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Send in the Clowns - BAC 10K Challenge
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Thanks Dory Dory. Not sure if it was well-done (more of a medium-rare!), but good at least to give it a lash. Having run the 400 and 800m, it really has given me an appreciation for these events that I didn't have before, so much so, that I've been glued to the women's 400 heats all morning (and I'm glad to see that I wouldn't have come last (actually third-last, with a potential fight for 4th last!)).Well done on your race KC.
I miss your log.
Now it's sooo many clicks away.. 0 -
Krusty_Clown wrote: »Thanks Dory Dory. Not sure if it was well-done (more of a medium-rare!), but good at least to give it a lash. Having run the 400 and 800m, it really has given me an appreciation for these events that I didn't have before, so much so, that I've been glued to the women's 400 heats all morning (and I'm glad to see that I wouldn't have come last (third-last, with aactually potential fight for 4th last!)).
I miss your log. Now it's sooo many clicks away..
That's the good old fashioned way of Clown spinning it!!!
And I miss this forum. There's more of a party atmosphere here with all that talk of beer and such. Oh!!! Remember the time you went on the piss for like, um, 48 hours (I think that's how you say it...if not, then here in America it might mean you were caught for public urination...but anyway..) and showed up at a race in your wife's running shorts still inebriated?? Now those were some good times!! Miss that about you crazy runners.......;) 0 -
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Kurt Godel wrote: »You're right. We need one umbrella forum for Garmin users, the G/A/R/M/I/N forum. For General/Athletics/Running/Multisport/Ironman/'Ndurance topics, do we need a poll?;)
Can you work "Wild Swimming" in there somewhere??
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You would have been either alongside me or slightly ahead (our times were near identical, but you had to do it on your own). Looking forward to the next one (if I'm invited.Nice one Krusty, good week's work there. Hopefully I will be around to bring up the rear in that session next time.).
Today: 8 miles very easy
Ran around Corkagh Park with Keith123 and then did an extra 2 miles on my own to bring it up to the hour. S'funny how when running with someone else, 8 min/mile can feel perfectly natural, but then left to your own devices, the pace picks up to sub 7 min/mile and it feels no different. Will try to get out for 5 miles with strides this evening.
Summary: 8 miles in 64 mins, @7:58/mile, HR=1200 -
Krusty_Clown wrote: »Looking forward to the next one (if I'm invited.).
Open invitaiton, of course you're invited. Saturday or sunday, hasnt been decided yet, will let you know. Although theres a kilomarathon on in moone at the weekend which could double up nicely as a long run at M-pace.0 -
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Today: Kilomarathon Kilo-crap-athon
The plan was simple: run the first 10 miles at around 6:14/mile and cruise to the finish and try and get a sneaky prize, to compensate for the costly €30 entry fee. But mostly, it was about the training. A few familiar faces from Sli Cualann and a 0.75 mile warm-up, and we were at the start line. Pre was lined up at the front, and having come third last year, looked in shape to improve on that position this time around, however Gary O'Hanlon had turned up, so first place was all but sewn up.
The sun had come out and the start of the race was mighty hot, but I figured I'd get through the 10 miles anyway, and chill after that if I needed to. After a pretty crap race start, I jumped into around 10th place, but within half a mile, the guy I was following was suffering badly, so I pushed on with a lad from Tallaght AC. There was a group 80m ahead, but with the sun beating down, and the focus on the training rather than the racing, I stuck with the Tallaght lad. We chatted about working together, but after a mile or two, we were still running 6:05 average, so I dropped back a little, with the focus on getting a good comfortable run. He was an m50, so I wasn't too bothered. About mile 4, he seemed to be struggling, and I passed him, sticking to my pace that felt comfortable enough. The sun had disappeared under a veil of cloud, however it had been replaced with a strong head-wind, that we seemed to battle into for the next 8 miles.
Hitting mile 10, I was glad to have hit the training target, with all but a few of the miles where I lost some time into the strong wind, but I still felt comfortable so I stuck to the same pace. There was a runner in the distance slowly coming back to me, but I in turn was being pursued by another running. Looking back it was Pauline Curley, who I'd comfortably beat in Kildare, but she didn't seem as hampered by the wind as me and was comfortably gaining ground. At approximately mile 11, we were directed right by a marshall happily sucking away at his cigarette, and once more headed into the uncomfortable wind. Eventually we hit a T-Junction with the runner in front just 50 metres ahead, and Pauline almost alongside me. Except, there was something wrong. There were no signs. There were no road markings. There were no marshalls. I realized I had not seen a water-station for a few miles (and they were supposedly positioned every 5km).
I had little choice, but to follow the runner in front, who was in turn following the runner in front of him, and so on, but I knew we had gone wrong somewhere. It was happening again... :mad:
Eventually (after 13.5 miles in my case) we were collected into the back of a van, and I was sad to see that Pre (who deserved so much more) was also in the back of the van. After much discussion, it was decided that the van would drop us off back on route, at approximately the same distance remaining, as we had ran (Malin to Mizen anyone?!), and we would finish in the same order as our current positions when we got into the van. This was a bit of a pisser, as I was feeling strong, and had we been on the correct route, I was about to make up two positions, into 6th male finisher.
The lad I would have passed was suffering quite a bit, but I'm afflicted with way too many morals, so instead of speeding off on him I ran the last mile alongside him and slowed to let him cross the finish line first. It transpired that he was an m40 too, so letting him cross the finish line first meant I would miss out on the first m40 position, but an agreement is an agreement.
I crossed the finish line in some irrelevant time, having hit my training goal, but feeling very pissed off. I threw my number away in disgust, and went for a mile or two warm-down with Pre and some of the other equally frustrated incorrectly directed runners. But I had hit my training goal.. (I need to keep repeating that). The real pisser was when the prize-giving started and the race organizer mentioned that fact that a number (12) runners had gone wrong. He said it wasn't his fault, he wasn't sure whose fault it was, and then said that a number of runners had followed a Garda car when they shouldn't have.
I was glad to see Pre get his rightful third-place prize, but then my name was called out as the sixth place male runner. Given that I had officially crossed the finish line in 7th place, I had to go up to the stage and correct them, and walk back empty handed. Then the m40 prizes were given to two completely different runners, further down the field. So a frustrating end to an otherwise solid training session. At the end of the day, I got 15 miles done at 6:20/mile (with a short break in the back of a van!), so a solid training session (keep saying it!). The legs are feeling good, despite another 80 mile week. And..... early in the race, I crossed the 2,000 mile mark for the year. It's time for a beer.
Summary: 17.43 miles, with 15.12 miles in 1:35, @6:20/mile1 -
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