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2013; Eat my dust Meno!
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tHE vAGGABOND wrote: »Im just glad this one cant be unfairly blamed on me
Haha!! Oh remember the good ole days when you showed up for running related outings...
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My Wednesday afternoon was spent in the dentist’s chair having root canal so no further physical exertions followed in the PM. I was only good enough for the cinema with extra scoops of Ben & Jerrys to drown my sorrows…
Thursday 17 January (5 miles recovery)
AM
20 mins Turbo – easy
10 mins Foam Rolling
10 mins Stretching
PM
An easy peasy squeezy lemon recovery run home from work. Christened my new runners (which are just my Kinvara 3s in totally funky limited edition colours…so hot!). Nothing to report apart from how easy this felt, despite it usually eing a tiresome and windy route. Feeling wonderful!!
5.2 @ 8:47
No ill effects from the fall apart from a few stinkers of bruises and a bit of tenderness around the edges.
Friday 18 January (Rest)
AM
Heard the weather banging the house down. Hit snooze. Digs took on immersion duty. Rolled over and slept for 30 minutes.
This was all despite my best strength circuit intentions. Oh well!
PM
I suspect it will be couch, tea and comfort food…
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Saturday 19 January (5k Time Trial w/ 2.5 mile w/u & w/d)
The plan was to hit up Malahide Parkrun for a 5k time trial to assess the resulting damage from the month OFF running and ON the booze.
Because the weather was being so unreliable, I left it until Saturday morning to decide whether to venture out or not. It would have been of no benefit to run a time trial on icy ground or in insane winds as it wouldn’t have been an accurate reflection of where I’m at. When I looked out the window and saw a surprisingly mild and calm morning, I quickly gathered myself and hit the road. As I got further from home and closer to DNS, the weather was getting progressively worse. The rain was pouring down, it was like night-time was rolling back around with the colour of the skies and the wind was picking up. In any event, I decided that a good hard 5k couldn’t do me any harm even if it wasn’t going to be the most worthwhile training assessment.
I arrived out and went for a 2.5 mile warm-up. I was running the course when I came across the “puddles” which had the paths closed. The organisers confirmed that the show would go on and that my shiny new runners were in for a baptism of fire! I did a couple of sets of strides and felt nicely warmed up before stripping off and heading for the start line.
There was no plan apart from an earlier discussion that an epic blow-up wouldn’t be the worst thing that could happen! I wasn’t to look at my watch, although I did wear it with just the time showing for the purposes of retrospective analysis! It was quite congested at the start and I found it difficult to get by a few people. I took off when I could and was breathing pretty heavily (for me – I’m normally quite controlled!) fairly early in. There was one little whippet ahead of me who was running her 115th different Parkrun (!) and she was in awesome shape. I knew I wouldn’t be any match for her and after about 500m she was gone. I knew I was second lady and I just wanted to push as much as possible. It was difficult enough to do that though with no real marker to pace off. There were a couple of blokes around and there was a definite battle between about 4 of us through the race not to let another away. My shoelaces opened after about a kilometre and I wasn’t sure what to do. I knew it’d cost me a lot of time over that distance to stop to tie them especially with my cold wet hands. Because they were new shoes, they were quite stiff so I decided to keep going unless/until I felt them loosening up too much to run safely. As it turned out, they held it together quite well.
The main highlight of the day was the lakes through which we had to run. As I rounded the corner, there was one guy trying to side step but I didn’t have the energy or concentration for that so it was straight through every drop of water that was in my path from then on. It definitely hindered my performance but it was never going to be a PB so I was just happy with the hard run! Because my breathing was quite heavy, I feel like I wussed out of pushing harder for fear that I’d get a stich and lose any pace I had built up – in hindsight, I think I should have just tempted the stitch and see what happened. As I said, an epic blow-up wouldn’t have been the worst. Anyway I didn’t, I was running hard for sure but I definitely should have pushed harder at certain points. I crossed the line in 20 minutes flat with the Garmin showing 5.00K @ 4:00m/m. The results have me at 20:03 and first lady – I’m not going to write a strongly worded letter about either! Though I will denounce my first place because that’s the right thing to do eh…?!
I finished up with a 2.5 mile warm down with HelenAnne and it was lovely to have a new victim to bore the ears off! I was happy enough with the time and race all things considered so a major dissection at this juncture isn’t necessary!
8 miles total for the day rounded off with a bag of M&S chocolate chip cookies on the couch, a delicious dinner and far too many beers, vino tintos and vodkas…Ugh. A particularly late night but a lot of fun had by all I think!
2.5 @ 8.55
5k @ 4.00
2.5 @ 8:37
Sunday 20 January (5 miles recovery)
A very unenthusiastic 5 miler to pick up the car which had been abandoned in favour of not drinking and driving. Although my head wasn’t bothered with this, the legs felt surprisingly good. So thankfully it was as effortless as it was unenthusiastic!
5 @ 8:45
Round up for the week – 42.4 miles total – almost back in the game 0 -
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Boston – T minus 12 weeks
I started off the week with a bit of a sore back which I think is a result of a couple of things including my recent encounters with the ground, slouching over the desk in work, strutting around in ridiuclous heels on Saturday night etc etc. I’m also not loving the running in the dark and cold weather this week. I feel really tense with all the remo pedestrian and motor traffic at rush hour and with the bandy paths in this city. None of those factors are productively assisting my plight for an awesome week’s training as my back was getting progressively worse! Raheny was off the cards after the December injury; it went back on at the weekend with the successful-ish return; and it’s in jeopardy again now.
Monday 21 January (8 miles easy)
AM
Snooze
PM
Ran home from work. Although the legs felt ok the back was achy – though it eased off as I warmed up. And for the reasons outlined above, I found this mentally tiresome.
8 @ 8:12
Tuesday 22 January (5/6 miles recovery)
AM
3 X strength circuit – didn’t feel anything in the back but won’t be doing this again until it’s 100%
20 minutes of foam rolling and stretching
PM
Very similar to Monday’s run! Meh! Back was pretty tender for the evening
5.45 @ 8:51
Wednesday 23 January (14/15 miles LSR)
AM
The plan was to do this before work. I was doubtful going to bed as to how this plan would work out. I kept chopping and changing my mind between (1) being sensible and (2) just getting it done. In the end, the former won out. When the alarm went off, a very quick assessment confirmed that it wouldn’t be a good idea to run 15 miles with the back feeling the way it was. So I snoozed for an hour and went with a 6 mile recovery instead. It took a few minutes to warm up and the stiffness to ease. It eased but it didn’t go away. As it turned out the paths were quite slippy so regardless of my physical and mental health, I suspect it would have been a disastrous attempt at a valuable LSR. I was also very aware that it was Wednesday and I did NOT want to have an RV with the footpath to report on here!
6 @ 8:51
If I feel good tomorrow, I’ll do the LSR after work and think about Raheny thereafter. If I don’t, the LSR will have to be run on Saturday. If the latter occurs, I think I’ll run Raheny as my 5 mile recovery on Sunday. I might as well get my money’s worth and the change of scenery will be nice! I have a goal time in mind and if I don’t feel sufficiently recovered from this latest pain to give it a good bash, then I won’t risk it and will find an alternative race in a couple of weeks!0 -
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She probably pushed her into that puddle..... oh no, that would be RQ's scene!
Great running there O, I'm eye rolling when I see you might do Raheny as a 'recovery' run. :rolleyes::)
It'll be recovery pace though don't worry! Might pace a friend to sub 43... I know I won't hit my target (and what i'm capable of) this weekend and LSR is more important if I'm well enough to run. No silly carry-on on this log - i just want the boogie bag (as Spanish Stew would say!!) 0 -
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tHE vAGGABOND wrote: »Maybe my text was harsher than I had intended, but you get the pointJaysus, that was harsh! :eek:
No it wasn’t… Joe got it and we’re all square now I was simply pointing out in no uncertain terms that I’m not going to do anything stupid. I put my long run back to Thursday when I didn’t feel good enough to do it on Wednesday. When Thursday rolled around I knew a couple of rest days were in order and I made the decision to take yesterday and today off. I got onto the doc re anti-inflammatories to help the recovery without becoming a junkie. I feel a heap better now and if I had manflu I’d probably be stupid enough to manrun today. But I’m not. I’m hoping for another big improvement today/tonight and I know that once the spasm passes, it’ll be gone. It’s not like a recurring injury that eases off and gets sore once you run again. I would definitely be hoping for mileage over the weekend and I was merely saying that if I was running 5 recovery miles on Sunday, I might as well do the Raheny route @ 8:45 pace or something, for a change of scenery seeing as I’ve entered it. But that’s only if I’m 100%. My eyes are firmly on the Boston prize! (Not the podium obviously, just the finish line!)
Friday 25 January (Rest)
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No it wasn’t… Joe got it and we’re all square now I was simply pointing out in no uncertain terms that I’m not going to do anything stupid. I put my long run back to Thursday when I didn’t feel good enough to do it on Wednesday. When Thursday rolled around I knew a couple of rest days were in order and I made the decision to take yesterday and today off. I got onto the doc re anti-inflammatories to help the recovery without becoming a junkie. I feel a heap better now and if I had manflu I’d probably be stupid enough to manrun today. But I’m not. I’m hoping for another big improvement today/tonight and I know that once the spasm passes, it’ll be gone. It’s not like a recurring injury that eases off and gets sore once you run again. I would definitely be hoping for mileage over the weekend and I was merely saying that if I was running 5 recovery miles on Sunday, I might as well do the Raheny route @ 8:45 pace or something, for a change of scenery seeing as I’ve entered it. But that’s only if I’m 100%. My eyes are firmly on the Boston prize! (Not the podium obviously, just the finish line!)
Friday 25 January (Rest)
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I was talking about Joe's post! :pac::P0 -
No it wasn’t… Joe got it and we’re all square now I was simply pointing out in no uncertain terms that I’m not going to do anything stupid. I put my long run back to Thursday when I didn’t feel good enough to do it on Wednesday. When Thursday rolled around I knew a couple of rest days were in order and I made the decision to take yesterday and today off. I got onto the doc re anti-inflammatories to help the recovery without becoming a junkie. I feel a heap better now and if I had manflu I’d probably be stupid enough to manrun today. But I’m not. I’m hoping for another big improvement today/tonight and I know that once the spasm passes, it’ll be gone. It’s not like a recurring injury that eases off and gets sore once you run again. I would definitely be hoping for mileage over the weekend and I was merely saying that if I was running 5 recovery miles on Sunday, I might as well do the Raheny route @ 8:45 pace or something, for a change of scenery seeing as I’ve entered it. But that’s only if I’m 100%. My eyes are firmly on the Boston prize! (Not the podium obviously, just the finish line!)
Friday 25 January (Rest)
Rest
That post is like on big massive dig at digdig :pac:0 -
I was talking about Joe's post! :pac::P
Well then you should have quoted Joe's post...:pRacoonQueen wrote: »That post is like on big massive dig at digdig :pac::D 0 -
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Boston: T minus 11 weeks!
Monday 28 January (6-8 miles steady – preferably sub 8m/m pace)
AM
15 mins Turbo – easy warm up
10 mins Foam Rolling
10 mins Stretching
PM
I took it upon myself to pay little heed to Coach’s instructions last night. My legs were a wee bit tired. The weather was unbelievable. The wind was just cruel. My route was uphill. I had planned that Tuesday’s run would be an early pre-work jaunt which would mean less than 12 hours to recover between each run. I knew from looking out the windows (and listening to them rattle) during the day that sub 8 minute/mile pace was not going to be goer so I had well decided to give even the thoughts of a ‘steady run’ a miss. In the end, I bypassed the ‘easy run’ and swung a left towards the ‘recovery run’. I was pretty much running into a wall of wind the entire time, apart from a few gusts which nearly had me head over feet in a bush! Not one of my finest moments when I really needed to spit and the wind sorted me out for not being a lady by making sure I ended up with gob all over my face. Ugh. From about miles 3-6, my tum was in a jock and then I just needed to get home as a matter of extreme urgency. I just didn’t have the heart to add in the extra bit to bring it up to 8. A positively soul destroying and abusive run!!
7.15 @ 8:38
Tuesday January (MLR - 10 miles easy)
AM
What. A. Rotter. That’s pretty much it… A 10 miles round-the-houses run to work. Legs felt a little bit dead and I couldn’t get them moving. Early morning excuse has to apply here on top of everything. Despite it looking pretty calm out the window, I was running into a wall of wind the whole way. AGAIN. I think I’ve peeved off the missus of one of the weather Gods! I took in a few hills at the beginning around Marlay, Ballinteer, Dundrum and got to 5 miles at a sucky 8:26 pace. At that point I gave myself a bit of a kick up the rear, engaged a little PMA and knee lift and decided to get my head in the game for the latter half. It was easy enough to do that at that point because it was where I hit a nice drop before the flatlands of the city centre. Unfortunately however, I got an awful stitch when I picked up the pace on the downhill. I know exactly what it was – dehydration. It happens me every so often and gives me a good root to remember / try to drink more water. By the time I hit 9 miles, every single muscle in my stomach felt like it was going to explode. I tried a heap of different ways of breathing, holding my core, moving my arms but the damage was done. The last mile was just survival. But I got there. Character building to say the least. Have been drinking water and green tea all day!!
10.15 @ 8:11 (5@ 8:26 & 5@ 7:55)
At least it means I have a good break for recovery before LSR on Thursday.0
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