The road to a 1:2X Half Mara.....

shels4ever

Wed 1st December
Rest day today so just did 45 mins on an exercise bike, Thinking of running in and out of work tomorow as looking at conditions it maybe quicker then driving. Will decided in the morning.

menoscemo

claralara wrote: »

It's an absolute nightmare of an invention!

Cool, hopefully i'll get to a park at the weekend. It won't be before then with the weather and having to work during daylight hours. Tear.

Head torch allows you to run any time you want. Where do you live? The paths along the Grand canal are also perfect for running along and they are well lit.

shels4ever

Thursday 2nd December
Called it a day after 3 miles today, was upto my shins in snow at one point so just jogged back to the car. Time to get to the gym now for some running and will try to make it to the beach if possible over the weekend to get a long run done. The looks I got when coming back to the office made it worth while.

TheRoadRunner

shels4ever wrote: »

Thursday 2nd December
Called it a day after 3 miles today, was upto my shins in snow at one point so just jogged back to the car. Time to get to the gym now for some running and will try to make it to the beach if possible over the weekend to get a long run done. The looks I got when coming back to the office made it worth while.

actually glad I hit the gym instead. I walked there and back and snow was up to my knee on a couple of occasions.

shels4ever

TheRoadRunner wrote: »

actually glad I hit the gym instead. I walked there and back and snow was up to my knee on a couple of occasions.

Yep far better off going gym later today , was actully fun out but no good for running at all. The next week is looking bad....

TheRoadRunner

shels4ever wrote: »

Yep far better off going gym later today , was actully fun out but no good for running at all. The next week is looking bad....

watreford half might be in trouble !

shels4ever

TheRoadRunner wrote: »

watreford half might be in trouble !

Think I'll decide next Wed/Thursday don't fancy ice skating around a half marathon,

shels4ever

Friday 3rd Dec
Spend 2 hours digging snow and ice toaday after work and was wrecked after it, didn't manage to get to the gym for a run. Really needed 1 more long run but not going to do it in the gym, would rather run a slower half marathon then end up injured. If weather is still like this next week I might not even run, Could HTFU but would rather stay injury free and live to race another day.

menoscemo

shels4ever wrote: »

Friday 3rd Dec
Spend 2 hours digging snow and ice toaday after work and was wrecked after it, didn't manage to get to the gym for a run. Really needed 1 more long run but not going to do it in the gym, would rather run a slower half marathon then end up injured. If weather is still like this next week I might not even run, Could HTFU but would rather stay injury free and live to race another day.

are you coming to the park in the morning shels?

shels4ever

menoscemo wrote: »

are you coming to the park in the morning shels?

will decide in the morning, so going to leave it until late to decide, if there is a change sunday will be better might leave the long run until then.

menoscemo

shels4ever wrote: »

will decide in the morning, so going to leave it until late to decide, if there is a change sunday will be better might leave the long run until then.

No chance of us going ou on sunday morning

shels4ever

Sat 4th December
1 hour easy on t-mill


Sunday 5th December
70 mins easy on the t-mill again, was thinking of doing a long on today, but decided not as didnt want to rick injury doing something new.

shels4ever

Monday 6th Deember
40 mins easy on the Threadmill, kept the pace really slow today as the legs were feeling a bit tired after yesterday, Hope to get a session in tomororw but not sure what conditions will be like on the track, so might have to run early in the day.

shels4ever

Sitting here looking out the window at poxy snow again, think i've almost died a bit inside at the site of it. Wonder how well cross country skis workin in this weather.....

claralara

At this stage, I'm losing a little bit of my soul with every snow flake that falls!!

TheRoadRunner

shels4ever wrote: »

Sitting here looking out the window at poxy snow again, think i've almost died a bit inside at the site of it. Wonder how well cross country skis workin in this weather.....

I swear to god. I was on the treadmill today watching cross country skiing of the telly and I'm thinking of asking Santa for a pair of skis

maria74

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TheRoadRunner wrote: »

I swear to god. I was on the treadmill today watching cross country skiing of the telly and I'm thinking of asking Santa for a pair of skis

:D

shels4ever

Tuesday 7th Sept
45 mins on the Threadmill with 4X1k at what I hope would be half marathon pace, felt wat too fast but turned out I did my min/miles to Km conversion wrong so I was running way too fast (thank god).

shels4ever

Wed 8th December
Wasnt able to arrange a run today, only option would have been lunch and the roads/park are off limits at the momet. So the plan of doing some sort of run ever day until sat is out the window.

Doesn't look like the 1/2 marathon will happen, funny thing is its the first race that i've trained for and managed to get to the start line injury free in more then a year and it may still not happen

Plan B will be Bhaa race on Sunday but that might not happen either , Plan C is.....

claralara

...hanging up the runners and hitting the booze until January!!

claralara

Oh sorry, that's mine! :rolleyes:

shels4ever

claralara wrote: »

...hanging up the runners and hitting the booze until January!!

Don't need christmas to hit the booze but the company christmas party is on for Friday so i'll go, maybe on the beer sat too (maybe). But back to training after that. Christmas time i'll have more free time for running with less work Though the half was going to be on the 18th but the 15th of Jan looks good to me, might just need to set a harder target with the extra 4-5 weeks training.

shels4ever

Decided to take a couple of days off, have had a good couple of months training and will get back into it again either tomorrow or Sat. Will come up with some master plan now to take me upto Ranehy 5 at the end of Jan and maybe the Waterford Half mathon again. It will be help in keep the long runs up.

shels4ever

Sunday 12th December.
5 Easy miles to get back into it after a hard few days. Christmas party on Friday was a bit ott and some dance floor related pain in the legs today. Nothing too bad . Was nice to get outdoors again. Give me mud anyday over snow/ice.

shels4ever

Monday 13th December
5 handy miles , felt like crap again today, but was great to be out .

Tuesday 14th
Back up for a session tonight was planning an easy session but just didnt happen. Once I arrived a bit early and started to warm up I found out that there was a mile race. So decided that if I got around in 6:30 i'd be really happy.

Started off fairly fast and felt far too good, moved up through the filed and just went infront of the first women, After 800m I was still feeling good 3:06 and pushed on a little but totally fell apart, the last 600m was horrible bad stomach cramps and actually though I was going to crap myslef at one point. Finished at a jog for 6:30.

There is a far faster mile in the legs now, but the diet and beer over the weekend didnt make for good race prep.

Target for the Goal mile is sub 6:15 if I run.

BeepBeep67

Some short races in the new year and an opportunity to put that 1 mile to bed in Feb.
http://www.alsaa.ie/athletics-club-track-race0.html

shels4ever

BeepBeep67 wrote: »

Some short races in the new year and an opportunity to put that 1 mile to bed in Feb.
http://www.alsaa.ie/athletics-club-track-race0.html

Thanks, I really need to get over to these races

shels4ever

Wed 15 December
Rest day

Thursday 16h December
5 miles handy,

shels4ever

Well thats the end to 2010 plan is just to forget about this year as my planned progression turned to regression, times went the wrong way for the first half of the year mostly due to injury. Finially started to get some propper running in Q4 but without a propper race.

Will run a 5k this weekend and maybe a mile christmas day but just using them to get myself out the door.

Plan for next year is to lower my 2 mile pb ias early as possible thats 12:30 ish from 2009 so I think its about 4-6 weeks away.

So 2011 targets

800m sub 2:45
3k 29 seconds slower then beepbeep67
2 mile Sub 12.
5k sub 20
5 mile sub 34
10k 42 ish
Half marathon 1:3X

May not run all these distances over the year but the focus is going to be on the shorter races for the first half of the year and after july maybe going a little longer.

So goodbye 2010 ....

claralara

Best of luck in 2011, you deserve a good year!

shels4ever

claralara wrote: »

Best of luck in 2011, you deserve a good year!

I do have major delusions of grandeur and still but think if i can get diet, training etc all in order next year I can go very fast over some shorter distances... but do need to man up now and back up the talk, can't live on races from 15 years ago .....

TheRoadRunner

shels4ever wrote: »

I do have major delusions of grandeur and still but think if i can get diet, training etc all in order next year I can go very fast over some shorter distances... but do need to man up now and back up the talk, can't live on races from 15 years ago .....

I like you have delusions of grandeur. Do what I do, book mark your outrageous comments and view them in the lead up to a race. Great training/racing motivation.

shels4ever

TheRoadRunner wrote: »

I like you have delusions of grandeur. Do what I do, book mark your outrageous comments and view them in the lead up to a race. Great training/racing motivation.

Yep , good idea there, have times down on paper now

shels4ever

Just been getting out for a few easy miles each day nothing really to report or log. Feel the down week was need even if the half marathon didnt happen.

shels4ever

Nothing major to report over christmas just 1 or 2 easy runs.

Wed 29 December
6 miles today 2 very easy and 4 at 8:15 pace, this felt really really hard ... but glad to get out.

shels4ever

Thursday 30th December

5 handy miles @ 9 min pace today. Conditions were perfect out today.

shels4ever

Friday 31st Dec
4.5 miles today at about 8:15 pace, legs wanted to run faster the rest of my body didn't. As i've had 3 month ok running its time for the tempo runs to come back into the schedule.

shels4ever

1st Jan 2011
10 handy miles to start the year, Pace was about 10 min mile pace but was very very easy. Though about going on for a few more mile but havent' done a long one in 3 week so just kept it to 10.

shels4ever

Sunday 2nd January
Handy 5miles today.

maria74

You have had a great run (:p) of runs since christmas! You obviously didn't tuck into the roses and beer like em...me!!!

ger34

We should all take it handy for a bit.
Are you doing the Waterford half?

shels4ever

maria74 wrote: »

You have had a great run (:p) of runs since christmas! You obviously didn't tuck into the roses and beer like em...me!!!

I've had far too much beer over the past two week but not a drop since the 26th now , do bottles of wine count.
Back into the full swing of training again now .

shels4ever

ger34 wrote: »

We should all take it handy for a bit.
Are you doing the Waterford half?

Not going to be able to make it to waterford that weekend so will give the half marathon a miss. Focus is on the sorter race from now on.

shels4ever

Monday 3rd Jan
7 easy miles along the canal tonight, legs felt a bit odd last night and this morning with a stiff hamstring so didnt run until late today. Decided on the canal as is flat and I think it was the 10miles in the mud on sat that caused the stiff hamstring. After about 800m felt great and no problem at all.

shels4ever

Tuesday 4th Jan
1.5 mile warmup

6 X 400m with 400m recovery

1.2 mile warm down

Felt really good today but wasnt pushing too hard, kept at the back of the group today and didnt care about pace. Plan was to do 5 but did an extra rep at the end.

Reps were all about 1:35-1:38 could have gone faster.

Total mile today 5.7

shels4ever

Wed 5th Jan
Rest day today, Just checked back over my log and I've run a little more then I expected this week. So taking today totally off. Don't really want to go over 45 miles in week for now. Will give the race on Sat a bit of a lash now I think.

TheRoadRunner

shels4ever wrote: »

Wed 5th Jan
Will give the race on Sat a bit of a lash now I think.

Thinking of doing it myself but it will not be pretty. Bloody snow/Christmas

shels4ever

TheRoadRunner wrote: »

Thinking of doing it myself but it will not be pretty. Bloody snow/Christmas

It cant be any worse then the last time we races there. I hope...

shels4ever

Nothing much to report here. Been fairly busy the last week in work so havent been around much. Training has been ticking over but picked up a little calf/Shin (not again) pain last Friday when doing some strides before the race on Sat. So skipped the race and only done some easy running since then.

Have taken the last 2 days off, but been on the bike for about an hour a day. Don't think i'd have any problem running but just been on the safe side. Better to miss a day or two now then a month down the line.

shels4ever

Thursday 14th Jan

1.5 hours on an exercise bike, this was a pain in the ass.

Friday 1th Jan

1 hour 20 on the bike again...

Not sure how people who cycle manage to fit in training as an easy spin must be 2-3 hours and a long one?


Years plans might change now as a planned month off has been put back for a year so will need to see how thigns go. An autumn Marathon might be on the cards of I can sort out a few things. i.e.

Sorting diet out at the moment and becoming a real kcal counter and the adition of a kitchen scales too was a real eye opener diet is actually good but just needed to cut back on the portions....

Calf feels great today after a nice bit of S&M last night.