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Pushing my boundaries and making my physio rich...
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Friday : day off training, and intended to be a good boy, but ended up getting utterly hammered, between post work drinks, a few social ones with a couple of boardsies and another few drinks before heading home.
Saturday : Was a planned 20 mile run, so when I woke up at 8am I did not feel the mae west for some reason [*whistles*], so ate, drank 9 gallons of water and pottered around the house doing small jobs to get things moving. Eventually went out at around 11.30am or something.
Ran out to Sutton/Howth, and turned around and went home again. Did not have garmin watch [as I had left in West Cork], so ran with Strava running on my phone. So I had no idea of pace and only a very rough idea of miles covered [until I was done, clearly]. Run went pretty well, felt strong for most of it.
I did 19 miles in the end, and I was happy with that. I have never been one to run around a car park for 10 mins to hit some random target. So while its a shame I did not hit the 20 miles, and if I had the garmin watch I would have added some mins on to hit the 20 I would think. But I was very happy with my effort. Average pace for the 19 miles was just under 9 min miles, but that does not tell the whole story, as I was using my phone I did not stop or pause at all, so it kept running at traffic lights or crossing roads. I was happy that the "middle" 10 miles out by Clontarf, the average pace was closer to 8.20/30 min/miles which was good, all the more so that I was running on feel and had no idea of the pace at the time.
Sunday : One of those important, but hard marathon sessions. Doing some hard miles the day after a very long run. Had some beers Saturday night, but nothing to crazy. But had a busy Sunday morning planned with a load of stuff to do. So got out for a run late afternoon.
So did 7.5 miles, legs were pretty sore indeed, so was hard but a good session. I did 3.5 miles odd in the park at a "high effort level", which translated to 8.10/20 min miles. Was not too bad at the end, but my legs were screaming.
So that is more than the marathon distance covered over a weekend, always a good point of any training cycle, and with 11 weeks to go as of yesterday I think its fair to say things are not looking too bad at all.
Today : Much needed day off running. Did a swim this morning, as usual with my swims on a rest day, more "fecking around in the pool" than actual swimming, but its about letting legs recover
My wedding anniversary this weekend, so Im going away and not running. So its a planned step back week. Will do 2 high quality sessions this week, and some kind of medium length run Friday morning, but that is all...0 -
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Thursday run home from work, via the park. Tired after long day and yet another crappy nights sleep, so when I really raised effort level for a few miles in the park I was only hitting 8.20 miles and felt like I was full on sprinting up mount Blanc!
Was not planning to run this morning, but had to do a message and had no option, so 8.5 miles at easy pace and effort. Going to collect something and right home again.
The funny thing is, last night was huge perceived effort and this morn was easy effort and time is nearly identical, which is weird 0 -
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Supposed to be doing the streets of galway 8k with a large gang from the club tonight, but had to pull out with a family thing. So only thing for it was a unplanned LSR!
First 20 miler of the training cycle this morning [but 3rd run of longer than 18 miles], with 9 or 10 weeks to go I'm really happy with that. Average pace was 8.45, but that includes time lost at traffic lights etc, so average was closer to 8.35/40 while actually running.
Did an experiment, as I have been doing most training with no water or food, I did this one the same. Not an amazing idea, at about 2 hours 10/15 I hit wall big time and was not feeling great, but thankfully I only had to wait 10 or 15 mins to hit centra on Parkgate St [and typically there, I drank too much and it was washing around my belly for last few miles. But random runs like this is where you can experiment with this, and I now know I need "stuff" when going longer than 2 hours.
Overall a good experience. Met a long lost boardsie out on his run on the north circular, and it turns we are going for similar times in next big race, so time to resurrect the ART Long Runs 0 -
Saturday evening went and watched Dublin beat seven shades of ****e out of poor old Monaghan. Afterwards I drank far far too much
Thus Sunday was a bit of a write off as a result, and planned easy 6-7 miler was cast aside. But later in the day we went for a walk around headlands between bray/greystones kinda area, between 2 and 3 hours worth I guess. So better than nothing.
Monday : easy recovery run home from work, 35 mins odd at dead easy pace0 -
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tHE vAGGABOND wrote: »Supposed to be doing the streets of galway 8k with a large gang from the club tonight, but had to pull out with a family thing. So
Dude, you are becoming the male version of RQ0 -
tHE vAGGABOND wrote: »Supposed to be doing the streets of galway 8k with a large gang from the club tonight, but had to pull out with a family thing. So
Dude, you are becoming the male version of RQ0 -
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20 miler, out to sutton and back...
Wind at my back on the way out, and was feeling amazing [...for some reason :P], indeed did a few miles far too fast, at or faster than marathon pace [see wind at my back point!!]
Turned around just before 12 miles, and the wind picked up [at least that's how it felt at time!! So was crazy in my face on the way home. So I went from an average of around 8.30 min miles to 9.20/30 min miles at drop of a hat, and all of a sudden I felt really laboured. But as such it was not a bad thing at all, in terms of making me work hard and feel like crap for the last few miles
All in all good hard work, and having a second 20 miler done with 8 weeks to go things are pretty good [..if you over look the total absence of any meaningful speed work from the sessions Im doing!].
With large amount of miles done but with next to zero speed work, no idea how 10 miler will go next week 0 -
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40 minutes odd of a run, around regents park in London [here for a single night for work], no watch or phone, just me out for an easy run of a morning...
Did 15 mins of core and leg exercises, and I have been neglecting of late. Not that I have any niggles per sae, but only starting then is a bit too late init
Its a step back week, crossed with mini-taper for Saturday, so taking it a bit easy this week.
Garmin now wont charge, so I think it may be dead, which will make pacing the 10 miler at weekend fun 0 -
Garmin is totally dead, and I need to send it away to be fixed [getting new one, even a new second hand one, is not even a passing thought for plain financial reasons]. So until I say otherwise all times and distances are tracked with phone &/or are plain guesses [I did one of my 20 milers with phone and watch, and when I hit 20 miles on phone I was only at 19.1 or something on the watch, so its accurate, but only sorta!]
Last night was 6.5 miles home from work, hard to tell pace with no watch. But I took first few easy and phone said around 9 min miles [with some annoying pauses at traffic lights] and last 3 averaged out at around 8 min miles - but again, sorta guess work here, as my run home passes 11 roads, and I cant/wont pause phone at all of them, so that throws recorded mile splits off.
This morning, 5.5 easy enough into work, maybe averaging at 8.40 miles, odd - feeling great. Also went out in new runners to start to break them in [yet another pair of Brooks adrenaline gts 14's] - Crusaders and Chicago Marathon red this time 0 -
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Waiting for a meeting to start, so what else would I do, but post on boards in the meantime..
Went for a swim at lunch, just chillaxing, around 30 mins dead easy, as well as actually starting to get back into swimming a bit, as I have not been in a pool in ages! Post Chicago I think I will be giving Tri a proper go, and will enter a half ironman next summer, a do it once and for all.
Tomorrow Im racing Frank Duffy, with no garmin - so really looking forward to that, as I have not raced properly *in ages*. The FD 10 miler is also important to me, as when I saw a mate doing it in 2010, and I joined him for 6k, was the first time I had ever ran in public and it was when the light went on for me, that this running lark is great
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Strategic rest day yesterday, in terms of a huge hangover and aches and pains in the legs from the combo or racing in the morning and dancing in the evening
I also have a crazy week this week, with a couple of days in London, where its very unlikely I will get to run and then I have a crazy weekend ahead, with several things on both days, so its a case of getting runs in when I can..
So started with 8.5 miles pretty easy this morning into work..0 -
As predicted, did no running in London, for mixed reasons of being busy with work, and hung over in mornings..
Did 10 miles home, around the phoenix park last night, average pace around 8.40 min miles or so. Feeling pretty good, was a nice night for it Feeling really good and could have gone faster etc - still weird trying to run a bit hard with no Garmin, but listening to tunes and silently tracking with phone, and seeing at the end how I was going. But also feels great
Busy weekend ahead with family in town and a couple of matches to attend and stuff. But my plan is to run for a total of 30 miles over the weekend, in whatever format that comes. I am currently thinking I will do 20/21 tomorrow early [will need to start 7am or so, due to busy day] and the balance up to 30 on Sunday late morning [due to planned drink consumption Saturday night!]0 -
18.5 miles done while most folks are rightly still asleep
Crazy busy day ahead so was on the road before 7am, and I'm sure I will suffer for it later. Will be on my feet for hours later, so I have an hour to relax now, and that's it
Was really tired and lazy when started and really would rather do anything else. But after a couple of miles were done I was fine. Enjoyed it in end, did a set of loops around Park and ncr and Scr.
Will do 12/13 tomorrow, on tired and hungover legs, and also to make 30 for the weekend 0 -
As planned on Saturday I was indeed the drunkest man in Ireland..
So I therefore deserve some kind of trophy, no a full statue, for getting out and getting my run done, on very tired legs and with a roaring headache. I did just short of 10 miles at a pretty easy pace, getting a touch faster as I went along and things became easier. A highlight was going a lap of the acres in the park, and being chased by a gang of flies who clearly wanted to taste some of my sweat - Hmmmmmmmmmm, a nice image for anyone who clicks in here by accident and reads this
Went for an easy swim this morning to get some life back into my legs!
6 weeks to go as of yesterday, so 3 big training weeks ahead.0 -
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tHE vAGGABOND wrote: »Easy run into work, 5.5 miles odd easy.
My poor legs still a bit tired from the weekend, and could really feel the weekend miles in the legs - but its also that time of the training plan when you need to man the *beep* up and get the work done.
But I am far from a slave to a training plan these days, so have no bother pulling plug on a session if I need to. I have been good at that this summer, and thus hardly missed a serious planned session [where I have indeed missed a few random/pointless sessions!]
Sounds like you've hardly missed a planned drinking session either
Keep up the good work 0
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