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You have the whole northern seafront at your disposal, some of the best running territory in the city and (marginally) closer to the IFSC than Irishtown!
Yes but you have to run through some of 'less pretty' areas of ND to get to the seafront
. I've done that run a few times over to Fairview park, I much prefer the jaunt to Irishtown, less traffic, more seagulls! 0 -
Annie get your Run wrote: »Yes but you have to run through some of 'less pretty' areas on NCD to get to the seafront. I've done that run a few times over to Fairview park, I much prefer the jaunt to Irishtown, less traffic, more seagulls!
Now now, are you suggesting that East Wall is less salubrious than Ringsend? Plus (depending of course on your starting point) there is the route through East Point that allows you a relatively traffic-free 'short cut' to the seafront! #northsidenous0 -
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Now now, are you suggesting that East Wall is less salubrious than Ringsend? Plus (depending of course on your starting point) there is the route through East Point that allows you a relatively traffic-free 'short cut' to the seafront! #northsidenous
Absolutely!
and this is a south side log, we don't want to discombobulate poor Ray any more than he already has been!
Of course Ray you could always run up the quays into the Phoenix Park - the more salubrious part of the DNS!0 -
Annie get your Run wrote: »Absolutely! and this is a south side log, we don't want to discombobulate poor Ray any more than he already has been!
Of course Ray you could always run up the quays into the Phoenix Park - the more salubrious part of the DNS!
Phoenix Park is Southside Dublin, D8.0 -
OOnegative wrote: »Phoenix Park is Southside Dublin.
We might need Denis to settle this argument, while the PP is Dublin 8 it is in fact on the North Side. D8 being the only even post code to cover South and North of the city.
Apologies Ray, you can have your log back now...
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Quick update...
Sorting out a bit of a routine in new job, running at lunch four days, running either in or out four days. The canal route is not too bad, about 10k, Dodder route is about 13k. Lunch runs limited to about 40 minutes. Working out okay now because my mileage is a bit lower, 60-70/week, a lot of short doubles.
Lunch is long enough for a short session, 12x200 last week, 5 miles steady this week. Both done too fast - still trying to avoid my watch
and running with company always makes me go faster. Steady pace is feeling very easy at the moment, for the short runs at least.
Progression run on Sunday I didn't enjoy. Putting the faster running at the end makes it loom over the session. And I always have trouble with the steady progression bit. I ran up to Tymon, was running the parkrun lap, trying to make each lap just that bit faster, but I think I hit marathon pace a lap or two early and had to hang on. (Each lap is a drag up or down, which makes it hard to say how fast you are 'really' going) Another five later that day and I was tired, but no real problems. (Supposed to be the other way around, but I wasn't going for a session in the afternoon!)
Yesterday was another 1.5MP, .5 steady alternation, just 10 miles this time. Ran from work to the Dodder and started there. First interval was a bit slow, second fine (slower at the end when I hit a hill and a main road), three and four in Bushy were grand, and the last was a bit slow again, but more because I was getting close to home and had a bunch of roads to cross than because of fatigue.
So, all going okay. Missing gym sessions in the last few weeks, but keeping up the morning routine. A few aches and pains but nothing persistent, and I don't feel close to an edge. Give me another few weeks and we'll see 0 -
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Last real long run before the marathon, and I think longest in a while. Most of the big runs seem to be in the 10-15 mile range.
Straight out from work, through the badlands of DNS, to the safety of the park
Most of it was fine, but the furry glen was blocked off and covered in snow, and that whole area at the top of Upper Glen road was a mess of snow and puddles. I'd usually go on the trails around ordnance survey to north road, but not today.
So, about 5k to the park, coming in from north circular road (last time I ran that road it was in the marathon a few years ago), over to Wellington road, up Military and the bends, upper Glen and ordnance survey, then all the way back down chesterfield, on the grass beside the path. Two laps of that, then it was getting dark so I left the park and turned towards home.
Cut through the memorial gardens to find the gate locked, so back out and around on the roads, and an extra loop around Crumlin village to bring the run up to 31k.
Bit of a low patch around two hours, told myself to cop the **** on, and picked it up for the last 20 minutes. One month to go...0 -
5 x 2 miles @ MP, 800 steady recoveries
Up early for this one, and jogged to Tymon. No time for any drills, so straight into the run. The park is not what you'd call hilly, but there's a low corner and a high corner, with drags between. I started in the low corner
So the lap was basically 2k of flat or slight incline, and 1.2k of gradual downhill, with another 800m of downhill wasted on the steady recoveries.
First lap - a bit slow, as usual, 4:05. Partly warming up, partly settling in to the right balance of effort on each part of the lap.
Second and third were better, 3:58 and 3:59
Fourth, found it very hard get up any speed on the initial drag, felt like I was running through treacle. Behind pace all the way and really pushing to try to catch up on the down bit, 4:03 in the end.
Fifth one, got to leave the park and start heading (a roundabout way) home. Slowed for a couple of roads, but other than that, much easier to keep a steady pace, 4:00 again.
Wrecked afterwards though - got home, showered, got a drink and some peanut butter on toast to eat in the car as I brought the girl to junior parkrun, didn't even get out of the car to swap kids to bring the boy to training, I was a zombie for the rest of the day...0 -
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Saturday session - 7 x (400 LT, 1200 MP)
Very tired this week, in bed by 9 last night, and some session dread creeping in this morning.
Jogged up to Tymon as usual (in at the low corner as usual :rolleyes:), and did a couple of sprints to warm up.
First set, I went out too fast, 3:35 pace for the 400 (should be about 3:50), evened off at 4:00 in the MP section. Then 3:45 and 3:49 (downhill), 3:40 and 4:03 coming back by the start, 3:42 and 3:57, 3:47 and 3:57, 3:42 and 3:58, finally 3:45 and 3:51.
Two laps of Tymon, then the last two were on smaller laps around the pond - flatter, but straight into the wind and through a big puddle on a straight :rolleyes: The second-last MP interval I was working to bring the pace back up after that straight, which is why the last one was faster. Charlie Spedding would not approve
Two more to go...0 -
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I shouldn't be let out...
4 x 3 miles with 800 steady recovery
Which is the final session on the plan, the one everyone knows is _the_ tough session in the program. So why, about a km into this session did I think, okay, 3 miles is 4800m, so this interval ends at... hang on, 4800? What did I set the intervals at?
Yes, you guessed it, I set the intervals at 3200m, two miles, same as the previous version of this session . So I did the 3200, and the 800, and 800 of the next interval, stopped the watch, saved and restarted, on the run, then did the rest of the session using the regular laps, and manually lapping the 800s. I amaze even myself sometimes.
So, without a lap pace that would even itself out over the miles, I was kind of all over the place.
First interval was 12.41 + 3.04 + 3.22 = 19.07
Fine apart from the urge to slap myself
Second was 3.59, 46, 4.04, 4.05, and 3.14 (4.00 pace) for the 800. 19.07 again?
Third interval, around that god forsaken park again, and I managed to make a mess of simple addition this time, 3.58, 4, 4.05, 3.52, and 2.21 for _600_ (3.51 pace) , 18.14? and getting tired.
Last interval I treated myself by leaving the park and heading towards home, although that meant I ended up doing a few laps of the little park near the house. 3.51, 4.05, 3.58, 3.57, and 3.12 for the 800 (3.53 pace), 19.03. Those last laps were tough, felt like I was crawling along.
But done, finally, and a few months ago I would have given myself no chance of completing that session on pace, and honestly wouldn't have been too worried if I was a few seconds off here or there.
The bad news is that I spoke to authorities, and apparently it isn't enough to just complete the training plan, you also have to do a race?!?! (And they said even if they were going to make an exception, it wouldn't be for someone who manages to **** up a simple workout so much) So no medal for me today
(Should also note, this is the first session in a while I've gone into still feeling the effects of the previous one. The progression run on Wednesday was tough, and Friday, though easy enough, was hard enough to stop me recovering completely. I was feeling a bit stiff and sore this morning, and I'm sure I'll be worse tomorrow. But no more hard runs!)0 -
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Five miles, with 60 second surges to threshold pace
Lunch run in Irishtown. I think I made this harder for myself by deciding the other day that there were no hard runs left
Easier than the seven mile version, but still not exactly easy...0 -
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