My God, it's full of stars!

RJM85 · 14-07-2015 2:28pm

75k spins seem a bit excessive for a child in primary school. Especially if she'll be doing the GAA stuff on top of all that...

tunney · 14-07-2015 3:34pm

RJM85 wrote: »

75k spins seem a bit excessive for a child in primary school. Especially if she'll be doing the GAA stuff on top of all that...

Eoin gets excited when he sees "Daddy's friends" - Dublin Wheelers meet on Saturdays at the same time I am driving them to GAA.

And they both get really excited to watch their granddad racing on TV. He was in Paris-Nice, Paris-Roubaix, Flanders, the Giro and now the Tdf. (Basically any race I pick a lad with a tash and they will watch their granddad race).

But cycling doesn't do it for her at all, or tris, she won't be going there It hink.

RJM85 · 14-07-2015 3:42pm

tunney wrote: »

Eoin gets excited when he sees "Daddy's friends" - Dublin Wheelers meet on Saturdays at the same time I am driving them to GAA.

And they both get really excited to watch their granddad racing on TV. He was in Paris-Nice, Paris-Roubaix, Flanders, the Giro and now the Tdf. (Basically any race I pick a lad with a tash and they will watch their granddad race).

But cycling doesn't do it for her at all, or tris, she won't be going there It hink.

Our fella (14 months) is obsessed with tractors. Basically, everything with wheels is a tractor. He was sitting on my knee while I was watching the stage Tony Martin won a couple of days ago - about 200m from the line he points at the TV and goes 'tractor'. I didn't disagree with him...

tunney · 16-07-2015 9:28am

Slight change of plan. Instead of training and living normal life I've been in the office until eight , nine o'clock even midnight this week. Great craic.

tunney · 20-07-2015 9:16am

tunney wrote: »

Given the week I had in work and the hours I racked up .... actually I could still have hit more of the sessions if I really really tried.

Club spin yesterday. A hilly ride and I was handed my ass on a plate by the lads.

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tunney · 20-07-2015 10:12am

Dory Dory · 21-07-2015 12:40am

So the red is not good, is it? Maybe you should adjust your plan down to something that is realistically manageable? Of course maybe the red doesn't bother you.

tunney · 21-07-2015 6:44am

Dory Dory wrote: »

So the red is not good, is it? Maybe you should adjust your plan down to something that is realistically manageable? Of course maybe the red doesn't bother you.

Yes is bad.

I'm really really hoping work calms down. 12-16 hour days don't work with life never mind training!

woody1 · 21-07-2015 8:39am

maybe the other way to look at it is you still got 3 runs, a swim and a good long bike ride in despite working, 12 hour + days , i know i wouldnt have..

tunney · 22-07-2015 2:24pm

Monday night I did not want to run. Did anyways, hip flexors "blocked" and tummy in bits. Struggled through and finished it out albeit slowly.

Long long long long long day of planes, trains and meetings yesterday.

Run with Tango at lunch. Hip Flexors better but not right yet.

tired.... feck all sleep the last two nights.

2.5 days to holidays.............

Kurt_Godel · 22-07-2015 8:59pm

tunney wrote: »

Yes is bad.

I'm really really hoping work calms down. 12-16 hour days don't work with life never mind training!

I worked 7 days in a row once, each of them 16 hour days, not including a one hour commute each way. You need to man up.

Mind you, I didn't have kids at the time, and got fired shortly after...

mossym · 22-07-2015 9:10pm

Kurt_Godel wrote: »

I worked 7 days in a row once, each of them 16 hour days, not including a one hour commute each way. You need to man up.

Mind you, I didn't have kids at the time, and got fired shortly after...

14 days straight, finishing work at 3am, 30 minutes drive home, whatever sleep could be had, then back to work for 7.30 for conference calls with a customer in Japan. repeat. the toughest two weeks phycially and mentally i have ever put down, but the best engineering work we ever did, solved a customer issue with something approaching macgyver like madness.

it's amazing what the body is capable of when pushed. over a short duration anyway

sconhome · 23-07-2015 12:39pm

I see your 16 hours and raise you to 5 days of 16 hours followed by a 28 hour straight through getting a showhouse garden finished for a launch many years ago.

Wasn't training though

it's amazing what the body is capable of when pushed. over a short duration anyway

I'm hoping to be amazed around this time next week

BTH · 23-07-2015 2:58pm

mossym wrote: »

it's amazing what the body is capable of when pushed. over a short duration anyway

Good prep for Denmark

mossym · 23-07-2015 10:08pm

BTH wrote: »

Good prep for Denmark

do i get 14 days to get it finished there as well

tunney · 21-08-2015 10:54am

So I actually joined a gym and now have access to a pool. I even went swimming. Left shoulder has reverted to weak and sore so will have to work on that. I'd forgotten how relaxing swimming was.

2016 training starts on Monday!

tunney · 27-08-2015 3:45pm

It started but not gone quite to plan. Surprise surprise says everyone. A few doctors trips and a hospital trip combined with a rack of meetings - during and after work - just meant a few runs and a few bikes will be done. Struggling with the pool and swimming - habit more than anything.

j0hn1 · 27-08-2015 7:42pm

Just run for a few months instead, take the pressure off yourself.
Better bang for your training hours buck.
Plenty of running races to target in the new year, give yourself a chance to a hit a target.

RacoonQueen · 27-08-2015 9:43pm

I find it hard to have the training mojo when I don't have anything to specifically train for...too early to start for next tri season. This is a total limbo time of year. Have you rejoined a running club? Target cross country season along with bit of swim and cycle?

hf4z6sqo7vjngi · 27-08-2015 10:40pm

Better to plan for and do 5hrs training a week than planning 10hrs and only managing half that and beating yourself up over it.

tunney · 28-08-2015 9:28am

Xzavier Spicy Chain wrote: »

Better to plan for and do 5hrs training a week than planning 10hrs and only managing half that and beating yourself up over it.

I was only planning 6, will get 5 down

tunney · 28-08-2015 9:43am

RacoonQueen wrote: »

I find it hard to have the training mojo when I don't have anything to specifically train for...too early to start for next tri season. This is a total limbo time of year. Have you rejoined a running club? Target cross country season along with bit of swim and cycle?

I was going to join Clonliffe Harriers a few months ago - but work decided I needed to work late every day since. Hope to be able to do something like this soon. However the tri club is revamping and reorganising completely so that should meet my motivational needs.

j0hn1 wrote: »

Just run for a few months instead, take the pressure off yourself.
Better bang for your training hours buck.
Plenty of running races to target in the new year, give yourself a chance to a hit a target.

I do enjoy running, I am better at it than the other two sports - but I love all three!

Xzavier Spicy Chain wrote: »

Better to plan for and do 5hrs training a week than planning 10hrs and only managing half that and beating yourself up over it.

Agreed and I wasn't doing that. Stuff came up that meant all dropped. Will go into things in more detail off line.

Also this is most likely my last self coached week should be different then.

Kurt_Godel · 28-08-2015 5:33pm

tunney wrote: »

I was only planning 6, will get 5 down

"Do as I say, not as I do"

Care for a friendly wager? Any race, any distance, any discipline; this side of 2015.

Oryx · 28-08-2015 5:36pm

sconhome · 28-08-2015 6:20pm

Kurt_Godel wrote: »

"Do as I say, not as I do"

Care for a friendly wager? Any race, any distance, any discipline; this side of 2015.

Oh jesus!! :eek:

Did you not see the result last year when his left hand threw down the gauntlet and his right hand picked up?

Dory Dory · 28-08-2015 7:00pm

Kurt_Godel wrote: »

"Do as I say, not as I do"

Care for a friendly wager? Any race, any distance, any discipline; this side of 2015.

Beer mile????

mossym · 28-08-2015 7:14pm

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so many gifs that work here ...overload overload

tunney · 31-08-2015 11:51am

Kurt_Godel wrote: »

"Do as I say, not as I do"

Care for a friendly wager? Any race, any distance, any discipline; this side of 2015.

5km or 10km road race, late November early December.

Bring it baldy

tunney · 31-08-2015 12:02pm

tunney wrote: »

5km or 10km road race, late November early December.

Bring it baldy

While trying to find stuff to bait "The Eagle" with I found this

My one and only time leading a 10km and it only last about 600m (and it turned out to be a 9km)

Everyone thought I looked terrible and that I look healthy now. I think the opposite.

Kurt_Godel · 31-08-2015 12:37pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfldkNcLSNg

mossym · 31-08-2015 1:05pm

don;t waste beer like that, my seasons over on saturday, send it to me, i'll galdly take care of it for you..:)

this thread really needs some eye of the tiger in the background now.

BTH · 31-08-2015 1:24pm

tunney wrote: »

While trying to find stuff to bait "The Eagle" with I found this

My one and only time leading a 10km and it only last about 600m (and it turned out to be a 9km)

Everyone thought I looked terrible and that I look healthy now. I think the opposite.

And running alongside Andy Bolt, impressive. Who won on the day??

tunney · 31-08-2015 1:28pm

Kurt_Godel wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfldkNcLSNg

So thats how you get good running form, lose 10kg and 10 years?

tunney · 31-08-2015 1:32pm

BTH wrote: »

And running alongside Andy Bolt, impressive. Who won on the day??

Number 828? (or is it 829?)

BTH · 31-08-2015 1:40pm

tunney wrote: »

Number 828? (or is it 829?)

Yup. Sound lad.

Kurt_Godel · 31-08-2015 1:43pm

tunney wrote: »

So thats how you get good running form, lose 10kg and 10 years?

It'll help toward losing the 3kg I'll need for a sub 19 5k, or sub 40 10k.

10 years???... since you last dreamed of those sort of times!

hf4z6sqo7vjngi · 31-08-2015 1:46pm

You looked taller back then, now just the same height as me, give or take an inch.

tunney · 31-08-2015 1:46pm

BTH wrote: »

Yup. Sound lad.

It was running under someone elses name then.

He finished 204th
829 DANIEL KIRWAN 00:36:34

I was 9th in 31:10

tunney · 31-08-2015 1:47pm

Kurt_Godel wrote: »

It'll help toward losing the 3kg I'll need for a sub 19 5k, or sub 40 10k.

10 years???... since you last dreamed of those sort of times!

31 minutes in a 10km definitely 10 years ago since I dreamed of that.

Sub 40 10k - did that last year hungover

Kurt_Godel · 31-08-2015 1:50pm

tunney wrote: »

31 minutes in a 10km definitely 10 years ago since I dreamed of that.

Sub 40 10k - did that last year hungover

And that complacency will be your undoing

Winner pays €50 to others kids GAA or swim club?

tunney · 31-08-2015 1:54pm

Kurt_Godel wrote: »

And that complacency will be your undoing

Winner pays €50 to others kids GAA or swim club?

Fair enough.

Any race other than the ones on the weekend 4/5/6 December - abroad for that.

Dory Dory · 31-08-2015 2:11pm

Kurt_Godel wrote: »

And that complacency will be your undoing

Winner pays €50 to others kids GAA or swim club?

Brilliant!!

:)

Kurt_Godel · 31-08-2015 2:31pm

Dory Dory wrote: »

Brilliant!! :)

Obviously I meant winner pays his kids club from the losers pocket... obviously!

tunney · 01-09-2015 10:38pm

Tuesday 1st September 2015

A 0500 start to the day, and a very long day it was. Anyways sat on the turbo for the first time in donkeys about 2000 and had a nice session. Some complaints from VMOs in the harder bits. Felt good to be back on the turbo to be honest. Will probably sleep like a log tonight, won't say like a baby as experience has shown they sleep really badly.

tunney · 02-09-2015 10:03am

Wednesday 2nd September 2015

Up at 0530 to leave the inlaws to the airport, thought I might as well get my hour run done then. Legs blocked and slugglish. Rec fems and hip flexors tight. And still half asleep from the last few nights.

Heard a great expression yesterday:
"there is positive stress - when you are under pressure, you have all the responsibilty but you also have the control and power to affect the outcome."

"and there is negative stress - when you are under pressure, you have all the responsibilty and you have no control no power to affect the outcome."

tunney · 03-09-2015 12:41pm

I actually swam this morning. A proper set and in the water at 0640

Mad ould b1tch was there. She swims like a nutter (and badly) and bullies everyone out of the lane so she has a lane, the best lane to herself. I'm not inclined to be bullied so hopped in. Within 200m she had punched me in the mouth. I just kept ignoring and swimming on. She never checks if its safe to kick off the wall, so she ploughed into me. Another time she missed timed her turn I misplaced my foot as a result of her turn and it was placed on her ribs.

So frustrating that she cannot swim with the lane for cappers or at least let people through. On a plus side it keeps you sharp and you cannot go into a trance and its good OW practice too.

tunney · 03-09-2015 1:08pm

Also there has been a completely boycott of sleep in our house. Bar Aoibhe. She sleeps through everything. But I am wrecked

hf4z6sqo7vjngi · 03-09-2015 1:39pm

tunney wrote: »

"there is positive stress - when you are under pressure, you have all the responsibilty but you also have the control and power to affect the outcome."

"and there is negative stress - when you are under pressure, you have all the responsibilty and you have no control no power to affect the outcome."

Dont mind the first one but hate the second one.

Bambaata · 03-09-2015 4:22pm

That granny is crazy! Fortunately ive not come across her in 2 months, as i havent been to the pool :P Thinking of making a comeback though! Are you in NW for the foreseeable future? If you are planning on a dip any morning let me know, the motivation to meet someone there might help me from bed!

tunney · 03-09-2015 4:26pm

Bambaata wrote: »

That granny is crazy! Fortunately ive not come across her in 2 months, as i havent been to the pool :P Thinking of making a comeback though! Are you in NW for the foreseeable future? If you are planning on a dip any morning let me know, the motivation to meet someone there might help me from bed!

Will be in the water three mornings a week from here on. In tomorrow morning. Although I suspect my present pace is well below yours. Not swam much in a few years.

My God, it's full of stars!

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