours in the day :rolleyes: )
Thanks Dg. I have a plan but I often change it depending on how I'm feeling. I think I just need to be patient. The club thing is something I've been thinking about. The most suitable one is too far. There is one nearer but just looking at their web page I'm not sure if it would be much good. It seems to be mostly for juniors and focussed on distances up to a mile. They have a fit4life group meeting on Thursdays but I don't think that would be much use to me. I probably need to go down there 0 -
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Monday:
Run: 4.2m @ 10:06
Same as yesterday. Legs good breathing crap. Luckily I had a recovery run planned anyway
Swim: 2.4k
"*Day 1* Open Water Practice day
200 warm up
600m Sighting practise as:
Pick a stationary object down the other end of the pool- an exit, a chair, a particular window, etc. Swim 25 (or 50 in a LC pool) and immediately find that object when you come up for air every second breath. Then swim back down the pool "Tarzan", front crawl keeping your head out of the water. This is tough!
Summary: One length sighting, one length Tarzan, alternate for 600m.
2 min rest
600m straight swim up and down- but you cannot touch the wall at any time (so turn without touching)
2 min rest
6*100 swim steady pace, 15s rest between each
400 choice warm down
Didn't like the look of this when I saw it. Way outside my comfort zone! I wasn't in Roscrea today so I was going to leave it till tomorrow but I couldn't face the thought of it hanging over me so I went this evening. The first half was the worst. The sighting was awkward. I didn't like breathing every two. It made me feel panicky so I changed to BE 4. I had picked a sign on the wall which was grand when I was breathing to that side but sometimes I forgot that I was to BE 4 and I went back to breathing every 3 and then I got a bit mixed up. The Tarzon was fine. That's how I used to swim! After the first length I found it was easier when I was rotating my body more. The 600 without touching the wall was also awkward especially when there was people standing at the wall. I had to put my feet down for a few of them and it broke my rhythm which I didn't like. The last 4 I had the lane to myself and I got my turn going really well Dory gave us a kick drill to do in February where we kick on our backs with our arms stretched back behind our heads and our hands clasped. I could never manage to do it unless I had my hands by my sides but tonight I got 2 x 25m done #becomingmorebouyant 0 -
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career move wrote: »... The sighting was awkward. I didn't like breathing every two...."find that object when you come up for air every second breath".
When I first started swimming under a coach, he'd often tell me to do things and I'd get 'em mixed up. He was very patient, but sometimes I'd catch him looking at me from the bank, shaking his head with a wry smile...
... I just did that shake head and cock-eyed smile 0 -
Kurt Godel wrote: »When I first started swimming under a coach, he'd often tell me to do things and I'd get 'em mixed up. He was very patient, but sometimes I'd catch him looking at me from the bank, shaking his head with a wry smile...
... I just did that shake head and cock-eyed smile
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overpronator wrote: »I didn't understand any of that so I'm very impressed!I can't swim so I don't understand of this but I do understand that it sounds bloody hard, well done
Thanks guys. I could have done with understanding it a bit better myself judging from this|
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|\/Kurt Godel wrote: »When I first started swimming under a coach, he'd often tell me to do things and I'd get 'em mixed up. He was very patient, but sometimes I'd catch him looking at me from the bank, shaking his head with a wry smile...
... I just did that shake head and cock-eyed smile0 -
Tuesday:
Swim: 2.35k
200 warm up
200 drills (choice)
50m fingertip
50m shoulder tap
50m thigh tap
50m pb
2*50 fist, 15s rest
2*50 fist + pb, 15s rest
100 MAX
In on 2:02*
2*50 fist, 15s rest
2*50 fist + pb, 15s rest
75m sw
200 MAX
In on 4:25
2*50 fist, 15s rest
2*50 fist + pb, 15s rest
100 MAX
In on 2:05
2*50 fist, 15s rest
2*50 fist + pb, 15s rest
200 MAX
In on 4:34
200 pb
275 alternating fc and backstroke
I did a slightly different session to what I was supposed to! I meant to check when I was in the car park but I forgot and then when I got into the pool I wasn't 100% sure. I was going to do it as intended but I thought no that's seems way too short so I figured it must be 4 *50 fist instead of 2*50. I was a bit lazy after the drills and I decided to do 2 of the 4 fist reps with the pull bouy so it wasn't that much extra anyway. The lifeguard stopped me after 75m into the first 200 MAX because he wanted to move the lanes to the other side of the pool. I thought I might as well start over instead of stopping, waiting and then continuing on. It ruined my buzz though
I knocked another couple of secs off my 100m PB but I couldn't hold the pace on the second MAX for either. Not sure why. I thought I was swimming well and I wasn't that tired. Not the end of the world though - it's still faster than I was swimming last month
I had 9 missed calls when I got back to the car. Had to go straight into work and the day kind of slipped away from me after that. Was going to run but I'm just finished dinner now so I'll leave it. Probably could do with the rest anyway going by my paces for the last couple of days 0 -
Wednesday:
Run: 10.3m @ 8:58
I was going to get up early and get this done but I woke during the night and felt like crap and all running plans were discarded. I was grand this morning though and since I'm racing a local 10k on Sunday I thought I'd get my long run out of the way. Around 3 miles in I started to feel pretty grim and I had to leave the 'main' road in case I threw up. Or worse. I can't remember ever wanting to stop so much on a run as I did for the next 3 miles. Constant waves of nausea interspersed with periods were I felt not too bad. I didn't stop because there was a scary voice telling me to 'KEEP RUNNING :mad:' and anyway I would have only got cold walking. There was a couple of times when I could have taken a shorter road towards home but oddly enough these points always came when I was feeling not too bad and suddenly after about 7 miles I suddenly felt really good and the pace picked up and I started to wonder was it all just a figment of my imagination
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Thursday:
Flying it today
Run 1: 4m @ 8:33
Short but sweet ..... my best training run for a couple of weeks.
Swim: 2.9k
200 warm up
200 drills (kick drills)
200 swim,
300 pb, alternating 50m BE 3 and 50m BE 5
400 swim, every 4th length BE 5
500 pb, alternating 50m BE 3 and 50m BE 5
400 swim, every 4th length BE 5
300 pb, alternating 50m BE 3 and 50m BE 5
200 swim,
200 backstroke
I was delighted when I got finished in work earlier than I thought I would. Half an hour makes all the difference! Pool was lovely and quiet and I had the lane all to myself. Felt like I was moving well.
Run 2: 3m @ 10:14
It was a fab evening. Too nice to be stuck inside studying so I threw on the runners and headed out for a little recovery run 0 -
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ThebitterLemon wrote: »Might have a bit of time on my hands soon Dora, might need to buy myself some armbands, any recommendations
TbL
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