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

Hannibal_Smith

I'm totally bricking it. Half thinking of just going out at midnight just to get it over and done with.

healy1835

OOnegative wrote: »

https://untappd.com/b/whiplash-setting-sun/2994774

Have a few of these on ice for when I get home tomorrow afternoon, support Irish beer I say.........

Rascals brewed in the heart of Inchicore!

Treviso

If everyone could set their warmups and cool downs as private in Strava, it will help the two lads process the actual 1 mile TTs results (and will be easier for everyone to see them too)

Or you could record all activity you do tomorrow in Strava (Yoga, Pilates, trips to the toilet) just to irk them some more.

Whichever direction you want to take is up to you......

skyblue46

Treviso wrote: »

If everyone could set their warmups and cool downs as private in Strava, it will help the two lads process the actual 1 mile TTs results (and will be easier for everyone to see them too)

Or you could record all activity you do tomorrow in Strava (Yoga, Pilates, trips to the toilet) just to irk them some more.

Whichever direction you want to take is up to you......

It is up to each individual alright...I like your first suggestion. The second will result in instant disqualification!

ThebitterLemon

I’ve just learned how to register for that Strava yoke, private setting, that’s the honours class!!!

TbL

Lazare

healy1835 wrote: »

Hazy Jane....usually a pretty Hazy Johnny here when I drink those. Potent stuff! But delicious... Clockwork Tangerine very nice as well. Got me a couple of those 5L Rascals Yankee IPA kegs for the weekend that's in it

Damn where sells that?

Dubh Geannain

OOnegative wrote: »

https://untappd.com/b/whiplash-setting-sun/2994774

Have a few of these on ice for when I get home tomorrow afternoon, support Irish beer I say.........

You not get some Brú sent over to you?

OOnegative

For the 3rd and final time, I’m fcukin 41!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lazare

Kinnegar from Donegal is the best I've tried. Have tried many.

None tonight tho.

OOnegative

Dubh Geannain wrote: »

You not get some Brú sent over to you?

No, only delivering in Ireland currently cause of you know what!! Decent craft off licenses here which love Irish beers. Trying to get them order Brù, worked with Whiplash & Kinnegar which they now love.

skyblue46

OOnegative wrote: »

For the 3rd and final time, I’m fcukin 41!!!!!!!!!!!!

I swear I'm not trying to annoy you...;)

OOnegative

Lazare wrote: »

Kinnegar from Donegal is the best I've tried. Have tried many.

None tonight tho.

Scraggy Bay is still my all time favourite beer bar none!!

OOnegative

skyblue46 wrote: »

I swear I'm not trying to annoy you...;)

Noooooo, you don’t have the word annoy in your vocabulary S!!!!!

skyblue46

OOnegative wrote: »

Noooooo, you don’t have the word annoy in your vocabulary S!!!!!

Spreadsheets coming out my ass, sheets of paper everywhere...:rolleyes:

Lazare

OOnegative wrote: »

Scraggy Bay is still my all time favourite beer bar none!!

That's gorgeous, as is everything they do. My favourite is Rustbucket Rye.

OOnegative

skyblue46 wrote: »

Spreadsheets coming out my ass, sheets of paper everywhere...:rolleyes:

How is this my fault...... 41 pls & thanks.

skyblue46

OOnegative wrote: »

How is this my fault...... 41 pls & thanks.

It's long been done on the sheet that matters...are you not in bed yet?:rolleyes:

OOnegative

skyblue46 wrote: »

It's long been done on the sheet that matters...are you not in bed yet?:rolleyes:

No hydrating like you recommended earlier in the thread...... hic hic!!!

skyblue46

OOnegative wrote: »

No hydrating like you recommended earlier in the thread...... hic hic!!!

Haha...me too. Have you checked the timetable for the Army marching band tomorrow?

OOnegative

skyblue46 wrote: »

Haha...me too. Have you checked the timetable for the Army marching band tomorrow?

Yeah they heard about a cantankerous auld Bollix running a TT tomorrow so they figured it was best to leave tomorrow’s hike off!!

skyblue46

OOnegative wrote: »

Yeah they heard about a cantankerous auld Bollix running a TT tomorrow so they figured it was best to leave tomorrow’s hike off!!

Not to worry, I'm sure you'll come up with another good excuse for a midrace breather.

skyblue46

OOnegative wrote: »

Yeah they heard about a cantankerous auld Bollix jointly running a TT tomorrow so they figured it was best to leave tomorrow’s hike off!!

Fixed that....

healy1835

Lazare wrote: »

Damn where sells that?

They did a limited run the other day. Announced it on social media and they all sold out fairly rapidly.

scotindublin

Good to see I am not the only one pre-hydrating and some tips for new beers!

Good luck to everyone tomorrow.....if you see someone collapsed around the Polo Grounds in the Park tomorrow will you make sure my Garmin is paused!

OOnegative

I as the sole organiser of the previous better run 5k TT thread wish all you guys the very best tomorrow, grit the teeth and get it done.

It’s has been a great mediocre effort by Lloyd and Harry here, they tried there best. It’s like they say, tell a Kerryman to go into a round room and take a leak in the corner........

Well done S & P super job, should be proud of the numbers ye have achieved, shows the popularity of you both on this forum. Ye took an excellent product and made it a million times better. Well done.

Swashbuckler

It's like you left the computer after the second paragraph and S wrote the last paragraph while you were in the jacks

Laineyfrecks

Swashbuckler wrote: »

It's like you left the computer after the second paragraph and S wrote the last paragraph while you were in the jacks

I spit my bulmers out reading this

MisterJinx

scotindublin wrote: »

Good to see I am not the only one pre-hydrating and some tips for new beers!

Good luck to everyone tomorrow.....if you see someone collapsed around the Polo Grounds in the Park tomorrow will you make sure my Garmin is paused!

I'll be there at some point, time depends on how many more of these crappy Heineken I get through this evening, judging by the rate if consumption I'd guess 5pm!

Swashbuckler

This is definitely the drinkiest TT I've seen

IvoryTower

A sunny friday, yolo

Lambay island

Swashbuckler wrote: »

This is definitely the drinkiest TT I've seen

I'll raise a glass to that!

skyblue46

Swashbuckler wrote: »

This is definitely the drinkiest TT I've seen

Its the pre Mile Beer rather than the beer mile...

IvoryTower

0.84 on the watch is 200m to go

Top tip

Comic Book Guy

IvoryTower wrote: »

0.84 on the watch is 200m to go

Top tip

I'd love that to be the distance on the watch the first time I look at it in desperation....

Laineyfrecks

Comic Book Guy wrote: »

I'd love that to be the distance on the watch the first time I look at it in desperation....

That's the dream...

Hannibal_Smith

Comic Book Guy wrote: »

I'd love that to be the distance on the watch the first time I look at it in desperation....

Stop! :pac:

*Boards needs a barf smiley*

skyblue46

Comic Book Guy wrote: »

I'd love that to be the distance on the watch the first time I look at it in desperation....

You won't be in any desperation if you plan jogging to a 5:30

Murph_D

Laineyfrecks wrote: »

Yeah I'm wondering what it's called when you are slower than your predicated time...


Optimistic maybe:D

Windbagging?

LastFridayNight

Best of luck to everybody today, here’s hoping we all bring home a big swag of new PBs all round!

IvoryTower

2 bottles of wine, 5 hours broken sleep, nothing 200mg of caffeine cant sort

No wind out there ,looks like we're on our own

Ferris B

Must have been party central in St Annes Park last night/ this morning. Plenty of gardai in the Park this morning clearing out the remnants of the revellers.

Got cautioned for running too slow on the main avenue;)

Diablo Verde

Ferris B wrote: »

Must have been party central in St Annes Park last night/ this morning. Plenty of gardai in the Park this morning clearing out the remnants of the revellers.

Got cautioned for running too slow on the main avenue;)

Yeah I spotted a few squad cars around and was wondering what was happening

Swashbuckler

Some great times coming in already. We have our first sub 5 of the day.

MrSkinny

Early start here to avoid the heat: 6:18.87 on the Kilbogget 'flat' mile loop at 7 AM. Was really hoping to at least get inside the predicted 6:15 but it's another painful reminder of just how much worse my current fitness is compared to last year.

IvoryTower

Ah that's great news, nobody has wanted it more! Well done dubh

Murph_D

Diablo Verde wrote: »

Yeah I spotted a few squad cars around and was wondering what was happening

I got out in time before they arrived!

Lazare

Jesus.

Lazare

6:01

A tad disappointed in it if honest.

That mile pain is some craic wha?

Some guy rounded the corner at the end and said he thought there was a wounded animal :pac:

Hannibal_Smith

This wannabe crack commando unit had a mile of misfortune :pac: . Up until this week I was really feeling great and hoping I might be around the 10-10.10 mark, but the McMillan calculator doesn't lie... Well in this case it lied in the wrong direction :mad: :pac: The aim was 10.20, but I got 10.30

Without wanting to be too diva about it, I genuinely was sluggish all week and Thursdays run went so bad I was going to quietly slip away here. But sure its only a bit of craic

This morning warming up the breathing was really too laboured again and sure enough didn’t get any better when the mile started :eek: Every time I felt sluggish I tried to pick it up, but there was nothing there.

I'm not sure whether it was something wrong in the system still or whether I handled this week wrong running wise or if I just didn't have enough fitness for what I wanted. But I'm disappointed for sure.

I'm glad I did it though. The feeling of doing it and not doing well isn't as bad as the feeling if I hadn't tried at all. This time 4 weeks ago if I'd ran a mile for 10.30 I'd have been chuffed with myself so I'll take that

Funnily enough I had a dream last night I was singing Mid Life Crisis at the top of my lungs at the front of a FNM concert - the absolute irony of that! :pac:

Thanks Swashbuckler and Skyblue for organising it, it was a great distraction. Fair play to those who have done it already, the results in the strava group so far are so fantastic! Good luck all those yet to run!

I'll go find the link to the charity and donate now.

MY BAD

Some fantastic times already. I admire athletes who can knock out a mile TT in the early morning.