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They usually disappear into the abyss but I wanted to keep a few of them to put on little cards that I can look at when the going gets tough on the day.:o
February 23/24. Four weeks of training left :eek:
I am getting busier at work , which is great as I had been dreadfully quiet ,but finding it a bit of a struggle now to get out as much as I would like. Just need to suck it up for another couple of weeks and get on with it .... like the man says :P
Well done marthastew for lsr in that wind. My car was rocking something shocking today when parked in a sheltered spot. Was nearly blown off the path , so stuck to the treaddie until the Wild Wind in the Wesht abates a bit
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Wednesday 5 miles I think, If I dont log them I forget them almost immediately :-(
Anniversary this week. One year since I started running from scratch Was worse than beginning initially as at least I wasnt trying to recover from an injury then.
Thursday , 15 miles 2:25. avg 9:40mm0 -
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hot to trot wrote: »Wednesday 5 miles I think, If I dont log them I forget them almost immediately :-(
Anniversary this week. One year since I started running from scratch Was worse than beginning initially as at least I wasnt trying to recover from an injury then.
Thursday , 15 miles 2:25. avg 9:40mm
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Had an awful dream last night. Dreamt that I was about to start the 24 hour race and was told by the race official that the only rule was that we had to stay on our feet for 24 hours. It didn't matter where we did it but we couldn't sit or lie.
So I decided I had so much housework to do that I would do some of it at home and clock up some of my hours there. Conveniently my house was across the road from the arena. :rolleyes:
When I got tired and feet were sore I looked at my watch and saw that 10 hours had passed but - that I had only covered 2.8kms :eek: Panic struck when I realised that I was doing loads of time on my feet but that I wasn't clocking up any distance and the panic that I now only had 14 hours to do almost 100 miles. SO I chased back across the road to the arena where everyone was running around and tried to join in , running frantically trying to catch up . Then I hit the wall at 4 hours and couldn't run any more.
Maybe tapering is a bad idea. My mental state is obviously in crisis !
Haven't run since Sunday , so going out for a 6 mile run shortly when I get home from work. Am going to stick with 5- 6 mile runs from now til race day apart from the marathon on Saturday. Sn make a meaningful effort to do some stretching. I Hope this is the right thing to do
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Saturday 9th February.10 deg heavy drizzle and rain .
Connemara Marathon. 26.2 Miles 4:27.
Hadnt run a step all week and had massage yesterday. Legs like lead and struggled to get any kind of comfort with them. Feet tender towards end and dont know what has suddenly happened to toenails and toes? After months of painfree toes I have massive swelling on side of toe and about 4 nails are very bruised and sore.I guess its the new runners . Tempted to go back to worn runners and put soft insole in them ? Would rather put up with sore feet than have to keep stopping to stick needle under toenails.
Not going to do anymore until I can get feet healed and calf as good as I can manage. So will be quiet here for the next 2 weeks :eek:0 -
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Marthastew wrote: »Are you all set? Feet on the mend? When do you travel over?
You've got some fantastic training in your legs and you'll reap the rewards this weekend. Is there a website we can keep track of you on?
I came across this quote by Australian long distance runner Benita Johnson recently and I thought of you
"Across the board you can run up against 10 athletes where we're the same physically. They've done the same kind of training; they are in the same kind of shape. But the one that wins is the person who really believes they can win."
Very, very best of luck:D
(Dont know about being the same physically/ or in the same kind of shape and there wont be any win LOL ) But thats sweet. thank you Champ
I havent run a step in three weeks apart from Saturday week. Havent done anything at all , The heart rate hasnt been above 90 since then and I feel like I have lost a certain amount of fitness.= I feel like a slug
Foot still sore but I got some orthopaedic felt and am going to make a pad for it . I dont really mind the sore foot as they will get sore anyway so its just a matter of when :rolleyes:.
Its the calf that will determine whether I can continue or whether I will have to stop before target. IF I think that I am going to be out for 6 - 12 months again , I will stop . Not prepared to risk it . Have been putting ultrasound on it this week so fingers crossed it will behave. The fact that its a flat race will make a massive difference to it .
The world record holder ( who just beat Magnet last time ) and about 11 elites will be running so will be like a whole heap of fab boardsies spinning around me .I'm just going to stick with my own little humble plan and see how it goes.
Website is www.endurance.fi
I think on the day there is a live feed and updated results and message facilities but not sure if it is available before that.
All the same... its great having a country named after you
I hope you are recovering well and targeting the next race where you can come in number 1 again. What a fab race you had.Well done again .0 -
It all started at the club marathon in August when Ray o Connor asked would I be interested in joining him in Espoo in February for the indoor 24 hour event. I was too late for entry but was put on a waiting list. As a result I didn’t really get stuck into any kind of serious training until December when I was accepted and this was probably a good thing. I finished the Eddie Murphy double marathon in November in 9 comfortable hours so that gave me a bit of confidence until I took off my sock after it and saw a lot of bruising on my inner calf down to my ankle. It felt like I had torn scar tissue from my previous calf/Achilles insult as the tight feeling I always had was now somewhat reduced and was instead just replaced with pain and soreness. So, perhaps it was a good thing after all.
And so I started doing more runs /more long runs and back to back long runs with my weekend mileage usually being half the total weekly mileage. Every second week was usually less overall also. Initially I kept one tempo/interval session but gradually dropped that. Didn’t do any cross training as I just couldn’t fit any in. I also ran most but not all of my long stuff in run:walk pattern to build endurance on a leg that still didn’t really allow much continuous running. It meant that I was never sore or achey or stiff the next day and so mileage was purely dictated by time available. Unless you plan on running it all, it’s no harm to do some walking in training as you have to get your shins and feet used to it. All the long slow miles had a massively beneficial effect on the tendon which has reshaped and remodelled itself quite a lot. I just need to work hard on flexibility now .It also meant I had no injury worries.
The last 5 weeks pre race had my feet in a very sore place from not changing runners or work shoes when they should have been replaced. I had to wear MBT’s to take the pressure off the balls of my feet and long work days were a nightmare. I took the advice given and didn’t run a step for three weeks apart from one run. I’m sure the rest helped the legs although the feet were still under a lot of pressure and even waking at night I was still aware of them. The only other worry I had was the calf/Achilles. It is sore constantly but it doesn’t bother me much as I am used to it and while I knew that everything would hurt sooner or later and I would just have to suck it up and keep going, I was anxious that the calf would give out and I would be forced to stop or risk another year off. Given that I had only started back 13 months ago with walk 4 minutes: jog 30 seconds, I just couldn’t face going all the way back to that again.
When I met Ray and Ruthann in the airport, Ray was feeling and looking rough after being ill all week with flu. What bad luck after all the hard graft he had put in. I wasn’t trained as much but at least I wasn’t sick. On Saturday morning we had a good solid breakfast and made our way to the fabulous arena In Espoo. Ray was still well under the weather and probably shouldn’t have even considered standing on the start line. We walked around the 390m circuit and I was immediately stressed to see that a portion of the loop was a kind of balcony overlooking about 5 sports halls on the lower levels. It was totally secure with no vibration but although I am doing well getting over a phobia of bridges and things that have nothing under them, this was still outside my comfort zone and I felt sick to my stomach at the thought of having to go over it many times in the next 24 hours.
At noon, we started together at the back of the crowd of about 120 but within a short time were separated as I stuck to my plan of run 5: walk about 40 seconds. I felt totally nauseous going over this balcony section each time, having to divert into the middle lanes for the first few hours before gradually being able to stay on the inside lane. It was about 3.5 hours in before I stopped fretting and dreading it on each lap, and the middle of the night before I could look down into the halls below.
Ruthann Sheahan, had come to crew for us and had printouts to monitor pace, fluids and food intake etc. I had read during the previous week that you didn’t need to try to replace calories burned but to intake only enough to stop you crashing. Ruthann had worked out our recommended calorific intake and encouraged us to get it into us. This was a big struggle for me in the first 4/5 hours as I am not used to eating much when running initially and combined with the balcony section I was feeling queasy for ages. I think I accused Ruthann of being the food police/Food Hitler as she persuaded us to keep fuelling right from the starting hours. She did a tremendous job single handed even gathering snow outside and making a DIY cooler to keep drinks and homemade buffs( amputated leg of her own pyjamas) to keep us cool in the hot stuffy environment during the night.
Thankfully my leg was doing really well with the surface being so flat but from about a measly 13km, the balls of my feet were already quite sore so it was just a case of get on with it, earlier than expected.
I stuck to the plan and I watched the laps on the screen, positioned at the timing mat, as I approached the marathon mark to bring me to my 50th marathon. I didn’t think to check the time so not sure what it was exactly but somewhere between 4.30 and 5 hours. Doh! Ruthann cautioned that I was going quite fast and that I was closer to 200k pace! By 7 hours I had covered 157 laps compared with a steady 200k pace of 149 laps. I had reckoned that to get my target of 100 miles that I would likely do 60 miles in the first 12 hours and 40 in the second. I tried to slow down but the extra pressure on my feet made it more uncomfortable so I decided to stick it out as long as I could. With the run walk routine I was used to over the previous months, it all felt very easy on the legs and I didn’t feel fatigued at all. I concentrated on various things throughout the day, keeping limbs relaxed, lifting heels, landing lightly, moving my neck about, thinking happy thoughts, thinking about people in pain and ill , trying to problem solve some difficult patients I had , and also how lucky I was with my health and life etc. There were a number of locals who seemed to adopt me and give me a huge cheer every time I went past them. They also emailed me regularly throughout the night as did Timo’s children, whom I had high 5’d for hours, when they were going home to bed.
I Think I went through 100k between 11 and 12 hours? I was really enjoying this. Truly I was happy to stay out there all day and I was having a ball. All through the first 12 hours I had sang my little mantra to myself “This is fun/my legs feel strong/I can do this all day long “over and over and was enjoying the banter with other runners and admiring the relentless pace of many others. At this stage, poor Ray was close to coughing up a lung and to losing every bit of food that he had ever eaten and looked soaked with sweat and totally wretched. Not long at about 15 hours, he was forced to retire, although full credit for getting as far as he did in the face of huge adversity.
I started to have more stomach issues and eventually took a motilium and though I didn’t want to stomach any more food for a while I resorted to dry bread, mandarin segments and occasional sips of water and some actimel rather than risking the wrath of ‘she who knows better
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Forgot to mention a few great emails from an EMER. I thought it was from my Galway friend Emer but its not. Not sure I know any other girl who spells her name that way? So whoever you are , thanks an awful lot , for your wonderful messages during the 24 hours 0
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