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On and On - We Carry On
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Great job, and great report tno, very inspirational. I'm actually looking forward to the DCM now :-)
Tx Speedy ! And so you should be looking forward to DCM. There's great advice here on boards for marathon training! I'm gonna post a few "lessons learned" in a day or so here or in the sub-3 support thread. Its from reading other peoples reports and logs that gave me the motivation to go for it.Great report and well done again. Reading it felt almost like bein there, i was startin to feel the strain myself in your last few miles!!!
Tx smmoore79 ! that strain was very real
Looking forward to reading the rest of your log. We may be swapping roles, me after your 5mile times and you after sub- 3 ! 0 -
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BeepBeep67 wrote: »Tell me the chick that out kicked you was doing the relay
I tell ya coming in towards finish, I didn't even notice that girl, it was only the clock I had an eye on ! :eek:
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Well, since my last update there hasn't been much happening on the running front, mainly down to a dodgy calf.
I woke up on sunday and it was sore-ish to walk on. The pain is towards the outside and in the middle of my right calf. I've been icing it and have borrowed a foam roller off a guy at work (have since ordered one!).
On Tuesday it felt good enough to cross-train on, so went to gym and did a session on bike and cross-trainer as well as some weights.
Rested Wed and with no pain in my leg walking on Thurs I said i'd chance 2.2miles easy on grass. All was fine, till 0.5mile in and I could feel it coming on again. Its not a sharp pain and can run on it, but def wouldn't chance anything faster than 8min/mile on it.
Rested again today and just icing and foam rolling it. I might cross-train in the morning but apart from that I'll leave another attempt at running till Monday. If its not right then, well it'll be the physio I guess !
To be honest having this is nearly a good thing, as its forced me into a break, which I think I deserve after Cork! Its helped me focus on goals for the summer/autumn, all of which can be tackled once I'm right again. 0 -
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Had in my head that we were doing km repeats and wasn't looking forward to it, as I haven't done a hard session in about 4wks at track!
Coach though had change of plans for the group. Instead it was anaerobic sprints in this order: 1*60m, 1*80m, 1*100m, 1*120m, 1*100m, 1*80m, jogging back to start after each. 4.5miles total incl. warm-up/down.
Sprints were all-out, trying to focus on form and being relaxed. Certainly a change from the km repeats, my legs were like jelly at end of it ! Not sure about my form towards end, and not sure ya could call my striding relaxed !
Calf is much improved now. A recovery run tomorrow and I hope to do the 2nd race in the Ballycotton series, the Shangarry 5mile, on Thursday. Not sure at all what to expect from it. These races are getting very competitive like, not alone within the club, but with other clubs as well !
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Hamstrings were tight when I got up out of bed and generally around office all day. This morning I was certain I wouldn't do the race. Stretches at lunch-time+some foam rolling had some affect and could feel myself loosening out.
Said I'd call it at 5pm and see how I was, still tight. Went home after work and had something to eat, cup of tea and around 6 biscuits feeling sorry / frustrated for myself ! Feck it I said maybe I could use it as a tempo run, some stretches again, packed the bag with gear and off down to the race with me !
Walking to registration, still tight, this is nuts I said, but a good warm-up and I might loosen out. Met 3 club-mates who incidentally had the exact same complaints after Tuesday's session, off we went on a 3mile warm-up. Took a while, but I did loosen out. On with the race number and upto the start line, where I did a few strides, good to go.
Whistle went, and half mile in I was not doing tempo pace, but sub 6 pace. It felt ok like, so kept going, I'd made my bed now, so would have to go with it !! Mile 1 in 5:50. Did not really notice ham-strings, adrenalin ? Mile two was tougher, 6:06 split, ok, we've steadied a bit. Tough mile to come, which it certainly was, drag out of Garryvoe, 6:36 split, feeling it now. Wasn't I storming up these hills before like ? All I could think of now was just finishing it.
Mile 4 is where the wheels came off for me, there's a sharp downhill section for a few 100m, and I did something I normally wouldn't do...I attacked it. Half way down, I felt something which I hadn't gotten since Dungarvan, a damn stitch, but this was tougher today, the pace was faster ! Tried a few things to get rid of it, but couldn't, I stopped to walking pace....race over. The end of mile 4 has a nasty climb to it, if it wasn't for club-mates running past asking was I ok and shouting encouragement at me to get going, I prob wouldn't have, but I got the legs turning again. Mile 4 in 6:48, not sure how long I was walking yet.
Mile 5 felt like it took forever, the stitch was here to stay and it was with me as I crossed the line. Very disheartening to see gang ya know fly by ya. Last mile in 6:53.
Clocked it at 32:12. Results have me at 83rd overall.
A warm-down with the club brought total miles to 9.7 for the day.
I needed the race though and I'm glad I ran it all same. Its a tough course and you earn your time on it. The positive is, I have my motivation back, I have something to drive on with over summer for training.
Lessons learned:
Don't eat/drink as I did this evening so close to the race, I never normally do... I shouldn;t be getting stitches.
Work on my downhill running !
Don't deviate from the tempo plan next time...stick to the race plan !
Don't race on tight hamstrings....I wouldn't have attempted that in a million years if it was during the marathon program.0 -
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