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  • #542
    Firedance
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    tang1 wrote: »
    Direct from the horses mouth J:

    'part of the route includes a kilometer of boreen' holy god, how is that fast :D:D


  • #543
    tang1
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    Firedance wrote: »
    'part of the route includes a kilometer of boreen' holy god, how is that fast :D:D

    Ah ya can't beat the Dub if it's not called the M50 it has to be a bumpy old rickety road!


  • #544
    Tom Joad
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    Firedance wrote: »
    'part of the route includes a kilometer of boreen' holy god, how is that fast :D:D

    never mind the quality of the road surface its the cowshíte on it that you should worry about :D


  • #545
    tang1
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    Firedance wrote: »
    'part of the route includes a kilometer of boreen' holy god, how is that fast :D:D

    The boreen section, currently cow****e free:


  • #546
    Firedance
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    tang1 wrote: »
    Ah ya can't beat the Dub if it's not called the M50 it has to be a bumpy old rickety road!
    tang1 wrote: »
    The boreen section, currently cow****e free:

    ah tang I'm only winding you up :p it looks lovely and as I've already fallen, face first, into cow dung (ok it was 1982) I don't mind the odd cow pack here 'n there :pac:


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  • #547
    Tom Joad
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    tang1 wrote: »
    The boreen section, currently cow****e free:

    That's a quality boreen - looks like a good possibility for October!


  • #548
    annapr
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    tang1 wrote: »
    The boreen section, currently cow****e free:

    Ah here, in donegal that would be a main road. How can it be a boreen when there's no grass in the middle of it? And it has a paved surface. We're just getting so spoiled these days. :cool:


  • #549
    tang1
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    annapr wrote: »
    Ah here, in donegal that would be a main road. How can it be a boreen when there's no grass in the middle of it? And it has a paved surface. We're just getting so spoiled these days. :cool:

    The road I grew up on got the grass in the middle of it cut once a year by the county council, it brushed off the bottom of the cars during the summer. Alas they resurfaced the road a few years back & the grass is now gone.


  • #550
    Firedance
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    Friday 28th August
    Last nights physio/sports massage was uber painful, could barely walk when done my calves were so tender! also she worked on my IT band which I don't normally have a problem with – ouch ouch ouch plus back & shoulders, neck & very painful glutes.... Basically I’m a wreck :)

    4 miles @ 10.21 avg hr 136, very enjoyable run accompanied by the fantastic Pink Floyd, I'd completely forgotten I had this album and had to upload it to my ipod last night when TBL mentioned them on his log - Goodbye Blue Sky playing as the sun went down behind the trees :) legs felt good after the first couple of miles so massage clearly did the trick.
    Need to make up a few missed miles tomorrow, might take in the Rathfarnham 5K route & add some miles on my home from parkrun volunteer duties, Sounds like it will be water pistols at dawn between BG and FBOT over in St Annes :D don't injure each other guys!!!


  • #551
    ThebitterLemon
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    Firedance wrote: »
    Friday 28th August
    Last nights physio/sports massage was uber painful, could barely walk when done my calves were so tender! also she worked on my IT band which I don't normally have a problem with – ouch ouch ouch plus back & shoulders, neck & very painful glutes.... Basically I’m a wreck :)

    4 miles @ 10.21 avg hr 136, very enjoyable run accompanied by the fantastic Pink Floyd, I'd completely forgotten I had this album and had to upload it to my ipod last night when TBL mentioned them on his log - Goodbye Blue Sky playing as the sun went down behind the trees :) legs felt good after the first couple of miles so massage clearly did the trick.
    Need to make up a few missed miles tomorrow, might take in the Rathfarnham 5K route & add some miles on my home from parkrun volunteer duties, Sounds like it will be water pistols at dawn between BG and FBOT over in St Annes :D don't injure each other guys!!!

    Comfortably numb is the Floyd track of choice when my arse/glute gets very tight :)

    TbL


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  • #552
    Tom Joad
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    ThebitterLemon wrote: »
    Comfortably numb is the Floyd track of choice when my arse/glute gets very tight :)

    TbL

    Would have thought it was wish you were here (tang) ;)


  • #553
    Firedance
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    Tom Joad wrote: »
    Would have thought it was wish you were here (tang) ;)

    Could be a toss up between 'young lust' or 'dont leave me now' but that might make tang 'run like hell' :D


  • #554
    Firedance
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    Saturday 29th August timekeeper @ cabinteely parkrun - clearly this weeks RD missed the part of my log where I can't operate a watch properly :p managed not to mess this up thankfully :D weather played ball too. Followed by:

    6 miles @ 10.03 including 3.1 miles of rathfarnham 5k route. Some sections of the route are very fast but there is one small hill and a long enough drag. Its also very exposed with the sun beating right down on top of me today it was roasting hot with very little shelter. Will give it a shot anyway :) Got back to the car and the heavens opened so delighted to have missed the biblical downpour! Legs/hip/foot feeling ok still.


  • #555
    Bungy Girl
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    Firedance wrote: »
    Saturday 29th August timekeeper @ cabinteely parkrun - clearly this weeks RD missed the part of my log where I can't operate a watch properly :p managed not to mess this up thankfully :D weather played ball too.

    :D Oh timekeeper is too much responsibility for me. I stopped just short of breaking the scanner this morning :o
    Firedance wrote: »
    6 miles @ 10.03 including 3.1 miles of rathfarnham 5k route. Some sections of the route are very fast but there is one small hill and a long enough drag. Its also very exposed with the sun beating right down on top of me today it was roasting hot with very little shelter. Will give it a shot anyway :) Got back to the car and the heavens opened so delighted to have missed the biblical downpour! Legs/hip/foot feeling ok still.

    It's fast in that it's net downhill, but not quite Jingle Bells fast. Great that you're pain free, bring on next Saturday :D


  • #556
    Firedance
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    Bungy Girl wrote: »
    :D Oh timekeeper is too much responsibility for me. I stopped just short of breaking the scanner this morning :o quote]

    :D how did you nearly do that? we dont get the numbers you get in st annes so everything is that bit less pressurised - although I did almost have heart failure when we thought the watch wasn't going to upload :eek: :D

    Glad I got my run in before this storm!!


  • #557
    Bungy Girl
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    Firedance wrote: »
    :D how did you nearly do that? we dont get the numbers you get in st annes so everything is that bit less pressurised - although I did almost have heart failure when we thought the watch wasn't going to upload :eek: :D

    Glad I got my run in before this storm!!

    Between soggy barcodes (ew!), tokens not scanning and the lengthy queues I thought the scanner would die of exhaustion :rolleyes:. I got my run done in the sunshine earlier too, happy days :).


  • #558
    menoscemo
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    Firedance wrote: »

    :D how did you nearly do that? we dont get the numbers you get in st annes so everything is that bit less pressurised - although I did almost have heart failure when we thought the watch wasn't going to upload :eek: :D

    Glad I got my run in before this storm!!

    It was all under control :P:D
    Great job on the timing, looks like everyone got their correct time!

    BG, no room for one trick ponies in Cabinteely :p


  • #559
    Firedance
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    menoscemo wrote: »
    It was all under control :P:D
    Great job on the timing, looks like everyone got their correct time!

    BG, no room for one trick ponies in Cabinteely :p

    it was yeah! :D:D I need a glass bottle of wine to settle my nerves now :p next time I'm just gonna run, much easier :pac:

    thanks for the tips for next week too!


  • #560
    Bungy Girl
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    menoscemo wrote: »
    BG, no room for one trick ponies in Cabinteely :p

    I am an accomplished cheerleader though, with a range of motivational shout-outs ? Can supply references.


  • #561
    annapr
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    Bungy Girl wrote: »
    I am an accomplished cheerleader though, with a range of motivational shout-outs ? Can supply references.

    I can vouch for that, although not always visible :p

    Don't think cheerleader is an official volunteer role though.


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  • #562
    Firedance
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    Bungy Girl wrote: »
    I am an accomplished cheerleader though, with a range of motivational shout-outs ? Can supply references.

    I hope Anna is not one of your referees :p
    annapr wrote: »
    I can vouch for that, although not always visible :p

    Don't think cheerleader is an official volunteer role though.

    its in addition to whatever other role you're carrying out, we take cheer leading very seriously on the ss :) its what gets people up the hill 3 times!!!!!!


  • #563
    Firedance
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    Sunday 30th August Semi Final day :pac:

    not to be outdone by the lads I planned a rundate with annapr who had her 18 miler today, I had a measly 8 to do. Met in the PP and she had a surprise with her in the form of aquinn who was also out for her run. No flowers, or chocolates or anyone undressing (!) just straight down to the job of running, there may have been some conversation thrown in just to break the silences :D:D spotted lots of running groups out in the park this morning, we really are getting close to marathon day! Aquinn left us after 2.5 miles and we continued on through the park via the s bends into the fury glen and back through the trails at farmleigh.
    in the end I did 11 miles @ 10.40 avg hr 150 so a little over the 8 in my plan but its 6 days to the race so I can take it easy for the rest of the week now. Anna I hope you walked when you hit 18 miles! I stopped the watch at the ashtown gate & walked to the car as didn't want to completely overdo it. Very enjoyable couple of hours, thank you for the company ladies :)

    looking forward to an afternoon on the couch to watch the match UP THE DUBS!!!!

    edit to say we passed Sonia O'Sullivan on the way through the S-bends, she looked in very good shape although she was sweating - like a normal person :rolleyes:


  • #564
    annapr
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    Firedance wrote: »
    Sunday 30th August Semi Final day :pac:

    not to be outdone by the lads I planned a rundate with annapr who had her 18 miler today, I had a measly 8 to do. Met in the PP and she had a surprise with her in the form of aquinn who was also out for her run. No flowers, or chocolates or anyone undressing (!) just straight down to the job of running, there may have been some conversation thrown in just to break the silences :D:D spotted lots of running groups out in the park this morning, we really are getting close to marathon day! Aquinn left us after 2.5 miles and we continued on through the park via the s bends into the fury glen and back through the trails at farmleigh.
    in the end I did 11 miles @ 10.40 avg hr 150 so a little over the 8 in my plan but its 6 days to the race so I can take it easy for the rest of the week now. Anna I hope you walked when you hit 18 miles! I stopped the watch at the ashtown gate & walked to the car as didn't want to completely overdo it. Very enjoyable couple of hours, thank you for the company ladies :)

    looking forward to an afternoon on the couch to watch the match UP THE DUBS!!!!

    edit to say we passed Sonia O'Sullivan on the way through the S-bends, she looked in very good shape although she was sweating - like a normal person :rolleyes:

    I wasn't going to mention that she was sweating, but I was impressed by that! and to say we passed her... to be clear, she was going the opposite direction :)

    Thanks for the company, very enjoyable run!


  • #565
    Firedance
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    annapr wrote: »
    I wasn't going to mention that she was sweating, but I was impressed by that! and to say we passed her... to be clear, she was going the opposite direction :)

    Thanks for the company, very enjoyable run!

    if people wanted to take something else from my phrasing well :p now you've ruined it :D:D


  • #566
    Firedance
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    Devastated :(


  • #567
    racheljev
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    Firedance wrote: »
    Devastated :(

    It's ok, it's just a warmup for next Saturday. We needed a good fight match to get ready for Kerry :D


  • #568
    Firedance
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    racheljev wrote: »
    It's ok, it's just a warmup for next Saturday. We needed a good fight match to get ready for Kerry :D

    thanks rachel that's a good point!! was so upset I went out and chopped down a tree* :D



    *the tree needed chopping, turns out the match was the kick in the arse I needed to do it


  • #569
    annapr
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    Firedance wrote: »
    thanks rachel that's a good point!! was so upset I went out and chopped down a tree* :D



    *the tree needed chopping, turns out the match was the kick in the arse I needed to do it

    ....remind me never to upset you....


  • #570
    tang1
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    Firedance wrote: »
    Devastated :(

    Ha ha!!! Ye're still in it, even though it was plainly obvious that ye had Joe McQuillin paid off but less said about that I suppose.


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  • #571
    racheljev
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    tang1 wrote: »
    Ha ha!!! Ye're still in it, even though it was plainly obvious that ye had Joe McQuillin paid off but less said about that I suppose.

    Are ya mad? OH came home from Croker and the first thing he said was "Well McQuillin was the Mayo man of the match anyway" :mad: (Although to be honest, I think he was equally wojus for both teams.)


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