sub 1:40 half marathon

osnola ibax

xebec wrote: »

Just on train home after 3 hours with the guys this morning... Legs are pretty sore, but I'll make a call later on and drop you a message. Wouldn't be doing any more than an hour anyway, more likely a slow 4-6 miles recovery.

Well that sounds perfect, ill be doing that anyway so let me know if you are up for it. No panic either way.

osnola ibax

5 miles around the race track, really enjoyable, there was a running group up there that asked me to join them. Nowt else report except there was loads of red admirals.

osnola ibax

Went up to the race course, 6.25 miles. I just didn't feel great this morning. Got going after 3 miles but died again after 5. Wanted to do 7.5 but was joined on the course by a Doberman so made a sharp exit. Didn't feel great anyway. One too many glasses of wine last night. (Hence some enthusiastic posts on boards last night) :eel: :embarrassed:

menoscemo

osnola ivax wrote: »

One too many glasses of wine last night. (Hence some enthusiastic posts on boards last night) :eel:

Guilty of that so many times. Generally after a boards AC beers which seems to happen after every race nowadays.

osnola ibax

Everybody loves jumping in muddy puddles. Went out at lunch time. I have to say that was one of the most enjoyable runs ever. I got absolutely destroyed in the rain. Soaked to the skin, running through puddles etc. Haven't run since last week cause was having a bit of back trouble but ok again now, kind of 5.6 miles with plenty in the tank at the end

Krusty_Clown

osnola ivax wrote: »

One too many glasses of wine last night. (Hence some enthusiastic posts on boards last night) :eel: :embarrassed:

Is that also when you returned your phone to stock?
Sounds like a great run today, and at lunch-time too, that makes it a double bonus!

osnola ibax

Krusty_Clown wrote: »

Is that also when you returned your phone to stock?
Sounds like a great run today, and at lunch-time too, that makes it a double bonus!

Yeah, the weather was amazing today. As for the phone, I wish I never came across the Android forum. Its like, if I can do it, then ill try it. Rooting, debranding, unrooting, flashing, its like a bad carry on film.

Anyways, used a tool from xda which kind of worked but allowed me to downgrade with a stock ruu. Now I'm rooted again and running opendesire which having tried leedroid, nextsense, neophyte, defrost, a rooted stock rom, is definitely the best for me. Its consumed me more than is healthy though. The worst is when you upgrade a rom and you find it doesn't work as well as the previous iteration. Then you have the radios.

Its basically 101 ways to fvck up your €400 phone. All's good for the moment though. Wait til they bring out gingerbread. You understand KC, tell me you understand.

osnola ibax

5.6 miles tonight, grand, tough enough though, pushed it a bit.

earnyourturns

osnola ivax wrote: »

Yeah, the weather was amazing today. As for the phone, I wish I never came across the Android forum. Its like, if I can do it, then ill try it. Rooting, debranding, unrooting, flashing, its like a bad carry on film.

Anyways, used a tool from xda which kind of worked but allowed me to downgrade with a stock ruu. Now I'm rooted again and running opendesire which having tried leedroid, nextsense, neophyte, defrost, a rooted stock rom, is definitely the best for me. Its consumed me more than is healthy though. The worst is when you upgrade a rom and you find it doesn't work as well as the previous iteration. Then you have the radios.

Its basically 101 ways to fvck up your €400 phone. All's good for the moment though. Wait til they bring out gingerbread. You understand KC, tell me you understand.

Can't say I understood a single word of that post....

Blueskye

earnyourturns wrote: »

Can't say I understood a single word of that post....

+1

osnola ibax

earnyourturns wrote: »

Can't say I understood a single word of that post....

Believe me, you are better off. Let me translate anyway, what the post is saying is this:

"I am a geek who is obsessed with his phone. This is not an obsession that is easily understood by people e.g. my wife, who now, when singing 'The wheels on the bus ' to my toddler son, adds the line "the daddy's on the bus go phone phone phone etc." My obsession with phones has also led to several running jokes amongst my work colleagues and generally refer to my overall geekdom.

Updated using my HTC Desire

osnola ibax

11.2 miles, first half was fine, last third was tough. Pain at upper back between shoulder blades, very sore on last 3 miles. Left ankle twinge. Should be ok with rest. Need massage for upper back. Stomach started at me again. Must eat less on Fridays if doing long run in evening. Put muscles not usually employed during running under way too much pressure.


All in all a good run and confidence booster for next week. Not gonna race the kilmore 10k tomorrow. Gonna use the entry fee to buy corona instead. Sorry kilmore AC, ill get u again. Tired now.

osnola ibax

Fvck it, can't resist a 10 k on my own door step. Gonna get ready to head to kilmore now.

Blueskye

Best of luck with the race!

osnola ibax

Blueskye wrote: »

Best of luck with the race!

Thanks blueskye.

50:38, gotta be happy with that after a 2 hour lsr last night. Race report to follow.

menoscemo

That's good going OI. You have obviously come on leaps and bounds since the 10 miler. If I were you I'd think about following the 1:50 pacers next week, not us 2hr pacers (unless you just want to enjoy yourself.)

osnola ibax

Ok, well as u can see above, I hadn't intended racing this because I picked a 11 mile lsr on Friday eve instead. However, I knew there was a good crowd from work going and everyone was asking me was I doing it in work on Friday. Then I met a girl from work down town this morn and by the time I made it up from town the back tension that has been bothering me disappaited and my mind was made up.

So proceeds the lubing and stretching. Bit more stretching than usual cause I was a little tender after yesterdays run. Then off to kilmore with an arcade fire soundtrack, God that album is fantastic. Meet everybody out there. I doing the whole downplaying targets thing because really I'm feeling a bit stupid for being there. Legs feel wrecked tired and my tummy is giving me jip. I take comfort from the fact that last nights lsr went well.

Race starts late but we are off. I just have a stop watch because I need to empty my Garmin history so this will be ran on feel alone. I'm comfortable with that though. I set off anyway and by the time I hit the first mile marker, its 8:24. Any remote chance of hitting 50 is now gone so I just kept going. The miles ticked away and they must have been all close to 8 mins after that. Noone passed me and I passed a fair few. Nothing like a grunting panting runner to irritate you enough to spur you on passed them.

Anyways 50:38, comditions were perfect and it was a nice track. Im delighted with myself and had a huge amount of dopamine dumped into my brain on the way home. Macmillan says 1:52 for a half and I think ill follow that. I have the endurance training done I think. On a side note I think I would have broken 50 had it not been for yesterday's lsr. See ye next Saturday folks

kennyb3

osnola ivax wrote: »

On a side note I think I would have broken 50 had it not been for yesterday's lsr. See ye next Saturday folks

Goes without saying, easily. Good run and fair play after 11 miles the night before

osnola ibax

Went up to the race course this evening for 5 miles, ran 3 laps with some other dude who was up there. Actually surprising how quickly it passed when chatting to someone. Went over on my ankle at one stage because they have cut the whole course up for drainage maybe. Thinks its ok though.

Gonna chance 5 - 6 tomorrow, then should be ok for Saturday after a couple of days rest. Might do 3 on Friday, tis a traditional thing.

osnola ibax

Very enjoyable run today 5.6 miles. Feel some fitness returning

metamorphosis

Best of luck with tomorrow B!

Krusty_Clown

Yes, best of luck. No wine tonight.

osnola ibax

Cheers men, no wine tonight Krusty. Just got ate by a "friend" in work for drinking last night ahead of the race. How dare he look out for my best interests.

osnola ibax

1:50:14 today in the dublin half Mara, 15 seconds away from goal, it was the bottle of wine, it was the bottle of wine

osnola ibax

Yesterday I felt my left IT band at around mile 8 or 9, just before we turned down past the soccer pitches. My left Ham string was also really tight at that point. I kept going but nothing was as comfortable as what went previous. I was also starting to get worried. It was the right it band that was giving me trouble last year but then running the Marathon shifted the problem to my left leg. Right one is actually ok now.

Anyway, took a couple of neurofen last night and everything seems a lot better today. I'm also happier with my performance today than I was yesterday.

I didn't enjoy the race yesterday. There were too many people and getting through them was a nightmare. In the first three miles, my mind was shifting between going for it and taking it easy and it was impossible to find a rhythm. People were cutting across me without looking behind and I nearly tripped a couple if times.

A lot of this comes down to my attitude on the day aswell, when the day came, I just wasn't that up for it. Couldn't wait to get on the road after it either. Just one of those days I guess. Thats my 5th race in Phoenix park and I reckon I'm just getting a bit fed up of racing in the same place. I need to race at other venues. I doubt ill sign up for these next year. Bring on Barcelona.

osnola ibax

5.6 miles, slow, Saturdays race still in the legs. Best thing about that run was there was no itb pain. Been rolling a stretching a lot since Saturday. Have bad pain in upper back, it's tension or something, not too worried about that though. Really need to lose weight

menoscemo

You shouldn't be down on yourself about saturdays race. It is way better than McMillan predicted based on your 10k from the week before and on a much tougher course.
You have improved a lot over the past few months on little training, you are only 5 minutes off last year. Loose a bit of weight and get decent training in and asub 1:40 should be on the cards come december.

osnola ibax

Cheers man, a jaysus no I'm delighted with the time. It kind of proves to me that in my case less is more when it comes to training. I can only handle 4 days a week or else ill get injured.

Saturday was bitter sweet though, I spent the rest of the day dragging my left leg around after me so I was thinking here we go again. That's why today's training run was so pleasing. Ill be doing things a lot easier this time and hopefully still improve the times. I'm happy with how things are progressing. I know I've spoken about this before and I'm not sure others experience this but I have serious downers after races, its all the endorphines on the day. That's where Sundays post came from.

osnola ibax

Marathon training officially started yesterday at 5:00pm and came to an abrupt stop about 45 minutes later. I went out for a 5.6 mile run and the left IT band which had been giving me trouble after the Race Series Half Marathon started giving me problems so I pulled over to the side of the road, stretched and walked the last .6 of a mile home.

I have only run once before yesterday since the half marathon. This is inexcusable I know. Partly it was due to the fact that I wanted a decent rest because of the IT Bands and partly because my upper back is giving me awful jip. The back seems ok now but I need to stay on top of exercising it and stretching it. As far as the IT bands go, I remember heading out after a prolonged break before and having pain in them so I actually think they don't respond well to rest and I'm better off to stay running regularly and keep stretching and rolling. A couple of visits to a physio may work wonders aswell.

Anyway, the big part of training this time around for me is going to be nutrition. I have had to have a strong word with myself. I think I am actually addicted to junk food at this stage, my diet is shocking and has to improve. To this end, I have started planning out my meals on a weekly basis. Yesterday went well and I am actually quite proud of myself. I erview the plan each day then and see whether or not I adhered. The only additions yesterday were a few crackers and cheese so not bad.

I am not going to post on this log as regularly as I was doing. I see no point to posting "5.6 miles today, nothing to report" - why did I report it then, so weekly updated will do fine. I am also not going to worry about a sub 1:40 half marathon until after Barcelona as I plan on doing all of my runs very slowly to avoid injury and to stay fresh. Best of luck to anyone else undertaking training for this Marathon and best of luck to everyone doing DCM.

Cheers
OI

Bally8

Sorry to hear about the ITB OI. I know what a total pain that is. Best of luck with diet and recovery

osnola ibax

Monday 27th December - 4 miles
Tuesday 28th December - 4 miles
Wednesday 29th December - 4 miles
Friday 31st December - 5.1 miles
Sunday 2nd January - 5.6 miles

Total week 1 - 22.7 miles

menoscemo

osnola ivax wrote: »

Monday 27th December - 4 miles
Tuesday 28th December - 4 miles
Wednesday 29th December - 4 miles
Friday 31st December - 5.1 miles
Sunday 2nd January - 5.6 miles

Total week 1 - 22.7 miles

Welcome back (from the dead). Is Barca still on so?

osnola ibax

menoscemo wrote: »

Welcome back (from the dead). Is Barca still on so?

No I don't think so, my body (and mind) is not able for high mileage, don't have enough time now to prepare either. I just want to enjoy it now and prepare for Wexford half marathon. Still going to Barca though, just on the piss though

menoscemo

osnola ivax wrote: »

Still going to Barca though, just on the piss though

That's the main thing :pac: You'll be able to hold us a nice table in a a bar near the finish line. I'll be doing Barca but I won't be taking it too seriously, especially since I'll be doing a 50k race the week before :eek:

osnola ibax

Resurrect this bad boy for tomorrow. Made a deal, apparently, with RQ to run 7.5 min miles for Cork relay. Better start training then. First run tomorrow.

rainbow kirby

tbh.

Oisin11178

htfu:P

Bally8

Welcome back:)