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An event invite from Western Eagles Galway Orienteering popped up on my Facebook timeline a few weeks back and I added myself as a plan for a Sunday morning outing with the family.
My son loves maps and is always drawing treasure maps which only he can follow so I pitched the idea to the family for a bit of fun outing.
Edel has never done orienteering, its been 20+ years since I did any (outside of the Beast this year) and its great fun for the kids to go exploring in the woods. So off we went Sunday morning to register at Merlin Park Woods in Galway. We were handed two maps and two control cards.
Ruaidhri had it all worked out that we would work as a team with him and daddy going one way and the girls going the other way.
He's 4.
Once I explained the map and what we would be doing he decided we could all go together. He was 'Chief Navigator', daddy was assistant, mummy was the controller in charge of dibbing in at the stations and Rachel was scout, who took instruction on directions and found the control points.
Chief navigaor pointing out the way.
All sorted and off we went. The course was mapped out nicely and the first control points were easy to pick out. Once we were into the woods we had options of following trails or cutting through the woods.
We had to make team decision on what route to choose and at one point after explaining that:
(1). we could go through the woods but if we got stuck we'd have to turn back and go around or
(2). we could stick to the main path and make good progress.
The scout decided to stick to the path.
There was one sticky situation towards the end where we pushed through a trail in the woods to find we were heading away from our goal. Doubling back along the fence line we found a gap and with a quick one, two the kids were fired over and we followed off to CP8.
From here it was a short trot back towards CP9 and a circum-navigation of a fenced area back to the starting point where scout ensured that the team was together (good practise for #AdventureRacing) before dibbing in and handing back the control cards.
All in all a great morning adventure a nice 3km loop and the best thing is there will be another event in 2 weeks time in Renville Park.0 -
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Good questions that make me question what I've been doing.
Ok background, I started running focused on pace, then after educating myself quickly bought a HR and ran to zones. Not understanding what I was doing fully I got Lactate testing done in TCD 7/8 years ago and understood a bit more.
Since then I've been in and out of training with kids, life etc and defaulted back to HR (without any major plan) for the past few years.
With what I felt was a nice base fitness through regular training I took on Galway 70.3 (twice) and a couple of other races at which I seemed to do better on endurance based training.
Two years ago thanks to Fran's Plan I took a different approach to marathoon training and realised I was probably limiting my progress through solo HR training. I found I was relatively fast for a fat, under trained aul fellow!!
Curiousity and a modicum of necessity led me back for re-testing to find that indeed I was training well but at a zone below the point at which it would become 'beneficial'.
So, to answer the important question. Run is governed by HR (as I generally did) but governed through using the correct zones (now that I can personalise the zones on my V800
) Over time the pace will follow within those zones, pace should always be secondary IMO and I would advise the same ideal to anyone starting the run groups with me. 0 -
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I've been a slave to pace and learned feic all. The penny dropped one day doing a long run when I had a few pace blocks to do and killed myself to do them. Overreached completely. HR not only keeps your sessions more realistic and controlled but you learn more about your body. RPE gets more accurate and that's the real indicator. Pace has as place, mainly intervals.
How many people do 'easy' runs too hard? *puts hand up*
HR first, pace second, then cadence, then ground contact, then bounce, then pics of where you run while you run, then......
Sure why else would you need the v800
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I've been running far too easy. My easy pace is around 5:10/ km at the moment. When I would have previously tipped away at 5:30 ish.
Tempo this evening so curious to see how that goes.shotgunmcos wrote: »Sure why else would you need the v800
50 hour battery, multisport capability, personalise your own sports (kayak for example) looks good, doesn't fog.... 0 -
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So, you weren't doing what most of us do, which is running the LSRs too fast? You were actually running them too slow??
A rarity, if so!
And you don't look fat! You keep saying you're fat. Where are the fat photos??!!!
You're too kind Dory.
I hide it well
Yep its mad, I was running at a level I thought was right but the test shows I've a wide aerobic base and as Matt said when testing 'things are going to happen fast' as in within a very small HR band there was a big jump in blood lactate.0 -
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Date | Run Distance | Bike Distance | Time | Avg BPM | AvgPace/Km | KCal
13 Oct 2014 | 9.5 | | 00:49:38 | 147 | 00:05:13 | 787
14 Oct 2014 || 9.6 | 00:23:40 | 141 | | 343
14 Oct 2014 | 11.82 | | 00:57:59 | 156 | 00:04:54 | 1009
15 Oct 2014 | 9.52 | | 00:52:01 | 148 | 00:05:27 | 830
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15 Oct 2014 ||9.5 | 00:25:15 | 137 ||355
16 Oct 2014 ||9.73 | 00:27:29 | 137 | | 387
16 Oct 2014 | 11.63 | | 00:59:56 | 156 | 00:05:08 | 1059
19 Oct 2014 | | 23.74 | 02:00:43 |148 | |1933
Taking the second half of the week the basic premise is I am wrecked.
The kids, daughter mostly, have attrocious sleeping habits. It's like a merry-go-round in our house with everyone swapping beds. I'm normally a sound sleeper but when I'm woken in the night I don't go back easily and often end up reading for 2 or 3 hours.
By Friday I had no intentions or will to cycle, let alone run into work. It's a long day too as open til 7:30pm.
Saturday I was up early with the mind to do a 1.5 hour recovery run (as per plan) before work, out at 7 back for 8:30 shower etc. However the slightest hesitation had me bailing and chilling with the kids.
Sunday, BTH had me up at a godforsaken hour to drive him to Ballyhoura!!
In fairness Mrs AKW insisted that I head off with the cerw for a few hours R&R. Considering I've been in everyday since I was at Achill she reckoned I needed time out or possibly time off.
Great morning of craic, no need to rehash as so many others have filled you in but the V800 vs Fenix 2 Special Edition* battle will continue. The V800 is ahead on just being Polar and self cleaning, all other features are irrelevant, though the course we did is now a favourite and waypoints / tracking / navigation are now available on my wrist and if you would like to experience it you can check out the Relive feature on the Polar website
and if you click "View Details" it'll show you the data....
*very important to avoid a banning that you acknowledge the SE element of this watch 0 -
Thought just struck me too in response to :
@amphkingwest @EugeneFeely @mossym155 @triharderkate All clean faces bar Sean & I. Also out, 310xt,310xt,310xt,910xt,V800,Fenix2 SE!
Of all the watches on display and in use it is quite obvious through a process of elimination to arrive at the obvious fact that there was only one accurate watch there......
Polar V800 0 -
The other thing from yesterday was the spectacular 'off' that I had much to the enjoyment of MCOS.
We were flying along the brown trail, I was really enjoying how comfortable I was handling the bike and going with the curves. There was a series of steps and I dropped nicely off each of them nailing the landing but one of them caught me adjusting my feet.
Bike lifted off nicely, then I lifted off the bike, the legs went akimbo, I hit the apex of the arc and as body and bike sucumbed to the overpowering attraction of gravity in a long drawn out, slowmontion "NOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo!!!" I scrambled to get the feet back on the pedals.
The advantage of being 71, is the accumulated wisdom of knowing that if the feet don't make the pedals, clutching the saddle with your inner thighs will dimminish the damage to the undercarriage.
However I was yet to learn that it doesn't eliminate the injury. Ouch!! :eek: :eek:
I'm glad someone found it amusing though as MCOS struggled to contain himself though he very nearly had a bike implanted in his head as he stopped mid trail on a blind bend after a big jump fightening a stripe into the saddle of the CUBE BTH was riding 0 -
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