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Monday January 6
Got the opportunity to run a bit earlier today so took it. I think I'm getting used to this wind running as I didn't find this one quite so bad - although I did strategically plan the least windy route I could find. 6 miles at 8:35 pace. I did miss the company even though somebody doesn't believe me.
Tuesday January 7
Club 30 minute Fartlek session. Joined what seemed like 100+ people down at the meeting point for this - lots of newbies and people who took Christmas off :eek::). We start on one side of the M50 bridge on the Firhouse road, run 80% effort up over and down with a 100m recovery, then repeat until somebody shouts stop!
Despite the large numbers I ran this session on my own. I kept even pace throughout and tagged on a few extra reps at the end. I felt pretty in control and not too uncomfortable. I like to measure myself off people who I would normally run with but a lot of them were absent or just back after a few weeks 'holidays' (no club training). Rather than say that I was running well, I kept making excuses as to why I was in front of people who are normally running with me. :rolleyes:
Anyway a nice sharp session for me.
Wednesday January 10
My running buddy returned the favour and so I was running solo for this one. The rain and puddle jumping made a welcome change. This was supposed to be recovery pace, but didn't bother with the garmin. Did my 5 mile loop in 8:30 ish pace I think. Really enjoyed this. 0 -
Thursday January 9
Club interval session (long intervals) with the club. 3/4 mile w/u down to point A. Probably 25 of us took this option, mostly made up of the faster 2 groups from the club. Luckily there were a few people I could tag on to and so this made it so much more bearable.
Point A to B: 1.24 miles. Forgot to start the garmin, but somebody said 9:10 so I'll go with that. This stretch has a nice incline and slap bang into the wind so it was tough going.
Point B to C: 2 miles exactly 6:45, 6:49
Point C back to A: .76 miles 7:06 pace. Felt I could have pushed on this one a bit more but when there are 2 guys in front shielding me from the wind, why bother!
5.5 miles for the evening - a nice sharp session
Friday January 10
Rest day
Saturday January 11
13 mile LSR. My plan was to run from home up to the masts in Ticknock and home again. I was running solo this time as my buddies were saving themselves for the XC masters the following day. This run is just amazing, yeah I took some walking breaks but I didn't really care. Some 8:30 minute miles over to Marlay and then some very slow ones to Kilmashogue and up to Ticknock. On the flip side, some nice sub 8 min miles on the downhill and all the way home.
A beautiful sunny morning, love it! Average pace 8:50
Sunday January 12
1 hour of recovery running. No garmin but it was a 6.5 mile loop or so.
Monday January 13
Everything is back to normal in the universe again since last week. R and I did one of our loops, over to Tallaght and back. 7 miles 8:54 pace. Another nice, chat filled run.
Tuesday January 14
Club session 400s x10. Was really looking forward to this session, it's been a while since we did it. Slotted into a really nice group and felt pretty good throughout. Managed a very steady pace for them all.
Splits are 140, 149 (no idea what happened there!), 139, 139, 136, 138, 137, 142, 137, 141. Every second one was into the wind, so happy with them all.
With w/u and c/d 5 miles covered.0 -
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