My God, it's full of stars!

Keeks · 09-01-2019 11:12pm

El Director wrote: »

I've done the new TR ramp test for my latest two FTP

You can do the ramp test n Zwift too......GP lama has done a workout for it and can be found on https://whatsonzwift.com ..... there is actually some other good workouts here too if you havent seen this before...

tunney · 11-01-2019 6:50pm

Keeks wrote: »

You can do the ramp test n Zwift too......GP lama has done a workout for it and can be found on https://whatsonzwift.com ..... there is actually some other good workouts here too if you havent seen this before...

Thanks, those FTP tests also use the free ride functionality. Will just go back to my old approach!

tunney · 11-01-2019 6:52pm

Week back in work and not been a good week for training. Doing a local park run in the morning to baseline the running. Technical enough course but will give it a lash. A lad from work doing it as well, he is also doing IM Cork and we work very closely together, former inter-county Dublin hurler and definitely some competition going on. Should be fun. Other than that a spin planned for the weekend and a swim tonight.

tunney · 12-01-2019 7:28pm

Hurler dude bailed. First park run 21.10

Sh1t but a marker.
181 bpm avg, 87 max

Left hip flexor a limiter from hitting expected avg and max but at best would have be 20 sec.

Need to get that sorted.

Kurt.Godel · 12-01-2019 8:11pm

tunney wrote: »

Sh1t but a marker.

Sh1t, good, bad, indifferent... good to see any sort of marker up here. That's what you did today and kudos for it; onwards and upwards.

El Director · 12-01-2019 8:24pm

Kurt.Godel wrote: »

Sh1t, good, bad, indifferent... good to see any sort of marker up here. That's what you did today and kudos for it; onwards and upwards.

+1

tunney · 17-01-2019 3:12pm

Disaster of a week. Some sort of a flu, into what I can only call exercise induced nosebleeds. Effort goes up, nose bleeds, session over. Fvcking annoying.

peter kern · 21-01-2019 5:15pm

tunney wrote: »

Disaster of a week. Some sort of a flu, into what I can only call exercise induced nosebleeds. Effort goes up, nose bleeds, session over. Fvcking annoying.

I have that too from time to time ( the nosebleed) I just keep going at slight slower pace and put a bit of tissue in nose. ( I guess that's why like Ireland as it happens much more frequently at dry air...)

tunney · 22-01-2019 7:59pm

Cheers for that Peter. Good to know that it is not just me. Seems to have cleared up now mind.

Although healthy I am missing the motivation. Something just isn't there. Is it something bigger than tri that's causing it? I just don't know.

mloc123 · 23-01-2019 1:14pm

tunney wrote: »

Cheers for that Peter. Good to know that it is not just me. Seems to have cleared up now mind.

Although healthy I am missing the motivation. Something just isn't there. Is it something bigger than tri that's causing it? I just don't know.

Is Tri what you actually want to do... or are doing it because that is what you know?

tunney · 23-01-2019 5:22pm

mloc123 wrote: »

Is Tri what you actually want to do... or are doing it because that is what you know?

More than tri I suppose, more of a general lack of Joie de vivre I suppose.

peter kern · 23-01-2019 7:12pm

i would suggest break it down into smaller things

work first on getting 5 k time down and actually enjoy training rather than entering a race which you think will make you train for it .

mlocs question is a good one because at the end of the day it will never be as it was ,and being pissed off with the current numbers or missed training is not going to help. at the same time being a bit fitter is always a good thing .

mloc123 · 23-01-2019 9:47pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OArKXKj5PeU

I watched this recently... it put things in perspective, a decade and all that goes with it (marriage, kids, job etc..) has a big impact on priorities.
Over the last few years I would not even start a race, what was the point... my times and performance would be nowhere near my 2010/11 season. I think at some point you need to just re-evaluate what you want from it all.

tunney · 01-02-2019 1:29pm

New month, time to get some training in. Work nuts and will remain so will need to work on time management and work life balance....

Some goals for February

BTH · 01-02-2019 3:42pm

Rough guesstimates that equates 15.5 hours a week.

Over ambitious to the point of being counter productive??

tunney · 01-02-2019 3:59pm

BTH wrote: »

Rough guesstimates that equates 15.5 hours a week.

Over ambitious to the point of being counter productive??

Cycling includes commuting time so single digits once that is out

tunney · 19-03-2019 3:06pm

F**k it, fractured my toe.

El Director · 20-03-2019 10:44am

tunney wrote: »

F**k it, fractured my toe.

Sh1te Dave. How did that happen? How was training going?

tunney · 20-03-2019 10:45am

Training was returning to decent ish.

I was tired and going to bed and stubbed my toe hard on the point of a wooden door frame. Idiot thing to do!

mloc123 · 20-03-2019 12:26pm

tunney wrote: »

Training was returning to decent ish.

I was tired and going to bed and stubbed my toe hard on the point of a wooden door frame. Idiot thing to do!

Tape it up, you'll be grand

El Director · 21-03-2019 12:28pm

tunney wrote: »

Training was returning to decent ish.

I was tired and going to bed and stubbed my toe hard on the point of a wooden door frame. Idiot thing to do!

Ouch! That was unfortunate. Good luck with the recovery!

tunney · 17-04-2019 5:12pm

Few days away there with Tango and JackyBack

510 km of riding with 7470m vertical in 20.5 hours

Few drinks, some good good and some running and swimming.

Good craic. Just need to keep it up.

tunney · 25-06-2019 9:52am

"You don't know man, you weren't there."

peter kern · 25-06-2019 4:56pm

one of my favorite race repeorts ever straight to the point

i have only one question will you go back next year?

tunney · 28-06-2019 9:53am

peter kern wrote: »

one of my favorite race repeorts ever straight to the point

i have only one question will you go back next year?

No. I would not.

The bike course is the problem for me. The roads are too narrow, the surface too bad. There are bohereens for bits (albeit hollywood style bohereens rather than Brazilian ones). People had to ride on the crown of the road, hard to over take.
The descents usually were sharp, short and ended in a hard right so was frustrating.

Road was grand and so would have been the swim, volunteers and support were excellent but also a pattern of short cost avoidance measures that bothered me too.

So no. However I am glad that I did the inaugural, and possibly penultimate, Ironman Cork.

tunney · 02-07-2019 9:45am

Since Cork I've managed a 10, 20 and 30 minute run. Patella tendons still quite sore.

Two turbos and the usual 20km a day cycling.

Stiff and sore to be honest.

Baby75 · 10-07-2019 12:55pm

Hang in there it and I hope your feeling better soon

do you strap the knee I found that helped untill it was fully healed get your self to physio if needed though

tunney · 10-07-2019 1:46pm

Baby75 wrote: »

Hang in there it and I hope your feeling better soon

do you strap the knee I found that helped untill it was fully healed get your self to physio if needed though

On the patella tendons I tend to avoid doing anything until they are right. I know what I need to do to avoid getting tendinosis/Tendinitis and to shift the pain.

I'm sure I'll return to no suffering and issues soon!

tunney · 15-07-2019 11:23am

My wife was away last week so couldn't post until now......

I was cycling to work last Tuesday and a pedestrian stepped out in front of me without looking. I braked hard and swerved and i *think* I didn't connect, certainly not hard if I did. However I went down hard enough and in the middle of the road. Car following behind me whacked me in the back of the head with (guess here) its bumper. Needless to say I did not get back up.

Helmet dead but it did its work.

Nothing broken, elbow sore (very), neck and back fecked and a concussion. Off work and in bed since (mostly).

Ah well, still alive!

woody1 · 15-07-2019 11:28am

bloody hell, :eek:

good luck with recovery

mossym · 15-07-2019 11:28am

let me be the first to suggest a new sport

at this stage the hospitals and ambulance services must have you on speed dial

joking aside, recover well, whatever about bone pain, get the head right

El Director · 15-07-2019 11:49am

God lord! Thank god it was not more serious. Wishing you a speedy recovery Dave.

tunney · 15-07-2019 11:52am

El Director wrote: »

God lord! Thank god it was not more serious. Wishing you a speedy recovery Dave.

Cheers, as the doctors in A&E said - "if the wheel had gone over your head would be a different story, but don't think about that....."*

* words to that effect, head injury could even have been talking to myself

El Director · 15-07-2019 12:37pm

Fvck me! That’s awful sobering.

Singer · 15-07-2019 1:22pm

Holy cr@p, glad you're ok.

peter kern · 15-07-2019 10:13pm

hope it works out well was quite relieved you had no accident aound cork ...

i hope you dont get sued by the walker ...

RacoonQueen · 16-07-2019 11:15pm

Jayz Dave.

tunney · 19-07-2019 10:28am

Back on the bike yesterday for commuting and I have to admit very very nervous.
Rain today didn't help either!

tunney · 19-07-2019 11:30am

I was in the bathroom today shaving and my youngest lad (4) came in. Two unprompted questions.....

#1 Are you going to get skinny to win races?
#2 Is your medal from Cork made of coal because it wasn't a real Ironman cause there was no swim?

I do not know where he got these questions...........

griffin100 · 19-07-2019 3:34pm

Notwithstanding where he got the questions from, they are perfectly valid!!

tunney · 24-07-2019 10:52am

Went for a swim day before yesterday. First since the most recent accident. Wow that hurt. Damage to elbow (bone??) and my neck and back in a jock.

Few runs including an aborted tempo one yesterday. Part weather related, part lack of sleep due to below bollocks not sleeping last night and crying and whinging almost all the night.

tunney · 25-07-2019 3:48pm

A few more attempts at running. Things just not right. Took a bigger hammering in the crash than I thought. Sore, stiff and fecked. ****ing annoying

tunney · 30-09-2019 5:13pm

Monday 30th September 2019
Weight : 84.3 kg

Yesterday was my 12th wedding anniversary. It was also the 3rd anniversary of my accident on the way to Ironman Barcelona.
A lot has happened in the 12 years (three kids, new jobs, new careers, moved house three times, got a dog and a lot more).

A lot happened as well in the three years since my accident however in terms of exercise, training/racing and generally looking after myself very little positive has happened. You could say I wallowed in self pity and defeat, you could equally say I could have been more pro-active in pain management and pain reduction, you could fill a whole book on the year. Work has been a dominant force in my life the last year. A quick Google of "Datalex" may explain why and give some idea of the pressures and stresses.

Anyways its time for the pity party to stop. I cannot continue to live my life like this. Yes I am in constant pain and have a reduced range of motion and decreased sensation and sensitivity in my right arm, but guess what that is not going to change. So “If it’s endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining.” Stop complaining and get on with it. Or as a version of me from way back when may have said. Suck it up buttercup, HTFU and get on with it. Onwards..........

tunney · 01-10-2019 9:32am

Monday 30th September 2019

Usual 22km of commuting, dodging cars trying to kill you just because.
Easy waddle at lunch with a colleague. AHR:159bpm for this effort.

tunney · 01-10-2019 11:08am

General state of health and injuries:

Lower back gives pain and is weak
C4-C7 is a source of pain and "crunching".
Right arm is weak, particularly bicep, and sensation in fingers is poor. Right forearm also weak
Fitness is low
Motivation is not great
Habits and lifestyle are poor
Head is distracted and willingness to suffer is negligible
Stress is extremely high
Body fat percentage is also very high

Next steps, devise a plan to work the problem(s)

NeedsTraining · 01-10-2019 11:55am

tunney wrote: »

Monday 30th September 2019
Weight : 84.3 kg

Yesterday was my 12th wedding anniversary. It was also the 3rd anniversary of my accident on the way to Ironman Barcelona.
A lot has happened in the 12 years (three kids, new jobs, new careers, moved house three times, got a dog and a lot more).

A lot happened as well in the three years since my accident however in terms of exercise, training/racing and generally looking after myself very little positive has happened. You could say I wallowed in self pity and defeat, you could equally say I could have been more pro-active in pain management and pain reduction, you could fill a whole book on the year. Work has been a dominant force in my life the last year. A quick Google of "Datalex" may explain why and give some idea of the pressures and stresses.

Anyways its time for the pity party to stop. I cannot continue to live my life like this. Yes I am in constant pain and have a reduced range of motion and decreased sensation and sensitivity in my right arm, but guess what that is not going to change. So “If it’s endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining.” Stop complaining and get on with it. Or as a version of me from way back when may have said. Suck it up buttercup, HTFU and get on with it. Onwards..........

You definitely aren't having much luck, but hopefully that will change.

Have you considered seeing someone about your range of movement? Not a physio, but someone that looks at the fundamentals.

I did 2 years ago now and it has definitely improved a lot of aspects of my training and racing, but more importantly, general day to day.

I'd highly recommend the guy I went to see, let me know if you want details.

Here's to a better turn of luck for you.

tunney · 01-10-2019 12:08pm

NeedsTraining wrote: »

You definitely aren't having much luck, but hopefully that will change.

Have you considered seeing someone about your range of movement? Not a physio, but someone that looks at the fundamentals.

I did 2 years ago now and it has definitely improved a lot of aspects of my training and racing, but more importantly, general day to day.

I'd highly recommend the guy I went to see, let me know if you want details.

Here's to a better turn of luck for you.

Thanks!
Please do PM me the details.

RacoonQueen · 02-10-2019 7:00am

I was just thinking the same as I read through this, someone (a good personal trainer) to help you on your mobility and strength would be useful. Someone with good knowledge who actually knows what they are talking about aka Transfrom/Dominic Munnelly from the fitness forum.

Would you consider doing some weightlifting to help you shift some bodyfat and get a bit of strength? What have the doctors/physio said along these lines?

tunney · 07-10-2019 10:22am

Last week wasn't a great week. A lot going on, cannot get into details but a very busy and frantic week. Only managed two short runs and definitely did not clean up diet or the like. Back and neck in agony for half the week.

The lads (Tango and Fran) did IM Barcelona yesterday - following their escapades online really made me miss it. Well done to them both on their performances!

Started this week a little better, short run before work around Bushy park. Back and neck not great - wondering is a combination of the running plus working on a laptop....... maybe need a proper home office (WFH today)

tunney · 29-10-2019 4:27pm

In September 2018 myself and a colleague said "lets get fit and do the marathon, wave 1 all the way". He has been very much in the trenches as well as me and his training has been as frequent, consistent and of the same volume as mine, its been a rough year for all in the company.

Anyways couple of weeks ago the conversation came up about doing it anyways. He is that "fit from GAA guy" I used to deride as a work of fiction a decade or so ago - former intercounty hurler and is annoyingly fit, fast and strong as a default. Anyways he did 3 21km runs in prep, I did an 11km run last week and off we went.

Unsurprisingly I blew at 30km and finished in 4:35. Also unsurprisingly he didn't and finished in 3:55.

I promised my wife that that is the end of untrained events. Also that I would sort my work life balance and stress levels.

My God, it's full of stars!

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