My God, it's full of stars!

pgibbo · 30-04-2015 3:16pm

That's a binder I'd love to read!!!! Sounds very interesting.

Kurt Godel · 30-04-2015 4:03pm

tunney wrote: »

Two things for sure - the only way to get better at suffering is to suffer. Also that suffering hurts (but feels good).

Amen to that. There's nothing like the immediacy of being in the hurting zone to appreciate being alive in the moment. And then you miss it when its gone.

tunney · 14-05-2015 3:08pm

Completely unrelated to training but very very interesting
http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/seasonal-immunity-activity-of-thousands-of-genes-differs-from-winter-to-summer

RacoonQueen · 14-05-2015 3:47pm

Was reading that this morning. Interesting stuff alright.

''Ireland is cold, that is why I'm fat''

tunney · 16-05-2015 10:42am

Time to eat my own dog food.

tunney · 27-05-2015 2:59pm

So its been about 5-6 years since I really truly felt motivated to train. As time goes on I've been finding myself slowly getting more and more motivated again. I'm not back at that level of motivation and willingness to suffer and sacrifice but its getting there.

Running a severe calorie deficit at the moment and on an hour easy run with Tango at lunch I bonked. Thankfully I had expected it and had brought a gel with me.

Getting excited.

tunney · 03-06-2015 5:35pm

https://www.strava.com/activities/317357212

sconhome · 03-06-2015 5:47pm

We need to talk!! :eek: :eek:

tunney · 04-06-2015 9:06am

Garmin Connect gets populated and maintained because of the auto upload.
Trainingpeaks because I have not broken away from WKO3.0 despite trainingpeaks only being useful to coaches and even then to substitute technology for involvement in their clients training.

Strava - just cannot be arsed maintaining that account, it gives little to the more running inclined.

tunney · 04-06-2015 3:32pm

https://www.strava.com/activities/318039968

Windy day. Lots of runners.

tunney · 05-06-2015 12:39pm

Eoin picked up a bug in playschool. He *loves* his little brother and slobbers all over him. Surprise surprise two sick kids. not much but whingy at night. Normally not a problem. However 3 weeks ago I ripped the floors up in their room, ripped the wardrobes out and started getting carpet down, building IKEA furniture(12 house on one Saturday) and so one. Problem being with two beds and one room gone we now five five people, two rooms and two sick. Combined with stress from work sleep hasn't happened this week. Yesterday bunk beds arrived and I started assemling at 2000, 0200 finished and then bed. 0630 kids woke, noticed bunkbeds on way to toilet and came in to tell us. Course we ****ing know there are bunkbeds, no there is not a bunk bed fairy.

Now shattered, fecked. Only two doors to plane and rehang and the room is done.........

tunney · 05-06-2015 2:07pm

https://www.strava.com/activities/318775206

Legs heavy and blocked. The lack of sleep and awkward positions for long periods of time building the bunk beds left my hip flexors in tatters.

tunney · 14-06-2015 7:39pm

Five person house.
At present
#two ear infections
#three chest infections
#two confirmed viral tonsillitis
#two suspected viral tonsillitis
#one tummy bug
#one car crash (no injuries but dead car)
#one major project delivery

fvcking great week.

tunney · 16-06-2015 4:51pm

Still sick as a dog.
Fecking brutal day in work. So brutal I either went to the offy or for a run. Struggled through 6km.

Kurt_Godel · 16-06-2015 4:55pm

Good man. The sickness and stress will pass, and when it does all those 6k runs will be worth something, the offy is worth nothing.

Oryx · 16-06-2015 5:00pm

Those beds are a pure b*stard to make. (As in change sheets). Enjoy.

tunney · 16-06-2015 5:09pm

Oryx wrote: »

Those beds are a pure b*stard to make. (As in change sheets). Enjoy.

LOL discovered that as I had to lift the mattresses off to get the sheets on. Saves so much room though having them stacked. She loves being high up, him having "his own cave"

tunney · 17-06-2015 3:44pm

Meetings upon meetings. Resigned myself to a day of nothing as lunch looked like it would not happen. Found 35 minutes, stretched it to 40 and squeezed 30 minutes easy in.

tunney · 18-06-2015 11:40am

Antibotics are wrecking me. Got home last night and really wanted to do something but wiped out. Last day of these and only a few more days of steroids.

May be playing a GAA match on Sunday. While hungover after the script. Not played with the big ball since I was 12 and not the small ball for a decade.

tunney · 19-06-2015 9:42am

Coming home from work last night I was eager to get home to see the kids so I was going hammer and tongs. Track stand at a set of lights into a sprint and something mechanical went wrong. Dumped on the ground, hard and head first. As I lay there dazed and confused I noticed the 20+ cycles just cycling by. Finally someone picked me up and took me to the side of the road - turns out to be a former colleague. He helped me home and today I am very sore - road rash and neck and shoulder pains. Not a great trip home.

One of the lads I help was scheduled to come over last night to talk through his final prep for IM Austria. Did not want to cancel so he came over anyways, walked through a detailed race execution plan and preparation plan (cannot believe he wasn't going to drive the course), and then serviced his bike. Excited for him, a little bit of luck and he should have a cracker of a race.

pgibbo · 19-06-2015 10:18am

You can't catch a break.....unreal

Kurt_Godel · 19-06-2015 10:28am

Maybe those 20 cyclists follow this log... it'd be more humane at this stage to just leave you as roadkill;)

Kharma has to start working for you pretty soon, hope today isn't too sore.

Oryx · 19-06-2015 10:40am

If you were swearing maybe they were afraid to stop. Or maybe they knew you from the cycling forum.

Seriously though, sorry to hear this. Hope there are no major ill effects from it.

Steroo · 19-06-2015 10:43am

Ouch. Speedy Recovery. That's hard to believe so many passed you by on the deck.

Neady83 · 19-06-2015 10:56am

That's s**t luck, sorry to hear it Tunney. Hope it's nothing too serious and that you're back on your feet and on the saddle soon.

tunney · 22-06-2015 10:08pm

Second turbo of the year.
Ouchie. Although I can see what I loved the turbo

Kurt_Godel · 23-06-2015 2:45pm

Easy run pace- I want to ask your thoughts on this here rather than in private, as not enough gets discussed about run form/pace/cadence.

What is easy pace? And how should it be run? My easy pace (5:30/km) seems a lot slower than yours (and others). I realise I'm judging run pace from remembered marathon training, and that maybe Tri training doesn't need such slow "easy" runs (in that recovery is often bike-based).

sconhome · 23-06-2015 3:02pm

Kurt_Godel wrote: »

Easy run pace- I want to ask your thoughts on this here rather than in private, as not enough gets discussed about run form/pace/cadence.

What is easy pace? And how should it be run? My easy pace (5:30/km) seems a lot slower than yours (and others). I realise I'm judging run pace from remembered marathon training, and that maybe Tri training doesn't need such slow "easy" runs (in that recovery is often bike-based).

Would you not allow HR to determine your easy pace rather than a 'pace'?

That to me seems to be the biggest issue with runners in general, that they determine workouts by pace rather than effort or body reaction.

Your easy pace on Monday when fresh(er) will be quicker than Friday's easy pace after a long work week IMO.

pgibbo · 23-06-2015 3:04pm

A single data point is not a good idea IMO. Multiple data points would be better. For me I run off HR, RPE and pace - keeping an eye to each of them to keep me honest

mossym · 23-06-2015 3:08pm

Kurt_Godel wrote: »

Easy run pace- I want to ask your thoughts on this here rather than in private, as not enough gets discussed about run form/pace/cadence.

What is easy pace? And how should it be run? My easy pace (5:30/km) seems a lot slower than yours (and others). I realise I'm judging run pace from remembered marathon training, and that maybe Tri training doesn't need such slow "easy" runs (in that recovery is often bike-based).

he can probably copy and paste the discussion i had with him on the very same topic last year.

AKW is right though. easy pace isn't pace related as such. last year my easy pace was around the same as yours, 5:20 to 5:30. that's where my HR was in the easy zone.

this year i can hold 4:50 on a normal day and be at the same HR. however, at the end of a 3 week build, or after a tough session the day before, that would be too fast, and i'd need to pull back. on a good day, i could be flying aorund at 4:40 and still be in easy zone.

figured out easy was more about the effort level than the pace. took a while though

My God, it's full of stars!

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