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Monday 27th: Rest Day
Tuesday 28th: Cant remember this one too much. Just more very easy stuff thrown into the ledger. 8.2 miles @ 9:08
Wednesday 29th: Session day. This one went a bit wrong. I got up before realising I hadn't enough time to do the session. I decided that as I was up I'd go out for a few gentle miles anyway and defer the session until evening. I did 4.1 miles @ 9:19. I went to Marlay Park that evening for my 3 x 10 mins threshold (6:39-6:49) and did it on the lap in front of the house. First rep was at 6:42 and the subsequent 2 reps were a bit faster than planned but the effort felt right, (6:38 and 6:32).
Thursday 30th: Marlay Park mostly and a lap of Endas Park as well. A 10 mile run but not paced very evenly. Ended up being a 9:49 average but that was 3 miles on my own at my usual paces, 3 miles with someone doing 11 minute/ mile recovery run and then 4 again alone at normal pace.
Friday 31st: 90 mins easy around the local roads. 10.2 miles @ 8:56
Saturday 1st: 90 mins easy again. I decided I'd throw Poppintee Parkrun into the middle of this and to just do it at moderate pace. The Parkrun was great. After a couple of Kms I got chatting to a man out pacing his early teens daughter to try to get a PB to beat her 23:45. This pace was perfect moderate pace for me so I stayed with them. The girl was ever so tough. She was blowing hard all the way and really fighting. I joined in with encouraging her and stayed behind them to the finish. So close! 23:45 again!! A few very easy cooldown miles to get up to the 10 for the morning.
Sunday 2nd: What a busy day!! First things first, I had to get my run done. Plan had a 75 minute run at moderate pace. As my moderate pace is 7:46-8:01 I decided to change it slightly to 10 miles. Up to now I had been setting runs like this on my watch in one block. It meant however that pace changes late in the run did not affect the average too much and meant pacing was difficult. For this one I broke it into 5 consecutive two mile workouts with the last 3 to be speeding up by a few seconds. I did a 2 mile warmup before getting down to it. The first two 2 mile blocks out around Airside were at 8 minute pace, nice and comfortable. The next 3 segments were out and back some of the FD10 route where preparations for water stations were in full flow. Segments 3 and 4 were bang on plan at 7:47 and 7:39 but I had a bit of a brain fart and ran the last bit at 7:08
I was wrecked. Time for a carton of chocolate milk, a change of tshirt and then back into Swords Main Street to meet a few of the novices group.
It was nice to briefly meet Huzzah, Kittyclaws, Dealerz, Gypsylee and Juke before the start. I then jogged out to the water station at 2.5 miles to get a vantage point to give a shout to anyone I knew. Plenty of Boardsies passed...AMK, MurphD, aquinn (I only know that from D's race report :pac:), Omeceron, Lazare, Damo, TBO, Rossi, ReeReeG, Applegirl and the 5 from earlier. I got a few other shouts but for the life of me I had no idea who they were from!!
Thanks to the shape of the course a short 1k jog brought me back to the 9 mile mark where I got to see most go through before walking back in to Swords. The speed of Scullion coming down the hill at the point :eek:
Then it was home, quick shower, dinner and down to the pub to get a good seat for the match. I have to admit to a mild panic attack and feeling of impending doom after 18 minutes of the game but thankfully the best Gaelic football team ever quickly took control. Far far too many pints were consumed before, during and after the match which led to some stupid drunken texting later in the evening (more on this later
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Weeks miles: 64
August miles: 243
September miles: 25
YTD miles: 1687
So to today, 2 days before the Ratoath Half. One of the next arbitrary round number targets I have is a sub 1:30 half marathon. My PB from Bohermeen is 1:34:12. I used the Kilcock 10 mile to see how long I could hold the required pace. I did it...for 10 miles....and not one step further could I have gone. So a quick bit of revision had me think I'd aim for a low to mid 1:31 in Ratoath. Eminently sensible I thought. :pac: Now back to that drunken texting...two of the grads had also been thinking of similar times for it, post match bravado took over and next thing we have agreed to going with the 1:30 pacers!!!
Monday mornings sobriety brought me back to my senses. Time to back out of this madness. The best of intentions and all that...long story short I have been cajoled, bullied, pressured, slagged off, accused of sandbagging :pac: and had my manhood questioned! So it's back on. I see this only ending in one way for me...pain! I keep getting images in my head that just won't go away. They're from Ireland's Fittest Family. There is a challenge on that called Hang Tough where family members hang suspended over an icy cold river and hold on for as long as they can before the inevitable plunge into the dark abyss below! Ratoath is shaping up to being my personal Hang Tough!! :eek: The only question is at what mile will I drop 0 -
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So to today, 2 days before the Ratoath Half. One of the next arbitrary round number targets I have is a sub 1:30 half marathon. My PB from Bohermeen is 1:34:12. I used the Kilcock 10 mile to see how long I could hold the required pace. I did it...for 10 miles....and not one step further could I have gone. So a quick bit of revision had me think I'd aim for a low to mid 1:31 in Ratoath. Eminently sensible I thought. :pac: Now back to that drunken texting...two of the grads had also been thinking of similar times for it, post match bravado took over and next thing we have agreed to going with the 1:30 pacers!!!
Monday mornings sobriety brought me back to my senses. Time to back out of this madness. The best of intentions and all that...long story short I have been cajoled, bullied, pressured, slagged off, accused of sandbagging :pac: and had my manhood questioned! So it's back on. I see this only ending in one way for me...pain! I keep getting images in my head that just won't go away. They're from Ireland's Fittest Family. There is a challenge on that called Hang Tough where family members hang suspended over an icy cold river and hold on for as long as they can before the inevitable plunge into the dark abyss below! Ratoath is shaping up to being my personal Hang Tough!! :eek: The only question is at what mile will I drop
It'll be mile 13.1 before you drop. Super consistent for months on end now and will definitely hold you in good stead. Only problem for you might be me clinging to your ankle as you leave me in your wake!!!!0 -
Monday 27th: Rest Day
Tuesday 28th: Cant remember this one too much. Just more very easy stuff thrown into the ledger. 8.2 miles @ 9:08
Wednesday 29th: Session day. This one went a bit wrong. I got up before realising I hadn't enough time to do the session. I decided that as I was up I'd go out for a few gentle miles anyway and defer the session until evening. I did 4.1 miles @ 9:19. I went to Marlay Park that evening for my 3 x 10 mins threshold (6:39-6:49) and did it on the lap in front of the house. First rep was at 6:42 and the subsequent 2 reps were a bit faster than planned but the effort felt right, (6:38 and 6:32).
Thursday 30th: Marlay Park mostly and a lap of Endas Park as well. A 10 mile run but not paced very evenly. Ended up being a 9:49 average but that was 3 miles on my own at my usual paces, 3 miles with someone doing 11 minute/ mile recovery run and then 4 again alone at normal pace.
Friday 31st: 90 mins easy around the local roads. 10.2 miles @ 8:56
Saturday 1st: 90 mins easy again. I decided I'd throw Poppintee Parkrun into the middle of this and to just do it at moderate pace. The Parkrun was great. After a couple of Kms I got chatting to a man out pacing his early teens daughter to try to get a PB to beat her 23:45. This pace was perfect moderate pace for me so I stayed with them. The girl was ever so tough. She was blowing hard all the way and really fighting. I joined in with encouraging her and stayed behind them to the finish. So close! 23:45 again!! A few very easy cooldown miles to get up to the 10 for the morning.
Sunday 2nd: What a busy day!! First things first, I had to get my run done. Plan had a 75 minute run at moderate pace. As my moderate pace is 7:46-8:01 I decided to change it slightly to 10 miles. Up to now I had been setting runs like this on my watch in one block. It meant however that pace changes late in the run did not affect the average too much and meant pacing was difficult. For this one I broke it into 5 consecutive two mile workouts with the last 3 to be speeding up by a few seconds. I did a 2 mile warmup before getting down to it. The first two 2 mile blocks out around Airside were at 8 minute pace, nice and comfortable. The next 3 segments were out and back some of the FD10 route where preparations for water stations were in full flow. Segments 3 and 4 were bang on plan at 7:47 and 7:39 but I had a bit of a brain fart and ran the last bit at 7:08 I was wrecked. Time for a carton of chocolate milk, a change of tshirt and then back into Swords Main Street to meet a few of the novices group.
It was nice to briefly meet Huzzah, Kittyclaws, Dealerz, Gypsylee and Juke before the start. I then jogged out to the water station at 2.5 miles to get a vantage point to give a shout to anyone I knew. Plenty of Boardsies passed...AMK, MurphD, aquinn (I only know that from D's race report :pac:), Omeceron, Lazare, Damo, TBO, Rossi, ReeReeG, Applegirl and the 5 from earlier. I got a few other shouts but for the life of me I had no idea who they were from!!
Thanks to the shape of the course a short 1k jog brought me back to the 9 mile mark where I got to see most go through before walking back in to Swords. The speed of Scullion coming down the hill at the point :eek:
Then it was home, quick shower, dinner and down to the pub to get a good seat for the match. I have to admit to a mild panic attack and feeling of impending doom after 18 minutes of the game but thankfully the best Gaelic football team ever quickly took control. Far far too many pints were consumed before, during and after the match which led to some stupid drunken texting later in the evening (more on this later).
Weeks miles: 64
August miles: 243
September miles: 25
YTD miles: 1687
So to today, 2 days before the Ratoath Half. One of the next arbitrary round number targets I have is a sub 1:30 half marathon. My PB from Bohermeen is 1:34:12. I used the Kilcock 10 mile to see how long I could hold the required pace. I did it...for 10 miles....and not one step further could I have gone. So a quick bit of revision had me think I'd aim for a low to mid 1:31 in Ratoath. Eminently sensible I thought. :pac: Now back to that drunken texting...two of the grads had also been thinking of similar times for it, post match bravado took over and next thing we have agreed to going with the 1:30 pacers!!!
Monday mornings sobriety brought me back to my senses. Time to back out of this madness. The best of intentions and all that...long story short I have been cajoled, bullied, pressured, slagged off, accused of sandbagging :pac: and had my manhood questioned! So it's back on. I see this only ending in one way for me...pain! I keep getting images in my head that just won't go away. They're from Ireland's Fittest Family. There is a challenge on that called Hang Tough where family members hang suspended over an icy cold river and hold on for as long as they can before the inevitable plunge into the dark abyss below! Ratoath is shaping up to being my personal Hang Tough!! :eek: The only question is at what mile will I drop
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Ha, great update! Super week as usual, and I'd have every confidence in you managing to hit the target tomorrow! Will be looking forward to reading the reportBest of luck tomorrow.
Thanks to you both. I love the way there is so much confidence in me hitting a target set by someone else! :pac: I have more confidence that I could hit my own target. Anyway it'll be an enjoyable morning with the 2 lads.
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Thanks to you both. I love the way there is so much confidence in me hitting a target set by someone else! :pac: I have more confidence that I could hit my own target. Anyway it'll be an enjoyable morning with the 2 lads.
Enjoyable should be one word for it alright :P
Best of luck
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Swashbuckler wrote: »Best of luck. Sub 90 before sub 40 would be impressive
It'd be a miracle! :pac: I'd like to have a proper bash at it off the HM plan that I used for Bohermeen but sure what's the worst that can happen? Jog the last 3 or 4 miles and then go for a pint. 0 -
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