Mr Slow: The Return

Aimman

Mr Slow wrote: »

You've exposed your soft underbelly, we're all onto you now!

Care to elaborate on that one Mr. Slow? :eek:

Mr Slow

Aimman wrote: »

Care to elaborate on that one Mr. Slow? :eek:

Check out her recent posts, much more caring and sharing! Point is, she can't ever go back to her former incarnation!

Aimman

Mr Slow wrote: »

Check out her recent posts, much more caring and sharing! Point is, she can't ever go back to her former incarnation!

Thank God for that. I thought she'd had a wardrobe malfunction during a training session :pac:

rainbow kirby

RacoonQueen wrote: »

If you were a horse, we'd shoot you. :pac:

Can I do the shooting? :pac:

(Might be better at that than I seem to be at running at the moment...)

Mr Slow

rainbow kirby wrote: »

Can I do the shooting? :pac:

(Might be better at that than I seem to be at running at the moment...)

Nice when your former mentor pops in to kick you when you're down!!! :mad:

rainbow kirby

Mr Slow wrote: »

Nice when your former mentor pops in to kick you when you're down!!! :mad:

Was nice when my former mentee popped into my log to do the same thing last week. :pac:

RacoonQueen

Aimman wrote: »

Care to elaborate on that one Mr. Slow? :eek:

I think he's calling me fat again :pac:

Mr Slow

rainbow kirby wrote: »

Was nice when my former mentee popped into my log to do the same thing last week. :pac:

I only questioned the gender of your bicycle!!!:pac: Xena the big hairy, knuckle draggin, sweaty dude bike!:P

RacoonQueen wrote: »

I think he's calling me fat again :pac:

Paranoid much? :P

Mr Slow

Better day today, this was by no means an easy run but I pushed the pace a few times just to see how the legs felt and they weren't happy.

I'll take it very easy for the rest of the week and just do what I can on Saturday.

6.2 miles in 48:03 average pace 7:45.

RayCun

:rolleyes:

What was the purpose of this run? Recovery?

menoscemo

RayCun wrote: »

:rolleyes:

What was the purpose of this run? Recovery?

I had to bite my tongue when I saw it

pistol_75

menoscemo wrote: »

RayCun wrote: »

:rolleyes:

What was the purpose of this run? Recovery?

I had to bite my tongue when I saw it

Will we be hearing about sore legs tomorrow lads?

Mr Slow

RayCun wrote: »

:rolleyes:

What was the purpose of this run? Recovery?

I needed a good run, running is 90% mental for me - now I know I can hold 7:30's and that gives me confidence, if I hadn't done this run I wouldn't have known where I am for the race.

RayCun

Mr Slow wrote: »

I pushed the pace a few times just to see how the legs felt and they weren't happy.

Your legs aren't happy because every time they start to recover from a hard run, you go out and do another hard run, 'just to see how they are'.:p

Mr Slow

RayCun wrote: »

Your legs aren't happy because every time they start to recover from a hard run, you go out and do another hard run, 'just to see how they are'.:p

Hard is relative, I've been running slow for 10 days. Saturday will tell.

Mr Slow

4 mile recovery run with 400m @ 7 min miles (just to see;))

Feeling a bit better about life, tomorrow's race will have me back on track or set me back, either way I'll know where I stand.

claralara

Best of luck in the morning if we don't RV beforehand!

average_runner

Best of luck tomorrow.

outforarun

Good luck tomorrow. Looking forward to your report.

RacoonQueen

I would just like to point out that I believed in you. :pac:

Mr Slow

RacoonQueen wrote: »

I would just like to point out that I believed in you. :pac:

You're the wind beneath my wings

Race report to follow....

Mr Slow

I parked about 1.5 miles from the Start, giving myself and a mate a nice little warm up, I'd have liked to put in a few strides but with the amount of people around it wasn't going to happen. Met Racoon and a few of the boardsies 15 mins before the race and after a quick chat made my way to the start.

I jumped in about 3/400 people behind the 1:30 pacers hoping they'd cut a path through the crowds for me. I wasn't feeling it at all, I didn't feel like the legs could go 2 miles @ 7 min pace never mind 13.1 but the race started and I was going for it. I passed Raycun a few hundred metres in and wondered would he scrap his plan in order to get vengeance for Dunshaughlin? The first mile marker matched the Garmin as did the first 4 and the time was just under 7:10 so I had a bit of work to do but knowing the course so well, knew there were fast downhills ahead and I was going to use them, I kept even effort and watched the pace fall naturally which gained me a few seconds, I was amused on both occasions after going through the water station before mile 3 to see a sign facing the wrong way advising that the water station was 100m ahead.:) Things were feeling comfortable through the s bends and down Military hill where I dropped my hat:mad:, no going back now I thought.

Up the hill at Wellington without a problem and onto Chesterfield where the wheels felt like they were starting to come off, I could see the 1:30 balloons ahead and was fantasizing about a miraculous burst of strength at the end to cross the line with them:rolleyes:. Pace dropped to 7:20 and my heart sank when I realised we had to go all the way up around the roundabout, I put my head down and just watched the road ducking in behind guys half my height trying to avoid the slightest breath of wind. Around the roundabout and up by the zoo I was recovering ground but couldn't get the pace down to 7 flat so I just dug in, unable to calculate I just told myself there's be a new 10 mile pb at least and the downhills wouldn't be far after that. I hid from the wind behind a dude with a woman's bum (couldn't help noticing as I was crouching:o), through 10 miles in 1:11 odd shaving 3 mins off of Mallow and onto the downhills where I felt like I was dying, my legs muscles were empty and it felt like my groin was driving them, I managed to average a flat 7 for miles 11 and 12, I wanted to cry on Acres hill and as I recovered heading towards the 13 mile marker Chinguetti gave a shout followed by Racoon, I tried to push ahead knowing Brian's greedy little hands were seconds away from my hard earned €10, alas I was fcuked and shuffled across the line in 1:33:36 (chip time)

I feel I could run faster, but yesterday I ran as fast as I could and I'm thrilled to shave 16 secs shy of 20 minutes off of my pb from last year.

I dropped into Ryan's much later and had a good laugh with the lads with Meno providing the entertainment. Recovery run later and then back into serious training for DCM.

RayCun

Mr Slow wrote: »

Things were feeling comfortable through the s bends and down Military hill where I dropped my hat

That's why I didn't see you on Chesterfield - I was looking for the hat

Mr Slow

RayCun wrote: »

That's why I didn't see you on Chesterfield - I was looking for the hat

It always goes into the back of the belt, I have it down to a fine art, problem is - it was a new belt.

Were you going to mount a challenge?

RayCun

Mr Slow wrote: »

It always goes into the back of the belt, I have it down to a fine art, problem is - it was a new belt.

Were you going to mount a challenge?

No, I was running my own race :cool::pac:

Mr Slow

RayCun wrote: »

No, I was running my own race

Jees Ray it was just a question.:(

RayCun

fixed :pac:

RacoonQueen

Ray was just trying to beat my time. Bet he didn't run 20 miles the day after his half marathon though. :pac:

RayCun

RacoonQueen wrote: »

Ray was just trying to beat my time. Bet he didn't run 20 miles the day after his half marathon though. :pac:

You know, I was coming back home from my 4 mile run this morning, thinking "what kind of a lunatic would stay out for 16 more??" :pac:

RacoonQueen

RayCun wrote: »

You know, I was coming back home from my 4 mile run this morning, thinking "what kind of a lunatic would stay out for 16 more??" :pac:

That's what the cool people get to do when they don't 'race' :cool: