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Argh, didn't get to run today though I so much wanted to. Instead, I ran rings around the kitchen preparing for friends arriving for dinner this evening.
My morning was based on the trail however. I spent a few hours hunkered down hammering u shaped nails into a new boardwalk in our woods. The nails are designed to give grip to otherwise slippy wood. Many thousands of nails hammered into wood will give repetitive strain. Boardwalk coming on great and it'll be fantastic when its finished.
Serious challenge this evening with runners coming to dinner. No distance and no climb to speak of. Luckily yours truly can read a recipe and translate it into something half tasty so the diners came away happy (at least they said so on front of me - whatever about the 'come dine with me scores' on the way home)
Looking forward to the away leg and to the run tomorrow morning when I can run off some of these calories.
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Slogger Jogger wrote: »
Serious challenge this evening with runners coming to dinner. No distance and no climb to speak of. Luckily yours truly can read a recipe and translate it into something half tasty so the diners came away happy (at least they said so on front of me - whatever about the 'come dine with me scores' on the way home)
Great evening. Your starter in particular was delicious, and a wonderful contrast of textures and flavours. I give the overall score of 9. It would have been a perfect 10 but you ran this morning, something I'm not capable of just yet:D0 -
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The first I heard of this race was when donothoponpop triumphed here last year. It was been a secret target of mine since then. I've been counting down the days to this day as my 2011 running has all led to this
Picked up dp early doors on way to Carnew in what was pretty good weather for December. It was fairly mild and the rain held off, thankfully. Running in a wet santa suit wouldn’t have been much fun
On registration we were given our santa suit outfits. A one-size fits all trousers, jacket, hat and beard combination. Trying to tie the 60 inch waist santa trousers around my 30 inch waist was interesting. A spare lace I had did the trick. With dp’s knowledge from last year we benefitted from some well appointed safety pins to tie down the otherwise flappy outfit. The shortest warm up run ever followed to the honking horns of Carnew traffic who must have gotten a laugh from the sight.
At the appointed time myself and dp took our place outside the pint depot (real name) pub in Carnew. No sign of anyone. 20 mins or so later the other entrants arrived out of the pub to form a start line of sorts.
On ‘go’ the young kids in the line up took off sprinting down the street. The first k or so is downhill before swinging up towards the main drag which makes up most of the race. I didn’t think I was fast in the 1st k, but I still managed to take the lead from the young children and the lead 'van' before the main climb. Way to go Mick. I didn’t know the route so I was hoping for some signs along the way to guide me. Paced myself reasonably well on the climb and picked it up whenever the gradient eased up. Hadn’t a clue where I was in the context of the race as I didn’t look behind me at all until the closing stages. At a main junction on the hill the van had just about over-taken me again and stopped to show me the way. The next junction there was no signs, but I guessed it must be downhill as we’d already ran more than 4k of the expected 5k (though dp had reckoned 7 would be nearer the distance by the time we finished). The downhill was pretty good. Straight downhill on a decent road with the town in view below. Happy enough with the downhill splits for a santa claus suit run, as its not exactly something you'd practice. The sting in the tail came at the end of the hill when a short steep hill before the main street beckoned.
Paced the last uphill okay and then onto the home straight on the main street to the pint depot. Crossed the finish line under the gallery of balloons, a happy santa.
Hung around in the pub afterwards with dp and his neighbour who had finished 3rd and 2nd respectively. The 2nd was 1st lady and is surely in contention for a Boards relay place as she seems quite the runner on the hills ;-)
Funds from the race today were shared between Console who are a local suicide prevention charity and carnew afc soccer club. For €15 we got a santa suit which will come in use over future xmas's with the kiddies. We got a medal crossing the line and I got the Carnew santa dash trophy. No-one can ever take that away from me! Okay, if they are bigger than me they might... A great value race and a good social vibe about it.
A slow time for a 7.2k run, but in my defense it was in a santa suit and it was kinda hilly. Training starts in 2012 for the title defence. Can we get more local boardsies out?
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/133961064
7.2k, 139m climb, 4:06 pace, santa suit0 -
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I wouldn't call them brick sessions yet - they are too short for that. I couldn't face more than 5k on the treadie again so I divided the time between it and the turbo (which is out in the garden shed, so thats a fairly remote experience) 0
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Sounds like a nice run on Saturday. If you head up nearby Mine Hill Road, you'll find it a lot less sloppy and it'll take you to the Smelting Tower too. There's a path up from the top of Quarry Road too (the hill on Quarry Road is fun!) but it too could be quite sloppy. Or just give me a shout, and I'll give you the grand tour. 0
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Slogger Jogger wrote: »the novelty of running with torchlight is wearing off. Need more light in the evenings.
Vary the route you run with a head lamp - whip out a map and find a track you have never run up (there is always at least one) and do it at night.
You might a) break your neck or b) find a new awesome route! 0 -
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Reckoned on a step back week of sorts after last week.
- Mon: Easy treadmill run, 8k 5 min/k pace
- Tue: Rest day to make & eat pancakes
- Wed: 9.8k torchlit road and trail run. 4:43 pace, 148m climb
- Thu: 10k torchlit road and trail run. 4:31 pace, 167m climb
- Fri: 45 minutes on the Turbo Trainer.
- Sat: 13.43 mainly on trail. Temp ish. 4:23 pace. 208m climb.
- Sun: c. 20k out and out hill run, inc. this Circuit of Glendalough recce. http://connect.garmin.com/activity/152749453 15.5k, 960m climb. 9min/k pace.
- 5 days running. 60.5k for the week. & 2 turbo training sessions and a few exercise sessions thrown in.
Circuit of Glendalough:
This race isn't until June but got a txt from Dermot to join him for a recce. Weather conditions looked dodge early on but it ended up being a perfect day for it.
A great run this. Very testing initial climb. Legs sore from yesterday so walked the steep initial climb. The track to the top was very sloppy but visibility was great. Pace was handy, chatting away with Dermot. Reached the top in 45 mins. Veered south. Very slippery and boggy underfoot and this took us down to the river crossing at about 60 mins in. Straight up the other side and met the trail to Lugduff to approach the cairn from the right direction without any back-tracking. Its nice when the visibility is good! Jogged the trail down to the Wicklow way and power-walked the other side to Mullacor. The run from there to Derrybawn was very boggy in places. Watch said 2:10 by the time we got to the end of Derrybawn which was at a very handy chatting pace.
Took the direct line off Derrybawn down towards the bridge at the top of the Polanass waterfall. Race finish will be there or thereabouts near the end of the waterfall trail. Jogged the trail back to the lower lake car park.
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