DCM 2015: Mentored Novices Thread

I can't believe how much I've missed :eek:

Boss Lady - you poor feckin thing. Hope you're feeling better after your medical emergency

I was a little demented over the weekend, I did some work on a turbo trainer at home on Saturday. Saturday night I was twitchy and irritable and wide awake because I clearly had way too much unused energy. Went to a pool on Sunday to "aqua jog". Yeh. The less said about that the better.

Monday morning, was all packed ready and set for my LSR that afternoon/evening. Was due to finish work at 3.30 and set off hoping that my shin would hold out and that I would be back on track.

Got to work, and within an hour or so I was puking (sorry), felt really really weak. My colleague was telling me to go home that I looked sh*t but I decided to ride it out, totally focused on my long run. I took some motilium and my tummy started to settle. Then the hunger hit and I couldn't eat enough food. I was absolutely starving. Last ate just after 2pm but ended up in work until 5.30 :rolleyes:

Set out on my merry little way, was keeping the run flat on purpose, so ran from sandycove out to ringsend and back, including the two piers in DL. Noticed instantly that my HR was way higher than it should be, 4km in I got a call from work (I was on call), so had to stop and call back and was beside my Dad's job so went in for a wee chat for five minutes for him before setting off again, halfway down west pier and HR was way up. I stopped again and thought about whether or not I should continue, on the basis that I might actually be ill and could make myself sicker. Of course I kept going :rolleyes: An hour in and I was beginning my Marathon HR intervals, pace wise I was super slow but my HR was pushing past my LT range so I decided to knock the MHR intervals on the head and just run easy. Was stopped again at merrion gates as the gates were down, stretched out a bit and continued on. Although I wasn't feeling great, I was going OK til about 100 minutes in when I really began to fade - I had taken a nakd bar with me so took that with some water. Had a chat with myself that I was fine and all I had to do now was run back to the car - only 8 miles away!!!! Hit 2 hours and bam, was done. Thought about the thread, thought about how muscle fatigue is normal, tried to convince myself that I was ok, and in the end I made a deal with myself to walk for 1 minute. Worst thing I could have done, tried running again but 5 minutes more and I had to walk again. This time though, my calf muscles completely seized up - I mean, I let a yelp and was pretty much crying begging the pain away. I walked for a while and ended up hailoing a cab back to my car.

Afterward I felt like I had run the marathon (only covered 11 miles in the 2 hours), that feeling like you've been hit by a bus and had a banging headache.

So that was fairly crap!

I hadn't uploaded my run, nor emailed my trainer so when I met him last night I told him the run was a total disaster, half expecting him to say "would you consider doing a marathon later than Dublin", but he didn't. He said not to worry at all about it, I've done a huge amount of groundwork over the last few weeks and my endurance has significantly improved. I most likely had something in my system, coupled with the fact I had done the turbo trainer that I'm not used to and the fact I hadn't run in a few days because of injury thingy, that I'm still going the right direction despite the bad run.

So. Here I am, registered now for DCM2015. Bricking it after last night's lecture but sure lookit, I'll get to the start line on the day and after that who knows

Easy run tonight, and tomorrow, and LSR Saturday. Hopefully all goes well.