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3m @ 10:30
Thanks for all the nice comments - it's good to be back in the game
Legs were feeling pretty happy this morning and on this run. Had to keep an eye that I didn't go too fast which is always nice. This afternoon the DOMS set in though and I started to feel sore all over and really tired. Also had a brain meltdown and nearly forgot to go to work this afternoon :eek: ...... Yes it is possible to be that stupid 0 -
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HopefullyWell done on the PB on a tough track by all accounts. Glad things have turned around for ya after a few weeks of not being right. Looks like lots of easy miles did the trick. Sub 20? Have just entered the jingle bells now so that's the next race. Have a few 5k's planned so should get 19:xx in one of them! 0 -
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8m @ 9:06
with 6 x 120m strides (28,26,26,26,26,26)
I met the usual people on my morning run farmer from down the road whose tractor has no lights. I usually meet him twice because he brings feed to his cattle that are on the other side of Errill and the other person I always meet is the South African man dropping his kids to school. He ran the NY marathon with his wife but doesn't run much anymore cause he has a bad back. 0 -
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Fraid not. The sheep have moved to a different field and they don't come down near the road much because it's more sheltered up the top!No talking sheep?
I can tell you the story of Mickey the ram though Mickey was one of this years lambs. I can't remember but I think his mother might have died when he was born. He was bottle fed anyway and when he was a few weeks old, one of Mum's friends gave us 20 quid for him. J was going to rear him for a few months and then butcher him when he was old enough. Everything was going great while he was on milk. J has 3 girls and they were mad about Mickey. They had him out with the ponies and started feeding him cattle ration. This went on for a few weeks and Mickey was fairly tucking into his food. The youngest girl was feeding him all the time because he was her pet. Unfortunately the cattle food contains a high level of copper which formed into stones in the tubes that carry urine from the bladder. That made Mickey very sick and J was told the only way to save Mickey was to operate on him and remove the stones. They did that and the operation was a success but what was the future for Mickey??? Well the girls and J's wife refused to let him be taken to the butcher so J bought a nanny goat to keep Mickey company which he milks every morning. The nanny goat and Mickey are now best buddies and J takes them out for walks on a lead. Strange but true :eek: 0 -
career_move wrote: »Fraid not. The sheep have moved to a different field and they don't come down near the road much because it's more sheltered up the top!
I can tell you the story of Mickey the ram though Mickey was one of this years lambs. I can't remember but I think his mother might have died when he was born. He was bottle fed anyway and when he was a few weeks old, one of Mum's friends gave us 20 quid for him. J was going to rear him for a few months and then butcher him when he was old enough. Everything was going great while he was on milk. J has 3 girls and they were mad about Mickey. They had him out with the ponies and started feeding him cattle ration. This went on for a few weeks and Mickey was fairly tucking into his food. The youngest girl was feeding him all the time because he was her pet. Unfortunately the cattle food contains a high level of copper which formed into stones in the tubes that carry urine from the bladder. That made Mickey very sick and J was told the only way to save Mickey was to operate on him and remove the stones. They did that and the operation was a success but what was the future for Mickey??? Well the girls and J's wife refused to let him be taken to the butcher so J bought a nanny goat to keep Mickey company which he milks every morning. The nanny goat and Mickey are now best buddies and J takes them out for walks on a lead. Strange but true :eek:
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Nothing like rural living for adding a bit of colour:)career_move wrote: »Fraid not. The sheep have moved to a different field and they don't come down near the road much because it's more sheltered up the top!
I can tell you the story of Mickey the ram though Mickey was one of this years lambs. I can't remember but I think his mother might have died when he was born. He was bottle fed anyway and when he was a few weeks old, one of Mum's friends gave us 20 quid for him. J was going to rear him for a few months and then butcher him when he was old enough. Everything was going great while he was on milk. J has 3 girls and they were mad about Mickey. They had him out with the ponies and started feeding him cattle ration. This went on for a few weeks and Mickey was fairly tucking into his food. The youngest girl was feeding him all the time because he was her pet. Unfortunately the cattle food contains a high level of copper which formed into stones in the tubes that carry urine from the bladder. That made Mickey very sick and J was told the only way to save Mickey was to operate on him and remove the stones. They did that and the operation was a success but what was the future for Mickey??? Well the girls and J's wife refused to let him be taken to the butcher so J bought a nanny goat to keep Mickey company which he milks every morning. The nanny goat and Mickey are now best buddies and J takes them out for walks on a lead. Strange but true :eek:0 -
career_move wrote: »Fraid not. The sheep have moved to a different field and they don't come down near the road much because it's more sheltered up the top!
I can tell you the story of Mickey the ram though Mickey was one of this years lambs. I can't remember but I think his mother might have died when he was born. He was bottle fed anyway and when he was a few weeks old, one of Mum's friends gave us 20 quid for him. J was going to rear him for a few months and then butcher him when he was old enough. Everything was going great while he was on milk. J has 3 girls and they were mad about Mickey. They had him out with the ponies and started feeding him cattle ration. This went on for a few weeks and Mickey was fairly tucking into his food. The youngest girl was feeding him all the time because he was her pet. Unfortunately the cattle food contains a high level of copper which formed into stones in the tubes that carry urine from the bladder. That made Mickey very sick and J was told the only way to save Mickey was to operate on him and remove the stones. They did that and the operation was a success but what was the future for Mickey??? Well the girls and J's wife refused to let him be taken to the butcher so J bought a nanny goat to keep Mickey company which he milks every morning. The nanny goat and Mickey are now best buddies and J takes them out for walks on a lead. Strange but true :eek:
That's brilliant!
Instead of getting a lovely leg of lamb for dinner he ended up with 2 pets. I'd love to see him out walking the goat and sheep.0 -
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If I'm honest that's a poor enough effort digger. I mean I made it easy for you! Really all you can say is "lacks imagination"
career_move wrote: »Fraid not. The sheep have moved to a different field and they don't come down near the road much because it's more sheltered up the top!
I can tell you the story of Mickey the ram though Mickey was one of this years lambs. I can't remember but I think his mother might have died when he was born. He was bottle fed anyway and when he was a few weeks old, one of Mum's friends gave us 20 quid for him. J was going to rear him for a few months and then butcher him when he was old enough. Everything was going great while he was on milk. J has 3 girls and they were mad about Mickey. They had him out with the ponies and started feeding him cattle ration. This went on for a few weeks and Mickey was fairly tucking into his food. The youngest girl was feeding him all the time because he was her pet. Unfortunately the cattle food contains a high level of copper which formed into stones in the tubes that carry urine from the bladder. That made Mickey very sick and J was told the only way to save Mickey was to operate on him and remove the stones. They did that and the operation was a success but what was the future for Mickey??? Well the girls and J's wife refused to let him be taken to the butcher so J bought a nanny goat to keep Mickey company which he milks every morning. The nanny goat and Mickey are now best buddies and J takes them out for walks on a lead. Strange but true :eek:
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career_move wrote: »Fraid not. The sheep have moved to a different field and they don't come down near the road much because it's more sheltered up the top!
I can tell you the story of Mickey the ram though Mickey was one of this years lambs. I can't remember but I think his mother might have died when he was born. He was bottle fed anyway and when he was a few weeks old, one of Mum's friends gave us 20 quid for him. J was going to rear him for a few months and then butcher him when he was old enough. Everything was going great while he was on milk. J has 3 girls and they were mad about Mickey. They had him out with the ponies and started feeding him cattle ration. This went on for a few weeks and Mickey was fairly tucking into his food. The youngest girl was feeding him all the time because he was her pet. Unfortunately the cattle food contains a high level of copper which formed into stones in the tubes that carry urine from the bladder. That made Mickey very sick and J was told the only way to save Mickey was to operate on him and remove the stones. They did that and the operation was a success but what was the future for Mickey??? Well the girls and J's wife refused to let him be taken to the butcher so J bought a nanny goat to keep Mickey company which he milks every morning. The nanny goat and Mickey are now best buddies and J takes them out for walks on a lead. Strange but true :eek:
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3m @ 10:30
My bed was lovely and warm. Such a disappointment to have to drag myself out into the cold
But it was worth it because it was a lovely morning for a run. Hopefully I'll get time for some yoga lately because I think it would do me good 0 -
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11m @ 9:00
Seemed to get colder this morning the longer I was out. I took my hat off after half a mile and left it on a bush to collect on the way back so that was probably a mistake! Felt bad last night that I hadn't done any yoga all week so bribed myself with some chocolate and did 20min of stretches 0 -
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3m @ 10:30
Nice relaxing little run. Unfortunately when I got back my day kind of snowballed ...... possibly karma for staying an extra hour in bed ...... and I ended up with a long list of things I needed to get done I'm still a couple of hours behind but I'm currently hiding from the man who delivers the horse feed because I don't want to talk to him 
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9m @ 9:06
with 6 x 120m strides (27,26,26,26,26,26)
Love running days with strides Had a pebble stuck in the sole of my shoe for the last couple of weeks and finally remembered to take it out this morning. Seem to be getting very forgetful because I changed my watch to average pace for Sunday's run and never switched it back and I thought it was weird yesterday that my watch was telling me I was running one pace and then showing completely different mile splits but I only did 3 miles so wasn't too bothered but it finally clicked with me today
There's an old castle (15th century I think) in the field next to our house and there were peregrine falcons nesting there. A couple of guys from Birdwatch Ireland came out during the summer and put rings on all the chicks. That was cool. They were abseiling from the castle walls. Anyway the falcons must have come back because I heard one up on the castle while I was doing the strides. This is good. I think they kill pigeons and there's 6 pigeons living in the stables that are p!ssing me off
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career_move wrote: »Anyway the falcons must have come back because I heard one up on the castle while I was doing the strides. This is good. I think they kill pigeons and there's 6 pigeons living in the stables that are p!ssing me off
There's your new challenge. Catch a falcon to stick in the stables.
PS. hoping your Mam has a speedy recovery and puts all that stuff behind her.0 -
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7m total
2m w/u - 9:02, 8:51
Same hill as last week except better this time because I knew where to start and finish. 1 min reps. 2 min recovery and I took the full two minutes
The last 10 secs is torture but I could make it worse if I started a tiny bit earlier or if I ran faster because the hill gets viciously steep towards the top.
Rep|Pace
1|6:37
2|6:32
3|6:44
4|6:40
5|6:55
6|6:56
7|6:41
8|6:45
9|6:50
10|6:51
2m c/d @ 9:00
The first two reps were a bit fast. Thought I'd pay for that later on but managed to hold it together ok. Figured it was good practice for the last k in a race 0 -
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Thanks I feel great at the momentSome great training going on here CM, I predict a big PB for you at the Jingle Bells 5k. In fact I'd say you will well clear sub 20, something around the 19:4X's mark. I just had one question about your training pace if you don't mind. So you 5k pace is about 6.20 a mile and 1/2 marathon pace is about 7:10 if I'm right? You seem to do a bit of running around the 10-10:30 minute per mile mark. Is this you recovery pace? For a runner of your level of training I would have thought this was a bit slow, do you not find it hard to run at this pace compared to your race paces? Again, this is not a criticism at all, just curious! For a 19:59 5k McMillan gives an easy pace of 7:31-8:31 a mile and a recovery pace of 8:36-9:17 a mile.
"5k pace is about 6.20 a mile and 1/2 marathon pace is about 7:10" - that's what I'd like them to be anyway but if you were going on my pb's 5k pace would be 6:34 and HMP would be 7:22
10:30 is my recovery pace. I find it easy to run this slowly. In fact if the truth was told I could run slower if necessary I've counted my stride cadence at easy and recovery pace and it's always 190/min or slightly more which is good I think. I don't take many rest days so it's important for me on recovery days not to stress the muscle fibres at all. All I want to do is increase blood flow to the muscles so recovery runs are short and slow. On easy days I run at 9 min pace. I'm happy running at this pace too and I can nearly do it automatically now. Easy days for me are just there to get the mileage in and increase aerobic capacity while still leaving me fresh enough for the faster days. Ecoli has very kindly taken over my coaching and we're in base building phase at the moment. He tells me what paces to run and all I have to do is run them I always ran slower than the Mcmillan paces anyway. I think you maybe need to have been running for a few years before they become applicable and I'm only running about 18 months. 0 -
career_move wrote: »Had to google that ..... before my time:D
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career_move wrote: »Thanks I feel great at the moment
"5k pace is about 6.20 a mile and 1/2 marathon pace is about 7:10" - that's what I'd like them to be anyway but if you were going on my pb's 5k pace would be 6:34 and HMP would be 7:22
10:30 is my recovery pace. I find it easy to run this slowly. In fact if the truth was told I could run slower if necessary I've counted my stride cadence at easy and recovery pace and it's always 190/min or slightly more which is good I think. I don't take many rest days so it's important for me on recovery days not to stress the muscle fibres at all. All I want to do is increase blood flow to the muscles so recovery runs are short and slow. On easy days I run at 9 min pace. I'm happy running at this pace too and I can nearly do it automatically now. Easy days for me are just there to get the mileage in and increase aerobic capacity while still leaving me fresh enough for the faster days. Ecoli has very kindly taken over my coaching and we're in base building phase at the moment. He tells me what paces to run and all I have to do is run them I always ran slower than the Mcmillan paces anyway. I think you maybe need to have been running for a few years before they become applicable and I'm only running about 18 months.
Very interesting, ecoli probably thinks I'm stepping on his toes now! I never doubted you had a good reason for it, was just curious what it was. The main reason I asked is because I was curious how the jump from your easy 9 minute pace to 6.20 pace was. That's a big jump (for example, my 5k pace is about 5.40-45 a mile, if I added the 2 minutes and 40 secs you have my easy pace would be 8:20-30, whereas my actual easy pace is about a minute a mile quicker than that). But it makes sense when you explain you are in base building phase, this training lark is very interesting! You are in safe hands with ecoli anyway, he always gets the good athletes! :pac: Good luck with the training and will hopefully see you at the JB 5k. 0 -
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