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Tuesday 24 June
Rest. Didn't sleep and felt dreadful all day so nothing to be gained by a plod.
Wednesday 25 June
45 mins easy. Lovely run in the warm summer rain, just how I like it. Easy pace was just under 10 min/mile putting no real effort in at all, so that feels like progress. Never look at the watch for these runs and don't care how slow they are. They're all about keeping the legs fresh and ticking over until the next hard workout.
Went for dinner and didn't drink even though all around me were! I'm really surprising myself with my dedication to the cause these days!
Thursday 26 June
45 mins easy with 8 x 25 sec strides
Felt a bit more tired than yesterday due to insufficient winks last night but enjoyable all the same. Fun throwing in the strides to spice up the fourth mile a bit. And I'm feelin' good..
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Friday 27 June
Rest
Terrible sleep Thursday night so was a bit all over the place in the morning. Slipped on a soap spillage in the bathroom at work (wearing heels I hadn't worn in a while) and landed on my right knee and then went onto my right glute/hip. My face missed the marble sink by 2 inches so I was very lucky not to do some serious damage. Filing incident report, took some pictures of it and hopefully if I need physio I can get it covered by work. Very very painful initially and I'll admit it, I did almost cry but once I picked myself up off the floor it wasn't too bad. Assessed the damage.
Knee was sore and marked and felt very bruised and was throbbing for the day and very hot, but it didn't seem to be changing my gait too much. Phew.
Decided not to run that day and just rest up but was very worried about it as due to race Sunday.
Saturday 28 June
Leg didn't bother me in the night and slept well. However, knee gone black and blue and when I got out of bed it was sore with the impact of each footstep. No pain, just soreness. Side of right glute/hip also a bit bruised and sore throughout the day. Oh what to do.... First race of the year tomorrow and this has to happen. Great timing:rolleyes: Foam rolled everything well. Went for 25 min tester run fearing the worst. The impact of each step on the ground caused soreness but not pain and I didn't feel that my form was being impeded. Did a few 10 second pickups and hurt a little more. Oh what to do
.. Iced a good bit during the day. Looked up some other races to do instead but I really want to get the first one out of the way asap. Made up my mind to do the race unless things got really bad in the next 12 hours. Spent the day worrying.
On a side note, I'm recording some very low resting heart rates in the past few days. When I'm fit, like in the midst of marathon training last year it's in the early 50s. The last few days it's been consistently 46/47 last thing at night and first thing in the morning. barryoneill50's rhr - watch out!
30 mins easy
Sunday 29 June
Race 1 following 15 Week 5k Training Programme
Funlavin 5k - DNF
Woke up and the glute was quite sore but the knee had calmed down a lot and swelling gone down a lot. It's now a lovely mixture of black and green!
Did some foam rolling (really relieves the glute discomfort) and some AIS and things felt a good bit better so decided to give the race a shot. Wasn't feeling very confident due to the recent incident so tried not to put too much pressure on myself and as I'm going to do another race next weekend anyway, thought to myself that today can just be a test run.
I really didn't know what pace I'd be capable of holding for this. I always had 7:40 pace in mind as that was the target for my 1600s and my recent 400s would suggest that I should be able to do around 23:50 today. So I decided to go out at 7:40 and see how that felt and what might be realistic after that.
Did a 2 mile warmup with the last 3 mins around 8:45 pace and 5 x 15 second strides. Was roasting hot by the time the warmup was done. I might have done a tad too much considering the heat as the sweat was really pouring off me. I really don't handle heat well and wasn't prepared for the sun beaming down as it had been quite overcast the last few days. We were waiting around for ages for the start, about 20-25 mins I'd say so I felt the benefit of my warmup was gone as it was so long ago at that point.
Mile 1: 7:40 - bang on and felt good (first k was done in 7:20 pace which was WAY too fast for me).
Mile 2: it all started to go wrong. Could feel the glute nagging at me a bit but that wasn't the real problem. I was just way too hot and sweating way too much and my breathing was way too hard. Really struggling badly and mentally not in a good place. Mile 2 felt like mile 3 should have when one is really badly mentally struggling but one manages to push on through as there's only a mile to go. Pace creeping up to 8min/mile wtf? Mile 2 came in around 8:10 pace (too depressed to look at the watch stats but I think it was something around that pace).
I just lost heart at that point and mentally opted out of the race as I felt at the time it was pointless to continue as I was so badly off target pace.
So, I made the irreversible and detrimental decision to hit stop on the watch
Idiot:mad: (around 3 mins into mile 3 I think and pace hovering around 8:18 afaicr)
In hindsight I should have completed it as I still would have managed a one minute pb and maybe better if I had found some extra mental strength somewhere. Took my chip off and jogged back to the finish.
Didn't pick up my water or banana or go to the hall or anything as I didn't feel I deserved it due to not finishing the race and really wasn't in the mood. My very kind bf dealt with the situation impeccably, giving just the right amount of sympathy (not too much as I hate it!) and some very gentle encouragement about why I shouldn't give up on this 5k malarky and jump into marathon training or take up darts...
I'm not going to beat myself up over it anymore (I did plenty of that for a few hours after the race) as it's my first go at a race in 6 months and I was really just using it as a tester to see where I'm at. The accident on Friday put me in a very negative frame of mind going into this race and I wasn't even sure I'd be able to run until this morning. However, I'm not using the accident as an excuse for how poorly I did as I don't think it had too much of an impact physically. It was nagging at me a bit but not painful.
I'm looking forward to getting in another 5k next week and I'll keep plugging away at them every week/fortnight until I do something decent.
SH!T HAPPENS.
Lessons learned:
- I went off too fast but I really didn't know what I'd be capable of as I said above so it's a learning experience for me. I should have started at 7:50 pace perhaps or even slower. I've a lot to learn about race strategy and my capabilities and that learning process started today.
It hurts to say this, but perhaps I'm less fit than I think I am so need to be more realistic about my goals. In saying that, I truly did think I'd be capable of 7:40 pace today, I really did. I've visited the 'pain cave' so many times in training at this stage that I feel I'm quite familiar with being there - but maybe not quite 'comfortable' enough being in there. I thought that running at that pace in a race should feel easier than banging out these reps on my own but it didn't feel like that today. It felt harder.
- I should have finished the damn thing even though I wasn't on target to hit my desired goal. That mentality of just 'giving up' as things aren't going my way is not going to get me anywhere. As TbL said in jest on my log recently, I'm just not 'mentally tough enough'. YET TbL YET
- I should have done the beer mile as my first race of the year. Guaranteed first female and a national title. That would have set me up nicely for the rest of the racing season:)
- I should have rung my mother this morning for some negative "pep-talking". This is the greatest mistake I made:eek: If anyone ever needs her number to get all fired up to pb, just pm me:) She's great!
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5 mile Consolation/Stupid Girl Run. Ran my guts off to get rid of some of my frustration. This was a Progression Run in reverse order. I was really upset setting off so just blasted the first few miles and then got steadily slower and slower. Realised I hadn't eaten anything since my breakfast at 8 this morning and had drunk very little and it was roasting so felt like fainting. Glute hurting a little now so hopefully I didn't do any damage but sometimes one's gotta just run for the hell of it.
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You are as tough as they come girl.
Now make sure that knee is ok and away ya go again. I had a very bad race in clontarf last year and I was absolutely gutted. In hindsight it was the best thing that happened me as I used it for motivation. I know you are not into football but a while back Macedonia beat Ireland, and from then on mick McCarthy made the worst player in trainning wear a Macedonia Jersey, which I thought was genius. On a last run before a race I wear the t-shirt I got that day in clontarf and I say to myself I won't have another clontarf. So use this race for motivation, don't have another funlavin........
Friday 27 June
Rest
Terrible sleep Thursday night so was a bit all over the place in the morning. Slipped on a soap spillage in the bathroom at work (wearing heels I hadn't worn in a while) and landed on my right knee and then went onto my right glute/hip. My face missed the marble sink by 2 inches so I was very lucky not to do some serious damage. Filing incident report, took some pictures of it and hopefully if I need physio I can get it covered by work. Very very painful initially and I'll admit it, I did almost cry but once I picked myself up off the floor it wasn't too bad. Assessed the damage.
Knee was sore and marked and felt very bruised and was throbbing for the day and very hot, but it didn't seem to be changing my gait too much. Phew.
Decided not to run that day and just rest up but was very worried about it as due to race Sunday.
Saturday 28 June
Leg didn't bother me in the night and slept well. However, knee gone black and blue and when I got out of bed it was sore with the impact of each footstep. No pain, just soreness. Side of right glute/hip also a bit bruised and sore throughout the day. Oh what to do.... First race of the year tomorrow and this has to happen. Great timing:rolleyes: Foam rolled everything well. Went for 25 min tester run fearing the worst. The impact of each step on the ground caused soreness but not pain and I didn't feel that my form was being impeded. Did a few 10 second pickups and hurt a little more. Oh what to do.. Iced a good bit during the day. Looked up some other races to do instead but I really want to get the first one out of the way asap. Made up my mind to do the race unless things got really bad in the next 12 hours. Spent the day worrying.
On a side note, I'm recording some very low resting heart rates in the past few days. When I'm fit, like in the midst of marathon training last year it's in the early 50s. The last few days it's been consistently 46/47 last thing at night and first thing in the morning. barryoneill50's rhr - watch out!
30 mins easy
Sunday 29 June
Race 1 following 15 Week 5k Training Programme
Funlavin 5k - DNF
Woke up and the glute was quite sore but the knee had calmed down a lot and swelling gone down a lot. It's now a lovely mixture of black and green!
Did some foam rolling (really relieves the glute discomfort) and some AIS and things felt a good bit better so decided to give the race a shot. Wasn't feeling very confident due to the recent incident so tried not to put too much pressure on myself and as I'm going to do another race next weekend anyway, thought to myself that today can just be a test run.
I really didn't know what pace I'd be capable of holding for this. I always had 7:40 pace in mind as that was the target for my 1600s and my recent 400s would suggest that I should be able to do around 23:50 today. So I decided to go out at 7:40 and see how that felt and what might be realistic after that.
Did a 2 mile warmup with the last 3 mins around 8:45 pace and 5 x 15 second strides. Was roasting hot by the time the warmup was done. I might have done a tad too much considering the heat as the sweat was really pouring off me. I really don't handle heat well and wasn't prepared for the sun beaming down as it had been quite overcast the last few days. We were waiting around for ages for the start, about 20-25 mins I'd say so I felt the benefit of my warmup was gone as it was so long ago at that point.
Mile 1: 7:40 - bang on and felt good (first k was done in 7:20 pace which was WAY too fast for me).
Mile 2: it all started to go wrong. Could feel the glute nagging at me a bit but that wasn't the real problem. I was just way too hot and sweating way too much and my breathing was way too hard. Really struggling badly and mentally not in a good place. Mile 2 felt like mile 3 should have when one is really badly mentally struggling but one manages to push on through as there's only a mile to go. Pace creeping up to 8min/mile wtf? Mile 2 came in around 8:10 pace (too depressed to look at the watch stats but I think it was something around that pace).
I just lost heart at that point and mentally opted out of the race as I felt at the time it was pointless to continue as I was so badly off target pace.
So, I made the irreversible and detrimental decision to hit stop on the watchIdiot:mad: (around 3 mins into mile 3 I think and pace hovering around 8:18 afaicr)
In hindsight I should have completed it as I still would have managed a one minute pb and maybe better if I had found some extra mental strength somewhere. Took my chip off and jogged back to the finish.
Didn't pick up my water or banana or go to the hall or anything as I didn't feel I deserved it due to not finishing the race and really wasn't in the mood. My very kind bf dealt with the situation impeccably, giving just the right amount of sympathy (not too much as I hate it!) and some very gentle encouragement about why I shouldn't give up on this 5k malarky and jump into marathon training or take up darts...
I'm not going to beat myself up over it anymore (I did plenty of that for a few hours after the race) as it's my first go at a race in 6 months and I was really just using it as a tester to see where I'm at. The accident on Friday put me in a very negative frame of mind going into this race and I wasn't even sure I'd be able to run until this morning. However, I'm not using the accident as an excuse for how poorly I did as I don't think it had too much of an impact physically. It was nagging at me a bit but not painful.
I'm looking forward to getting in another 5k next week and I'll keep plugging away at them every week/fortnight until I do something decent.
SH!T HAPPENS.
Lessons learned:
- I went off too fast but I really didn't know what I'd be capable of as I said above so it's a learning experience for me. I should have started at 7:50 pace perhaps or even slower. I've a lot to learn about race strategy and my capabilities and that learning process started today.
It hurts to say this, but perhaps I'm less fit than I think I am so need to be more realistic about my goals. In saying that, I truly did think I'd be capable of 7:40 pace today, I really did. I've visited the 'pain cave' so many times in training at this stage that I feel I'm quite familiar with being there - but maybe not quite 'comfortable' enough being in there. I thought that running at that pace in a race should feel easier than banging out these reps on my own but it didn't feel like that today. It felt harder.
- I should have finished the damn thing even though I wasn't on target to hit my desired goal. That mentality of just 'giving up' as things aren't going my way is not going to get me anywhere. As TbL said in jest on my log recently, I'm just not 'mentally tough enough'. YET TbL YET
- I should have done the beer mile as my first race of the year. Guaranteed first female and a national title. That would have set me up nicely for the rest of the racing season:)
- I should have rung my mother this morning for some negative "pep-talking". This is the greatest mistake I made:eek: If anyone ever needs her number to get all fired up to pb, just pm me:) She's great!
pm
5 mile Consolation/Stupid Girl Run. Ran my guts off to get rid of some of my frustration. This was a Progression Run in reverse order. I was really upset setting off so just blasted the first few miles and then got steadily slower and slower. Realised I hadn't eaten anything since my breakfast at 8 this morning and had drunk very little and it was roasting so felt like fainting. Glute hurting a little now so hopefully I didn't do any damage but sometimes one's gotta just run for the hell of it.
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Friday 27 June
Rest
Terrible sleep Thursday night so was a bit all over the place in the morning. Slipped on a soap spillage in the bathroom at work (wearing heels I hadn't worn in a while) and landed on my right knee and then went onto my right glute/hip. My face missed the marble sink by 2 inches so I was very lucky not to do some serious damage. Filing incident report, took some pictures of it and hopefully if I need physio I can get it covered by work. Very very painful initially and I'll admit it, I did almost cry but once I picked myself up off the floor it wasn't too bad. Assessed the damage.
Knee was sore and marked and felt very bruised and was throbbing for the day and very hot, but it didn't seem to be changing my gait too much. Phew.
Decided not to run that day and just rest up but was very worried about it as due to race Sunday.
Saturday 28 June
Leg didn't bother me in the night and slept well. However, knee gone black and blue and when I got out of bed it was sore with the impact of each footstep. No pain, just soreness. Side of right glute/hip also a bit bruised and sore throughout the day. Oh what to do.... First race of the year tomorrow and this has to happen. Great timing:rolleyes: Foam rolled everything well. Went for 25 min tester run fearing the worst. The impact of each step on the ground caused soreness but not pain and I didn't feel that my form was being impeded. Did a few 10 second pickups and hurt a little more. Oh what to do.. Iced a good bit during the day. Looked up some other races to do instead but I really want to get the first one out of the way asap. Made up my mind to do the race unless things got really bad in the next 12 hours. Spent the day worrying.
On a side note, I'm recording some very low resting heart rates in the past few days. When I'm fit, like in the midst of marathon training last year it's in the early 50s. The last few days it's been consistently 46/47 last thing at night and first thing in the morning. barryoneill50's rhr - watch out!
30 mins easy
Sunday 29 June
Race 1 following 15 Week 5k Training Programme
Funlavin 5k - DNF
Woke up and the glute was quite sore but the knee had calmed down a lot and swelling gone down a lot. It's now a lovely mixture of black and green!
Did some foam rolling (really relieves the glute discomfort) and some AIS and things felt a good bit better so decided to give the race a shot. Wasn't feeling very confident due to the recent incident so tried not to put too much pressure on myself and as I'm going to do another race next weekend anyway, thought to myself that today can just be a test run.
I really didn't know what pace I'd be capable of holding for this. I always had 7:40 pace in mind as that was the target for my 1600s and my recent 400s would suggest that I should be able to do around 23:50 today. So I decided to go out at 7:40 and see how that felt and what might be realistic after that.
Did a 2 mile warmup with the last 3 mins around 8:45 pace and 5 x 15 second strides. Was roasting hot by the time the warmup was done. I might have done a tad too much considering the heat as the sweat was really pouring off me. I really don't handle heat well and wasn't prepared for the sun beaming down as it had been quite overcast the last few days. We were waiting around for ages for the start, about 20-25 mins I'd say so I felt the benefit of my warmup was gone as it was so long ago at that point.
Mile 1: 7:40 - bang on and felt good (first k was done in 7:20 pace which was WAY too fast for me).
Mile 2: it all started to go wrong. Could feel the glute nagging at me a bit but that wasn't the real problem. I was just way too hot and sweating way too much and my breathing was way too hard. Really struggling badly and mentally not in a good place. Mile 2 felt like mile 3 should have when one is really badly mentally struggling but one manages to push on through as there's only a mile to go. Pace creeping up to 8min/mile wtf? Mile 2 came in around 8:10 pace (too depressed to look at the watch stats but I think it was something around that pace).
I just lost heart at that point and mentally opted out of the race as I felt at the time it was pointless to continue as I was so badly off target pace.
So, I made the irreversible and detrimental decision to hit stop on the watchIdiot:mad: (around 3 mins into mile 3 I think and pace hovering around 8:18 afaicr)
In hindsight I should have completed it as I still would have managed a one minute pb and maybe better if I had found some extra mental strength somewhere. Took my chip off and jogged back to the finish.
Didn't pick up my water or banana or go to the hall or anything as I didn't feel I deserved it due to not finishing the race and really wasn't in the mood. My very kind bf dealt with the situation impeccably, giving just the right amount of sympathy (not too much as I hate it!) and some very gentle encouragement about why I shouldn't give up on this 5k malarky and jump into marathon training or take up darts...
I'm not going to beat myself up over it anymore (I did plenty of that for a few hours after the race) as it's my first go at a race in 6 months and I was really just using it as a tester to see where I'm at. The accident on Friday put me in a very negative frame of mind going into this race and I wasn't even sure I'd be able to run until this morning. However, I'm not using the accident as an excuse for how poorly I did as I don't think it had too much of an impact physically. It was nagging at me a bit but not painful.
I'm looking forward to getting in another 5k next week and I'll keep plugging away at them every week/fortnight until I do something decent.
SH!T HAPPENS.
Lessons learned:
- I went off too fast but I really didn't know what I'd be capable of as I said above so it's a learning experience for me. I should have started at 7:50 pace perhaps or even slower. I've a lot to learn about race strategy and my capabilities and that learning process started today.
It hurts to say this, but perhaps I'm less fit than I think I am so need to be more realistic about my goals. In saying that, I truly did think I'd be capable of 7:40 pace today, I really did. I've visited the 'pain cave' so many times in training at this stage that I feel I'm quite familiar with being there - but maybe not quite 'comfortable' enough being in there. I thought that running at that pace in a race should feel easier than banging out these reps on my own but it didn't feel like that today. It felt harder.
- I should have finished the damn thing even though I wasn't on target to hit my desired goal. That mentality of just 'giving up' as things aren't going my way is not going to get me anywhere. As TbL said in jest on my log recently, I'm just not 'mentally tough enough'. YET TbL YET
- I should have done the beer mile as my first race of the year. Guaranteed first female and a national title. That would have set me up nicely for the rest of the racing season:)
- I should have rung my mother this morning for some negative "pep-talking". This is the greatest mistake I made:eek: If anyone ever needs her number to get all fired up to pb, just pm me:) She's great!
pm
5 mile Consolation/Stupid Girl Run. Ran my guts off to get rid of some of my frustration. This was a Progression Run in reverse order. I was really upset setting off so just blasted the first few miles and then got steadily slower and slower. Realised I hadn't eaten anything since my breakfast at 8 this morning and had drunk very little and it was roasting so felt like fainting. Glute hurting a little now so hopefully I didn't do any damage but sometimes one's gotta just run for the hell of it.
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File for compo, hire an ambulance chasing solicitor and go to town. Fire your coach and race more... That's all my advise for now
In all seriousness- 5k is a distance you shouldn't over think. Go out hard and hang on- you really shouldn't have DNF'd as it will put doubt in your mind for no reason- the reality is if you run a 5k right you should be literally just about hanging on and pretty much want to DNF for the entire last mile....
Get back on the horse right away and race this week you need a positive result and from what I can see the PB is there for the taking. Set a race marker- all very well to hit splits in training but racing is a different beast- a famous coach used to say "you are what you are right now" find out what you are and out in the work to push on from there.
Oh and going out a blasting a 5 mile progression run after a nearly 3 mile race effort w/ pain in your glute is unbelievably silly- in fact kinda reminds me of a RK type rash activity (before he got smart, became AMK and started kicking ass
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File for compo, hire an ambulance chasing solicitor and go to town. Fire your coach and race more... That's all my advise for now
In all seriousness- 5k is a distance you shouldn't over think. Go out hard and hang on- you really shouldn't have DNF'd as it will put doubt in your mind for no reason- the reality is if you run a 5k right you should be literally just about hanging on and pretty much want to DNF for the entire last mile....
Get back on the horse right away and race this week you need a positive result and from what I can see the PB is there for the taking. Set a race marker- all very well to hit splits in training but racing is a different beast- a famous coach used to say "you are what you are right now" find out what you are and out in the work to push on from there.
Oh and going out a blasting a 5 mile progression run after a nearly 3 mile race effort w/ pain in your glute is unbelievably silly- in fact kinda reminds me of a RK type rash activity (before he got smart, became AMK and started kicking ass
. I'm sorry to be harsh here Ososlo but you need a kick in the ass tbh. Backslapping here will do nothing for you.
ha ha and i wouldn't have expected any less from you kind sir.
1. I agree I shouldn't have DNF. I'm flawed. I'm mentally weak. Did I not make that clear already?
2. I am racing straight away again. Did I not say?
3. Yes I know it was silly to do a 5 mile reverse progression run. Did I not say that already? Any need to state the obvious?
4. I'm not asking for sympathy or backslapping. I hate it! Posting today was a very difficult thing for me to do as I don't do well with sympathy or failure. But what's the point in having a log if I only post the good stuff? Today I'm posting the bad stuff.0 -
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Fair enough. I won't post on this log anymore as the last thing I want to do is hurt feelings (I actually do mean that). Best of luck...
I don't care if you hurt my feelings. I just want it to be all about my 'running' and not other things and I welcome anything that helps my running. Feel free to post your thoughts if you have anything helpful that can help. All imput is appreciated as long as it's directed to me and my running.
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Firstly - don't even think of stopping to log here - too many people enjoy it. Let's face it the best logs have some incredible ups and down but like in the cheesy films the hero (you in this case) after a few hairy moments always comes good. - you will too.
Secondly, you share a lot on your log - that's not a criticism by the way. Others -myself being an example of this - say had a bad day, felt crap but I'll get over sort of stuff and get away with murder. Because of the honesty you put in your posts you get away with nothing. RK's log used to be like that - and he took an awful lot of analysis and criticism because of it. It's because people are rooting for you and mean well don't forget.
I have been doing a bit of navel gazing about my running lately especially as I have made a mess of/underperformed in at least 75% of the races I've done in the last 12 months. I've taken long walking breaks in 3 races in the last 12 months and they do dent the confidence. I've tried to put these to the back of my mind but they do pop in when the going gets tough not matter how well you are doing in training.
My conclusions are as follows:- I don't race enough so not getting enough practice at racing - training is no real preparation for how mentally tough racing is. Racing is the best training for racing.
- Because I race so few times, I put extraordinary pressure on the races I do as I've prepared so long for them and have over thought them. If I raced more often especially over 5 and 10k I would relax and by the law of averages would have a few good races .
- I find myself finding excuses not to race and am waiting for the perfect race in terms of course flatness etc etc. to avoid racing.
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I gave up because I wasn't on target for the time I wanted/felt I deserved and yes that was a really bad reason to give up.
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I've been guilty of this in the past in a 5k
In fact, I only later realised I misread the watch and was actually on target for a PB (at 2.2 miles:o:o)
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ha ha great constructive post. And I read your log!!! Every single post! You've a great log!Firstly - don't even think of stopping to log here - too many people enjoy it. Let's face it the best logs have some incredible ups and down but like in the cheesy films the hero (you in this case) after a few hairy moments always comes good. - you will too.
Secondly, you share a lot on your log - that's not a criticism by the way. Others -myself being an example of this - say had a bad day, felt crap but I'll get over sort of stuff and get away with murder. Because of the honesty you put in your posts you get away with nothing. RK's log used to be like that - and he took an awful lot of analysis and criticism because of it. It's because people are rooting for you and mean well don't forget.
I have been doing a bit of navel gazing about my running lately especially as I have made a mess of/underperformed in at least 75% of the races I've done in the last 12 months. I've taken long walking breaks in 3 races in the last 12 months and they do dent the confidence. I've tried to put these to the back of my mind but they do pop in when the going gets tough not matter how well you are doing in training.
My conclusions are as follows:- I don't race enough so not getting enough practice at racing - training is no real preparation for how mentally tough racing is. Racing is the best training for racing.
- Because I race so few times, I put extraordinary pressure on the races I do as I've prepared so long for them and have over thought them. If I raced more often especially over 5 and 10k I would relax and by the law of averages would have a few good races .
- I find myself finding excuses not to race and am waiting for the perfect race in terms of course flatness etc etc. to avoid racing.
Yes I put a lot out there and usually have to severely edit my initial posts as I put WAY too much out there. My log would be closed down by now if I didn't heavily edit:eek:
I agree, I'm leaving myself open to attack so should be willing to accept the inevitable. I don't believe in doing things willy nilly though. I either do it properly or I don't. I didn't have to post my race today. Only Stazza and 2 other posters knew I was doing it and they would have kept quiet. I weighed it up and decided to just post it as it was because I've always been honest on my log before.
No excuses, just plain and simply as it was. I didn't want to post the stuff about my accident at all but it happened and it's part of my running as it impacted on my race prep so I posted it. I didn't post it to make excuses.
I'm only starting to race this year so have a lot to learn so I have no doubt that racing experience is what I need. We can all agree on that one;)
Thanks again for the post, much appreciated.I'll read it properly again and take it al in when I've finished the pb wine0 -
Mile 1: 7:40 - bang on and felt good (first k was done in 7:20 pace which was WAY too fast for me).
The first 1k was all downhill, and a very fast downhill....maybe that downhill had a negative effect?...so that when you hit the incline just after the 1k mark it hurt more than you expected?
Your log is very honest...the good, bad and ugly....which is why I read it 0 -
yeah maybe had a negative effect and maybe set me up for a bit of a fall.Mile 1: 7:40 - bang on and felt good (first k was done in 7:20 pace which was WAY too fast for me).
The first 1k was all downhill, and a very fast downhill....maybe that downhill had a negative effect?...so that when you hit the incline just after the 1k mark it hurt more than you expected?
Your log is very honest...the good, bad and ugly....which is why I read it
Went out too fast for sure for that first k.
thanks for the comments. Hopefully there'll be some 'good' soon or readership will fall:eek:0 -
I've been guilty of this in the past in a 5k
In fact, I only later realised I misread the watch and was actually on target for a PB (at 2.2 miles:o:o)
The solution is either to not wear the Garmin or learn to race (5ks especially) without looking at it/depending on it for feedback.
yeah good point about the watch. i need to learn to race too for sure.
That must've been a bit of a bummer. Did you drop out like the mentally weak and htfu lacking Ososlo though? Bet you kept going.0 -
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Also, I know it's not for everyone, and I know you like running alone, but joining a club and wearing club colors in races makes it VERY hard to stop and walk or drop out (well, it makes it had for me, anyway). Just a suggestion!
good point. If I ever do decide to join a club it'll definitely be yours. I've only ever heard great things about it.0 -
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At the end of August, I think it’ll be interesting to come back to the 29th June and have a cheeky little goosey: we’ll be able to see if all the advice from the advisers, advising that you should have raced more, was the correct option during your base phase
Hell may be about to freeze over but I agree with stazza in principle here. FWIW I think you should actually stop logging here ososlo. I enjoy your log and wouldn't like to see it go but you have decided to let someone coach you. That means you should do what they say 100%, even if others don't agree. You are getting too many (well intentioned) mixed signals here and you would be better off listening to one voice! I coach a couple of people and they've come back and said X and Y say I should be doing this or that. I tell them they should be coached by that person then!
But above all remember it's meant to be fun
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Hell may be about to freeze over but I agree with stazza in principle here. FWIW I think you should actually stop logging here ososlo. I enjoy your log and wouldn't like to see it go but you have decided to let someone coach you. That means you should do what they say 100%, even if others don't agree. You are getting too many (well intentioned) mixed signals here and you would be better off listening to one voice! I coach a couple of people and they've come back and said X and Y say I should be doing this or that. I tell them they should be coached by that person then!
But above all remember it's meant to be fun
If you look at it like that, I agree! When I'm at work there's nothing I hate more than the people I'm working with saying 'But my friends / children / people on the internet say XYZ.'0 -
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