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Friday 23rd October
7.8 miles, 1:05:42, 8.25 avg pace
Woo hoo, longest run yet and was way better than Wednesdays run
Felt strong throughout and felt really fresh afterwards
During the first mile the legs were still feeling a little tired from Wednesday nights circuits, and first mile took 9.34 to complete :eek:. During this mile I made up my mind that I wasn't going to go for the full 7.8, that I'd do 6.25 instead. Then I decided that I'd do a different route approx 5 miles, and then I just went for it.
Between mile 1 and mile 5.4 I reckon I was going at a little under 7.20 pace
. I took RoyMcC's advice and got a nice long flat section of road to run along and it really did feel much easier than the hillier stuff I have been on.
Then I finished with 2.4 miles of fairly consistent climb to get home. I lost a lot of time on this section, but got two boosts of energy along the way. Firstly my box of High 5 arrived from wiggle yesterday, I know that they should really be for longer runs than today, but I did only get them yesterday!! My God, are energy gels possibly the most disgusting texture you'd ever have to slid down your gizzard? Anyway, didn't get sick so no harm done. Secondly got the heart put across my by some lady walking into work in dark clothing. I had seen not a soul for approx 6 miles and then she just appears from nowhere.
Anyway, am still buzzing after this mornings run as might be obvious, so will leave it at that0 -
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some people may not agree but so many hills nearly killed meI'm going to do the Waterford half marathon Dec 2009 & the Connemara Full Apr 2010 - there, I've said it!!
(Oh, and I'm also going to learn how to swim!!)
A friend of mine got me to do the Eireman sprint in August and I absolutely loved it. Since then I've done the Ashford Duathlon last week, and I did the Eireman X yesterday.
I've set myself a target of completing both the above races over the coming months. The furthest I've ever ran todate is little over 5 km's. I'm going to broadly follow the Hal Higdon novice half marathon schedule http://www.halhigdon.com/halfmarathon/halfnovice.pdf, beginning at week 2 on the schedule from this week.
I'm also going to try learn to swim over the winter in preparation for next years Tri season. Yesterday was my first competition swim and it was horrible!! Took a full 35mins to complete the 750m and coming in paddy last!!
Also, my wife has started the couch to 5 K program and I'm keeping her company on the runs, so I'll be building that into my half training program too.
Have never previously ran, swam, or cycled.
I used to play rugby until I was 20, did nothing for years, and have been playing 5-a-side soccer for the past year.
I'm 30, tiping the scales at 81kg, recently gave up the fags, and raring to go!!
Any help/advice/criticism that anyone can offer would be greatly appreciated
So here goes:
Plan for Monday: REST - well it was a tough race yesterday
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Tuesday 27th October - pm
1 hours 5 a side soccer last night, again a really good lung bursting workout on a double sized pitch - we lost
No running to/from soccer heroics last night as I'm ramping up the mileage this week getting into the grove for Crookstown and Waterford with runs on Tues, Wed & Thurs these weekssome people may not agree but so many hills nearly killed me
Heffsarmy, yeah you're probably right about Commemara being a pure killer. I'd put up the goal without actually checking out just how tough the course was going to be (still don't know until I do it really). It just happened to be the earliest Irish marathon I found that I could realistically train for.
Anyway, Connemarathon - HTFU
Not gonna take it down yet until I at least see how I get on in the Waterford Half in Dec.
Krusty Clown is a fan of running Connemara as your first Marathon mainly due to the very friendly atmosphere amongst all the competitors I think. I hope he'll be there this year as I may be looking to throttle him afterwards:)
Sure I'll see how I'm getting on in hilly training - lots of hills out where I live, then I might look at it again.0 -
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Wednesday 4th Nov
2.5 miles nice and easy - C25K wk 6
Knee felt much better today, though still a small little bit stiff. I remember now that I actually done the damage initially when stepping awkwardly on a pothole towards end of sunday's run.
I bought both Total Immersion and Advanced Marathoning on Amazon so just waiting for them to arrive now (December!!).
Getting a little bit anxious about my target time for Saturday (42 min 10k). OK so I averaged 6.46 pace over 4 miles in my first race a few weeks back, and I should have better speed and stamina at this stage, but the thougths of going 6.45 pace for 6.25 miles is starting to sink in now
Not sure whether to print out a backup band of say 44 mins or not? I reckon though that with all this good intention of pacing myself I'll probably still tear out doing 6.00 for the first mile and be praying to just hold it together after that!!0 -
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Crookstown 10k race report
Saturday 7th Nov
Actual time: 44:45 - position: 67 of 700 (woo hoo!)
Target time: 41:55
Reach for the stars and you might catch the moon – should maybe have called my log that. I knew that sub 42 was a real big stretch, but I thought I’d get closer than that if I’m honest, anyway…
Had stuffed my gills (no pun intended) with sushi the night before and related or not, spent that night and the morning of the race with diarrhoea. Concentrated on stocking up on fluids in the car and arrived at the start line for registration about 9.15am (race at 11.00). Registration was very efficient and fast, which was a bit disappointing as I now had over an hour before I’d start any warm up!! New stretch of motorway meant that there was always going to be a wind, add in the cold morning with drizzles of rain and you can imagine everyone sitting in their cars waiting. Headed off for a slow 3k warm up and on way back bumped into Robinph. Quick introduction over and ready to race.
Lined up with maybe 80 – 90 people between me and the start line and set off at a nice steady pace. Was really concentrating on not going too fast with a result that I hit the first marker late, picked up a little bit of pace but second marker was late also. After the same at 3k I figured that I maybe didn’t have it in me on the day after what had happened the night before so just concentrated on running my own race and picking off the people in front of me which I fairly managed the whole way until after the 5k marker.
Approaching 5k we had to run up a gravel path, across a flyover, back on the motorway and into the wind – I died. I actually walked through the water station located just after 5k mark to try and get something back in my legs. Struggled badly from there to between 6k – 6.5k when these three guys came by my. I didn’t want to let them go, so dug in and kept pace. I know they helped me, and I think I helped them, as we kept each other going at a fair clip for the next 1.5k.
I had now refocused and had set my new target time at sub 45mins, a little bit of mental arithmetic later, I figured that we needed to be hitting 8k at 36mins if I was going to do it – the lads didn’t let me down. I got a real surge at his stage and between me speeding up and them slowing down left the three lads behind me – I was gunning for the line. Picked off another couple of guys and got passed out only once. With less than 800m to go I caught the guy who had passed me, and went by him and 2 more lads in quick succession. Unfortunately about 400 meters out he passed me again and that was how it finished. Gave a little sprint at the finished, and think I even remembered to smile as I was crossing the line
Exhausted, I was guided through a process whereby the organisers somehow managed to give me a medal, take my chip timer and stuff a goody bag into my hands, all the time while I was looking for somewhere to curl up!! Bumped into Krusty Clown who had ran a great race. Got tea and sandwiches, and also a goody bag full of flyers and snacks. Met Robinph again and set off on cool down run.
So, while I was aiming for a lot faster time, I’m defo happy out with sub 45 for a first time effort. Splits were 21:49 & 22:56, so actually lost less time on the second half than what I thought, but is still too big a difference to be happy with. But, finished strong, came home in the top 10% of the field and set a good target for my next 10k race. Also got good experience as was only my second running race.
Looking forward to Waterford Half next!0 -
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Tuesday 10th Nov - PM
five a side soccer - we won AND I scored a headed goal (very very rare thing in five a side just in case you didn't realise how special that is)
Wednesday 11th Nov - AM
I failed!! I failed!!
The alarm went off, I aimed for the snooze button, hit off instead, got woke by Mrs DB about an hour later - obviously no running this morning then
But I am incredibly lazy naturally - it's just like a talent
Wednesday 11th Nov - PM
Circuits training tonight
Pushed myself really hard to make up for this mornings failure to get out of the bed
Excellent workout and I think I must still be high on the endorphines as I proof read the above gibberish!!0 -
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Friday 13th Nov - AM
4.9 mile easy
38:30 = 7:51 pace
Supposed to be a rest day today but again I missed my Wednesday run so have to make up for it
Really good run, felt nice and in control, and stayed strong to the end
I've a bit of a habit of slacking off on the last mile in my runs, but consciously sorted that out today, and whilst I wasn't sprinting or anything, the pace didn't drop either
Lovely cold crisp morning - this is the kind of winter training that I think I could handle
My 'Advanced Marathoning' and 'Total Immersion' books arrived today - earlier than expected
Had a quick goo at them and looking forward to getting into them now
Maybe I can learn what all the rest of ye are talking about when you refer to specific terms in your training
(sssh - I might even start swimming)0 -
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