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Sat 22nd - Thursday 27th am: In Singapore
Managed just 2 treadmill runs.
Monday morning (6am!!) 5 miles
Tuesday morning (5:30am :eek: ) 4 miles
Trip can be summed up as follows:
Bad sleep, up, run, work, Warm to freezing air-con, dinner & drinks after work, hotel room, bad sleep - onslaught of Flu due to air con.
Flight home on Wed night / Thursday morning was the worst 13 hours of my life. Crying baby for the majority of the flight.
The Baby was a bit like Sky News - "on the hour, every hour".
Thursday PM: Nice 7.7m @8:15 pace to loosen the legs that evening with the dog in the Ph Park.
Friday: 5.10 miles @7:49 pace. Very tired that night.
Saturday 29th June: 14.74miles (inc Irish Runner 5 mile)
Wasn't sure what tactic to employ during this race - I was originally thinking of doing it as a tempo run, but the urge to race is always strong. I jogged down 2.5m to the start line from the house. Got there with 20 mins to spare so done some stretching and strides.
In the pen, I decided to do the 1st mile at a decent pace and see how I felt.
Had a look around as I had seen no boardsies yet - Spotted RedRunner and gave him a wave.
Gun went off and immediately I knew that this was going to be difficult - not much room, very congested, despite been near the top.
Mile 1 was 5:58 - mainly due to avoiding the congestion and finding a good place to run. Was up & down pace wise.
As I approached the roundabout at chesterfield, I was deciding if I should keep on going or run at tempo pace. That decision was made for me when I seen a girl a fair few hundred meters ahead of me in luminous orange socks. There was no way that I could be chicked by such socks.
Mile 2 (6:05) brought us down the Kyber, and Orange Socks girl was still ahead. - We turned up Military road and I was within reach of her on the hills, so stayed behind her.
Mile 3 came and went (6:18) - the hills were having an impact and the long week was coming back to me. But the Socks girl wasn't going to beat me!
Met Aero2k giving out water, nice to see others giving something back to the sport, well done.
We were then going up the upper glen road, neck and neck with the Orange Socks girl, as we approached the 4 mile mark, she got a shout out and she pushed on.
Mile 4 was 6:20. At this stage it was a race between me and her - time didn't matter.
I was glad of the competition as had I of not been racing her, my time would have slowed.
At the start of mile 5 I opened a gap on her and relaxed, only for her to come back at me, we got a call as we approached the home straight "800m to go" - and off she went.
I knew that she had gone too early, so bided my time, I increased the pace a small bit, - at this stage it was a real "Battle of the Sock's" (see what I did there
)and as we approached the 400m sign, I throttled it - some might say "giving it socks".......
I passed her by and about 10 others - quick glance at the watch showed 5:35 pace for the closing straight.
Part of me was chastising myself for having that pace left in the tank, while another part was happy as its something I've built into my training.
Crossed the line in 31:28. 122 place (out of ~2800) and 17th M40
a good 60 seconds off my best, but if that time were offered to me at the start line I'd of snapped there hand of for it!
Went over to introduce myself to Orange Socks lady - I dont think she had any idea of the battle we'd just been through!! (Patricia (Eastern European)from Raheny Shamrocks)
Jogged 2.78 back home as a warm down.
Brought the dog straight out (as I wanted to ensure 13+ miles today) and done 4.4m
Total miles today: 14.74
36.5 miles for the week - Happy out given the week I've had.
Off out tonight - 17 years married today :eek:
(I wonder if Blockic was making his communion the same day I got married??)0 -
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RunningKing wrote: »Sat 22nd - Thursday 27th am: In Singapore
Managed just 2 treadmill runs.
Monday morning (6am!!) 5 miles
Tuesday morning (5:30am :eek: ) 4 miles
Trip can be summed up as follows:
Bad sleep, up, run, work, Warm to freezing air-con, dinner & drinks after work, hotel room, bad sleep - onslaught of Flu due to air con.
Flight home on Wed night / Thursday morning was the worst 13 hours of my life. Crying baby for the majority of the flight.
The Baby was a bit like Sky News - "on the hour, every hour".
Thursday PM: Nice 7.7m @8:15 pace to loosen the legs that evening with the dog in the Ph Park.
Friday: 5.10 miles @7:49 pace. Very tired that night.
Saturday 29th June: 14.74miles (inc Irish Runner 5 mile)
Wasn't sure what tactic to employ during this race - I was originally thinking of doing it as a tempo run, but the urge to race is always strong. I jogged down 2.5m to the start line from the house. Got there with 20 mins to spare so done some stretching and strides.
In the pen, I decided to do the 1st mile at a decent pace and see how I felt.
Had a look around as I had seen no boardsies yet - Spotted RedRunner and gave him a wave.
Gun went off and immediately I knew that this was going to be difficult - not much room, very congested, despite been near the top.
Mile 1 was 5:58 - mainly due to avoiding the congestion and finding a good place to run. Was up & down pace wise.
As I approached the roundabout at chesterfield, I was deciding if I should keep on going or run at tempo pace. That decision was made for me when I seen a girl a fair few hundred meters ahead of me in luminous orange socks. There was no way that I could be chicked by such socks.
Mile 2 (6:05) brought us down the Kyber, and Orange Socks girl was still ahead. - We turned up Military road and I was within reach of her on the hills, so stayed behind her.
Mile 3 came and went (6:18) - the hills were having an impact and the long week was coming back to me. But the Socks girl wasn't going to beat me!
Met Aero2k giving out water, nice to see others giving something back to the sport, well done.
We were then going up the upper glen road, neck and neck with the Orange Socks girl, as we approached the 4 mile mark, she got a shout out and she pushed on.
Mile 4 was 6:20. At this stage it was a race between me and her - time didn't matter.
I was glad of the competition as had I of not been racing her, my time would have slowed.
At the start of mile 5 I opened a gap on her and relaxed, only for her to come back at me, we got a call as we approached the home straight "800m to go" - and off she went.
I knew that she had gone too early, so bided my time, I increased the pace a small bit, - at this stage it was a real "Battle of the Sock's" (see what I did there )and as we approached the 400m sign, I throttled it - some might say "giving it socks".......
I passed her by and about 10 others - quick glance at the watch showed 5:35 pace for the closing straight.
Part of me was chastising myself for having that pace left in the tank, while another part was happy as its something I've built into my training.
Crossed the line in 31:28. 122 place (out of ~2800) and 17th M40
a good 60 seconds off my best, but if that time were offered to me at the start line I'd of snapped there hand of for it!
Went over to introduce myself to Orange Socks lady - I dont think she had any idea of the battle we'd just been through!! (Patricia (Eastern European)from Raheny Shamrocks)
Jogged 2.78 back home as a warm down.
Brought the dog straight out (as I wanted to ensure 13+ miles today) and done 4.4m
Total miles today: 14.74
36.5 miles for the week - Happy out given the week I've had.
Off out tonight - 17 years married today :eek:
(I wonder if Blockic was baptised the same day I got married??)
FYP Great run and report. 0 -
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End of month report (cant believe its 1st July already!)
Results for June as follows:- 3 runs of 14-16m if I include a 13.4 effort, then its a pass.
- 3 Sessions & 1 Beer Mile Good JD sessions and 3rd place in Beer Mile
- Total of 150 miles 170 miles - 2nd highest mileage ever.
- New 5k PB 18:31 at Malahide
- Run Irish Runner 5m on 29th as Tempo run (Dont race it) Will call this a 'result' as the main reason behind not racing was to ensure doing more miles.
- Start next MBA Module to get ahead!! :mad: Epic Fail
- Travel to Singapore with work (just threw that in to show off)
Focus for July- 13-15 mile run with 7-8 at HMP
- Longest run since DCM
(anything over 15.42m) - Clontarf Plan -Gold Medal: 1:27 Half Marathon / Silver Medal: Sub 1:30 HM (all weather dependent)
- 2 weeks off from running (Holidays)
- Finalise Marathon training plan
- 80 miles total planned for the month
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Session doesn't look too bad on paper. It probably felt worse though. The plans I've seen with a solid block of HMP miles usually only have them up to 7 with a shorter w/u (1m usually). I'd say being in Singapore last week has taken a bit out of you (time difference, temp difference, delayed jet lag whatever
) and then racing on Sat.
I would do a slower warm up as well. I know its all relative and I'm slower anyway but Tergat made the point that you only have a limited amount of glycogen stored in your muscles. The faster you run the more glycogen you burn and if you burn up a lot of the glycogen before you start the session .... you know where this is going 0 -
You should stick up your plan RK so we can all laugh at it offer constructive advice. But seriously might be an idea - I'm in the same boat at the minute with inventing a plan - although its for a half marathon as I'll never be sucked into doing a marathon!! You are spot on though re over inflating our own ability - looking at mine I've done the exact same thing and could cause me to struggle.. 0
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career_move wrote: »I would do a slower warm up as well. I know its all relative and I'm slower anyway but Tergat made the point that you only have a limited amount of glycogen stored in your muscles. The faster you run the more glycogen you burn and if you burn up a lot of the glycogen before you start the session .... you know where this is going
The warm up is RK's easy pace so that looks OK to me, would you burn up a lot of glycogen after 3 miles?
I think the issue is more the prep also for RK as you mentioned you didn't eat right before the the session, and maybe the glycogen levels were low at the starting point?
For me, I wouldn't be worrying about glycogen at all until anything after 16 miles.
It's probably lactate you would be more concerned with on a session like this.0 -
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