Never say never

aquinn

How's the twinge after pilates?

Mrs Mc

It seems to be gone but I haven't run since Sunday. In Galway with work so the intention was to hit the gym in the hotel when I got here but delayed hitting the road from Dublin , caught in traffic and awful weather coming down has me knackered so canned that idea and might get to bed early and get up in the morning for a swim or run before work. Will keep you posted.

Mrs Mc

Monday 15 Feb Pilates tonight lots of core work felt really sleepy after it not sure why.

Tues 16 travel with work great intentions of using hotel facilities but was wrecked after the drive down I'm such a woss. Terrible nights sleep so plans of early session in the gym also gone.

Wed 17 Feb

Graduates plan is back in action this week with 50 mins easy. Decided against the winter series 2 miler with Raheny Shamrocks tonight even though I enjoy these felt it was better to take it easy after my hamstring twinge on Sunday. Decided to head for the coast so layered up taking the first mile very handy to test the water. Other than tired legs that needed to be loosened out first mile went with no twinges so upped the pace to where it should be for the next 4 miles. Avg pace 10.29 splits 11.01, 10.20, 10.13, 10.22, 10.23. No twinges bar the usual which have just become the norm now but happy to say the hamstring seems fine . Spent 20 mins doing Gerard Hartman rope stretches and foam rolling when I came home.

Firedance

Mrs Mc wrote: »

Spent 20 mins doing Gerard Hartman rope stretches and foam rolling when I came home.

interestingly the talk BG and I were at on Monday talked about how doing strength sessions eliminates the need to spend 20 mins foam rolling after a run, I can't corroborate though as I'm woeful at sticking to my own ST

Glad the hamstring is better.

FBOT01

Firedance wrote: »

interestingly the talk BG and I were at on Monday talked about how doing strength sessions eliminates the need to spend 20 mins foam rolling after a run, I can't corroborate though as I'm woeful at sticking to my own ST

Glad the hamstring is better.

Tell us more. Did they recommend particular strength sessions?

Firedance

FBOT01 wrote: »

Tell us more. Did they recommend particular strength sessions?

They gave us an outline of one alright, they mentioned the meat & spuds oft a session such as deadlifts, squats & then the other suplementry exercises like single arm rows, single leg squat etc, I think I made some notes . They're repeating the talk though check their website (sports clinic santry) you should both go along.

FBOT01

Firedance wrote: »

They gave us an outline of one alright, they mentioned the meat & spuds oft a session such as deadlifts, squats & then the other suplementry exercises like single arm rows, single leg squat etc, I think I made some notes . They're repeating the talk though check their website (sports clinic santry) you should both go along.

Cheers AM. I will check it out.

Murph_D

Firedance wrote: »

interestingly the talk BG and I were at on Monday talked about how doing strength sessions eliminates the need to spend 20 mins foam rolling after a run...

There's a need for that? Have to say I'm very averse to the auld roller. Hopefully I'll get away with it a bit longer!

Mrs Mc

Firedance wrote: »

interestingly the talk BG and I were at on Monday talked about how doing strength sessions eliminates the need to spend 20 mins foam rolling after a run, I can't corroborate though as I'm woeful at sticking to my own ST

Glad the hamstring is better.

It was probably more 20 mins stretching and the 2 * 1 mins on the foam roller on the calves and hamstring. Would be bored of my head doing 20 mins foam rolling !!!

Mrs Mc

Thursday 18th Feb

60 mins easy on the plan today. Still exhausted after my trip to Galway must be the effect of leaving the city limits !!! Text Mrs KennyG to see if she wanted to keep me company but Kenny Jnr wasn't well and would not let G out of her sight. KennyG however said he had a recovery run to do assured me a 10.20 pace was good for him so met him in Raheny for this one. Very cold out tonight. Didn't look at my watch much as the pace felt steady and decided I'd just keep up with G. Didn't pass any runners out tonight they must all have sense to say in their warm homes. Headed down the howth road and onto the coast to a lovely clear night perfect for running. FBOT had given me a route to loop back to Raheny that was to give us 6 miles. Was disgusted that we were only hitting 4.5 miles coming up Watermill Road. Cross words will be had !! So we looped around the Raheny 5 finish. This is where I introduced G to my OCD side. You can't stop a run at 5.74 miles so I made him run around the block so that we clocked 6 miles don't mind if it goes over the 6 so long as it's 6. I know there's more of you out there !! Was delighted with the pace of this run avg pace 10.02, splits 10.13, 9.57, 9.53, 9.58, 9.58, 10.14. Distance 6.02 Miles. Happy with this one I must do a lot of day dreaming when I run on my own.

aquinn

Mrs Mc wrote: »

Thursday 18th Feb

This is where I introduced G to my OCD side. You can't stop a run at 5.74 miles so I made him run around the block so that we clocked 6 miles don't mind if it goes over the 6 so long as it's 6. I know there's more of you out there !!

What are you on about? This is COMPLETELY NORMAL.

Firedance

Mrs Mc wrote: »

This is where I introduced G to my OCD side. You can't stop a run at 5.74 miles so I made him run around the block so that we clocked 6 miles don't mind if it goes over the 6 so long as it's 6. I know there's more of you out there !!

MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! LOVE IT you're so right, you can do 6.1 - 6.3 but then you're bordering on the opps better bring it to 6.5, once you're over the .5 though you HAVE to go to the next mile :D:D

Mrs Mc

aquinn wrote: »

What are you on about? This is COMPLETELY NORMAL.

Thank you !!! KennyG just weird !

Mrs Mc

Firedance wrote: »

MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! LOVE IT you're so right, you can do 6.1 - 6.3 but then you're bordering on the opps better bring it to 6.5, once you're over the .5 though you HAVE to go to the next mile :D:D

Ha ha knew there was more of you there my neighbours must think I'm cracked running past my gate just to get the distance correct. One bad day during marathon training I passed my house/road 3 times.... There were tears that day ;( ha ha

Mrs Mc

Fri 19th Feb
Rest

Sat 20th Feb

Life got seriously in the way today. Between going to a wake last night, an anniversary mass this morning, a fund raiser for the hospice that my neighbour was having and a removal this evening, my mood was not the best this evening and the last thing I wanted to do was go running. Particularly as it was a pyramid type session and it was dark and I just didn't feel like going. But I knew that once I got out the door it was going to be just the tonic I needed. So the graduates plan had 10 mins warm up, 7,6,5 mins @10km pace with 3 mins recovery and then 3,2,1 mins @5km pace with 2 mins recovery and 10 mins cool down. So back to pace calculation again. Working off my 10km PB which is 56.51 and my new Mc Millan target which is 53.35 I decided to go somewhere in the middle which was 55 mins which was a pace of around 9.10 a mile. My recent pb for 5km was about 8.27 a mile. Decided to hit the coast again for this one, to avoid crossing any roads or traffic lights.

10 mins w/u pace 10.40
7 mins pace 9.02
6 mins pace 9.02
5 mins pace 8.59
3 mins pace 8.08 probably too fast
2 mins pace 7.50 okay need some work on this
1 min pace 7.42
10 mins c/d 11.17

Total distance 5.8 miles time 58.06 mins average pace 9.59 yes KennyG I did run past my gate to get 58 mins and not 57.16

Need to work on the 5km pace mins did them too fast I reckon and did them more like strides instead of 5km pace. Putting this down to the settings on my watch didn't have pace and time on the same setting so had to flick between them and I was trying to be not too dependant on the watch and start to understand my pace a bit better..... need to do some more work on this I think !!! Felt great after the run and it was just what I needed.

Killerz

Sounds like a lot of demands on your time and emotions at the moment... but that's what I love about running - so good for the head. Sounds like it was indeed just the tonic. Fair play.

Mrs Mc

Killerz wrote: »

Sounds like a lot of demands on your time and emotions at the moment... but that's what I love about running - so good for the head. Sounds like it was indeed just the tonic. Fair play.

Yes if you could bottle how you feel after a run you'd be rich, its just the getting out the door is hard !!!:D

Firedance

Fair play to you for getting out the door, its half the battle most of the time for sure. Super session too A

Mrs Mc

Firedance wrote: »

Fair play to you for getting out the door, its half the battle most of the time for sure. Super session too A

Thanks AM

Singer

Good going given the circumstances. Sometimes I think I run better when there's some real life stuff going on

Bungy Girl

Super session, MrsMc! Sub 25 can't be long coming, just sayin'.

Nothing quite like a run, particularly a tough one, when your mind is otherwise occupied. I think you go faster than normal because your brain isn't focussing on the pain of the run itself, because it's thinking about the the real life stuff instead, so it lets you run faster because you're not feeling the pain like you normally do. That's my theory for a Sunday morning anyway

Mrs Mc

Thanks guys. Here's hoping as I've to get my a$$ out the door again and do 9 miles. Think sub 25 is a bit away yet but it's going in the right direction

Mrs Mc

Sunday 21st of Feb

Graduates plan had 95 mins easy today. What a horrible day out there today decided not to set the alarm today as I was tired going to bed and just head out when I woke up. Turned down the offer to run around Howth Head this morning at 8..... too much like hard work Didn't wake till 10 and I could hear the rain and the wind outside immediate thoughts were yeuch !! Headed out at 11 and planned the route so the coastal run was with the wind and when I looped back around Howth Road it would be a bit more sheltered and into the wind. 95 mins would get me in or around 9.5 miles and the OCD in me left it nice and rounded and set out with the 9.5 miles as the plan. This was a hard one but I enjoyed it all the same, the miles into the wind were tough and the change in my splits are very evident. Total distance 9.55 miles avg pace 10.37. Splits are 10.39, 10.33, 10.32,10.42,11.01,10.39, 10.33, 10.33, 10.10.

Kennyg71

Ran around green to an even 14 miles, so as not to upset you if you read mileage , good run well done.

denis b

Great minds think alike. Had the same idea to beat the wind but sounds as though your plan worked a little better. Well done A, that's 2 hard days on the mind and body but its done and dusted.

Mrs Mc

Kennyg71 wrote: »

Ran around green to an even 14 miles, so as not to upset you if you read mileage , good run well done.

I am suitably impressed G welcome to OCD

Mrs Mc

denis b wrote: »

Great minds think alike. Had the same idea to beat the wind but sounds as though your plan worked a little better. Well done A, that's 2 hard days on the mind and body but its done and dusted.

Looking forward to the rest day tomorrow D we are such warriors !:P

annapr

Kennyg71 wrote: »

Ran around green to an even 14 miles, so as not to upset you if you read mileage , good run well done.

. Don't get sucked in to the OCD around here G! We have to resist

Plus it messes with their minds when you do mileage ending in .9

Good session, A, you nailed it!

Kennyg71

annapr wrote: »

. Don't get sucked in to the OCD around here G! We have to resist

Plus it messes with their minds when you do mileage ending in .9

Good session, A, you nailed it!

Only LR try to make sure hit target. Rest pretty much when hit front gate.

Mrs Mc

annapr wrote: »

. Don't get sucked in to the OCD around here G! We have to resist

Plus it messes with their minds when you do mileage ending in .9

Good session, A, you nailed it!

Anna I'm shocked thought you would be with us on the OCD !!! But then aren't you still on km

aquinn

annapr wrote: »

. Don't get sucked in to the OCD around here G! We have to resist

Plus it messes with their minds when you do mileage ending in .9

Good session, A, you nailed it!

Stop freaking me out, not funny.

Oh and if you need me for a sub 25 pacing gig let me know. Anna loved it and I gave her a nice cushion too, a very generous one actually.

Mrs Mc

aquinn wrote: »

Stop freaking me out, not funny.

Oh and if you need me for a sub 25 pacing gig let me know. Anna loved it and I gave her a nice cushion too, a very generous one actually.

Thanks for the offer might take you up on that in the distant future

Mrs Mc

Well running has been crap this week life and travel for work and working this weekend in Galway has resulted in very little running. Found myself playing catch up all week missing Pilates Monday and doing Wednesday's class to make up resulting in running late Wednesday night thankfully Mrs KennyG joined me for this one so it meant I got out. 4 miles easy done. Work and other commitments has taken over with the result today was looking like the only day I might manage to get out after Wednesday. There was a park run in Athlone which was 15 mins away so that was the plan but unfortunately had to go into work for 8 so it meant the threadmill was going to be the only option today. Yeuch it's so boring. Managed 5 km but pace was slow but got it done. Spent another while in the gym cross training and doing some core work and finished off with a few lengths of the pool and a sauna. Suddenly started to feel a bit relaxed and ready to head back into work for 3. 9/10miles on the plan tomorrow not sure when I'm going to get it done back in work tomorrow and then hopefully hitting the road home by 4. Feeling terribly guilty at not following plan this week particularly with ballycotton next week. But reckon catching up on my z's is better preparation for next weekend. ;(

Kennyg71

Better to be well rested for sure, will need all energies for ballycotton, your running had been pretty consistent lately so no worries:)

Firedance

Kennyg71 wrote: »

Better to be well rested for sure, will need all energies for ballycotton, your running had been pretty consistent lately so no worries:)

+ 1 to this A, you've been extremely consistent, don't feel guilty - sometimes other things will take priority and that's ok.

annapr

aquinn wrote: »

Stop freaking me out, not funny.

Oh and if you need me for a sub 25 pacing gig let me know. Anna loved it and I gave her a nice cushion too, a very generous one actually.

:eek: :eek: that's not quite how I remember it! But yes she is a persistent pacer

Kennyg71

Best luck Sunday, nice shiny new PB on the way, no pressure:) sure that's only for tyres

Mrs Mc

Kennyg71 wrote: »

Best luck Sunday, nice shiny new PB on the way, no pressure:)

Thanks G no pressure ! Hoping for a pb too ! hopefully the weather will be ok Sunday.

Bungy Girl

Have a great race Mrs Mc! You deserve a super time and I'm sure you'll get it. Enjoy the apres-race too .

Mrs Mc

Bungy Girl wrote: »

Have a great race Mrs Mc! You deserve a super time and I'm sure you'll get it. Enjoy the apres-race too .

That's G hoping it's a good one

Firedance

Best of luck A, have a super race and of course.. ENJOY!!

Mrs Mc

Firedance wrote: »

Best of luck A, have a super race and of course.. ENJOY!!

Ha ha think I heard that somewhere before sure if you can't enjoy it you shouldn't be doing it. Good luck you too. Looking forward to the report

Ferris B

Expecting great things after all that training. Give it socks.

Mrs Mc

Ferris B wrote: »

Expecting great things after all that training. Give it socks.

Thanks C hope it's a good one

tang1

Best of luck Sunday, hope it goes well for you.

Mrs Mc

tang1 wrote: »

Best of luck Sunday, hope it goes well for you.

Thanks have no music planned for the journey though hope this isn't part of mental preparation that I don't know about !!!!

yaboya1

Good luck on Sunday A.
Will see you down there.

Mrs Mc

yaboya1 wrote: »

Good luck on Sunday A.
Will see you down there.

Cheers P

Duanington

Best of luck Sunday A - you've been training well of late so get out and reap the rewards!

Mrs Mc

Duanington wrote: »

Best of luck Sunday A - you've been training well of late so get out and reap the rewards!

Thanks D hopefully it will be a good one friends are down there tonight and the locals forecasting heavy rain on Sunday ... Ah well best pack the bin liners !!! ;(