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Becoming a Real Runner

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    #1112
    menoscemo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,915 ✭✭✭✭menoscemo


    claralara wrote: »
    Sometimes when I can't decide between a big mac or chicken, I get a cheeseburger with big mac sauce and chicken nuggets on the side...mmmm...piggy :D

    I am an athlete. I need to fuel the furnace!
    menoscemo wrote: »
    I have been known to get a side order of chicken nuggets with my big mac meal aswell.

    This talk early in the week was a bit of an Omen. I found myself in the airport at lunchtime today and as I invariably do in such circumstances, I wandered up to Maccie D's (I promise it's only about a once a in month occurrence :o). I went looking in my wallet for a voucher I had for a cheap bigmac meal and found not only that but one for a cheap chicken nugget meal too. So guess what? Yes I ended up having both meals :eek: As you might imagine I felt sick the rest of the afternoon and it looked to be putting this evenings tempo in doubt. The angry looking clouds and wind didn't help the mood either.

    I struggled out none the less and ended up doing 4 miles of tempo in my 7 miler (2 x 2miles).
    Tempo Miles went: 6:54, 6:51, 6:57, 6:48.

    Total: 7.2 miles @7:30 av pace.

    WTD 4 days running 29.4 miles
    MTD 15 days Running 149.1 miles


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    #1113
    claralara
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    Good luck this morning piggy!


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    #1114
    menoscemo
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    claralara wrote: »
    Good luck this morning piggy!

    What For? Working today so no race...

    9.7 miles @ 8:27 av pace over a hilly course around south Dublin/Dublin mountains. Took it nice and easy so I was surprised to see the Pace as quick. I have noticed this week that my easy pace has definately dropped significantly (today felt like my 'I could go all day' pace).
    Wore the HRM strap for the first time in ages and it appears to be pretty accurate. Av HR 143 (78% max) peaking at 166 on the Heartbreak hill at mile 8.

    WTD 5 days running 39.1 miles
    MTD 16 days Running 158.8 miles


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    #1115
    menoscemo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,915 ✭✭✭✭menoscemo


    This was supposed to be 12 miles but due to a couple of people getting lost and arriving late to the start having ran nearly 8 instead of 6, it got a little shortened. Enjoyable run as always if a little dramatic in places :rolleyes:, got rid of my hangover nicely!

    Well done to Clara Lara and RK getting almost 19 miles in. A nice confidence booster for both!

    10.8 miles total.
    An easy week ahead for me now ahead of the 50k race on saturday :eek:

    Weekly total: 6 days running 49.9 miles

    MTD 17 days Running 169.6 miles


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    #1116
    Mr Slow
    Registered Users Posts: 6,554 ✭✭✭Mr Slow


    How do you rename a link?


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    #1117
    menoscemo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,915 ✭✭✭✭menoscemo


    mrslow wrote: »
    How do you rename a link?

    Don't get you boss.


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    #1118
    Mr Slow
    Registered Users Posts: 6,554 ✭✭✭Mr Slow


    menoscemo wrote: »
    Don't get you boss.

    You have a link to your Garmin report but have the link named 10.8 miles instead of www.garminwhatever......


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    #1119
    rainbow kirby
    Registered Users Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    [*url=link_to_Garmin_trace]Title[/url*]

    Remove the stars, of course :)


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    #1120
    Mr Slow
    Registered Users Posts: 6,554 ✭✭✭Mr Slow


    rainbow kirby wrote: »
    [*url=link_to_Garmin_trace]Title[/url*]

    Remove the stars, of course :)

    Thanks, I'll try that.


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    #1121
    menoscemo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,915 ✭✭✭✭menoscemo


    mrslow wrote: »
    You have a link to your Garmin report but have the link named 10.8 miles instead of www.garminwhatever......

    1. Write what you want to link...e.g 10.8 miles.
    2. Highlight what you want to link by right clicking the mouse and rolling it over it.
    3. With that still highlighted click the button 'insert link' above (It is the little picture of a globe with a chain below)
    4. You are prompted to enter a url- put in the url of the Garmin activity that you want to link.
    5. press ok and you're done.


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    #1122
    donothoponpop
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    menoscemo wrote: »
    An easy week ahead for me now ahead of the 50k race on saturday :eek:

    What's the plan for the 50k menoscemo? Have you a goal time? Will you be running steady pace?


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    #1123
    Mr Slow
    Registered Users Posts: 6,554 ✭✭✭Mr Slow


    menoscemo wrote: »
    1. Write what you want to link...e.g 10.8 miles.
    2. Highlight what you want to link by right clicking the mouse and rolling it over it.
    3. With that still highlighted click the button 'insert link' above (It is the little picture of a globe with a chain below)
    4. You are prompted to enter a url- put in the url of the Garmin activity that you want to link.
    5. press ok and you're done.

    Smashin! Is there no end to the advice Meno?, I'll have to direct Digger here for that little sexual issue he's been having :pac:


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    #1124
    menoscemo
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    donothoponpop wrote: »
    What's the plan for the 50k menoscemo? Have you a goal time? Will you be running steady pace?

    I'm thinking of heading out at a steady 8:30/mile pace for the first 40k (I did a handy enough marathon in training at that pace a few weeks ago so it should be ok) and upping the pace a bit for the last 10k if possible. Hoping to come in around 4:25...what's the plan yourself?

    Judging by the people running I am gonna be lapped by several people, more than once by some.


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    #1125
    menoscemo
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    mrslow wrote: »
    Smashin! Is there no end to the advice Meno?, I'll have to direct Digger here for that little sexual issue he's been having :pac:

    Digger hasn't been the same since you stopped inviting those meet up people to the group runs. Last I heard he has taken to running up mountains looking for a certain frenchman :pac:


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    #1126
    Mr Slow
    Registered Users Posts: 6,554 ✭✭✭Mr Slow


    menoscemo wrote: »
    Digger hasn't been the same since you stopped inviting those meet up people to the group runs. Last I heard he has taken to running up mountains looking for a certain frenchman :pac:

    Just got a text from Paddy, no one showed up from that crowd and he ran on his own.

    If Digger catches Julien he's got a special banana for him :pac:


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    #1127
    donothoponpop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,608 ✭✭✭donothoponpop


    menoscemo wrote: »
    I'm thinking of heading out at a steady 8:30/mile pace for the first 40k (I did a handy enough marathon in training at that pace a few weeks ago so it should be ok) and upping the pace a bit for the last 10k if possible. Hoping to come in around 4:25...what's the plan yourself?

    Judging by the people running I am gonna be lapped by several people, more than once by some.

    I'd be happy with 4:30. And not getting lapped 3 times.


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    #1128
    menoscemo
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    donothoponpop wrote: »
    I'd be happy with 4:30. And not getting lapped 3 times.

    Well if you head out steady I should be with you most of the way.


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    #1129
    claralara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,663 ✭✭✭claralara


    menoscemo wrote: »
    This was supposed to be 12 miles but due to a couple of people getting lost and arriving late to the start having ran nearly 8 instead of 6, it got a little shortened. Enjoyable run as always if a little dramatic in places :rolleyes:, got rid of my hangover nicely!

    Well done to Clara Lara and RK getting almost 19 miles in. A nice confidence booster for both!

    10.8 miles total.
    An easy week ahead for me now ahead of the 50k race on saturday :eek:

    Weekly total: 6 days running 49.9 miles

    MTD 17 days Running 169.6 miles

    Always happy to oblige!! :D Cheers for today dude!


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    #1130
    menoscemo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,915 ✭✭✭✭menoscemo


    claralara wrote: »
    Always happy to oblige!! :D Cheers for today dude!

    Sorry. I just realised that :rolleyes: was supposed to be a ;)


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    #1131
    claralara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,663 ✭✭✭claralara


    ;)


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    #1132
    menoscemo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,915 ✭✭✭✭menoscemo


    6.6 miles @ 7:55 av pace.
    Went out for an easyish run and for the first 5 miles the pace was just over 8 min/mile. Turned it up a notch for the last 1.6 miles which breezed by in 7:2x average pace without barely breathing heavily. Feeling good at the moment, and comtemplating giving Barcelona a bit of a bash, the only question will be if I'm recovered enough after this weekends 50k.

    WTD: 1 day running 6.6 miles
    MTD 18 days Running 177.2 miles


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    #1133
    Oisin11178
    Registered Users Posts: 2,496 ✭✭✭Oisin11178


    menoscemo wrote: »
    6.6 miles @ 7:55 av pace.
    Went out for an easyish run and for the first 5 miles the pace was just over 8 min/mile. Turned it up a notch for the last 1.6 miles which breezed by in 7:2x average pace without barely breathing heavily. Feeling good at the moment, and comtemplating giving Barcelona a bit of a bash, the only question will be if I'm recovered enough after this weekends 50k.

    WTD: 1 day running 6.6 miles
    MTD 18 days Running 177.2 miles

    If you race barca the week after a 50k, i hope you like pain.


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    #1134
    jimcricket
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    Hi meno, man your really flying it and putting in some miles. Best of luck with the 50k but sure your well prepared. Might see you in Berlin behind the 3.15 pacers, if not maybe in Dublin.


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    #1135
    menoscemo
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    Oisin11178 wrote: »
    If you race barca the week after a 50k, i hope you like pain.

    When I say 'give it a bash' i don't think I can properly race it, but maybe set a Pb (actually get under 3.30 this time). Hopefully that won't take too much out of me....besides, ican't have sarsfield rock setting a PB better than mine :pac: Anyway. I'll take nest week easy and see how the legs feel in Barca before committing to anything.
    jimcricket wrote: »
    Hi meno, man your really flying it and putting in some miles. Best of luck with the 50k but sure your well prepared. Might see you in Berlin behind the 3.15 pacers, if not maybe in Dublin.

    Thanks Jim. I'll maybe try to stay with you this time ;) Well done on DCM.

    Recovery run

    I hadn't planned on running this evening at all, but I accidentally ate a bag of Jelly babies on the way home from work :o. I was so hyped up on sugar by the time I got home I decided I better go out and run it off.

    Took it nice and handy and was surprised the pace was eevn this quick. It felt like I was going about at about 9:30/mile pace.

    6 miles @ 8:53/ mile pace. Av Hr 136 (74% max).

    WTD: 2 days running 12.6 miles
    MTD 19 days Running 183.2 miles


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    #1136
    Oisin11178
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    8.30 is a good pace to go out at. Dont be afraid to speed up if you feel good. Would love to race it myself but bad timing. Ill be counting the laps so 50 euros and ill put you down for an extra one:D


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    #1137
    digger2d2
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    menoscemo wrote: »
    Digger hasn't been the same since you stopped inviting those meet up people to the group runs. Last I heard he has taken to running up mountains looking for a certain frenchman :pac:
    mrslow wrote: »

    If Digger catches Julien he's got a special banana for him :pac:

    Jeez...I give a young mother, distressed at the end of a 20 mile LSR, my recovery banana and you guys turn it into something that it wasn't...So mid-life crisis of the two of you.....;)


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    #1138
    Mr Slow
    Registered Users Posts: 6,554 ✭✭✭Mr Slow


    digger2d2 wrote: »
    Jeez...I give a young mother, distressed at the end of a 20 mile LSR, my recovery banana and you guys turn it into something that it wasn't...So mid-life crisis of the two of you.....;)

    Hang on a minute pal, I'm a good 10 years off mid life. I'm still enjoying the first flushes of youth ;)


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    #1139
    menoscemo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,915 ✭✭✭✭menoscemo


    Work has been really busy the last two days. I was so late home yesterday i dinn't bother going out. Today was much the same but I deceided to go for a run anyway. Didn't make Tymon Park until 7:30pm, so cut the planned 10 miles a little short.

    [URL="ttp://connect.garmin.com/activity/69931550"]8.3 miles[/URL] @ 8:36 av. Nice handy run. Legs very fresh.


    WTD: 3 days running 20.9 miles
    MTD 20 days Running 191.5 miles

    Just a recovery 4 or 5 tomorrow ahead of the race on Saturday. I'm a bit behind schedule on the mileage for the week though.


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    #1140
    hf4z6sqo7vjngi
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    Best of luck the weekend Meno. Have you decided on what you are doing for Barca or is it a case of see how the legs are after this weekend?


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    #1141
    chinguetti
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    Hope the 50k goes well on Saturday and don't get dizzy doing all those 5k laps.


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