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'You decide your fate. Are you going to fall apart or own it?'
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It's going to be some race for you this year A, what an unbelievable three years of dedicated training (not to mention the years of building to get ready to do your first 24 hour) to get to this point where you're feeling good after 120 and 130 mile weeks. It just goes to show that you have to look ahead to the long term goal and focus on that.
You have to be commended for your attitude to your training, I wouldn't have the confidence or the motivation to pin all my training on one race a year, that takes a massive amount of willpower.
Really looking forward to following your progress on race day
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I am indeed! Extremely excited!!!! Thanks so much and really hope things are going well for you.Incredible work A you must be very excited for race day!
Haha, a bit over enthusiastic maybe sometimes:). Thank you! There should be a tracker available on race day so I'll post up a link when I know.I love your enthusiasm in this post. You sound like you are at the top of your game right now. I’ll be excited for you on race day.
Hope the training is going really well.It's going to be some race for you this year A, what an unbelievable three years of dedicated training (not to mention the years of building to get ready to do your first 24 hour) to get to this point where you're feeling good after 120 and 130 mile weeks. It just goes to show that you have to look ahead to the long term goal and focus on that.
You have to be commended for your attitude to your training, I wouldn't have the confidence or the motivation to pin all my training on one race a year, that takes a massive amount of willpower.
Really looking forward to following your progress on race day
Yes, I am really surprised myself that I can cope well with the training but I guess it is a long slow gradual build up over the last few years as you say.
Yeah, I am probably unusual with the lack of racing but being perfectly honest, there was no race that really interested me locally, and I couldn't justify the cost of travelling to races that were only really going to be training runs when I can just do the runs myself for free. If it does go pear shaped on race day for whatever reason, I do have a few backup races in mind in the not too distant future. As you know yourself, with races of this length, there are any number of things that can go wrong on the day, so I definitely need to have a race to fall back on if the worst happens.
Congrats on the recent 5k pb and amazing performance in the Highland Fling! Super report and photos. I'd love to see you take on a looped 24 hour like Belfast some day! Ever think of it? I think you could do amazingly well with your experience and natural capacity for endurance.0 -
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May 21, 2018 - May 27, 2018
So, this was my peak week of training for Belfast, and the biggest volume week I’ve ever done since I started running. The plan was for no super long run, but to pack the miles in with lots of doubles, and plenty of recovery in between, so I got out earlier than usual in the mornings, and did the later run a little later in the evenings where possible. I mentioned in the last post that I’d had a few minor niggles in the legs, so I was advised to pull back on the pace. Even though 9.20 and 30 pace was feeling super easy for me aerobically, it was better to give myself every chance of proper recovery between runs to allow myself to do the big mileage week, so I slowed down things as much as possible.
Monday
Am: 12 miles @ 9:49
Local trot around the area, feeling good and holding back on the pace.
Pm: 12 miles @ 9:50
Local loops
Tuesday
am: 12 miles @ 9:48
pm: 12 miles @ 9:45
Wednesday
Am: 12 miles @ 9:45
I am getting stopped regularly in my local park by dog walkers asking why I am always running there. I try to explain the race I’m doing and it confuses them even more. Some of them think I am completely crazy.Sometimes it’s hard to get around without having to regularly stop to chat which can be a bit of a pain.
Pm: 12 miles @ 9:42
Thursday
10 miles @ 9:45
Easy day! Only one run
Friday
Am: 5 miles @ 9:59
Pre work plod. Am not a morning runner at all, but enjoyed this as the weather was so beautiful.
Pm: 9 miles @ 9:48
Saturday
20 miles @ 10:16
The plan was to do this at 24 hour effort. A tiny bit over race pace but pretty close. Legs felt good and rehearsed everything again for race day. Was very hot though and didn’t put sunscreen so got fairly badly burned.
Sunday
Am: 12 miles @ 9:57
Pm: 12 miles @ 9:47
Weekly total: 140.2 miles / 23HOURS 4 MINUTES – I DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And the best bit is, I’m feeling fantastic and have absolutely no niggles and I don’t even feel tired!
May 28, 2018 - Jun 3, 2018
Taper Week 1
Monday
Am: 6 miles @ 10 pace
Got to my Acres loop in the Phoenix Park only to realise my watch was dead. Tried using the phone app, but it wouldn’t work properly and I had no idea of my pace and I’m not exactly sure of the length of the loop so just ended up getting really frustrated not having control over the run. It was very hot and I had to carry the phone too and it kept slipping out of my sweaty hand so I jacked in the run after what I felt was about 6 miles. I got told off later for not just running for the allotted 2ish hours anyway so I won’t be bailing out on a run like this again just because I’m addicted to my watch/stats. Lesson learned! I need to change my mentality a bit!
Pm: 12 miles @ 10:13
I mentally struggled a bit today. I’d have no problem running the same loop in my park twice a day for the rest of my life, but I am sick of the same people seeing me and commenting to me about always running there. I have to pass the same people about 6 times or more on each run and it just all got to me today, so I ran down in Albert College Park instead. It’s a lovely park but I prefer my local one for running in.
Tuesday
Am: 12 miles @ 10:07
Pm: 12 miles @ 10:16
Definitely a little tired today and last week catching up on me a bit methinks.
Wednesday
This was the first day off in my plan for a few weeks and it was perfectly timed as the batteries really needed recharging both mentally and physically!
Thursday
10 miles @ 9:40
Easy single today. Felt great. Did a few of these miles with my bro. The day off did me so much good.
May Monthly Total: 552 Miles / 91 hours (highest to date)
Friday
10 miles @ 9:51
Another easy day with just the one run.
Saturday
16 miles @ 10:15
Was done at 24 hour race pace. Timed some pee stops too as these can really eat up time in a 24 hour so need to speed ‘em up as much as possible! I’m currently at 30 seconds for an ‘en plein air’ pee, and over 1 minute for an indoor pee
Sunday
Am: 10 miles @ 9:59
Pm: 10 miles @ 9:43
Met Skyblue from these parts on my evening run in my local park. Great to meet you, S, and lovely to hear about your running and how much you are enjoying it. Great gains made in such a short period of time and lots more to come from you!
Weekly Total: 90 miles / 16 hours 50 mins
Jun 4, 2018 - Jun 10, 2018
Taper Week 2
Monday
Am: 12 miles @ 9:57
Pm: 8 miles @ 9:44
Tuesday
Am: 12 miles @ 10:14
Pm: 6 miles @ 11
Wednesday
10 miles @ 10:07
Very busy with a new calligraphy project this week, so delighted to have lots of singles to allow me more time to work on it without disruptions.
Thursday
6 miles @ 9:47
Friday
10 miles @ 9:43
Saturday
14 miles @ 10:13
Race day pace again. Rehearsed breakfast and outfit etc. Very warm today, and that kind of heat used to really bother me in the past, but since having experienced running in Kenya, where you have not only the heat to deal with, but the altitude and the terrain also, it’s an absolute breeze plodding along in the mid-day sun and doesn’t concern me in the least. Am delighted about this as if race day is hot, I feel fairly confident that I’ll be ok.
Sunday
Rest. What? Another day off??? This taper lark is hard to get used to!
Weekly Total: 78 miles / 13 hours 7 minutes
So, am well into my 3rd week of taper now and feeling good. No niggles in the legs and they’re starting to feel nice and fresh. Need to cut back a bit on the eating now as I want to be as light as possible for race day so my daily Lidl giant chocolate chip cookie has had to go along with the excesses of white bread
All healthy nutritious food from here on in. I was very bold and had a few glasses of wine early this week, but that’s out the window now completely until after the race. Am getting my race crew prepped in the next few days and starting to go through lists from the previous years to ensure I remember everything I need to bring with me on the day. Having done this race twice already, it’s great not having to worry about logistics etc as I have most of it nailed down to a ‘T’ (table, chairs, tents for crew, system for my nutrition on the day etc, race day pacing plan etc etc). It’s finally starting to become real now and I’m getting genuinely very excited. I feel strong, and very well trained. I got through the whole year without having to take a day off for sickness or injury, so count myself very lucky on that score. All the little details for this training block have been so well micro-managed by my coach, that as long as nothing outside of my control goes wrong on the day, I feel I have a very good chance of reaching my A goal. The big thing for me on the day is that when the going gets really tough (which it 100% will), that I stay strong and in control, and not start making excuses and giving in to that little voice… But I won’t.
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You've started timing your pee's .... this is a whole new level of keeping to time (mental note made for my own races going forward)
You have enough experience and training behind you to not give that little voice a platform, I've no doubt that you have it silenced. You're on the home straight, it's very exciting though I understand that the nerves must be kicking in now. eeekkkk0 -
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Hey! Thanks so much, ReeReeG! The timing is being done by Myrunresults.com so I guess there will be a link there on the day or it will be posted here https://www.facebook.com/belfast24/Superb. So impressive, looking forward to seeing how the race goes! Will there be trackers for the event? Not sure how these ultras work...
Hope your running is going great!!!
Yep, it's PMA all the way, Neady. Not nervous at all which is weird. Strangely calmYou've started timing your pee's .... this is a whole new level of keeping to time (mental note made for my own races going forward)
You have enough experience and training behind you to not give that little voice a platform, I've no doubt that you have it silenced. You're on the home straight, it's very exciting though I understand that the nerves must be kicking in now. eeekkkk
Haha, funny you should say that. There's one woman in particular who I was seeing in there absolutely every single day, no matter what time I went running at! She has about 10 dogs. I met her in there one evening, after having seen her that morning too, and got my own back by asking her why she's ALWAYS in there! She looked really embarrassedGreat stuff, A - all the best.
Why don't you ask those people in the park why they're always walking there? That'll put manners on 'em.
Enjoy the final taper week.:D
Thanks so much, A! Let's hope so!!!! Great to see your running going well:)Amazing training!! You will reap the reward0 -
Am excited alright, and really can't wait to get going! Packing things at my leisure this week. It's great that it doesn't start until 1pm so can travel up that morning and sleep in my own bed the night before. Thanks for all your amazing support over the training block!!!!Is it time to pack yet? Can only imagine the butterflies in your stomach this week
Really appreciate that, Kellygirl. Am feeling really good! No excuses, no regrets...Been thinking of you loads. I’ll be on holidays so hope I have WiFi to track you.
Hope you are feeling good.
Means a lot, thanks, M! Yep, absolutely delighted with the training and prep. The whole thing has been an absolute blast!!! Thanks again.hillsiderunner wrote: »Best of luck for the 24hour, hope everything goes according to plan
You couldn't have done anything more in training or preparation I don't think.
I'll be checking the tracker!
Cheers, Ger! Very kind of you to say. A little bit of luck with the weather would be nice all the same!!! See you there if you are crewing this year.Best of luck A not that you need it looking at the prep0 -
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