Dream big, work hard, achieve your goals - My DCM '19 Journey

Thank you

Lambay island wrote: »

Surely not. Has to be have them all at start, take one each time and discard at top. If its your suggestion, I'd have to go out and watch it.

You slagging me :eek:

Tues 6th Oct - W/u,13mins@7:00, 5min jog, 6*600m@6:50,200rec,5min jog, 15mins@7:10 C/d
6:45,6:49,6:50,6:45,6:54,6:48

I debated when would be best to get this run done. I knew I would be putting myself under a little pressure in the morning so waited till I finished working. With the w/u done I settled into the 13mins nicely which led onto the 600m, enjoyed the bit of speed with these hitting the efforts nicely. Overall a nice session to have done, happy with how it went.


Weds 7th Oct - Easy Miles
45:51 - 4.73mi - 9:42min/mi

Again was after work for this run but didn't mind as it was a short enough one.

Thurs 8th Oct - Easy miles with a little pick up...
1hr:13 - 8.32mi - 8:49min/mi

Early morning run feeling quite fresh. Took it easy for most of it but as the legs felt good I decided to pick up the pace slightly. Nice enjoyable run.

Fri 9th Oct - W/u, 7*2mins hills@5k effort, C/d

Set off to the PP for this after work, had my 7 white stones pre gathered from my garden Set off on my w/u & it looked like a nice evening for running! As soon as I got to the bottom of the Kyber the heaven's opened!! I set off for my 1st rep, rain in my face & pushed on with the 5k effort. Tried to keep as consistent as possible & was happy the pace/effort didn't fall behind too much towards the end. 1st rep done, 1st stone placed on the ground :pac:
After it had previously been questioned (my method of carrying ALL the stones at once) I began to wonder how how much weight they were unnecessarily adding to me, would I be so much faster without them, was I putting myself at an unfair disadvantage :eek: Who knows, maybe next time I'll try it;)
The reps went by quickly enough, each one as good as the last. I got a good bit of encouragement running up the hill at speed especially from a cyclist coming in the opposite direction, giving me a very enthusiastic double thumbs up!! The last 2 were tougher than the others, I think I actually felt a bit sick at one stage but knew it would pass on my jog back down, I wasn't killing myself with them but obviously after 6 of them my body was getting tired. The last one I pushed towards the end, great for the mind, pictured the end of a race & was very happy to see it finished!
Thankfully the rain had well stopped & I was drying off so I was able to enjoy my C/d.

Sat 10th Oct - Easy miles
40:35 - 4.22mi - 9:36min/mi

Took it very handy for this run as my session had been late yesterday evening.

Sun 11th Oct - 75 Easy miles, 20mins@7:10, 15mins easy
1:50 - 12.34mi - 8:55min/mi

Had one too many drinks last night (which in itself is nothing much as I am officially a lightweight now when it comes to drink :rolleyes:) but it meant I stayed up a little later than planned. Still managed to get up at a decent hour & head to the PP. Parked up & set off! The 1st 75mins absolutely flew by, a good few runners in the park but didn't feel as busy as the last few weeks! Started into my faster 20mins & wasn't sure how this would go, luckily once I got into a rhythm it was good, I felt like I consistently kept the pace as even as possible, ran by a group of runners near the Garda Headquarters who encouragingly shouted, nice pace, well done! Finished off with my easy pace back to the car.

Happy to say I am enjoying my training & seem to be having some good training weeks! This is not to say it's easy or anything like it. I think I am focusing on my overall efforts in a session & focusing on the consistency of it. I definitely feel stronger & more confident as the weeks are going on, it's a nice feeling especially with the prospects of no races at all for the near future, something that bothered me at the start of all this but not now!

46.7 Miles for the week

ThebitterLemon wrote: »

Decent week, well done.

Stones on a run???? the only stones I have out running are gall and kidney:)

TbL

Thanks a mill, happy with it

Haha not as pretty as my white stones

Swashbuckler wrote: »

Stringing together some great weeks consistently. Great to see.

I'm gonna say I was expecting some kind of slagging here when I seen your name :pac:

Thanks a mill P, I'm lucky to be enjoying it & getting good guidance from S!

Swashbuckler wrote: »

Have to keep it balanced. Can't be slagging you all the time. Lol

Haha true! But nothing beats a bit of banter

I do appreciate the serious you too though