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not sure where you're finding the time to be on the internet these days speedy:pac: I don't know how you're managing that level of mileage... what are you eating
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I've actually been using it while I run LB
It has got that bad just yet thankfully, as to what am I eating - EVERYTHING
Banana's galore, carry around my trail mix with lots of nuts, raisins & seeds in it.0 -
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Thursday
22mls easy at about 8.30 pace.
Felt ok.
Friday
Easy day, 8.25mls & the gym.
Felt pretty good.
Saturday
Hadn't made up my mind whether to do my 22mls today (2 runs) and 32mls tomorrow, or vice versa.
Decided on the 22mls, so did 13.5mls at 10.30am.
Felt pk physically, although I was running significantly slower than earlier this week, over 9min/mls at times. I think the constant week in/week out of high mileage is beginning to get to me. Still though, I couldhave kept going, but the mind was all over the shop.
Was going to do 8.5mls later in the evening, but went to the pub instead for some seafood chowder and a couple of pints of Guinness
Sunday
Didn't bother setting the alarm, still wasn't too sure if I was going to do the 32mls, take the day off or something in between.
Ended up doing 14.25mls at about 8:36 pace. Again I felt fine physically, but I think I am just a bit burnt out with prep for the 1000mls.
Was going to go out later for a few more, but f**k it.
Week Distance = 94.25mls0 -
Monday
After not getting in the high mileage I wanted over the weekend, I did 12.5mls today. Felt a lot better then I did the past few days, and ended up averaging acomfortable 8:18/ml.
Tuesday
22mls easy. Did the first 2mls by myself in 8:55 & 8:11, surprised that I felt so good. Did the next 6mls with the my group,and then headed off by myself for the rest.
Averaged 8:32 for the lot, still fresh at the end and would have done another 4mls if I didn't have a meeting to rush too.
Wednesday
Woke up with a bit of a head cold. Headed out early anyway, it was dry & sunny for a change, a bit chilly though. First few miles were 8:30'ish, but I ended up doing the last few about 8:10, averaged 8:24 for the lot.
Thursday
Cold was worse so only got out the once. Did 6.5mls at 8.30am, was going to do another 8.25mls in the evening but didn't want to risk anything.
Friday
Cold gone, 6.5mls at 8.30am at 8:22 pace.
Didn't feel like going out for the evening run but forced myself to do 8.25mls. Forgot to have lunch again so ended up scoffing down a baquet 20mins before my run. Remarkably I felt ok.
Saturday
Had to drive the wife to the bus station in the middle of the night, so had a bit of a lie in (or is it lay in). Did 8mls at 8:18/ml pace at about 11am in torential downpours, felt surprisingly good.
Did another 14mls at 3pm in 8:16/ml, at least the rain had stopped.
Sunday
Planned to do 32mls. Had all my pasta last night. On kid duty since the wife is away, so got to bed later than hoped, which meant I didn't get up 'til 8am, and out running a little after 10am. Had my porridge with sunflower, pumpkin, chia & linseeds, and wheatgerm & raisens as well, and 2 slices of toast, a banana & coffee :rolleyes:
Was staying close to home so that I could pop in and check on the kids, so I was doing 8 laps of a 4ml loop by the house.
Reading up some more on this ultra stuff last night, and I figured that I am still going way too fast.Over the course of the 31 days, I couldn't expect to keep up that pace. After my recent long runs, I am fairly shattered, and the last few miles end up been a stuggle.
So decided to go off really easy today. First 3mls were 9:25, 9:18 & 9:04.
After that they were about 8:50-55, the fastest been 8:42. I slowed to 9+ again for a few mls around the 20ml mark, but then the next few were back in the 8:50 range.
Was feeling pretty good physically, the hard part was keeping the head on straight.
On the 6th lap I came round a corner and what was ahead of me in the middle of the road but a damn fox hunt :eek:
I thought about doing a U turn but ploughed on through since the horses were still in the fields. I could hear the hounds baying though and have seeing them galloping by the house on occasion, so when I came round again by the house and heard them, I thought it best not to chance it.
A bit pissed off that I didn't get the 32mls done as I was feeling good.
This is by far the best I have felt after a long run so hopefully I have stumbled onto something. Normally I am shuffling around like an oul fella, but I feel like I can go out and run again now.
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Mon 24th
8mls easy at 8:38 pace
Tues 25th
Ran 6mls with my OTRA group first, nice run out Salthill.
Did the same loop plus a little bit more then by myself.
Felt good.
Distance = 12.75mls
Wed 26th
14.75mls at 9.30am. Felt ok, only going at 8:48 pace but wasn't concerned.
Was going to head out again later but ran out of time.
Thur 27th
10mls @8:35 pace.
Fri 28th
Just 8mls easy with a big weekend in mind.
Slowed to average 9:15 pace :eek:, still, I was just running at what I felt was easy without pushing it at all.
Sat 29th
20mls relatively easy.
Did the first 6-7mls by myself at about 8:40-45 pace.
Then I met a mate from the club and the next 13mls were averaging about 7:55. Felt fine though.
When I checked my garmin for this, it makes some interesting reading.
I had left it outside the house before my run on Monday and the damn dog ran off with it! Thankfully the missus found it.
He somehow managed to turn it on and he showed some impressive mile times there; his first one was only 5:58 (must have been his warm up!), but the next 2:33, 2:43, 2:45, 3:31, 2:35, 2:52 & 2:40
Sun 30th
On the advice of my coach, I took the day off, it wasn't easy though:)
Week Distance = 73.6mls
Mon 31st
Made up for yesterday and did 32mls.
Didn't have the watch for the first 12mls, but after that the average was 9:02/ml. Slowed a bit on last 5mls, but still had some in reserve at the end.
Took a very quick dip in the lake afterwards as I could feel the legs were sore. At that stage it was almost dark so couldn't really see too well either so didn't want to get too adventerous.
MONTH DISTANCE = 455mls
YTD = 2,634.25mls
Tues 1st
Woke up with a bad head cold. Was going to go out and do 8mls but figured there was no point in risking anything.
Wed 2nd
At 12.30pm, I did 11mls with the dog, felt very good, relaxed. Averaged 8:34/ml
2hrs after I got back I headed out again and did another 6.5mls by myself at 8:44 pace.
Total Distance = 17.5mls0 -
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Well, 1 down, 30 to go.
We have a bit of a problem navigating ourselves out of Dublin, thanks to some signs turned the wrong way! I ended up running up what I think was the Dublin Mountains. Didn’t quiet make it to Kildare, got close to Naas, and once I had doen my 32.5mls, I jumped aboard the camper van.
Hit a rough patch around 22mls which lasted for a few miles. I got seperated from my support crew and I hadn’t eaten enough for breakfast, you would think I would know better at this stage! My hip left hip was sore, and my left leg buckled a couple of times (yikes!)
Met up with the crew again around 26.5mls and had a few jaffa cakes and a gel, and some more water. Actually felt better towards the end, but still glad it was done. There is a pool in the hotel so I will be taking a dip as soon as I have eaten.
Damn, I was just going to say that I wil upload my garmin stats but I just realised I forgot the cord. I should be able to get it in a day or two, I’ll see if I can do it from the history.0 -
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Left Naas this morning at 8.30am, decided to run around the town for a few miles to try and drum up some donations (unsuccessfully)
Had a good interview on local radio there though, they will also e a better morning have been picking that up in Carlow so hopefully we will have a better morning tomorrow.
Exausted now, and sore. Got a rub down between runs today which helped a lot. The main problem I had was weakness in my left leg, it buckeled under me a few times. Had some salmon for dinner a while ago, and will have a smoothie shortly, so hopefully that will help. I’ve been told though that I will get stronger as the days go on, fingers crossed. Too tired to write anymore at the moment, more tomorrow.
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Today went ok, best so far I have to say. Ran 8mls in the morning and then 24.5mls in the afternoon. Had another rub down in between runs, have to say he did a great job. My left hamstring had been noticably sore while running but it is a lot better. Also my leg didn’t buckle under me today. A lot of the difficulty is of course keeping focused on the job at hand, not worrying about the next day and the amount of days that I have left. I try to break the run down into stages, do my morning run of 12mls or so, and then get stuck into the afternoon section. Its funny what will keep you going, I was running a 3-4ml loop today and there was a pile of dog sh*t that I noticed so for some reason I focused on that to keep going! I think I’m too soon into this to be losing my marlbes ?
We stayed in Carlow all day today, managed to get a few donations. We’re in Arklow now, going to go for a very brief dip in the Irish Sea in the morning to help the legs. Someone mentioned that there is a coast road so fingers crossed I’ll at least have a scenic run tomorrow.
Did an interview with KCLR today, and another one too, we will try to get all these loaded onto our site as soon as we can.
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Although today was the best day so far, I am weary of becoming complacent. We are getting into a routine now, and its important that everything gets ticked off every day. That means stretching, massage, recovery drinks, applying vaseline in sensitive areas (!), smoothies, making sure I eat enough and its the proper food, makiing sure I get enough sleep, keeping my phone & garmin charged, uploading pictures, getting the gear washed, etc.
Anyway, as they like to say in the footy, today was a tale of 2 halves. Had thought that I may run longer than usual in the morning as I finished yesterday relatively ok. I only managed to get about 6hrs sleep though so, even though I had my porridge and a fruit smoothie, I started to feel like I was running out of steam after only 4-5mls. I kept going for a couple more but then decided to pull the plug. Got back to the hotel, quick shower, then got 4 slices of brown toast, scrambled eggs & another bowel of porridge into me. Then I got in a 30-45min nap.
That seemed to do the trick because I felt a lot better when I got out again at noon. Legs started to get sore with a few mls to go, but I feel like they are getting stronger.
Tomorrow we will be in Kilkenny and we hope to get a good turnout at 5.30pm at the Watershed. The Mayor will be on hand to lend her support, so if your in the area, please stop by and say hello. We will of course have our crew out there with buckets and all donations will be most appreciated.
If there are any other runners in the area who want to join me earlier, I will be running around the town from about 2pm.
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Thursday
8.25mls easy, although it didn't feel easy.
Felt ok at the beginning but then I started to feel tired & weak, probably the worst I have felt since I started back.
Friday
With some of the lads from the club, we did a session at lunchtime.
3 x 3mins @ 10K off 60secs, 2.30 rec, 15mins at 10K + 15secs, 2.30 rec then another 3 x 3mins.
Pace for the 3mins reps was 6:15, 5:46, 5:42 - 5:43, 5:57 & 5:54. Had to struggle through the last 2 by myself, hence the drop off in pace, although the effort felt the same!
I started off the 15mins wayyyy to fast, prob close to the 3min pace
You know how they say you can ruin a race in the first few mins, well, here was the evidence I needed.
First mile of it was at 6:12, but went through the first 1/2ml in 2:58 (5:56 pace!).
Reduced to 6:19 for the 2nd mile and 6:34 for the last few mins.
Rebounded pretty well for the 2nd set of 3mins though.
Tough, hard session, need a few more of these.
Well behind where I thought I would be, well, more where I would like to be. Shouldn't really expect too much too soon after the 1000mls in December.0
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