The Boggers Log

ThebitterLemon · 22-05-2016 05:04PM

Murph_D · 22-05-2016 05:50PM

Hope it was barbecued tuna steaks at least, or did the poor clan end up with the tinned stuff? (Could you not just have done a Julia Child "no one will ever know" move with the dropped main course?)

Nice week considering the schedule, fair play.

snailsong · 22-05-2016 08:54PM

Where is the 5k? I'm hoping it's Ballyhaunis.

ThebitterLemon · 22-05-2016 09:18PM

Murph_D wrote: »

Hope it was barbecued tuna steaks at least, or did the poor clan end up with the tinned stuff? (Could you not just have done a Julia Child "no one will ever know" move with the dropped main course?)

Nice week considering the schedule, fair play.

Tinned tuna and baked spuds Murph, I'm in the doghouse (with some well fed cats

)

snailsong wrote: »

Where is the 5k? I'm hoping it's Ballyhaunis.

No P, Claregalway second last of the Galway 5k series. I've only done one so far. Ran a 5k on the same course a couple of weeks ago and couldn't break 20. Can you enter individual nights in the Mayo series? Enjoy it, you're rockin lately.

TbL

annapr · 23-05-2016 05:09PM

Murph_D wrote: »

Hope it was barbecued tuna steaks at least, or did the poor clan end up with the tinned stuff? (Could you not just have done a Julia Child "no one will ever know" move with the dropped main course?)

Nice week considering the schedule, fair play.

ah, the voice of experience

Neady83 · 23-05-2016 05:18PM

ThebitterLemon wrote: »

Today: plan called for 12 miles LR. Needed to get out of the house to get a bit of peace as I dropped the tray of BBQ meat that I'd just cooked on the ground. Couldn't be saved and the clan ended up eating tuna, I wasn't popular!

7 second rule?

Murph_D · 23-05-2016 06:29PM

He must have dropped it in the cat litter. Even I wouldn't apply the 7-second rule there.

ThebitterLemon · 23-05-2016 09:29PM

Today: plan called for 4/5 mile easy double. Early start as I was going to London meant no am run.

I'm staying at a hotel at Heathrow T5, used to stay here a bit just over a year ago and I'd found some decent running routes. For a change finished work a bit early and I headed out in beautiful warm sunshine along the Western Perimeter Road beside T5. Traffic was heavy and the stench of diesel/petrol fumes was a bit off putting, couldn't find any of my old routes and just did 7 miles easy out and back to Hillingdon. Sun didn't last and I got caught in a heavy downpour.

Had a bit of time to kill this evening so decided to try another hotel massage. Spent the first couple of minutes running through a "health" checklist, not happy as at 100 I wanted her knockin lumps outta me, not wasting time talking, so when she started telling me that they used a variety of aroma therapy oils and I could sample them to see which one I preferred, I told her that she could use cooking oil for all I cared as long as she got the knots out!

Hoping to make it back in time tomorrow to get an evening 5k race done.

7 miles @ 8.04

TbL

UM1 · 23-05-2016 09:44PM

Hopefuly she didnt take out her foam roller

snailsong · 23-05-2016 10:41PM

ThebitterLemon wrote: »

No P, Claregalway second last of the Galway 5k series. I've only done one so far. Ran a 5k on the same course a couple of weeks ago and couldn't break 20. Can you enter individual nights in the Mayo series? Enjoy it, you're rockin lately.

TbL

Thanks, C.
Yes you can enter any individual event. The dates are on Mayo Ac website. It's every Tuesday at 8. Ballinrobe is the fastest, pan flat and just 2 corners. I'll miss it though as I'll be at a secret training camp in France with Tang1:-).
Castlebar is a bee-itch. I'm hoping to make Ballyhaunis, Brickens and Castlebar. Martyboy was invited but he chickened out.:'( Ballyhaunis is hilly enough but it's where I first broke 20 a few years ago. Probably go for it again tomorrow though it may be inadvisable considering I'm jogging the Clare Burren marathon on Saturday. I don't know how to post links but if I figure it out I'll put it up.

snailsong · 23-05-2016 11:01PM

Looks like I can't! Not on my phone anyway.
The club website is www.mayoac.com

Look at events, bottom of homepage.

Edit, this might work :

http://www.myrunresults.com/events/vodafone_mayo_5k_race_series_day_1_ballyhaunis/458/details

martyboy48 · 24-05-2016 12:50AM

Ballinrobe you say........

snailsong · 24-05-2016 07:46AM

martyboy48 wrote: »

Ballinrobe you say........

Yes, Marty. That's where they go for the pbs. About an hour from Galway and shorter from The Bog of Lemon. Disappointed to be missing it.

ThebitterLemon · 24-05-2016 09:36PM

UM1 wrote: »

Hopefuly she didnt take out her foam roller

Sorry A, my brain must be as slow as my running you've lost me. Nice long run last weekend.

TbL

ThebitterLemon · 24-05-2016 09:39PM

19.25 in a 5k tonight. Almost a minute faster over the same course than 6 weeks ago.

Gotta be happy with that progress

TbL

Firedance · 24-05-2016 09:54PM

Great! Well done on the progress!

UM1 · 24-05-2016 10:25PM

ThebitterLemon wrote: »

Sorry A, my brain must be as slow as my running you've lost me. Nice long run last weekend.

TbL

Her flute

martyboy48 · 24-05-2016 10:41PM

Left me for dust you did.... Even my excuses didn't cut it

Well done again, you're getting into Tang territory now

ThebitterLemon · 24-05-2016 10:50PM

martyboy48 wrote: »

Left me for dust you did.... Even my excuses didn't cut it

Well done again, you're getting into Tang territory now

Was waiting for you and you size 14's to pass me, was passed by maybe 10 people over the last 200 metres, was saying to myself, "that's not Marty", "at least that's not Marty", "you're not Marty", "where the fcuk's Marty"

I'd have been looking at your back saying, "try and catch up with that fcuker Marty

" if you weren't sick.

TbL

Firedance · 25-05-2016 09:27AM

ThebitterLemon wrote: »

19.25 in a 5k tonight. Almost a minute faster over the same course than 6 weeks ago.

Gotta be happy with that progress

TbL

You never said it's also a pb!! I've no business in the sub 3 thread so will post this here. On the slow twitch fiber thingy you can get a lactate threshold test done and that will answer the question for you (if you wanted).

Well done on the PB

martyboy48 · 25-05-2016 10:03AM

ThebitterLemon wrote: »

Was waiting for you and you size 14's to pass me, was passed by maybe 10 people over the last 200 metres, was saying to myself, "that's not Marty", "at least that's not Marty", "you're not Marty", "where the fcuk's Marty"

I'd have been looking at your back saying, "try and catch up with that fcuker Marty " if you weren't sick.

TbL

Actually that was my plan all along.... I put you in rabbit mode by staying behind you.... That and drawing you back from the front of the start area which made you ease your way into the race made what I did a great success ha ha ðŸ˜Š

What was your splits like? ?

ThebitterLemon · 25-05-2016 11:14AM

Claregalway 5k race series.

19.25, pb.

Got into Shannon yesterday around 5pm and headed up to Claregalway for the race. I've run this 5k route twice before, doing a 19.27 pb there a few years ago and a 20.2x there about 6 weeks ago at the start of this training cycle.

The place was very busy with runners with almost 650 starters. I was talking to a Tri fairy friend of mine up towards the front just before the start but thought I was a bit too close to the start given my current fitness. Spotted Martyboy a few rows back and headed back to him for a chat.

Very congested at the start and the first half mile is up a decent incline so I was really pissed off to see my lap pace at 7.10 after a few hundred metres. Passed Marty on the hill and continued on weaving my way through slower runners. Effort levels felt high and I was goosed at 3k and was expecting Marty to come flying by at any moment. Recent weeks training have obviously stood to me coz although I was really hurting and couldn't muster up an increase in pace at least the pace didn't dramatically fall away. Was passed by loads of runners over the last 200 metres and couldn't respond but was happy to cross the line with a 2 second pb.

Finished ahead of my trifairy friend who has been a fair bit ahead of me over recent 5k's so things are going in the right direction. I've never run a 6 minute mile in a race before but I'd like to think that before the summers over that I could string together three 6 minute miles for a reasonable 5k time.

5k's are a b1tch!

6.14
6.16
6.12
6.03 (for the bit)

TbL