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average_runner wrote: »Just buy a battery online and look a youtube video!!
I thought of that but so far I can't find a video for the FR220 or 225.
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Wednesday 12th: Session day. 5*3 mins @ 6:30 off 60 secs, 5*1 min @6:10 off 60 secs. Warm up and cooldown brought the volume up to 8.8 miles. It was a lousy day out there for this time of year. This one turned out a little tougher than expected. The 3 minute repeats were grand with paces of 6:28,6:25,6:25,6:24 and 6:20. Then came the faster 1 minute repeats which coach suggested would be a little sting in the tail....they were! Paces were 5:57, 6:10, 6:08, 6:06, and 6:01. I did the first one too fast but the first 3 were fine. The 4th one was into the breeze and it certainly took more effort than the others to hit the pace. I probably should have eased off a bit. All in all a good session.
The cooldown was the most exciting part of the run. I had a difference of opinion with a driver as he drove through a just turned red light and I crossed on a red man. He braked in time thankfully. 
As he drove past me he roared a string of colourful invective in my direction. I smiled, waved and introduced him to my middle digit. On I jogged until I noticed he had pulled in 400 yards down the road. As I got close to the car he opened the door and came running across the road at me shouting that he'd break that fookin finger of mine and every other bone in my body! :eek: He was bigger, stronger and a lot younger than me. Problem? No! He couldn't run very fast due to the vast bulk of his steroid boosted muscles So I ran quickly around him introducing him to my full repertoire of hand gestures :pac: So for anybody wondering what the pace spike in the middle of my cooldown on the Strava graphs is....that's the answer! 0 -
The cooldown was the most exciting part of the run. I had a difference of opinion with a driver as he drove through a just turned red light and I crossed on a red man. He braked in time thankfully. As he drove past me he roared a string of colourful invective in my direction. I smiled, waved and introduced him to my middle digit. On I jogged until I noticed he had pulled in 400 yards down the road. As I got close to the car he opened the door and came running across the road at me shouting that he'd break that fookin finger of mine and every other bone in my body! :eek: He was bigger, stronger and a lot younger than me. Problem? No! He couldn't run very fast due to the vast bulk of his steroid boosted muscles So I ran quickly around him introducing him to my full repertoire of hand gestures :pac: So for anybody wondering what the pace spike in the middle of my cooldown on the Strava graphs is....that's the answer!
Omg S!! You're lucky that didn't have a bad ending!0 -
Wednesday 12th:
The cooldown was the most exciting part of the run. I had a difference of opinion with a driver as he drove through a just turned red light and I crossed on a red man. He braked in time thankfully. As he drove past me he roared a string of colourful invective in my direction.....was bigger, stronger and a lot younger than me. Problem? No! He couldn't run very fast due to the vast bulk of his steroid boosted muscles So I ran quickly around him introducing him to my full repertoire of hand gestures :pac: So for anybody wondering what the pace spike in the middle of my cooldown on the Strava graphs is....that's the answer!
Ah the aul' roid rage. A lucky escape indeed! Haven't been chased like that yet. It's usually dogs or flies that are after my blood :pac:0 -
Wednesday 12th: Session day. 5*3 mins @ 6:30 off 60 secs, 5*1 min @6:10 off 60 secs. Warm up and cooldown brought the volume up to 8.8 miles. It was a lousy day out there for this time of year. This one turned out a little tougher than expected. The 3 minute repeats were grand with paces of 6:28,6:25,6:25,6:24 and 6:20. Then came the faster 1 minute repeats which coach suggested would be a little sting in the tail....they were! Paces were 5:57, 6:10, 6:08, 6:06, and 6:01. I did the first one too fast but the first 3 were fine. The 4th one was into the breeze and it certainly took more effort than the others to hit the pace. I probably should have eased off a bit. All in all a good session.
The cooldown was the most exciting part of the run. I had a difference of opinion with a driver as he drove through a just turned red light and I crossed on a red man. He braked in time thankfully. As he drove past me he roared a string of colourful invective in my direction. I smiled, waved and introduced him to my middle digit. On I jogged until I noticed he had pulled in 400 yards down the road. As I got close to the car he opened the door and came running across the road at me shouting that he'd break that fookin finger of mine and every other bone in my body! :eek: He was bigger, stronger and a lot younger than me. Problem? No! He couldn't run very fast due to the vast bulk of his steroid boosted muscles So I ran quickly around him introducing him to my full repertoire of hand gestures :pac: So for anybody wondering what the pace spike in the middle of my cooldown on the Strava graphs is....that's the answer!
Had a few issues like that in our park, but usually its the dog owners that keep their dogs on the lead even though the sign says it and there is a play pen for the dogs!!0 -
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scotindublin wrote: »Are you counting that as a double session??
All joking aside you never know what those clowns are capable of!
Haha...not a double session but it was reassuring to see there was still some pep left in the step after the session
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OOnegative wrote: »Hence no acknowledgement, were ya running or playing poker J........
Both. I lost
Either way, I like the visor. I don't have to worry as much about it being blown off my head on windy days, as with the old Lanzarote or IKA caps 0 -
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Sunday 16th: Plan was 14 miles easy. Actual 14.1 miles @ 8:56 HR 130. Heart rate might have been a couple of beats lower as the reading spiked for the first mile or so. Yesterday's session which I made into an 11 miler with a near 4 mile cooldown left its impression on the legs. The stiff walk to the bathroom this morning sent a very clear message to take today nice and easy. So that's what I did.
Over to the Park again for this. It was an absolutely cracking morning for running, surprisingly warm actually. As per usual I started at the HitW. I decided to hover around 9 min/ mile pace (not that the legs were too willing to do much more) and plodded along the trails to Castleknock gates before running down the length of Chesterfield Ave to the Parkgate entrance and back up before resuming on the trails at Castleknock gates. After about 7 miles the legs began to wake up and the rest of the lap of the Park felt much more smooth.
Very happy with the week's training. I've made a conscious decision to slow the easy stuff down a bit as the volume and intensity of sessions has increased. I passed 1,000 miles for the year on the run this morning, a couple of weeks later than last year but after a slow start to the year things are definitely coming right now. 18 weeks to Amsterdam Half 0
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