Insert cringy running cliché here!

13.1 miles today tackled that same hill last Friday again with more success, I'm quite happy so I am, pace = 10:05/mile, but that time was very much skewed by the incredibly fast downhill splits, probably on average it was something closer to 10:20 or that. So that finishes out this weeks training, since I hit such a relatively high mileage since last Sunday I am going to take Saturday and Sunday off (listen to your body and all that). So this weeks mileage works out at 44 miles, another increase of six miles and another LSR done. I'm quite happy once again.

well i took a slightly longer break owing to a touch of illness/manflu over the weekend, and it actually wasnt self inflicted for once! so today i did a bit of grass running round all the pitches today, one of the lads noticed that i have a very heavy heelstrike and said i should do more of my training on grass. So today I managed 8 miles at 10:04/mile. My pace does suffer on the grass as its more difficult for me to run on.

Can't believe this thread was four years ago, I'm full of enthusiasm now for the new year. I'm running the Waterford half marathon tomorrow but it will be a very slow one as I've put on quite a lot of weight over christmas and plan not to race it really.

I've two races planned after that:

St Paul's parish 5 mile - January 24th
Anne Valley 5 mile - February 6th

More updates to follow!

No running today with a half marathon yesterday, I just went for a nice walk this morning, my legs are a bit sore but I'm not carrying niggles by any means. I'll see if the legs are up to something small tomorrow

The weather was horrific so I did 30 minutes on the crosstrainer and 30 minutes on the bike. It cleared up today so I did 6 miles 10:02 min/miles, happy enough with that

aquinn wrote: »

Hello,
As you resurrected the log I just read it. Missing out on updates such as current PB's, targets and did you do sub 4 in Conn????

Hi, it was remiss of me not to post updates on everything that I've done in the last four years! Basically illness hampered me training for the Conn full and I changed my entry to a half, I think the time was 1:54 or something similar. I've knocked a reasonable amount of time off some of my pbs. For example I did the Cork half in 2014 in 1:41 and a 10k in 46:01. My 10 mile and 5k pbs have remain unchanged. I did the 2012 DCM in 4:35 also. I probably haven't trained consistently to full potential, thus resurrecting this thread to motivate me.

Up early this morning because I'm heading to the coursing in clonmel! 6 miles in 9:59 min/miles