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A bit behind on logging due to hectic couple of weeks with work and going away last weekend.
Week Beginning 13th Feb:
Mon 13/2 - Easy run 6.82km @5:44 avg
Tue 14/2 - Easy run 8.01km @5:53 avg
Wed 15/2 - No running due to long working hours
Thu 16/2 - As above
Fri 17/2 - Rest - Flew to Warsaw for weekend away with some friends. A belated birthday trip.
Sat 4/2 - Warsaw -Praga parkrun 24:59
Before travelling to Poland I looked to see if there were any parkruns there and low and behold there are three in Warsaw. So I packed the runners in the hope that I would make it up to do it. Its a 9am start there and I was planning lots of beers etc as one does on a weekend away with your mates. I was pretty determined though to ensure I made it up for this and myself and my parkrun buddy for the weekend went hope a bit early (1.30am to be precise) . Well it's all relative but this gave us a better opportunity of being able to crawl out of the bedin the morning.
We made it up in time and got a taxi to the park from the hotel. Werent sure exactly where the stat line was so gave ourselves enough time to try find it. As it turned out it was straight down from entrance a couple of hundred metres with a monument as the meeting point. I quickly established we were in the right place as I saw some people don the unmistakable high viz parkrun style.
Now to say we were not in the best of health was just a slight understatement. The beers and the late indian we had the previous night were still fresh in the memory so to speak! The underfoot conditions around the meeting point were treachorous, neary went on my ear a few times. THe previous snowfall was now ice and it looked dangerous to me at the beginning. But the course seemed to have been heavily gritted and a test run up and down the finishing straight before the off was assurance that it could be done but much care would still have to be taken. THe course was a loop do be done 2.5 times and on the third lap you would cut back up a finishing straight that dissected the loop so the course resembled something like a wonky tara brooch if you looked at on the map. I actually saw one guy slip on a pair of spikes!
The run itself was grand, mainly because a) I didn't vomit, b) I didnt slip and end up on my arse or put my back out. It was a quiteintimate little parkrun, some 45 runners I think. I finished in 23rd place in 24:59 which I was quite happy with considering the conditions of the course and the condition of me!
It was weird listening to them going through the aprkrun director routine in Polish and listening out for the recognisable thinks like "anyone's first time here.." etc
They were a very friendly bunch and I was delighted to get it done. It set us nicely up for the day and needless to say I wasnt so early to bed that night!
Sun 5/2 - No running !!
Date|5k Event|Time|Comments
29/10/2016|St. Anne's PR|35:40|5 mins Walk/2 mins running
5/11/2016|St. Anne's PR|30:50|5 mins W,5 mins R w/6mins at end
12/11/2016|St.Anne's PR|27:07|Jogged whole thing
19/11/2016|St Anne's PR|24:58| Ran by feel. Nice improvement on last week.
26/11/2016|St Anne's PR|24:13| Tracked the 25 min pacer and finished strong
10/12/2016|St.Anne's PR|24:23|Good run out. Good strong finish
17/12/2016|St.Anne's PR|24:14|Some consistency now. 23mins not far off
07/01/2017|St.Anne's PR|26:33|26:18 by my watch? Went to plan. Kept it steady
14/01/2017|St.Annes PR|25:21|Nice and handy.Nothing special
21/01/2017|St.Annes PR|24:03|Almost dipped under 24. Next week for defo
28/01/2017|St Anne's PR|23:15| Very happy since target was to get under 24
04/02/2017|St Anne's PR|23:35| Reasonably happy as the head wasnt in it
11/02/2017|St Anne's PR|26:51| Nice effort with GK as company
18/02/2017|Warsaw PR|24:59|First one on foreign turf.Nice experience0 -
A bit behind on logging due to hectic couple of weeks with work and going away last weekend.
Week Beginning 13th Feb:
Mon 13/2 - Easy run 6.82km @5:44 avg
Tue 14/2 - Easy run 8.01km @5:53 avg
Wed 15/2 - No running due to long working hours
Thu 16/2 - As above
Fri 17/2 - Rest - Flew to Warsaw for weekend away with some friends. A belated birthday trip.
Sat 4/2 - Warsaw -Praga parkrun 24:59
Before travelling to Poland I looked to see if there were any parkruns there and low and behold there are three in Warsaw. So I packed the runners in the hope that I would make it up to do it. Its a 9am start there and I was planning lots of beers etc as one does on a weekend away with your mates. I was pretty determined though to ensure I made it up for this and myself and my parkrun buddy for the weekend went hope a bit early (1.30am to be precise) . Well it's all relative but this gave us a better opportunity of being able to crawl out of the bedin the morning.
We made it up in time and got a taxi to the park from the hotel. Werent sure exactly where the stat line was so gave ourselves enough time to try find it. As it turned out it was straight down from entrance a couple of hundred metres with a monument as the meeting point. I quickly established we were in the right place as I saw some people don the unmistakable high viz parkrun style.
Now to say we were not in the best of health was just a slight understatement. The beers and the late indian we had the previous night were still fresh in the memory so to speak! The underfoot conditions around the meeting point were treachorous, neary went on my ear a few times. THe previous snowfall was now ice and it looked dangerous to me at the beginning. But the course seemed to have been heavily gritted and a test run up and down the finishing straight before the off was assurance that it could be done but much care would still have to be taken. THe course was a loop do be done 2.5 times and on the third lap you would cut back up a finishing straight that dissected the loop so the course resembled something like a wonky tara brooch if you looked at on the map. I actually saw one guy slip on a pair of spikes!
The run itself was grand, mainly because a) I didn't vomit, b) I didnt slip and end up on my arse or put my back out. It was a quiteintimate little parkrun, some 45 runners I think. I finished in 23rd place in 24:59 which I was quite happy with considering the conditions of the course and the condition of me!
It was weird listening to them going through the aprkrun director routine in Polish and listening out for the recognisable thinks like "anyone's first time here.." etc
They were a very friendly bunch and I was delighted to get it done. It set us nicely up for the day and needless to say I wasnt so early to bed that night!
Sun 5/2 - No running !!
Date|5k Event|Time|Comments
29/10/2016|St. Anne's PR|35:40|5 mins Walk/2 mins running
5/11/2016|St. Anne's PR|30:50|5 mins W,5 mins R w/6mins at end
12/11/2016|St.Anne's PR|27:07|Jogged whole thing
19/11/2016|St Anne's PR|24:58| Ran by feel. Nice improvement on last week.
26/11/2016|St Anne's PR|24:13| Tracked the 25 min pacer and finished strong
10/12/2016|St.Anne's PR|24:23|Good run out. Good strong finish
17/12/2016|St.Anne's PR|24:14|Some consistency now. 23mins not far off
07/01/2017|St.Anne's PR|26:33|26:18 by my watch? Went to plan. Kept it steady
14/01/2017|St.Annes PR|25:21|Nice and handy.Nothing special
21/01/2017|St.Annes PR|24:03|Almost dipped under 24. Next week for defo
28/01/2017|St Anne's PR|23:15| Very happy since target was to get under 24
04/02/2017|St Anne's PR|23:35| Reasonably happy as the head wasnt in it
11/02/2017|St Anne's PR|26:51| Nice effort with GK as company
18/02/2017|Warsaw PR|24:59|First one on foreign turf.Nice experience
Well done! And thanks for all your tips on it - we did it yesterday! The snow was back! It was absolutely lashing snow beforehand when I was doing a warm up jog. During the run it wasn't snowing, but there was snow underfoot. Like you said, it was gritted though, so it felt ok, even though sometimes I felt my feet sliding from under me as if I was running on sand. Everyone was very friendly, and I was one of only two runners in shorts!
Hope you enjoyed your birthday trip - it was Eoin's birthday trip too. Great minds!0 -
Well done! And thanks for all your tips on it - we did it yesterday! The snow was back! It was absolutely lashing snow beforehand when I was doing a warm up jog. During the run it wasn't snowing, but there was snow underfoot. Like you said, it was gritted though, so it felt ok, even though sometimes I felt my feet sliding from under me as if I was running on sand. Everyone was very friendly, and I was one of only two runners in shorts!
Hope you enjoyed your birthday trip - it was Eoin's birthday trip too. Great minds!
Fair play, ye Raheny runners put me to shame! I still haven't done a parkrun outside Dublin
Interestingly named winner from 25/2 actually... surely not connected to these guys?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBQalkIeE7s0 -
No, not him! (We met the winner, so can be sure).
It made us think of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMmuZjsrRtY
ETA: another Raheny clubmate will be running it this Saturday, co-incidentally!0 -
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Week Beginning 6th March:
Mon 6/3 - Cycle commute both ways. No running
Tue 7/3 - 10.05km @5:43. HR 133 avg (Easy paced runmute home)
Wed 8/3 - 10.03km @5:40. HR 125avg (Easy paced runmute home)
Thu 9/3 - Rest. Most because I was wrecked. Long days in work and bike trouble
Fri 10/3 - Lunchtime run. 5.67km steady @ 5:11. HR 151 avg
Sat 11/3 - St Anne's parkrun. Had a definite target to get under 23mins. Even dusted off the ST5s. Thought I had gone out too fast on first lap when the time was called at 10:48 but held it toghether. Was nice to be in around people I should be challenging for places again. I reckon I could have gone under 22 if I had really pushed tested all engines but not a risk I needed to take. Happy out with the progress considering the lack of any real regular speed work at the moment. 22:08 @4:36 HR 154 avg (Peaked at 169. My max measured before at 188 at the end of a race)
Sun 12/3 - 16.03km LSR @5:49 . HR Avg 116 bpm (surprisingly low ?)
I've converted to my new Fitbit surge. Not sure how accurate the bpm measurements might be.
Date|5k Event|Time|Comments
29/10/2016|St. Anne's PR|35:40|5 mins Walk/2 mins running
5/11/2016|St. Anne's PR|30:50|5 mins W,5 mins R w/6mins at end
12/11/2016|St.Anne's PR|27:07|Jogged whole thing
19/11/2016|St Anne's PR|24:58| Ran by feel. Nice improvement on last week.
26/11/2016|St Anne's PR|24:13| Tracked the 25 min pacer and finished strong
10/12/2016|St.Anne's PR|24:23|Good run out. Good strong finish
17/12/2016|St.Anne's PR|24:14|Some consistency now. 23mins not far off
07/01/2017|St.Anne's PR|26:33|26:18 by my watch? Went to plan. Kept it steady
14/01/2017|St.Annes PR|25:21|Nice and handy.Nothing special
21/01/2017|St.Annes PR|24:03|Almost dipped under 24. Next week for defo
28/01/2017|St Anne's PR|23:15| Very happy since target was to get under 24
04/02/2017|St Anne's PR|23:35| Reasonably happy as the head wasnt in it
11/02/2017|St Anne's PR|26:51| Nice effort with GK as company
18/02/2017|Warsaw PR|24:59|First one on foreign turf.Nice experience
11/03/2017|St Anne's PR|22:08|Target was sub 23.Surpassed expectations
A good week's work with total of 49.8Km
On the weight watch front:
Starting Weight : 103kg
Last weigh-in :99.5Kg
Today's Weight : 98.7kg0 -
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