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digger2d2

Monday - 8 miles @ 7:56 - Grade 6/10

Man It's windy out there tonight!

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Tuesday - 10 miles at 8:23 - Grade 5/10

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Thursday - Recovery - 6 Miles @ 8.51 - Grade 4/10

Very easy run but legs still not right, they were the same this time last year so maybe my legs are affected by SADS

RunningKing

What's the scoring system Digger? How's it work

RacoonQueen

RunningKing wrote: »

What's the scoring system Digger? How's it work

Thats how he rates CL's housekeeping skills for that day.

digger2d2

Friday - 5.30 A.M. 17 Miles at 8:34 pace - Grade 5/10

Who in the name of God would regularly go running at 5.30 AM?? :eek: This is what I did this morning! Almost all of me recent runs have been solo efforts so it was nice to have the company of Clara ‘lympian for this. Out toward Dundrun Town Centre, Clonskeagh, Donnybrook and Eglington Terrace, the first 10 miles passed easily enough , apart from the tool in the car that stood on the horn near Leeson Street because he was a jealous fat a55 practically fused to his car seat. Anyway, that was nothing that a hand signal straight into his windscreen didn’t sort out!;)

Heading out of town along the Canal and back up toward Rathmines/Rathgar and we started to hit the headwind but it was no big deal. We parted ways at Bushy Park, 13 mile point as the ‘lympian headed back toward her office. About a minute later I passed raycun bouncing along at sub 30 min 5 mile pace, headphones on, volume too loud and clearly audible was “I am a strong independent woman” Last 4 miles were largely uneventful but could have been catastrophic if I didn’t get to the house and especially the toilet….

chinguetti

As always, thanks for sharing your adventures Digs!!

digger2d2

RunningKing wrote: »

What's the scoring system Digger? How's it work

It's based on a bunch of things such as how easy/difficult the run felt, If I could have run at that pace for another x amount of miles, If I feel after the run I could run again later in the day etc. etc.

digger2d2

chinguetti wrote: »

As always, thanks for sharing your adventures Digs!!

Warts and all Spagbol

RayCun

I was halfway through my empowerment mantra when I saw the coalminer in compression gear coming towards me. Had to start all over again :rolleyes:

TRR

You've gone up in my estimation (wouldn't be hard ) after that run. If you hit a bad patch in Boston think of this morning's run and heartbreak hill etc will feel like a piece of piss compared to a 5.30 am, 17 mile run in cold February.

digger2d2

RayCun wrote: »

I was halfway through my empowerment mantra when I saw the coalminer in compression gear coming towards me. Had to start all over again :rolleyes:

digger2d2

TRR wrote: »

You've gone up in my estimation (wouldn't be hard ) after that run..

I usually have more of an immediate impact on younger, more female types

TRR

digger2d2 wrote: »

I usually have more of an immediate impact on younger, more female types

Yes but I have an iq greater than 70 unlike your recent conquest

digger2d2

TRR wrote: »

wouldn't be hard

TRR wrote: »

Yes but I have an iq greater than 70 unlike your recent conquest

So, only one of your heads is bulbous!

digger2d2

Sunday - 3 cold fresh miles by the lake in Zell am See, Austria with The Foot for company

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Monday - 5 miles at 8:53 - We did this after a full day of skiing so the legs were a little tired. The run itself was interesting as there had been a lot of snow so it was quite doing an XC.

belcarra

digger2d2 wrote: »

Monday - 5 miles at 8:53 - We did this after a full day of skiing so the legs were a little tired. The run itself was interesting as there had been a lot of snow so it was quite doing an XC.

I managed 64km of running over 4 runs last week in Ischgl so that's your target for this week!
True about it being like cross-country running on the snow. Also, fairly sure the altitude was a factor too (Ischgl is at 1,400m) as the HR appeared to be approx 5-10bpm higher than normal.

Discovered yesterday evening that due to a fall the previous Monday I actually fractured my forearm but it's only a nick and I still have full functionability.
So, be careful out there kids!!:cool:

digger2d2

Tuesday - 4 miles at 8.28

Wednesday - 7 miles at 8.40 - There's a route around the lake with about 60% covered by a purpose made trail for runners/walkers/cyclists. One end of the lake resembles a nature reserve and it's absolutely beautiful with the snow and the backdrop of a frozen lake.

Skiing going well, lots of snow which makes things challenging come the PM. We took a day trip to the glacier at Kaprun yesterday and found ourselves skiing at close to 3,000 metres (note how bilingual I am with imperial/metric) No falls yet for either of us so Boston prep is currently running smoothly

digger2d2

Sunday - Long run - 17 miles at 8 min/mile

Legs were pretty tired after a week's skiing but I found myself agreeing to becoming "Gunsstew" and at 9 AM myself and "Footstew" headed out and met up with Mum, Dad, Meno and pauliec.

7 at 8.20, 7 at 7.40 (where we parted from the realstews & wannastews) and a did a final 3 at 8 min/mile.

Good to be in.a group run again

RunningKing

Was today More of a coddle than a Stew?

digger2d2

RunningKing wrote: »

Was today More of a coddle than a Stew?

Well, there were a few wet sausages floating around alright

PaulieC

digger2d2 wrote: »

Sunday - Long run - 17 miles at 8 min/mile

Legs were pretty tired after a week's skiing but I found myself agreeing to becoming "Gunsstew" and at 9 AM myself and "Footstew" headed out and met up with Mum, Dad, Meno and pauliec.

7 at 8.20, 7 at 7.40 (where we parted from the realstews & wannastews) and a did a final 3 at 8 min/mile.

Good to be in.a group run again

How were your last few miles ? Fair play for having the discipline to keep to the plan given 1) the weather b) a week skiing and iii) everyone else bailing at 14

digger2d2

PaulieC wrote: »

How were your last few miles ? Fair play for having the discipline to keep to the plan given 1) the weather b) a week skiing and iii) everyone else bailing at 14

Yeah, they were tough alright. For some reason we found ourselves running out to the end of Dunlaoghaire pier and back....As if we weren't wet enough already! Good character building run though.

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Monday - Recovery - 6 miles at 8:40 pace. Legs a little knackered from the 17 on Sunday but once they warmed up the run felt better than I thought it would be. Currently contemplating 5 miles easy or 5 miles tempo for today.....

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Tuesday - Tempo - 4 miles at 6:54 average followed by a 1.5 mile w/down at 8:05 pace. The tempo part felt tough, by mile 3 the legs were feeling dead.

pistol_75

digger2d2 wrote: »

Tuesday - Tempo - 4 miles at 6:54 average followed by a 1.5 mile w/down at 8:05 pace. The tempo part felt tough, by mile 3 the legs were feeling dead.

No time for a warm up or just don't bother with that sort of thing?

blockic

pistol_75 wrote: »

No time for a warm up or just don't bother with that sort of thing?

The guns are permanently warmed up!

RayCun

pistol_75 wrote: »

No time for a warm up or just don't bother with that sort of thing?

so many jokes :pac:

digger2d2

Wednesday - MLR - 10 miles at 7:54.

First 4 were a doddle, mile 5 took ages to click over. Next few were okay despite the weather getting worse. The last 1.5 were into the teeth of the wind and rain...