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Sorry, I thought you said get faster before the 100th Marathon
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Hey Aimman,I was running along the coast on Sunday morning and saw the EOI signs which I now know stands for East of Ireland. Is this some sort of marathon club thing for you ultra runners? Saw a bunch of people at the promenade at Clontarf and ye had the look of distance runners alright.Just curious.
First rule of EOI, you don't talk about EOI! :cool:
Yeah, that was us. Couple of lads (one of them is on Boards) who do a lot of marathons set it up to give people a chance to run extra marathons on a regular basis. There's usually a big gathering of Marathon Club Ireland runners doing them, but anyone is welcome to join in and enjoy the Pre and Post socialising ( And mid marathon race banter).
Its not based on Ultra running, just there for anyone who wants to run one or more marathons during the year. Price of entry is second to none and there's medals for all finishers, something special for First Man and Woman home and a fine spread of grub at the finish line that would put any 'Women's Institute 'tea party to shame.
If you're interested in joining in, check out their website here
Disclaimer: I'm not actually involved in the organisation of the EOI races, but Frank promised me extra Jaffa cakes at the finish line for every recruit I get on board. Just enter the Promo Code 'EAMOLOVESJAFFAS' on the entry form to help me earn my commission
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First rule of EOI, you don't talk about EOI! :cool:
Yeah, that was us. Couple of lads (one of them is on Boards) who do a lot of marathons set it up to give people a chance to run extra marathons on a regular basis. There's usually a big gathering of Marathon Club Ireland runners doing them, but anyone is welcome to join in and enjoy the Pre and Post socialising ( And mid marathon race banter).
Its not based on Ultra running, just there for anyone who wants to run one or more marathons during the year. Price of entry is second to none and there's medals for all finishers, something special for First Man and Woman home and a fine spread of grub at the finish line that would put any 'Women's Institute 'tea party to shame.
If you're interested in joining in, check out their website here
Disclaimer: I'm not actually involved in the organisation of the EOI races, but Frank promised me extra Jaffa cakes at the finish line for every recruit I get on board. Just enter the Promo Code 'EAMOLOVESJAFFAS' on the entry form to help me earn my commission:D:D
Great idea. I see a face I recognise from our club in the photo on the website.Thanks for the link, will definitely consider it for the future. I'm partial to the odd pack of jaffa cakes myself!:)0 -
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Bit of a lazy week with work commitments during the day and an outburst of sofa seperation anxiety during the evening.
Wednesday - Nada!
Thursday - Lunchtime 5M in 41:20 ( 8:16 pace, but Garmin calculated Avg 96% Max HR with a peak of 139%, so either I've become the new Dr Who with two hearts, or there might be a measurement glitch today.
Friday - Lunchtime Run 3.9M in 33:20 (8:40 pace, Avg HR 85% Max???), but then it also says that my fastest pace peaked at 2:46min/mile, eat that Roger Bannister!
Would have likes to have squeezed in another mile, but I had dropped into Aldi to pick up some lunch and I think the cashiers were playing the complete opposite of supermarket sweep. I had to go back and change my tub of cottage cheese because it went past it's use by date while I was in the queue!
Saturday - Ashamed of my low milage this week on top of finding a note from the sofa telling me that it's needs more space and time away from me, I left the house armed with the camelback filled with squash and a few halftime goodies that would make the Famous Five drool, I headed out along the canal again beyond Celbridge as far as Baronrath (Yeah, I've never heard of it either) where I did my troll impression, sitting under a bridge, feasting on the innards of a camel-back, then heading back to the Metropolis at a handy pace
17.6M in 2:43 (9:16 pace, Avg 79% Max HR)
Just planning a couple of easy miles tomorrow and rest up before Monday's pacing in Cork.0 -
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Nice little leg stretch this morning, managed to catch the sun before it went in. I blame the IT people for inventing cloud technology, I prefer the old days where we kept all our data on a hard disk and we had lovely sunny days. Now all our info is kept in clouds and there's so much of it, we need extra clouds and there's no sun anymore. why couldn't they have invented sewer storage instead, seeing as most the stuff we keep is crap anyway.
3M at 9:40 pace Avg 70% Max HR
Right, off to Cork now to sign autographs at the pacer stand.:cool:0 -
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hot to trot wrote: »Tuesday -
Tumble outta bed and I stumble to the kitchen
Pour myself a cup of ambition
And yawnin', stretchin', try to come to life
Jump in the shower and the blood starts pumpin'
Out on the streets, the traffic starts jumpin'
With folks like me on the job from 9 to 5
Oh wait, day off today, that's not what happened.....
Tuesday Take 2
Wouldnt have taken you as a big Dolly fan :rolleyes:
I'd say there are a couple of things he likes about her
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Great to meet you on Monday Aimman. I was so glad to meet you in the pub and not on the road also! The thoughts of the 4:30 pacing group catching me was all that kept me going for the last couple of miles.
Great going Beef, I've been that soldier looking over my shoulder (no rhyming pun intended) waiting for the next wave of balloons to pass me by, but you kept it going and beat me and Tom to the finish line in the hot conditions. Just because Cork didn't deliver the result you wanted, doesn't mean you wont get the result you wanted. There's permutations and combinations to get a good race, some of which no-one has control over. Keep going for it and keep believing in it, and it does happen. And when it does, you'll feel like the dogs b*****cks and no one can take it form you. Smile for every Camera and soak up every cheer and if the legs feel knackered, the head will carry you to the finish line ..... (true story)0 -
No running on the Thursday. Who'd have thought that bottling 5 gallons of wine would take so long, let along setting up another 8 gallons for the cold winter months.
Friday - Temperatures soaring in the afternoon on the hottest day, what better than to kit out for a run along the canal to Carton House. 12.1M in 1:46 (8:44 pace, Avg 81% Max HR)0 -
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Considering the amount of damage from landslides and flooded trails topped off with a massive thunder and lightning storm that developed by late morning, I thought I'd head to the next destination and run there. Only problem is that when I got off the train, I bumped into a couple of colleagues from other countries, so of course, we had a couple of beers as is the common meeting ritual amongst engineers (none of your secret masonic handshakes in this game. the only time your hand shakes is when you're going throung the DTs on the way home). At this stage it started lashing rain and after much deliberation, I headed to the room to get ready. At three O'clock, no sign of the rain easing. I thought I'd lie down for ten minutes to see if it will clear, woke up at four o'clock:rolleyes: Still raining, feck it! I'd just have to get on with it.
Trundled out along a bike track, ironically heading back to the town I just came from, made it within 2 miles of hitting the town but had to head back to get ready for dinner. I set out to do a 10M run, which turned into a 11M run and then ended up as a 12M run because I was enjoying it. The further you go out, the further you have to get back.
I was taking it easy on the way out, no pressure, but once I turned around, I felt like upping the pace for the craic and felt really good along the way back. Along the river Fulda are lots of bird sanctuarys so was great to see hawks and eagles out circling and hunting for dinner. Really felt good about this run particulary as the pace stepped up, so I'm making a note of the split pace to remind me of a meh run turning into a yabadabadoo run
9:05, 9:18, 9:12, 9:08, 9:26, 9:31, 8:48, 8:42, 8:39, 8:42, 8:36, 8:14
12M in 1:47 (8:57 pace, Avg 78% Max HR)
86.1M for the week. Doubtful I'll get a higher week than that before july, although the back to back on Saturday week would help bump a week up, but might need to spread the weekly milage out for that week as it's only 2 weeks before the 10in10 and should be starting to help the legs get a bit of R&R0 -
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