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Looks like you guys are holding the postponed meet & train the night after our 5 mileBungy Girl wrote: »Thanks Greenmachine, possibly doing the BHAA 5 miler in Dunboyne next week. Might get another 2 seconds off if I'm lucky
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Wednesday
Really good Pilates class this evening. Our new instructor seems determined to have us all master some of the tougher moves and breaks them down into smaller/easier moves so that they all – eventually – come together. Felt strong today
. Headed out along the promenade after for a very easy medium length run. Tra la la la la up to and along the Wooden Bridge to the end of the pier, then BANG! into the toughest wind I’ve encountered so far this year and that’s saying something. It was so deceptive, I wasn’t prepared and my legs are obviously still tired from Sunday, so I found this a real struggle the whole way back. Finished up in the gym with about half the usual routine (arms/legs and some planks) but too tired and hungry to do any more. Slept like the dead.- 60:00 (6 miles)
Thursday - Fartlek
An easier speed session was called for this morning so chose to do my favourite Fartlek: (30/45/60/75/90/75/60/45/30 seconds with equal recoveries). Did an extra 60 by mistake because my brain was befuddled and lost track :rolleyes:. Enjoyed the session but felt a bit despondent when I saw the paces afterwards on Garmin Connect because they were more like tempo paces than 3K pace. Silly really, I was quite happy with the workout until I saw the splits. Lesson learned, leave the Garmin at home when doing fartlek.- 40:00 (4.4 miles including 9-10 mins fartlek)
I am almost, but not quite, tempted to run on a dreadmill tomorrow to avoid another battle with the wind :eek:.0 -
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I wouldn't be too down about the splits, everyone seems to say that the paces on Garmin over the shorter distances aren't that reliable or worthwhile. More about the effort I would think?yep this does seem to be the case, I think seems to work its best over 1 x mile or 1 x kilometer, everything else seems to produce varying degress of success (or not!).
True, although so far they have been accurate enough so I can't just cherry pick the favourable ones :rolleyes:. If I'm honest I didn't work all that hard this morning so the splits are reflective of that. After a session like this when it's a big FAIL over such short distances I wonder how I ever managed (or will manage ever again) to string 5 miles together at a faster pace. Gotta love adrenaline 0 -
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I wouldn't even time splits as short as that to be honest. Serves no purpose doing so, just run them at the right effort.
Anyway you ran 35.04 minutes for 5 miles on Sunday, that's the shape you are in. The fartlek is just a means to getting a racing result not an objective in itself.
FYP. Thanks Meno, you are right of course. I was just having a mini rant and sure who else is going to listen to me :rolleyes:Meno is right as usual
you're just being hard on yourself.
I probably am. I am also sugar deprived (self-imposed). It's not a good combination!Yep. The race is the most specific session you can do, as ecoli was wont to say. (I think it was him anyway).
Ha ha, I must do it again so. On Tuesday. :pac::pac::pac:0 -
Bungy Girl wrote: »FYP. Thanks Meno, you are right of course. I was just having a mini rant and sure who else is going to listen to me :rolleyes:
I probably am. I am also sugar deprived (self-imposed). It's not a good combination!
Ha ha, I must do it again so. On Tuesday. :pac::pac::pac:
We're here 24/7 to listen to rants of all shapes & sizes have an apple for gods sake before it gets serious!! 0 -
Friday – Recovery
Seem to be doing a lot of recovering this week :rolleyes:. Definitely confirms I left nothing out there on the streets of Terenure (except perhaps a small piece of my soul…)
Early morning trip to the Bons for a Flabs investigation but a swift ‘nothing to see here, credit card please, next!’ means it’s not going to be as simple as I’d hoped. So it’s back to managing it now to reduce the odd of a Flabs Attack (I may patent this for when they finally discover what’s going on and I get to name it). Pilates was good, Body Balance less good (another new instructor) then a recovery run around the Raheny 5 route before casting my vote and trying to explain what the referendum was about to BG Jr. She thinks you should be allowed marry whoever you want (she’s going to marry Batman)- 5 miles (48:00)
Question: Has Manhattan Popcorn always contained almost 20% saturated fat :eek: (hydrogenated coconut oil) ??? Halfway through a bag last night and had to bin it once I actually read the label. Back to popping my own obviously but I seem to remember it being touted as a healthy snack before
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Sorry it's not the quick fix, BG. Don't know about flabs in particular but lots of these things can go through quiet spells when you'll get a break from "managing" (snore ...). Good to see you left it all on on the roads of Terenure, you'll have banked some extra fitness for the next attempt 0
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Sunday – Rest
This was tough! Very odd not to be running on a Sunday when not injured. Had to live vicariously through BG Jr running the 60m dash in the Community Games. Silver medal, woo hoo! Good to know someone in the family can bring home the bling- TOTAL WEEKLY MILES: 28
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I should probably add - in case people think I am a bit thick or have a death wish - that the pitch was empty when I started my strides. Two lads wandered on during the second last one and started hitting (batting ? hurling ?) to each other. I though they might desist during the last rep but apparently not 0
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what does that mean? You went faster in a 10k than you did tonight in a 5 mile? but it's a 5 mile pb? :cool: a pb is a pb!
Yeah it's a Pb and I am happy because it was much better than last week's 5k. Ran 31:12 officially tonight (no start mat, I had 31:09) but I went through 5 miles in a 10k a few years ago in 30:50ish.
Anyway sorry for the hijack, well done BG and get youself on that table 0 -
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BHAA Government Services 5 miles (Dunboyne)
34:56 gun time (PB)
Garmin Splits (6:55, 6:59, 7:01, 7:05, 6:51 + 3 seconds to make it to the finish line)
199th overall, 20th ? F, 5th in age group
After panicking all day that I wasn’t going to make it to Dunboyne on time, I arrived with over an hour to spare :rolleyes:. Did a 2 mile warm up, out and back the last mile of the route at a snail’s pace to waste time. Strolled towards the start line, met FD and a couple of clubmates along the way, then lined up 6 or 7 rows back. There was a big crowd (450+) and I didn’t want to get in the way of the faster runners but at the same time I’d be kicking myself if I didn’t make the target by a few seconds having started too far back. Turned out to be fine, I ended up with similar paced runners quickly enough without getting elbowed and settled into a comfortably hard pace. I reckon I lost about 5 seconds getting to the start line so it was tight in the end (yes, Meno, I agree !) and a chip time would have given me a bit of breathing space. But it is what it is and I started the watch on the gun so I wouldn’t be kidding myself.
The course is lovely – country roads, flatish but a few little bumps here and there to make it interesting. And of course the weather was just perfect, warm but not too warm, a gentle breeze but not windy.
I had remembered to set the watch to pace/time rather than the pace/distance setting I had used for Terenure. And of course the lap beeper gizmo that flashes up each mile split which is really handy (this is probably old hat to all you Garmin addicts out there, but I’m like a child with a new toy).
First mile was grand, felt easy. Second mile was ok (at this point in Terenure I was already dying…). Third mile I was starting to work hard. Fourth mile I may have waved that magic wand. Fifth mile I had to tell myself to HTFU or I wasn’t going to make it and having got that far it would be a bit defeatist to not give it everything for 7 minutes. 7 minutes – less than an episode of Charlie & Lola, less time than it takes to drink a cup of tea. But this 7 minutes was the longest of my life. The magic wand wasn’t working, my legs, lungs and abs (not the Flabs though) were in bits. There was a marker at the 4.5 mile point, if I could just hang on I was going to make it. Told myself if I got to the final turn before the track by 33 minutes I was going to make it. 33:00 on the button. Oh holy feck the track is going on forever, just keep going for one more minute then you can stop I promise, 30 more seconds, 10 seconds, 5 seconds more. Aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh. I definitely don’t want to see any race photos. I have no doubt I look like I was being chased by the devil around that track. The things we do to get our name in lights on a spreadsheet.
Congratulations to Firedance on her shiny new PB and to Meno on his official one. Good to meet AMK and Mulberry too. Thanks to Dubgal for the tapering advice, that must have been what clinched it.
That’s me done with the 5 milers for this year. I really don’t think I can improve over that distance for the foreseeable so going to try for a 10K PB then hang up the racing shoes for the summer to focus on base building.- 7 miles incl. 5 @ 6:59 . No cool down (tut, tut)
Oh, and as an incentive for the sub 35 I had promised myself a pair of these beauties. 0 -
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What a great report and well done again on the well-deserved PB! Love the reward
DG I have good and bad news for you.
The good news is that Emilia won last night. I could see her up the road for most of the race but she was really strong and never drifted back.
Now the bad news.
I told her she seemed to pace it really well (for once) and she told me it was thanks to the big dirty Garmin 305 she had on her arm. No gold jewellery watch last night :eek::eek:0 -
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