A/R TT....Round 2 - 1 mile TT, Saturday May 30th *** please read post #1 ***

scotindublin

Great stuff with the organising lads and good to see the interest being shown on this; great continuation from TT #1.

Getting close now; at some point a week today we will get that feeling of intense burning in the legs and wanting the mile to be over before caughing up our lungs for for few minutes!

Has anyone checked the weather forecast yet??

Hannibal_Smith

Two quick ones:-

1 - I don't have to do anything else on Strava right? I think Skyblue can see me and that's enough? I don't have to make myself more public? :pac:

2 - I just program a mile into the watch, go and stop when it beeps at me (after the little warning beeps)? I don't have to do any extra 0.01 of a mile or anything?

The neck of me I know . But just coz I'm down the back doesn't mean I'm not taking it seriously :cool:

Lazare

What sort of stuff are people doing today or tomorrow?

Am just thinking some strides on the end of a longish easy run?

TFBubendorfer

Lazare wrote: »

What sort of stuff are people doing today or tomorrow?

Am just thinking some strides on the end of a longish easy run?

I've got a 5k TT tomorrow

Ferris B

ThebitterLemon wrote: »

Another lad with a PA

Please relay our thanks

TbL

He got ambushed on a zoom chat. Murph did the enrolling on his behalf just in case he ‘forgot’.

Lazare

TFBubendorfer wrote: »

I've got a 5k TT tomorrow

I was pondering doing the 5k TT that I missed but decided against it. Will prob do it in two weeks time.

Didn't want to risk missing this one.

woody1

Feck thought it was this weekend delighted it's not because I made a tit of it. Set the Garmin for a mile but didn't bother stopping it I assumed it would stop itself or record the mile effort but no so I added 30 odd seconds of walking on to it. It wasn't a great attempt either went faster in the 5k .

Dubh Geannain

@Lazare

Not recommending it but I was supposed to do a 1,200 m TT at faster than mile pace yesterday. Ended up being 70 meters short because I stopped the watch too early. Misread 1.13 km on my watch as 1.3 km and in a moment of idiocy thought I'd gone too far.

That said I think I got out of the run what I'd hoped. I achieved faster than target MP just about over the run and had the wind almost on my back when I finished so I wasn't going to be slowing down too much.

It didn't stop me cussing myself out of it and as punishment I threw out 2x400 m on the way home (one at MP and the other faster again). Not recommending that either :pac:

I think on reflection I'm close to where i hoped I'd be I think. But I'm certainly no expert. Hopefully I don't do anything incredibly stupid next week and finally reach the Holy Land.

Next week will be taken handy enough from my perspective.

IvoryTower

Going to do a 5k TT wed, easy running and strides other days, mile sat

Lazare

Dubh Geannain wrote: »

@Lazare

Not recommending it but I was supposed to do a 1,200 m TT at faster than mile pace yesterday. Ended up being 70 meters short because I stopped the watch too early. Misread 1.13 km on my watch as 1.3 km and in a moment of idiocy thought I'd gone too far.

That said I think I got out of the run what I'd hoped. I achieved faster than target MP just about over the run and had the wind almost on my back when I finished so I wasn't going to be slowing down too much.

It didn't stop me cussing myself out of it and as punishment I threw out 2x400 m on the way home (one at MP and the other faster again). Not recommending that either :pac:

I think on reflection I'm close to where i hoped I'd be I think. But I'm certainly no expert. Hopefully I don't do anything incredibly stupid next week and finally reach the Holy Land.

Next week will be taken handy enough from my perspective.

Ah no, sick about the 1200. Good that you got something out of it though.

You sound ready.

I ended up doing 10 mile steady, about 8 beats or so above 'easy' then 8 strides.

Strides felt really good.

May do another bunch of them around Wed, easy peasy other than that.

BeepBeep67

5k TT this morning just to confirm how far behind I am.

KSU

BeepBeep67 wrote: »

5k TT this morning just to confirm how far behind I am.

P2P course on a day with 25mph winds. This could well be sandbagging of the highest order.Not buying anyones sneaky tactics this close to game day :P

(Well done this morning man still a very solid run)

BeepBeep67

KSU wrote: »

P2P course on a day with 25mph winds. This could well be sandbagging of the highest order.Not buying anyones sneaky tactics this close to game day :P

(Well done this morning man still a very solid run)

Might need to sneak out to Griffith Ave

diego_b

Did a one mile time trial today as part of group thing with my club. Came home in 6:10 so have to revise my predicted time downwards. I’ll have a craic at going for 6:00 next weekend but will probably fail, mess up the pacing and be slower than I was today....can’t be hauling the sandbags around and will give it a go.

Wubble Wubble

Sorry, I'm going to have to give this one a miss. Hammer is still not right.

Best of luck to all next Saturday. I think some of those targets could best be described as "conservative" :pac: Feeling very fat and slow lately myself, so "even" sub 6 might have been beyond me. Next time!

TFBubendorfer

BeepBeep67 wrote: »

5k TT this morning just to confirm how far behind I am.

Same here, though it's all relative

Lazare

Wubble Wubble wrote: »

Sorry, I'm going to have to give this one a miss. Hammer is still not right.

Best of luck to all next Saturday. I think some of those targets could best be described as "conservative" :pac: Feeling very fat and slow lately myself, so "even" sub 6 might have been beyond me. Next time!

Sorry to hear J.

healy1835

Ran a 5:22 mile in a session yesterday. Can I count that for next week?

Murph_D

diego_b wrote: »

Did a one mile time trial today as part of group thing with my club. Came home in 6:10 so have to revise my predicted time downwards. I’ll have a craic at going for 6:00 next weekend but will probably fail, mess up the pacing and be slower than I was today....can’t be hauling the sandbags around and will give it a go.

Nice TT. Whatever you’re doing at the moment is working!

IvoryTower

healy1835 wrote: »

Ran a 5:22 mile in a session yesterday. Can I count that for next week?

What will you aim for in TT? cant imagine running 5.22 in a session...I do 6.15 reps and it hurts

healy1835

IvoryTower wrote: »

What will you aim for in TT? cant imagine running 5.22 in a session...I do 6.15 reps and it hurts

Ha! No, I'm running a 10k next Saturday (change of plan) so just gonna count my fastest mile from that. Won't be a 5:22, and if it is, then the mother of all blow ups is coming

IvoryTower

healy1835 wrote: »

Ha! No, I'm running a 10k next Saturday (change of plan) so just gonna count my fastest mile from that. Won't be a 5:22, and if it is, then the mother of all blow ups is coming

What would you aim for? Sub 4?

healy1835

IvoryTower wrote: »

What would you aim for? Sub 4?

I presume by 4 you mean 5 yeah probably would have had a rattle at it alright...

IvoryTower

Everyone is going to have such a pleasant experience I suspect it will be voted in again

Dubh Geannain

healy1835 wrote: »

Ha! No, I'm running a 10k next Saturday (change of plan) so just gonna count my fastest mile from that.

Boooo :pac:

I was predicting 4:40s for you. You'll have to have a go again.

pconn062

Unfortunately I am going to pull the plug too guys. I ran a 1 mile time trial yesterday and despite the slightly dodgy course I was happy with the time but the legs need a break now after three recent time trials. Best of luck to all, I will be following all the results.

OOnegative

pconn062 wrote: »

Unfortunately I am going to pull the plug too guys. I ran a 1 mile time trial yesterday and despite the slightly dodgy course I was happy with the time but the legs need a break now after three recent time trials. Best of luck to all, I will be following all the results.

Some time you ran to, wind assisted or not!!

pconn062

OOnegative wrote: »

Some time you ran to, wind assisted or not!!

Thanks B, was good fun....sort of!

ThebitterLemon

pconn062 wrote: »

Thanks B, was good fun....sort of!

Pity you’re out, two questions;

1. Did your tea cosy stay on, and

2. What time did you run?

TbL

pconn062

ThebitterLemon wrote: »

Pity you’re out, two questions;

1. Did your tea cosy stay on, and

2. What time did you run?

TbL

My tea cosy was considered a hazardous item in the wind so remained at home in the drawer. I ran 4.42....with a tailwind!

Dubh Geannain

pconn062 wrote: »

My tea cosy was considered a hazardous item in the wind so remained at home in the drawer. I ran 4.42....with a tailwind!

Brilliant. I hadn't spot it on Strava.

ThebitterLemon

pconn062 wrote: »

My tea cosy was considered a hazardous item in the wind so remained at home in the drawer. I ran 4.42....with a tailwind!

That’s an incredible time, well done!

TbL

DeepBlue

Hannibal_Smith wrote: »

1 - I don't have to do anything else on Strava right? I think Skyblue can see me and that's enough? I don't have to make myself more public? :pac:

Assuming you've joined the strava group and messaged skyblue with your boards name and Strava name then that's it.

Hannibal_Smith wrote: »

2 - I just program a mile into the watch, go and stop when it beeps at me (after the little warning beeps)? I don't have to do any extra 0.01 of a mile or anything?

Yeah, you just have to do a mile but you have to be careful that the route you select doesn't have a significant elevation drop.

Would it be fair to assume that if you found you stopped the watch too late you could use Strava's crop feature to trim off the excess?

woody1

was trying that at the weekend, seems to be a bit of a blunt tool, goes back in 100m increments ..
was thinking about setting up a 1 mile segment on where i plan to run it and then it should be recorded regardless of whether i stop the watch or not , and if i put a pace on it , it should tell me if im ahead or behind pace ..

skyblue46

DeepBlue wrote: »

Assuming you've joined the strava group and messaged skyblue with your boards name and Strava name then that's it.


Yeah, you just have to do a mile but you have to be careful that the route you select doesn't have a significant elevation drop.

Would it be fair to assume that if you found you stopped the watch too late you could use Strava's crop feature to trim off the excess?

Yes, what everyone needs to do is in the first post in the thread. P and I will not be scrolling through our personal feeds to see times of anyone not in the group. We will only look in the Strava group for mile TTs. We will then match real names with the Boards names ye have posted on the group posts or have sent to us via DM. Don't assume we know who you are otherwise. It just takes a couple of minutes to post your Boards name on the Strava group if you haven't already done it. Thanks folks.

GCastelli

Put me in for 5.40. M40. I'll try it on the same route as Itziger and CrazyFred, maybe going off at 2 or 3 minute intervals.

skyblue46

GCastelli wrote: »

Put me in for 5.40. M40. I'll try it on the same route as Itziger and CrazyFred, maybe going off at 2 or 3 minute intervals.

Boards TT is truly gone international

healy1835

skyblue46 wrote: »

Boards TT is truly gone international

Any word on Elk1984's status for Saturday?

outforarun

Hi Guys, I need to remove a sandbag. Could you drop me from 5:39 to 5:34. Thanks.

OOnegative

Weather looking like it could be mid-twenties in The Netherlands on Saturday afternoon for my mile TT, gonna be a foamy affair!!!!

Comic Book Guy

OOnegative wrote: »

Weather looking like it could be mid-twenties in The Netherlands on Saturday afternoon for my mile TT, gonna be a foamy affair!!!!

I hear ya B.

The unseasonably good weather has brought turf saving forward a whole month here so my pacer the Massey Ferguson 165 is now out of commission.

My mate has suggested that his elderly aunt runs like clockwork on Saturdays with an early morning trip to town to get the messages in her 94 Toyota Carina E. She never gets out of second gear but I don't know, she operates an extended social distance radius as it is and the sight of me huffing, puffing and sweating in her rear view mirror would surely trigger a move to third gear in a puff of black smoke.

Disaster!

Pherekydes

Looks warm for much of Ireland for Saturday. The east has been getting the highest temps of late, so we could be looking at 24 in the Greater Dublin area.

Early or late? :cool:

coogy

Pherekydes wrote: »

Looks warm for much of Ireland for Saturday. The east has been getting the highest temps of late, so we could be looking at 24 in the Greater Dublin area.

Early or late? :cool:

Very early start for me. That way, there'll be nobody around to see me as I pace up and down furiously, telling myself to go through with it.

TFBubendorfer

coogy wrote: »

Very early start for me. That way, there'll be nobody around to see me as I pace up and down furiously, telling myself to go through with it.

I'm planning the same, for the exact same reasons.

Laineyfrecks

TFBubendorfer wrote: »

I'm planning the same, for the exact same reasons.

Me too!!

skyblue46

FINAL REMINDER

Having spent some time cross referencing Boards usernames with names on the Strava group we still have a very small number of people here who have either not joined the Strava group or joined it but not posted their Boards usernames.

So....Zebra3, slow_runner, ultrapercy, Yaboya and ahnowbrowncow if you could please join the Strava group and/or identify yourselves on it that would be brilliant.

4 more sleeps!!

djemba djemba

Having considered my target time (nothing to do with peer pressure) I would like to change my time to 5.10, Go hard or go home time.

coogy

skyblue46 wrote: »

4 more sleeps!!

Would you stop???? I'm already a bag of nerves!!!

lulublue22

I really should be revising my time too - from 8:30 to 9:30 😠But what the hell you only live once 😉

IvoryTower

skyblue46 wrote: »

FINAL REMINDER

Having spent some time cross referencing Boards usernames with names on the Strava group we still have a very small number of people here who have either not joined the Strava group or joined it but not posted their Boards usernames.

So....justdoit, Zebra3, jamule, slow_runner, ultrapercy, EnPassant, annapr, Yaboya and ahnowbrowncow if you could please join the Strava group and/or identify yourselves on it that would be brilliant.

4 more sleeps!!

Jamule is mr white