The Rocky Road to Dublin

jcsmum

Best of luck on Sunday!

Nules10

Enjoy the race sunday P

chinguetti

Good luck on Sunday, just enjoy it and run as fast as the horses going up the Curragh:D

Mr Slow

Good luck Mister

sunflowerRo

Hey P,
I'm only doing the 10K tmrw. Are you doing the half? How are you fixed?

pistol_75

sunflowerRo wrote: »

Hey P,
I'm only doing the 10K tmrw. Are you doing the half? How are you fixed?

Good luck Ro. Yes I'm doing the half. Looking forward to it but not prepared at all.

menoscemo

Will I be seeing you with our group tomorrow?

pistol_75

menoscemo wrote: »

Will I be seeing you with our group tomorrow?

I'm sure you'll see me at some stage alright ;-)

pistol_75

1:48:41 today. Faded a bit last 3 or 4 miles but enjoyed it all the same

sunflowerRo

pistol_75 wrote: »

1:48:41 today. Faded a bit last 3 or 4 miles but enjoyed it all the same

Well done P. Is that a PB? Conditions wernt ideal today and that's a great result.

pistol_75

sunflowerRo wrote: »

pistol_75 wrote: »

1:48:41 today. Faded a bit last 3 or 4 miles but enjoyed it all the same

Well done P. Is that a PB? Conditions wernt ideal today and that's a great result.

Did 1:42:25 in race series but wasn't a goal race and 3rd in 3 weeks so happy enough.

10k course seemed a bit rough?

sunflowerRo

God that's great if it's third race in as many weeks. Your legs are crying for a break I'd say.
10km wasn't great for me. I hadn't any juice to fight the wind and mentally surrendered.

jcsmum

pistol_75 wrote: »

1:48:41 today. Faded a bit last 3 or 4 miles but enjoyed it all the same

Well done! The wind was shocking in the phoenix park this morning and we had some shelter.

pistol_75

Kildare 1/2 Marathon

13.1 miles in 1:48:41

Avg Pace 8:18
Avg HR 146

Went into this race with no plan really. Decided to line up with the 1:45 pacers and take it from there. First couple of miles were dodgy with lots of crowding and on quite a tight gravel path and then across part of the curragh. We then turned straight into the wind towards the Curragh camp where it was really exposed. Felt fine here and knew the major hill of the race was coming up so took it handy up this with the intention of picking up the pace on the downhill which I did.

Pacers were a bit ahead of me at this stage but as the next few miles ticked off they seemed to be the same distance up or maybe gradually increasing. Got a bit of a second wind around the 6 or 7 mile mark I think it was that lasted for a couple of miles but could feel I was slowing down coming through Kildare town.

Mile 10 was 8:46 and I was slowly running out of steam. Kept an eye on the average pace for the next couple of miles and was surprised it did not seem to be dropping. When I got to the 12 mile marker I was waiting for a beep and then I noticed my watch had stopped after 10 miles. :eek:

All I could do was laugh as I knew there was no way I was maintaining the same pace. Finished in just under 1:49 by clock time. Can't complain really as was third race in 3 weeks and the endurance is not there at the moment.

Month|Miles
January|142.97
February|106.12
March|44.40
April|84.88
May|45.05
Total|423.42

pistol_75

Monday

4.42 miles

Avg Pace 10:00
Avg HR 134

Nice recovery run with a couple of laps around Gormanston College. Legs felt fine after the race yesterday and had to fight to run it as a proper recovery run.

Month|Miles
January|142.97
February|106.12
March|44.40
April|84.88
May|49.47
Total|427.84

pistol_75

Tuesday

1.94 miles @ 9:10 pace warm up



3:19 Hr 142
3:27 Hr 149
3:25 Hr 148
3:28 Hr 149
3:28 Hr 149
3:23 Hr 150

1.86 miles @ 9:36 pace warm down

8.1 miles total

Club session last night and 6x800m was the order of the day. Wasn't so sure the legs would like it after Sunday but gave it a go anyway and enjoyed it in the end. Legs didn't give out too much either. As usual the first one was a bit quick but was happy to have something in the tank to do the last one a bit quicker.

Month|Miles
January|142.97
February|106.12
March|44.40
April|84.88
May|57.57
Total|435.94

pistol_75

Thursday

6 mile club run

Garmin died shortly before I left so just ran with the group.

Month|Miles
January|142.97
February|106.12
March|44.40
April|84.88
May|63.57
Total|441.94

Younganne

Sorry the race didn't go to plan on Sunday but as you said 3 races in 3 weeks thats a lot of going. Still a great time for the conditions on the day!!

pistol_75

Tuesday

4x1K @ 5K pace w/2 min rest

Just updating from last week. Short warm up & stretching followed by the above

4:13 HR 149
4:20 HR 148
4:27 HR 150
4:47 HR 148

First one was too quick and last one involved going over on my ankle into a pothole and a stop for a few seconds to see if it was ok. Just ambled home after that. 6.02 miles total for the night.

Rest of the weeks free time was taken up with golf and preperation for a competition.

Looking forward to getting back out this evening.

Month|Miles
January|142.97
February|106.12
March|44.40
April|84.88
May|69.59
Total|447.96

pistol_75

Monday

6.92 @ 8:38 pace. Avg HR 143.

Ran the couple of miles or so to Gormanston college where a couple of the club were doing an easy run. Joined them for a couple of loops and headed home. Lovely evening.

Tuesday

5 @ 9:46 pace. Avg HR 140.

Someone decided they wanted to get up at 5:30 this morning so headed out early to get todays run in as I can't this evening. Lovely morning for it but I don't think the body knew what was going on.

Month|Miles
January|142.97
February|106.12
March|44.40
April|84.88
May|81.51
Total|459.88

jcsmum

Welcome to my club...very exclusive. Mornings are good.

pistol_75

jcsmum wrote: »

Welcome to my club...very exclusive. Mornings are good.

Don't know about that. Was thinking on the way round how the hell does K run at that pace every morning

pistol_75

Wednesday

5.33 @ 8:39 pace. Avg HR 138.

Nice evening for a run. Spotted there was an aquathon going on on the beach so stopped for a few minutes to watch them come out of the water. Legs felt a bit tired and didn't really want to know regardless of the pace I ran.

Month|Miles
January|142.97
February|106.12
March|44.40
April|84.88
May|86.84
Total|465.21

pistol_75

Friday

4.02 @ 9:28 pace. Avg HR 132.

Nothing much to report. Struggling to get any sort of mileage in at the minute. Club session tonight.

Month|Miles
January|142.97
February|106.12
March|44.40
April|84.88
May|86.84
June|4.02
Total|469.23

pistol_75

Tuesday

1.94 @ 8:45 pace HR 134

.51 @ 6:30 pace HR 146
.51 @ 6:36 pace HR 155
.25 @ 6:53 pace HR 149
.25 @ 6:26 pace HR 149
.25 @ 6:23 pace HR 146
.12 @ 5:19 pace HR 126
.12 @ 5:41 pace HR 146
.13 @ 5:39 pace HR 146

.56 @ 10:28 pace HR 127

5.85 miles total.

Numbers a bit thin on the ground last night for intervals at the club. Mixed it up a nit with some shorter stuff for a change. Enjoyable but hard without having someone to pace off.


Month|Miles
January|142.97
February|106.12
March|44.40
April|84.88
May|86.84
June|9.87
Total|475.07

pistol_75

Wednesday

5.02 @ 8:40 pace HR 139

Nice run around the block. Felt fairly comfortable for most of it.

Month|Miles
January|142.97
February|106.12
March|44.40
April|84.88
May|86.84
June|14.89
Total|480.09

pistol_75

Friday

6.03 @ 8:06 pace HR 143

6 miles with middle 4 miles as tempo yesterday. Made difficult on mile 1 & 4 as mostly into a strong wind. Splits were:

8:16 HR 147
7:38 HR 147
7:30 HR 148
7:27 HR 152

Wife away for the night so hoping to get long run in tomorrow before the match if she is back in time. Hen as well next weekend.

It's a women's world ;-)

Month|Miles
January|142.97
February|106.12
March|44.40
April|84.88
May|86.84
June|20.92
Total|486.12

Mr Slow

Are you having a crack at Dunshaughlin?

pistol_75

Mr Slow wrote: »

Are you having a crack at Dunshaughlin?

Can you enter on the night do you know?

Mr Slow

pistol_75 wrote: »

Can you enter on the night do you know?

You could last year, they had a table set up for those who had booked online, best to give them a shout though, just in case.