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Thurs 8th may- Nenagh Race Series (Race 5)
Parked the car at Birdhill and went for around a 10k warm up with the lovely Rachel Clancy. It was a horrible night, misty and windy , got to the start in loads of time.....this was only my 2nd race with the group due to being on hols for the previous 2 weeks...group was split into 3 again with around 16 in the first group taking a 4min lead on the 2nd group- I went in the 2nd group and we had only 8 in our group and we only had a 2min lead on the scratch racers(they also had around 16 in their group) our group went off hard and got into a lovely leap frog rythym, we were cruising at 42kph+, I was a bit too eager at times when I took the lead, the lads had to tell me slow down a few times, also my group etiquette was a little lacking but I am learning and it was only my third time ever cycling in a group
. Anyway we were going strong and I did not think we would be caught before Nenagh Roundabout but with a group of scratch A1 and A2 racers doing 47+kph to catch you the inevitable happened around 5km from nenagh roundabout... once they caught us the pace increased dramatically, they say in a peleton you only have to work around 50% - I would love to know who "they" are as I was at my max at this stage but I have to admit I was loving it, I looked at my speedo and we were doing 50kph for around 5k until we hit the roundabout, I was nearly dropped coming off the roundabout last time so I stayed near the front of the pack this time, the minute we came around the roundabout for the home stretch we hit a vicious headwind and driving rain, the pace slowed a bit but not too much. it was tough work coming back in the headwind but we were still pushing 38kph and at times over 40kph, I was nearly dropped a few times due to bursts of pace and I had to burst a lung a few times to catch a back wheel but thankfully I managed every time. within a few km's of the finish the pace dropped a lot and the tension started to mount, everyone was waiting for someone to make a break, a few people attempted to break but each time they were swallowed up pretty soon. we were coming to birdhill roundabout at this stage and I felt ok so I said what the hell.. I might as well go for the line and see what happens..I shot off hard and took the lead going around the roundabout but alas I shot off way too early (the novice in me), once I got around the roundabout and headed up the hill to the finish line my legs just packed up and went home :o with 500m to go, the whole group tore past me and I pedaled slowly to the line at 20kph. Anyway I loved the race and was only dropped in the sprint finish at the end so i'm delighted with that, these races are great training and I would highly recommend them to anyone, my strava did not pick up satellite until around 7k into the race but on checking out a few lads strava's that were in my group we averaged 41kph for the 36k race...
http://www.strava.com/activities/138945189
Session: Nenagh race series : 36k at 41kph (10k warm up)
Friday 9th May- Unfortunately missed a session
Saturday 10th May- Had a very busy day today but didn't want to miss another session so got up early to go for cycle but unfortunately looked out the window and there was a gale blowing and it was lashing so hopped on the turbo for a hard hour of Sufferfest- Downward Spiral... good tough sprint session and I was hanging after it, was gonna do few km's running after it but rain was still pelting down.
session: Sufferfest- Downward Spiral
Sunday 11th may- Had the bro and his wife over Sat night for drinks- had too many drinks and suffered majorly Sunday- to make matters worse we also had the Sons 12th birthday- hungover with 16 12yr old boys wrecking the house for 2hrs- not a good combination- needless to say- another missed session!
Monday 12th May- A nice 10k night run around the industrial estate- just wanted to keep pace around 4.50mins/km - did the first 5k in 24.21mins with splits of 4.50/4.55/4.50/5.04/4.37, did 2nd 5k a little faster in 23.39 but I think satellite lost feed for a few mins as 1 of the kms came in at 4.18 but no way was I going that fast, next 5 splits were 4.18/5.03/4.46/5.07/4.24 a little all over the place but I'm still getting back into the swing of things with my running.
session:10k run in 47.57mins 4.47mins/km 10.3km ran in total0 -
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Fair play Trig, it takes a bit of time to get used to riding in a pace line, wont be too long before you are told to start with the scratch group.Thurs 8th may- Nenagh Race Series (Race 5)
Parked the car at Birdhill and went for around a 10k warm up with the lovely Rachel Clancy. It was a horrible night, misty and windy , got to the start in loads of time.....this was only my 2nd race with the group due to being on hols for the previous 2 weeks...group was split into 3 again with around 16 in the first group taking a 4min lead on the 2nd group- I went in the 2nd group and we had only 8 in our group and we only had a 2min lead on the scratch racers(they also had around 16 in their group) our group went off hard and got into a lovely leap frog rythym, we were cruising at 42kph+, I was a bit too eager at times when I took the lead, the lads had to tell me slow down a few times, also my group etiquette was a little lacking but I am learning and it was only my third time ever cycling in a group. Anyway we were going strong and I did not think we would be caught before Nenagh Roundabout but with a group of scratch A1 and A2 racers doing 47+kph to catch you the inevitable happened around 5km from nenagh roundabout... once they caught us the pace increased dramatically, they say in a peleton you only have to work around 50% - I would love to know who "they" are as I was at my max at this stage but I have to admit I was loving it, I looked at my speedo and we were doing 50kph for around 5k until we hit the roundabout, I was nearly dropped coming off the roundabout last time so I stayed near the front of the pack this time, the minute we came around the roundabout for the home stretch we hit a vicious headwind and driving rain, the pace slowed a bit but not too much. it was tough work coming back in the headwind but we were still pushing 38kph and at times over 40kph, I was nearly dropped a few times due to bursts of pace and I had to burst a lung a few times to catch a back wheel but thankfully I managed every time. within a few km's of the finish the pace dropped a lot and the tension started to mount, everyone was waiting for someone to make a break, a few people attempted to break but each time they were swallowed up pretty soon. we were coming to birdhill roundabout at this stage and I felt ok so I said what the hell.. I might as well go for the line and see what happens..I shot off hard and took the lead going around the roundabout but alas I shot off way too early (the novice in me), once I got around the roundabout and headed up the hill to the finish line my legs just packed up and went home :o with 500m to go, the whole group tore past me and I pedaled slowly to the line at 20kph. Anyway I loved the race and was only dropped in the sprint finish at the end so i'm delighted with that, these races are great training and I would highly recommend them to anyone, my strava did not pick up satellite until around 7k into the race but on checking out a few lads strava's that were in my group we averaged 41kph for the 36k race...
Also "they" are not really wrong:rolleyes:; the estimate energy savings drafting approximate 1% per mph.0 -
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Brief update....not going into much detail but needless to say not had a good run of things on the Bike...some decent racing training being done though...
Tues 13th May...Limerick cc summer series- Went in 2nd group-Racing well until chain came off, got chain back on and caught scratch group until chain came off again- ended up cycling around 15k home on my own, also did 10k warm up..
http://www.strava.com/activities/140734117
Session: around 47k cycling in total
Wed 14th May.... Nenagh TT series- Said I'd do the 30k tt tonight as 2 others were doing it including Huff n Puff, Took wrong turn (or never took the turn I was supposed to take)- did an extra km maybe, anyway- good hard session with a killer hill- 31k tt in 56mins... did 15k warm up
session: around 46k cycling in total
Thurs 15th may.... Nenagh Summer cycle series... 12k warm up- went in 2nd group again and was flying it and feeling good until...surprise surprise- my rear spoke broke and Bike buckled badly after 16k, another pi$$ed off 12k cycle home..
session: 40k cycle in total
http://www.strava.com/activities/141540849
Friday 16th may.... 13k run at 4.48mins/km
Saturday 17th May/Sunday 18th May- Hurt back doing garden so no training
Mon 19th may- Doc said it was ok to swim so did 50mins O.W. swimmimng at worlds end- around 2500m in total
Tues 20th May- Limerick Summer cycle series- arrived down for start of race - around 40 cyclists in total- 3 groups so decided to go off in middle group again- low and behold- just as the first group was starting I noticed my front wheel was flat- I had 4mins to change the tube before 2nd group went off , with the help of a guy from west clare cc. I managed to get the wheel changed and a small bit of air (checked to be 40psi after the race) just after the 2nd group headed off- I went off hard and tried to catch them for the first few km's but could not.. at birdhill the scratch group caught me so I stuck in with them, I was shattered and hanging on for dear life in with the scratch group.. I tried to share the work up front but a combination of trying to catch the 2nd group and having little air in front tyre was killing me. I was still hanging in though... fell off the back twice during race but support car helped me back on
. Managed to stay with them for the whole race- absolutely wrecked after it. Average speed for the 36k race was 42kph. 16k warm up and 9k cycle home..
session: 61k cycle in total
http://www.strava.com/activities/143642651
Wed 21st May- Cycle with Keeper Cycling club
went 3.6k until my front tube and tyre exploded :eek: , rang the wife to bring another wheel ...enjoyable light cycle..
56k in total at 30kph
http://www.strava.com/activities/144084375
Thurs 22nd May Nenagh Summer series race:
15k warm up- only 2 groups- went in 2nd group- flying it for 10k until chain came off again :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: got it back on and it just kept falling off- group were well out of sight, managed to fix it- cycled for a few km in the lashing rain- turned when I saw group coming back towards me, jumped back in with them on way home and had good last few km's... needless to say I got home and bought new front chainring--- disastrous 2 weeks racing
session: 52k cycled0 -
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Training has being going bad at the moment and motivation is at an all time low, this combined with a bad race at the weekend has really made me have a long hard look at what i'm up to!!
Have only done 2 training sessions in over a week leading up to Up the creek sprint tri..
5/jun/2014 did just a simple 20k tt cycle = felt ok for this, did the 20.4k route in 35.1kph
6/jun/2014 still afraid to run so planned a hard long bike, unfortunately got up that morn to torrential rain and howling wind so hopped on the turbo for Sufferfest - local hero warm up then 3X 6min tt pyramids with 2mins rest between each, 4 mins rest then 5X 3min at threshold with loads of climbing. few mis rest then a bucket load of sprinting- hard session and I was wrecked after it.
So was heading into Kilrush with a good level of bike fitness but no swim and run fitness whatsoever, and stupidly eating and drinking too much and weighing 90+ kg's... was not expecting much....oh and had a few too many drinks the night before the race (what a muppet!!!)
A very brief race report.....
headed down at a reasonable time due to race at 1.30pm, met up with the bro in Shannon and headed down with him (me pretty hungover)... set up transition fine, and off we went..
Swim: Was swimming up to start when hooter went, didn't lose much ground as I was just about at start anyway...swim went (what I thought was) good.. felt comfortable (maybe too comfortable) had a quick look at my watch with what I thought was 100m to go and watch was reading 11.30mins- was delighted with that and pushed hard for last bit but it never seemed to end, eventually when I was pulled out of water the watch read 15mins flat - was a little pi$$ed with that as I thought it was faster but I was only hoping for 15mins anyway so couldn't be too disappointed. Timing mat for swim must have been at entrance to transition (100m away) as my chip time for swim was 15.57mins
swim: 15.57mins 67/180
T1 No issues
Cycle: Cycle was very tough- an undulating course with a strong headwind thrown in, loads of hills , felt good and strong on the bike, was passed by 1 person only but passed him back out and dropped him, Bike felt ok but still knew I was carrying too much weight and I was suffering on the uphills- but passed out loads until there was no one in sight- I reckon I was close to top 15 after bike leg...also had a savage dismount at speed- got a big cheer for it at the dismount line:D still disappointed with bike split as the bro even beat me by 30secs
cycle: 39:27mins 9th/180
Run: This was gonna be unknown for me as I hadn't ran in nearly 10 days due to calf issues, wore calf supports and thankfully they did the trick, unfortunately I was wrecked at this stage and 3 guys who I ALWAYS beat passed me out in succession throughout the race, morale was low and I just wanted to get race over with.. finished run soaked to the skin in torrential rain,
Run: 22.37mins 80/180
Overall: 33rd/180 1hr20mins52secs
Very disappointed with race and felt "FAT".. a lot of training to be done before Kilkee in 3 weeks time....any positives.... 3 mates of mine had grins from ear to ear as they got a scalp on the day (me) I was delighted for them but I will be back with a vengeance in Kilkee.
LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!!!!!
Me looking fat and in pain...
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good week of training done for this so was looking forward to it...
beautiful day, got there early to setup in transition- met mossym and chatted with him for awhile, 1 scalp I was hoping to beat today, also met Boru tri guy who I usually beat but he beat me by 3 mins last week in kilrush so I was hoping to beat him too today...anyway we walked to the start of the swim through the town. got into the canal and we were off...
Swim Didnt feel comfortable in the swim, felt out of breath and thought I was going too hard so lightened off a bit and concentrated on technique, ran aground at one stage and had to stand up and dive off again, eventually got to the end of the swim and was helped out of the water, I was fearing the worst when I looked down at the watch- I was shocked to see 12.53mins on the watch :eek::eek::eek: I just did my first ever sub 13min swim- ( we did have a flow with us but I'll take that) I was delighted and this really spurred me on, it was another few secs before I got to run over the timing mat and into transition thus the 13.21mins time for swim....
swim 13.21 mins 47th/130
Cycle Ok so- I knew I would do well here, main aim was to get past Mossym and boru guy as soon as I could, cycled really hard and passed loads on my way out, caught and passed Mossym after around 9k, thought to myself that would be the last I would see of him today (how wrong was I) took ages to get to the turnaround, this course was definitely longer than 20k, coming to turnaround I saw boru guy a bit ahead so I tried to push harder to catch him, eventually caught him with around 5k to go and tried to put as much time into him as possible, felt I did a savage bike and I would have been on for my first sub 70min sprint tri if the bike was not 23k instead of 20k,, coming into transition I heard the wife screaming at me "come on your coming 8th" wow i thought, I wonder could I hold this in the run :rolleyes: found out from the results I had the 3rd fastest bike of the day, only beaten by Dave R1 and huff n puff, delighted with that..
cycle 37.33 mins for 23k- 3rd/130
Coming into transition I saw boru guy was right behind me Damn!! I thought I put more time into him, thankfully there was no sign of Mossym, ok run hard i was thinking to myself but my legs felt heavy after the bike and this extra weight I'm carrying is rediculous, slowly but surely I started getting passed by a few people, kept looking behind me as I knew Boru guy was there and he was nearly upon me at this stage too, around 2k gone the inevitable happened- boru guy passed me but to my surprise passing him out at the same time was a very fast mossym bombing through..
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All I could do was laugh at this stage, ok my 2 rivals have passed me, now it was just a matter of trying to hold my position and finish as high up in the field as possible, really suffered in the last 2k and was unfortunately passed by a few more- need to get my running legs back!!!! eventually I got to the finish line and crossed it in 1hr15mins16secs, the 2 lads were waiting for me and we had a good chat afterwards, strolled back to transition with MossyM and had a god chat with him, he shocked me today- he was really flying it- congrats again to him- 13th overall in his first season :eek:
My run really let me down again 22.52mins for the run and passed by 11 people.
Run: 22.52mins 52/130
Overall 1hr15mins16secs 19th/130 4th in agegroup
Happy overall with result, delighted with swim and cycle, annoyed with run but it will come
onwards and upwards... had a few drinks that night watching the English Match the up early next morn for Rearcross 100k cycle, expected this to be a handy 30kph cycle, did not expect an A4 type race for the whole 100k but I relished it... it was in 2 different 50k loops with a quick food stop half way.
over 100 cyclists headed off and pace was good and high straight away unlike most sportives, we were cruising at 35kph with a group of around 8 of us sharing all the work at the front, first 40k went by fast with group getting smaller and smaller, last 10k of both 50k's was a climb for around 6k then downhill into finish, at end of first loop a group of 4 broke away up the hill, I tried hard to catch them but they were to far gone, finished just behind them in the sprint for home, quick sandwich and cuppa and waited for alot of the group to come back together and then we went off again, av speed for first 50k was 34kph which included the big climb- nice for a sportive!! next 50k and the pace started off harder still, I stayed at the front again and it was the same 8 guys pushing the pace, on a long downhill techhnical section 1 guy broke away and got up the road, myself and 2 others broke to try catch him, we were flying now, looking at my speedo and we were doing 70kph flying around corners- felt great, we eventually caught up with him and 4 of us started working together, looked back and another group of 4 had caught up, few guys from kilmallock cycling club, 1 from west clare cc, 1 from paparee cc and 2 from jj kenneallys cc?? and myself, we starting working together and rolling over nicely keeping the speed at 43kph+ , really enjoyed this but once we got to hills there was only 3 of us doing all the work, me 1 kilmallock guy and raparee guy, got to the uphill section with 10k to go and I expected the lads who were not working to try make a break from here...My legs were also dead from the race yesterday and the first 90k, I sat in for 1 or 2 km's, pace was around 22kph now and no one seemed to be able to go any harder, I knew from going up this hill earlier that i was able to push around 26kph so I said to myself I might as well drop a few of these guys that are not working, I pushed hard brought speed up to 27kph for as long as I could, looked around again and now we were down to 4, thankfully it was the 4 that were doing all the work in the first place, myself, 2 kilmallock cc guys and Raparee guy, so 4k to go and few of us tried a few breaks to come home first but were reeled in each time, with around 500m to go I went for it as hard as I could, lads were still on my tail but with no real line at the finish I reckon I just about came in first:D:D , savage race for a sportive and we were all chuffed with it afterwards.. all 8 of the cc lads in the break came up to me saying I was too powerful, pushing a 53 11 gearing for most of the cycle, most of them saying i should give up the tri's and start A4 racing, I was delighted with this and felt like I had a bit of a big head :cool: anyway a great weekends training had
session: Rearcross 100k cycle0 -
nice report trig. i particularly like the "nice race for a sportive bit"
fair play on holding that speed on the Sunday, i wouldn't have had that in the legs. you;re flying on the bike, never raced it but can't imagine A4 being an issue for you, not that you'd be there long
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Mon 16th June: Swim/Bike 1.8k open water swim followed by 40k bike- felt good
Tues 17th June: Bike/Run.. Limerick cc race followed by short run: My first one of these races a few weeks ago I was hanging on for dear life with the 2nd group off, tonight I felt good and strong and I was pushing at the front of the 2nd group for the whole spin, once the scratch group caught us I kept pushing with them, trying to make a few breaks myself and also reeling in a few breaks, I was actually racing this time instead of hanging on, once we got to the birdhill roundabout I clicked into a lighter gear to contest the sprint finish uphill but unfortunately pushed too hard whilst changing gear and the chain slipped.. no matter- I was delighted with my race , and did the Limerick cc circuit in a new p.b. time of 49.27mins for the 34.9km course...42.4kmph average.
http://www.strava.com/activities/154761327/segments/3571708903
cycled back to car and got on the running shoes- legs were very tired but I crawled around just 3.2kms at 4.53mins/km
Wed 18th June Swim/Bike
timed another 1800m open water swim to coincide with a group going cycling from Keeper cc, planned to be finished the swim and on the tt bike 5mins after the group headed off on their cycle, swim went fine, onto the tt bike and just saw the group heading off on their cycle, I stopped for a few mins to let them get a bit of distance on me before I chased them down, what I didn't expect was a lady arriving asking "have they left already" and "are you cycling the same route??" so I did the nice thing and cycled with her for a few km's, we were going around 23kph so after around 10mins I explained to her that I was in training for a big race:) and I am going to try catch the group that headed off, so I went off hard on the tt bike, had a headwind for most of the route out to Nenagh roundabout, caught a few stragglers along the way but didn't catch the faster lads until well after the roundabout, was wrecked by the time I caught them, they then explained to me that they were cycling to the top of the birdhill to motorway hill and to the top of chapel hill- I was in pieces after doing the 2 of these (I actually fell off the bike going up chapel hill:o) good session though. 57km cycled in total at 31.3kph (includes around 6-7kms at 23kph)
http://www.strava.com/activities/155194148
Thurs 19th June: short cycle/longish run
Just a short cycle on hilly tt route today to warm the legs up for 10k run. went off hard on the bike, feeling good until I got to the turnaround, once I got to the turnaround I realized I had a headwind and legs just said - we have enough done this week and packed it in!! cycled slowly home to do the tt route in a miserable 30.6kph (I did get 1 "king of the mountain" on 1 section though) http://www.strava.com/activities/155417149
Might have done a bit too much hard work this week because the legs felt like lead again when going on the run, planned 10k but when I was running past the house after 9kms I found myself just running in home...you can see from my splits how badly I suffered in the last few km's, did the 9km's at 5.00mins/km average
http://www.strava.com/activities/155434720
Anyway- another brick session done.
Fri 20th June- just a nice session on the road bike today over a couple of easy hills, a route I haven't gone before but enjoyed it- Newport-Birdhill-Killaloe-Portroe-killaloe-birdhill and home- a nice leisurely 28.7kmph for the 58km spin although I did climb 537metres and got a 3rd overall on strava ballina to birdhill sprint.. might take a break from cycling tomorrow nearly 400km's cycled since last Saturday!
http://www.strava.com/activities/155846902/segments/35978578850
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