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What's this about Manchester being short?! I'm thinking of having a look at this also. I've a history with short marathons that I'd rather not repeat
Its the most accurately measured, certified at 26.2 short course you'll find
I done it in '14, with the few out & backs it measures as 26.1 on the Garmin, so you get a lot of people saying its short.
But its certified as accurate.
Its a nice course with good support along 90% of the route.
Its not congested, which minimises the weaving in & out, making it shorter
AND you get to pi$$ on the walls of Old Trafford.0 -
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Post Cortisone:
Friday: Cortisone shot
Wednesday: 4.3m @ 8:54 pace - maybe a mile too far - some tenderness afterwards and was a bit down as a result.
Friday: 3.1m @ 8:19 pace - felt much better. Kept it to 5k and iced afterwards.
Sunday: 4.5m @ 7:20 - felt great, wanted to run all day. Very difficult to keep the pace down as I was like a child at Christmas, you know the one, whos been given a new leg
Stupidly kept the pace high, doing a sub 7 min mile at the end, despite the voice in my head shouting at me telling me I was stupid. There was no pain though.
About 2 hours after the run, the leg felt a little tender, but not too bad.
Monday: Returned to the club gym session, but kept it very gentle on the leg stuff.
Tuesday: 6m @ 7:47 - didn't want to run on Tuesday as I was scared the leg would be sore.
Run went fantastic with no pain/discomfort before, during or after.
Still felt like I hadn't run in a while, the running muscles are getting used to it again.
I'll run on Thursday and then maybe try Sat & Sun - just easy runs.0 -
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So why are you running your runs so quick, slow down a bit and let the running muscles adapt to running again. Your in no rush to get anywhere, slowing down will benefit you in the long run. Now you can tell me to shove it & what would I know and you"d be right. But I do know running to quick coming back from an injury can lead to another injury. Good to see you back to btw.
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Wed: Rest: Core work & leg raises.
Thur: Sneaky 7m @ 7.56 while America gave thanks.
Fri: Rest
Sat: 4m (7:41 ave) - slight Fartlek for 1m (something like 30s on/off) - lashing rain but loved it. Felt sorry for the dog
More core work & leg raises.
Sun: 7.2m @ 7:42 - stingy rain and very blustery for a bit. Felt great afterwards.
24 miles for the week - highest since mid september.
I'm happy with the leg and how its holding up.
I'm still icing it most days, but its not sore during the runs or afterwards. But I know there's still some slight inflammation there.0 -
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Finished the week on 20 miles - done a small speed session, 1,2,3,2,1 mins and a couple of 4 milers very slow.
I'm still managing the inflammation through icing and doing the rehab work.
I could keep running and managing it and it might be ok in a couple of weeks, or 3 weeks or 5 weeks.
Each week I always ask myself would I be in this position if I just stopped running & trying to run?
So, despite being in a much better place that I was 3-4 weeks ago - Ill take a 10-14 day break and see how it is then.
its a bit mad really - when I couldn't run, I was trying to run.
Now that I can run, I decide to stop running 0 -
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Wed 23rd Dec: 4m with the madra - still being a bit cautious with the leg. Done some single leg raises and ran up the stairs 2 at a time x 12 reps as per my coaches instructions (my family think I'm mad)
Sat 26th: After 2 days off, the body was rearing to go, so I set off with no idea of pace or destination, headed to the PP, done a little loop around the visitor center and back home.
Delighted to see 7.55m @ 7:41 on the watch. Longest run since September. Added in some core work...............ok.... I planked for 1 min
Sunday 27th: After a night in the pub, a few club colleagues were meeting at 8am for a few miles. I dragged my slightly hungover a$$ out of bed and joined them. I had thought 5-6 miles would be enough, but felt great and finished up with 11.2 miles done (@8:07).
At this stage it's been about 3 weeks since I've had any leg issues, so that was confirmation that my issue seems to have gone away.
Monday: Rest day - more leg excercises and some real core work.
Tuesday 29th: 16 clubmates & I descended on the Curragh to visit a clubmate who lives down there and done a fantastic loop of the Curragh Camp. Great feed afterwards.
8.76m @ 8:06 across some beautiful countryside - an amazing surface to run on.
Wednesday 30th: 3.3m easy with the dog.
Thursday 31st: Final run of the year - 7.36m around the PP @7.47 pace.
A few trees knocked down but it was a beautiful morning.
I took the opportunity to run by the 2 spots were two fellow runners passed away in recent years at the DCM race series events, stopped and had a few words at both - really made me appreciate being able to run, despite any injury woes lately.
So - that's 2015 done and dusted.
On the surface, running wise, 2015 seems to have been a poor return for the effort I put into it, but when I think a bit more about it, I learned so much about what works for me and what doesn't work for me and had some good performances along the way.
The highlights were:
PB at 1500m (& 2nd place)
PB at 4m in Dunboyne
PB at 5m in Dunboyne (The highlight of my year)
1st O40 at Castleknock 5k
PB at 10k in KClub.
2016 will be a better year - here's hoping I can stay injury free and attack all my PB's0 -
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Sat: Club session - As the coach was in Edinburgh watching the XC, he left word in advance that the session was the same as last weeks.
As I took Friday off and was feeling fairly good, I ran down to the PP and ran home.
3.5m warm up.
16 times up & down the Popes Cross steps - felt fairly ok this week - took roughly 5 mins.
1.62m tempo finishing up the Khyber took about 10 mins.
6x20s strides - last week felt tough, this week felt ok.
3m Warm down.
Total mileage was 10.14m
Hopefully he ups the ante next week as the lads who weren't injured recently wanted more of a workout.
Sunday.
GAA trials again this week meant I missed the club run, so set off later for a run.
As the legs felt good & I hadn't got the 'constraints' of the club run - the aim was to do 4m Steady (between 7:00-7:30) in the middle of an easy run.
I planned to only do 7 miles in order to manage the mileage (#10% rule) but I felt good enough during it so pushed it out.
The run felt good and although I felt I was working hard enough for a 2nd mile of 7:38, the next 6 were around 7 min miles (hard but doable) and the last 2-3 while slower were up hill on Military & Upper Glen Road, so the effort felt the same.
Very happy with this run (apart from the bad chaffing
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11.4m @ 7:24
A tad under 42m for the week over 5 days running, with 50% of this over 2 days - about 5miles more than I planned for the week, so I'll take a run free day tomorrow.
No issues with the leg, but I'm still managing it with ice etc after runs.
I think I might start looking at some short term racing targets.0
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