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yeah there's prob way to much info in them, have edited right down

Bungy Girl wrote: »

Happy Friday! And well done on both the running streak and the weight loss. You doing a spot of parkrun tourism on Sat ?

happy Friday indeed! yep will be in St. Annes in the morning, was originally going to have super pacer extraordinaire aquinn help me have a go at 24:30 but between her foot and my lack of speed work in the last few weeks it'll be a different kind of run see you there?

Bungy Girl wrote: »

Yup, I'm on cheering marshalling duty so see you there for the main event (coffee and cake , in case that wasn't clear )

crystal clear - isn't that always the main event in parkrun except for coming in first lady of course!

Bungy Girl wrote: »

That must be a really good book, FD! :pac::pac::pac:

tsk, should have turned off my email notifier was having a lovely boards holiday, did I miss anything??

I'd recommend 'The Monk who sold his Ferrari' but I'm not finished yet

tang1 wrote: »

Say she's perusing the fancy hotels in Rotterdam at this stage!!!

done & booked

you're just bored cause you've no new logs to read did you run this week or what's the story??

Saturday 7th November: 4 miles including St Annes parkrun in 25:30

Given I hadn't done any speed work in a while combined with not great sleep recently I wasn't expecting a PB today, I decided to race but not kill myself. Weather a bit poxy but stopped raining for the run. Met aquinn & Bungy girl who were on cheer leading / marshalling duty today. Set off on the first lap all ok, not looking at the watch but going at what I felt was a reasonable clip. Hit the avenue the first time much sooner than I was expecting. 2nd lap got a big more uncomfortable and when I reached the cheer leading squad the 2nd time I signalled that I was cooked, shortly after that my lace opened so had to stop & re do that :rolleyes: just shows how unprepared I was! Got going again and back to the avenue, pushed on a bit here as much as I could and strava is saying .5 mile @ 4.08, I don't know what that translates to over a mile. Anyway, enjoyed the run and the results say 15th woman and 3rd in my age category. An almost disaster though when I was handed a blank token, I didn’t notice till I gave it to the scanner who saw it was blank (no number & no code) what? this would NEVER happen in Cabinteely , turns out it was the famous token 98, phew! Followed by coffee/scone & catch up with the girls and then a 30 min swim & sauna. splits: 8:15, 8:24, 8:08, 6:37 (for the .1)

Sunday 8th November: 10.2 miles

Woke up to bucketing rain so decided to just do some local loops meaning I'd be home & in a warm shower as soon as I finished, not the prettiest of running routes but in that weather it was just about getting it done. Wet & windy but oddly satisfying. Didn't really look at the watch other than to check the mileage so the HR is higher than HADD but still within easy range in the upcoming marathon plan so am ok with that.

Distance Pace Elev HR

1 1.0 mi 11:13 /mi 1 ft 140 bpm
2 1.0 mi 11:05 /mi -4 ft 133 bpm
3 1.0 mi 10:51 /mi 23 ft 139 bpm
4 1.0 mi 10:41 /mi -12 ft 136 bpm
5 1.0 mi 10:34 /mi -3 ft 140 bpm
6 1.0 mi 10:57 /mi 0 ft 142 bpm
7 1.0 mi 11:09 /mi -13 ft 137 bpm
8 1.0 mi 10:55 /mi 37 ft 142 bpm
9 1.0 mi 11:00 /mi -32 ft 139 bpm
10 1.0 mi 10:55 /mi 5 ft 145 bpm
11 0.2 mi 10:51 /mi -2 ft 147 bpm

Week: 34.1 - a mile down on where I wanted to be this week.
Nov to date: 41.1
Year to date: 980.5

Monday 9th November: 3.1 miles easy(ish) @ 10:46 avg hr 148, max hr 215, good considering my max HR is 185 :rolleyes: getting a bit fed up with these 'anomalies' tbh. HR started out over 200, almost threw the strap into the liffey there and then. Anyway, jogged on on the faster side of easy. Crazy wind still but rain held off so office colleagues think I'm only marginally unhinged as a chorus of 'you're not SURELY going out in that weather...

Tuesday 10th November: 5.2 miles including 8 * 400's

First speed session in a few weeks,, the club were doing 12 x 400, I did the first 5 and then every 2nd one after that, tiring but good to do something fast again
warm up: 2.6 miles @ 9.25

distance time pace
1 0.2 mi 1:58 7:40 /mi
2 0.2 mi 1:50 7:02 /mi
3 0.2 mi 1:53 7:29 /mi
4 0.2 mi 1:53 7:22 /mi
5 0.2 mi 1:53 7:23 /mi
6 0.2 mi 1:54 7:24 /mi
7 0.2 mi 1:52 7:14 /mi
8 0.2 mi 1:45 6:41 /mi
jog home
9 0.8 mi 8:52 10:47

Had planned to run to work in the morning but that would be nuts after a session so am going to try running home instead, that'll be interesting...

strava says 998.2 miles for the YTD so I'm going to go over the 1,000 mile mark on my lunch run - so exciting!!! can almost call myself a real runner then :pac: