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14m @ 8:48
I didn't feel like racing today. Sorry ecoli
I went for a long run in the hills around Knock village instead. I saw a sign for Ballyquaid mass pit and I've driven past it before so I googled it there now. I thought it was a big burial site from famine times maybe because there's not a whole pile to see! Also on this route are the ruins of a pretty little church.
|Time|Dist
Run|5hrs 33min|37m
Bike|2hrs 44min|55km
Yoga|1hr 10min|
Bit of a crap week really
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3m rec @ 10:22
Slept really badly last night. Woke up several times with pins and needles/complete numbness in my left middle finger and index finger. Was pretty uncomfortable. I did a few triceps curls before I went to bed last night and I think maybe I had the weights a bit too heavy and I trapped a nerve or something. Anyway no bother from it during the day.
My friend fractured his fibula last month and then last week he tripped over the bandage and fractured his patella. I spent the afternoon helping him out at the racecourse before dropping him to the pub so I got no cycle done 0 -
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Cool looking forward to it. Pity Gavlor has to do a boring old 20 mile lsr or he could have come tooshotgunmcos wrote: »Nice interval session there. See you Sunday to make up for that missed bike session
It's not just any bike. It's a luminous green bike with 29" wheels ........ because size mattersA bike eh? Indeed.....mocking is catching:cool::P
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career_move wrote: »Cool looking forward to it. Pity Gavlor has to do a boring old 20 mile lsr or he could have come too
It's not just any bike. It's a luminous green bike with 29" wheels ........because size matters
Does it have stabilisers coz technique is important too:)
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That's brilliant newsGood stuff. I see that you're diversifying as regards the cross training. Had a look at the 'Beast' website - looks a great race.
Back on the road last 10 days or so - all easy miles. Meeting orthopedic consultant in a fortnight so we'll see what he says. Did lsr this morning in a new pair of runners & don't have half the usual aches this evening so hopefully it'll help going forward. Fingers crossed for you.
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9m @ 9:16
incl 6 x 100m strides
Did this at 6a.m. Legs were a bit sleepy for the first two miles but I was motoring along grand then. Kept the strides a little shorter than usual just so I didn't overdo it.
Met Mike this afternoon for a spin on the Ballyhoura bike trails. I was early so I took a detour to where we used to live. I had a good snoop around to see what had been happening since I was last there 14 years ago. It was a bit surreal. Everything looked smaller than how I remembered it and driving along I seemed to immediately recall where to go. The trails were fun. They weren't there when we were kids although we used to go up the Ballyhouras a lot on foot and on horses. I learned a lot today. You have to concentrate all the time on the trails. I nearly got unbalanced at one stage and fell off a bridge into a river but luckily my survival instinct kicked in just in time
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Run|8hrs15|55m
Bike|2hrs|14k
Yoga|1hr20|
Didn't get as much bike work done this week. Too much other stuff going on. Will do better next week 0 -
career_move wrote: »9m @ 9:16
incl 6 x 100m strides
Did this at 6a.m. Legs were a bit sleepy for the first two miles but I was motoring along grand then. Kept the strides a little shorter than usual just so I didn't overdo it.
Met Mike this afternoon for a spin on the Ballyhoura bike trails. I was early so I took a detour to where we used to live. I had a good snoop around to see what had been happening since I was last there 14 years ago. It was a bit surreal. Everything looked smaller than how I remembered it and driving along I seemed to immediately recall where to go. The trails were fun. They weren't there when we were kids although we used to go up the Ballyhouras a lot on foot and on horses. I learned a lot today. You have to concentrate all the time on the trails. I nearly got unbalanced at one stage and fell off a bridge into a river but luckily my survival instinct kicked in just in time
|Time|Dist
Run|8hrs15|55m
Bike|2hrs|14k
Yoga|1hr20|
Didn't get as much bike work done this week. Too much other stuff going on. Will do better next week
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career_move wrote: »It was one of them going over a river where I was nearly cream crackered! The ones on level ground were grand but I wasn't going fast and I'd say if they were wet they could be tricky
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Monday:
3m rec @ 10:28
Tuesday:
2m w/u @ 9:13
10 x 70 sec hills with walk back rec
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7:02|6:52|6:45|6:51|6:57|7:04|6:56|6:54|6:46|7:00
2m c/d @ 10:10
Wasn't too mad about the thought of doing these this morning so I decided the best thing to do was get them out of the way early. Love that I don't need a headtorch these days 0 -
Tues p.m.
2 hours and 37k on the bike. I'm allowed to be slow because it's all about time on the bike. I'm thinking I may need to source a different saddle because I'm not sure my ass is going to be happy with 8+ hrs on the current one.My shoulders were a bit sore as well :cool:
Wednesday:
3m rec @ 10:30
knackered.com
Was going to do 30min on the bike but I wasn't finished work till late and it was dark and I was hungry and it's a recovery day
Thursday:
8m @ 9:33 incl 6 x 120m strides
I didn't feel tired but the first 3 miles were very very easy even by my standards. Strides felt good and strong and my breathing was nicely controlled
Thurs p.m
72min and 22k on the bike. Still have a bit of soreness across my shoulders when I'm on the bike. Seemed to be cycling into the wind whatever direction I went today 0 -
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HMP session:
2m w/u @ 8:31
5 x 1mile @ HMP with 2 min jog rec: 6:59, 6:56, 6:52, 6:54, 6:58
2m c/d @ 9:56
Today is a good day for getting stuff done. I'm up since 5a.m. Have lambed 2 ewes and ridden out 5 horses The wind wasn't making the horses crazy like it has been doing for the last um 4 months :rolleyes: so I figured today was going to be a nice run day. And mostly it was. The first 3 HMP miles were comfortably hard but then I turned around and there it was waiting for me. That treacherous headwind - not very strong but just enough to wreck your head and make the last 2 reps a lot more difficult. Still a good session and another one in the bag 0 -
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14m @ 9:00
Woke up early this morning. My phone was out of power so wasn't too sure of the time but it was dark. Not very dark and the rooster* was crowing and when I checked my garmin it was 5:45 but I wasn't sure if that was new time or old time. Got my headtorch on and off I went because it's all good training time Nothing too much exciting to report. Did the last 200m @ HMP but that was not sanctioned by ecoli so shhhhh.
I think I'll leave it at that now for the week:
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Run|8hr 28min|54m
Bike|4hr 22min|92k
Yoga|1hr 10min|
* notice I didn't use the word cock ...... filthy mnds on here need no encouragement 0 -
career_move wrote: »Sunday:
14m @ 9:00
Woke up early this morning. My phone was out of power so wasn't too sure of the time but it was dark. Not very dark and the rooster* was crowing and when I checked my garmin it was 5:45 but I wasn't sure if that was new time or old time. Got my headtorch on and off I went because it's all good training time Nothing too much exciting to report. Did the last 200m @ HMP but that was not sanctioned by ecoli so shhhhh.
I think I'll leave it at that now for the week:
|Time|Dist
Run|8hr 28min|54m
Bike|4hr 22min|92k
Yoga|1hr 10min|
* notice I didn't use the word cock ...... filthy mnds on here need no encouragement
hehehe she said cock :pac:0 -
Monday:
3m @ 10:53
Didn't feel too bad on this but I didn't have to make any effort to keep it slow and during the day I found my muscles were a bit achey all over.
March:
Running - 214 miles Highest monthly total ever
6 sessions
0 races
Cycling - 243 km
Longest bike ride 37k
One day on the trails
Yoga - 5hrs 20min
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career_move wrote: »No I've been doing it for years but not at a very advanced level. When I was 14 I fell off a horse. Even though I had a proper helmet on I hit my head pretty badly and I was in a coma for a couple of weeks. When I came round I was paralysed down my right hand side. I find the yoga helps with my balance and keeps my muscles nice and loose.
Crikey! :eek:
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HaCrikey! :eek:
It must make all the running and PBing all the sweeter though. Where have you been hiding yourself??? Are you doing the kclub again this year?
It wasn't something that affected me that badly. Probably worse for my family. It was just like having a really really long nap except when I woke up my head was a bit fuzzy and I had to tell myself to walk in a straight line 0 -
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career_move wrote: »Haha true story alright .... no need for any sympathy though
Sympathy was a last resort in fairness. You're probably more likely to find it in a dictionary. (Apparently it's in between $hit and syphilis... ) 0 -
Haha you know of all the emotions I think sympathy is the most useless.Sympathy was a last resort in fairness. You're probably more likely to find it in a dictionary. (Apparently it's in between $hit and syphilis... )
I didn't think you'd find $hit in a dictionary. Here's a little urban legend for you
In the 16th and 17th centuries, everything had to be transported by ship and it was also before the invention of commercial fertilizers, so large shipments of manure were quite common. It was shipped dry, because in dry form it weighed a lot less than when wet, but once water (at sea) hit it, not only did it become heavier, but the process of fermentation began again, of which a byproduct is methane gas. As the stuff was stored below decks in bundles you can see what could (and did) happen. Methane began to build up below decks and the first time someone came Below at night with a lantern, BOOOOM! Several ships were destroyed in this manner before it was determined just what was happening. After that, the bundles of manure were always stamped with the instruction ' Stow high in transit ' on them, which meant for the sailors to stow it high enough off the lower decks so that any water that came into the hold would not touch this volatile cargo and start the production of methane.
Thus evolved the term ' S.H.I.T ' , (Stow High In Transit) which has come down through the centuries and is in use to this very day*
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Hahaspoilsport:if a world is older than the late 19th century, it isn't an acronym. '****' is far, far older than 16th century It's just a story :P
This is funny though: The expression [the **** hits the fan] is related to, and may well derive from, an old joke. A man in a crowded bar needed to defecate but couldn't find a bathroom, so he went upstairs and used a hole in the floor. Returning, he found everyone had gone except the bartender, who was cowering behind the bar. When the man asked what had happened, the bartender replied, 'Where were you when the **** hit the fan?' [Hugh Rawson, "Wicked Words," 1989]0 -
Tues/Wed:
Rest
I mentioned to ecoli that I didn't feel like my legs would handle 2 speed sessions this week. And he gave me a two day holiday for complaining
Thursday:
8m @ 9:14
with 6 x 120m strides
It was dark when I did this and my headtorch is not as bright as I thought it was. Or maybe it just needs charging. The first mile was a bit slow anyway. Felt good - think the rest did me the power of good 0 -
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