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martyboy48 wrote: »

Great result once again, well done

So, what did ye listen to on yer travels

Each other Marty

FBOT01 wrote: »

Jaysus, B, earache on top of the hip issue. Another step closer to Sainthood

Get off my log & go get yourself that t-shirt!!

Mrs Mc wrote: »

Wow ok now I want to be you ! Super stuff and great report result is vey well deserved with all that training will have to look at this plan !!! No one eating afterwards FBOT will want to do that one next year. What a mix up with the result hope they get it sorted. Well done again.

Ah thanks A I can highly recommend it! I keep telling meno he should put it in a book & sell it!! Best of luck again today, go smash your pb & look forward to the report

Sunday 6th March 4.2 miles @ 11:16 avg hr 124

Thanks everyone, much appreciated - still buzzing today but back to the grind! Had a lovely long lie in, finally dragged myself out of bed and oh crikey the body was sore, quads, hams, calves, feet, arms and worse of all, right hip in a total jocker! Threw on the compression socks (or sexy socks as tang calls them ) and walked the dog, came home, foam rolled & stretched and headed out for a recovery run. I only looked at the HR for this one, took a while but gently eased into it and the legs felt better by the time I was done. Am hoping to get a physio appointment next week to iron out the kinks.

WTD: 39.2
MTD: 35
YTD: 410

Rotterdam 5 weeks today

The next two weekends have 10 miles at MP as part of the long runs (18 & 22 miles.....) so if anyone who's not broken (:eek:) or training for a marathon fancies a jog I'd love some company.

Monday 7th March 4.2 miles @ 10:34 avg hr 126

Had a long day ahead so got this done early Monday morning, enjoyable run, legs a little tired maybe but all else ok.

Tuesday 8th march 4.2 miles @ 10:40 avg HR 141….

Not sure what was going on here, initially I had a pace of 5:30 on my watch - I thought for a second I’d somehow managed to change over to KM’s :eek: so I stopped the watch .7 of a mile in and started the run over, pace was fine on the restart but the HR was crazy high, up to 170 in parts!! I felt ok so was a bit bewildered by that. Remembered that my RHR had been a few beats higher that morning.

Wednesday 9th March 10.8 miles @ 10:34 avg hr 140

Obviously this is what was brewing yesterday…..I wasn’t feeling 100% yesterday evening but I went to bed early and thought I’d be ok today. I did feel better when I got up this morning although quite tired still. This was to be 12 miles easy, a few miles in I realised it wasn’t going to be so easy. Had a quick toilet stop around mile 6 but the HR went straight back up when I picked up the run again. I was roasting and sweating far more than I normally would. Considered jumping on the train at Castleknock but decided I wasn’t ‘that’ bad and pushed on. The run through the park, even though the weather was beautiful, was awful, never has Chesterfield Ave felt so long. I saw a Luas at Heuston and knew I could catch it at the next stop so I upped the pace for that few hundred mtrs, stopped the watch at 10.8 miles (ocd be dammed) and hopped on. I’ll see how I feel tomorrow but I might just take a couple of days off, my mileage won’t be greatly affected and it’ll probably do me some good to have a rest.

aero2k wrote: »

It's definitely best to see how you feel over the next few days - a day or two off won't do any harm.

I'm hoping sufficient time has passed since the "Makem listen to maudlin cr*p" debacle - I hope you like this better:).

awww, that's perfect, feeling better already