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The plan today was for 10 x 400m hills. Ran out of daylight for that so decided I'd just join in our 8ml club run. These are normally done at 8min/ml pace.
We had a few new folks so we started off at something more like 8:30 pace. After about 3mls we lost one person with a sore leg. We then decided to throw in an 800m effort for the fun of it, of course this was on the only stretch of road with no lights, although it is flat and familier to us. After another 1/2ml or so, we did a U turn to pick up any stragglers, and decided to throw in another 1/2ml effort.
Everything was fine 'til we heard a yell, one of the girls turned her ankle. So of course we threw her into the bay and continued on
............ok, we didn't - after a few mins we managed to arrange a lift back to her car and continued on.
Then we came across the first person that dropped off with a sore leg and one of the guys volunteered to accompany her home.
During the last 2mls we continued picking up the pace to sub 7's, and threw in 2 hill reps over the last mile.
Bloody hell, I'm even tired just writing about it :rolleyes:
Distance = 8 1/2mls.0 -
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9.30am - 4mls nice 'n easy in chilly bright weather. Felt fine after last nights session. It was in my mind to not go too slow, but at the same time I was aware that it was an early morning run so wasn't about to push it too hard.
Distance = 4mls/31:35
3.30pm - 8.25mls, ideal running weather. Felt very good, legs a wee bit light towards the end but nothing much at all. Pace was 7:11, HR 148, felt very comfortable. Funny how you can run 7's and feel better than running a min/ml slower
Distance for day = 12.25mls0 -
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Krusty_Clown wrote: »Great running, and great weekly mileage too. Only 9 seconds away from the pb. You wont be long beating that, with that mileage. Any prizes for O40?
Cheers Krusty. Last year I ran 30:52 so I'm heading in the right direction
Napped a €50 gift voucher to a local sportstore, so picked up a pair of sketchers for my daughter, put me in the good books for a while !0 -
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Did 5.5mls this morning at about 7:40 pace (152 HR). Was draggiing at first then looked at the HRM just before the mile and saw that I was ticking by at 128 bpm, where I'm supposed to be doing my easy runs at 140-155, and even getting up to 160-165 for periods.
Felt fine when I picked it up, except for one thing ............. thought I was going to explode :mad:
Had a large bowl of porridge for breakfaast, but yesterdays food/drink intake was pancakes for breakfast with icing sugar, more pancakes with maple syrup after my early run. Ham & cheese on french bread, then 2 pieces of breaded chicken with potatos & corn for dinner. I then proceeded to finish the whole damn loaf of french bread (you know the big one you get at tesco) with more ham & cheese. I also had 3 beers watching the Man U match.
Weighed myself on Monday morning and weight had gone from 159.4lbs to 163lbs in 1 wk, the very same week that I ran 70mls. I have cut out biscuits and switched to low fat milk & butter and had cut out white bread until recently. Thing is, I love french bread, but think I'm going to have to kick that to the curb too. For some reason I've also been having a beer or 2 most nights for the past week. THIS HAS TO STOP
With all the training I'm doing I don't want my preformances to go down because I'm carrying excess baggage.
OK, I feel better now that I vented 0 -
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Weighed myself on Monday morning and weight had gone from 159.4lbs to 163lbs in 1 wk, the very same week that I ran 70mls. I have cut out biscuits and switched to low fat milk & butter and had cut out white bread until recently. Thing is, I love french bread, but think I'm going to have to kick that to the curb too. For some reason I've also been having a beer or 2 most nights for the past week. THIS HAS TO STOP
With all the training I'm doing I don't want my preformances to go down because I'm carrying excess baggage.
OK, I feel better now that I vented[/QUOTE]
Weight kills performance. All habits that 7 days would sort.0 -
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Not sure where that expression came from, and I may even be incorrect in regards to its meaning, but I have always took it to mean 'I funked up', or something like that !
Plan today was to do about 15mls in total, split between 2 runs. I managed 2mls.
Just one of those days when everything went wrong. Kids are off school so between bringing them to their Grandmothers & taking them to the movies, looking at new cars to buy due to the car accident, continue battles with the ins co re same, calling car rental place, shopping, and work commitments, I just didn't have the motivation to run.
The 2mls was supposed to be 5-6mls, I had just about the time to squeeze that in, but I got a stitch, from eating too much fibre I think so I rationalised it that I would probably run later.
Had ample opportunity to do so, was even in my gear, but ended up buying loads of bad crap at Tesco and eating BBQ chips, cashews, chocloates and drinking a few pints of Guinness
Decided not too beat myself up too much about it. I have my first x-country race tomorrow since about 1983, so even though the over-indulgence may not have helped, the day off my prove the opposite.
Plan to get stuck in, enjoy it, and give it a right go.0 -
Well, it was down as a 7K, but seen as I ran 20:09 for it in very tough, energy sapping conditions, I figured it was a tad short ................. according to the lads with their Garmins, it was 5.5K.
Apparently all the races were short, for the life of me I can't understand why at a National Chamionships they can't get something like this correct.
Anyway, on to myself. Have to say it was the hardest race I had for a long time. I had forgot how hard x-country was, I felt like pulling out not long after half way. I really was just hanging in there lap after lap. I knew the laps were short so it helped to tell myself to keep going for another.
Not sure where I finished. I felt so shattered I thought I was running very bad, except for there was a lad that I was going back & forth with who normally finishes 2-3mins ahead of me over 8K, but I figured he was having a bad day too.
There was another lad from the county who was also just a few places ahead of me, I was using him as an indicater of my pace.
Turns out that I beat some guys by close to 2mins who were beating me last year and who I just beat by 20-30secs over 8K a month ago, so maybe I had a good run
Took yesterday off altogether. After Friday I lost a bit of motivation and couldn't be bothered, figured with the race it may help me a bit anyway.
For the next 2wks I really want to get stuck in and do about 75mls/wk and then ease up for the 10 mile race on the 21st.
Week Distance = 48mls0 -
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Woke up this morning with some very sore quads, I think its called a 'good' pain
A few more sessions like last night's track and I may have to give that particular term a rethink !
Anyway, 10.5mls today to recover. It was a bit of a slog, didn't feel bad as such, and at times I actually felt good, but just couldn't get going at all. Still, at least I did it. Pace was 7:30 & HR 152.0 -
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