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Training hasn't been great this week. Ran the 5m at Whitehead and was very happy with my time - seeing some improvement, cycled 12.5m on Tue, ran 5m on Thur and plan to ran the 10k in Ballynahinch tomorrow.
Does anyone have any information about the run in Ballynahinch?
Good luck Baldy for Sunday - slighty envious I'm not there.
I managed to get out with the OH this morning and we did 7.5KM... her training has been a bit sporadic but she has always been naturally athletic. I manged to get her to slow her pace down very slightly and she really enjoyed it much more.
Was with some friends last night playing poker... three of them are running the Prague marathon in a few weeks... they were out for their last long run yesterday... 20 miles! I can't imagine being able to run that far!
Sean you can run 20 miles and you will.Just keep doing your long runs and you will get there.Who knows you could be running a marathon in no time 'Dublin in october'
quick note, full report to follow, got home in soggy but reasonable 3.02.08.
bumped in to greg mclure who had a good run with 3.00.15 and dessie mchenry who beat 3.00hrs again!!!
bring on belfast.
Keep running
On the "Fun Day" map it looks at least 1.5 miles, whereas the race map makes it look insignificant.
Important to know, so we can judge our speed for the last bit down Ravenhill Rd and then into the park
Had a look at the weather forecast for Monday says mainly cloudy with a chance of showers in the afternoon 11 degrees sounds not too bad. Chris I don't think Angie would look that far ahead.
Sean one advantage of your travelling is you get great variety in your training runs.
LL your training is going well. Hopefully see you at the Bridges the Riada 5 in Ballymoney is on Friday 28 July.
Scott - if you click on the fun-day map on the marathon website it shows the marathon route inside the park and gives you a bit of an idea how far you've got to go.....I ran the last part of the route a few weeks ago and didn't realise the Ravenhill Road was quite that long!
Baldy - brilliant time in London
Kenny - Angie still not committing herself to a long range forecast - will try again later today
Sean - I like the idea of a rubber path to run on!
LL - I enjoyed the Derry half when I ran it for the first time last year - it's a there and back course - six and a half miles out, and six and a half and a bit back with a hill towards the end - but it was good fun.
Looking forward to Monday despite my taper consisting of sitting on the sofa watching London and also a steady procession of keener Belfast runners going past my house. Must be a record entry this year.
Chris I think you got yout taper right sitting back and watching other do the running. I don't think Angie will commit herself until Monday morning but whatever the weather we will just have to get on with it.
the last bit of the mara from teh ormeau bridge up the road and down the ravenhill is same as the old route works out near 2 miles, but the amount you go up is the same as the amount you go down!!
quads loosening up nicely, gentle 5M last night and a few 400m intervasl today. a bit more tomorrow or thurs then rest, honest!!
finally, thanx davy's tout!!! Good job he knows i didnt mean anything bad by knocking rowers. in the true form of spirit,
rowers may not make great runners but i would not fancy doing a mara on a rowing machine well done mate finishing it in 3.30.
Sean that's great going. You made me think and i checked my log. Since i started back running roughly at the end of Feb (also including 2 weeks of due to illness and a bad decision to donate blood) i've just gone over 100 miles today!! Looks great ... mind you Baldy there will have done half of that in the space of a week. You must be mad Baldy!!!
4 days to relay though so taking it easy this week and then will start building up the milage next week for the half.
I live in Derry and ran it last year. i think if they made it a bit more exciting they might up the entrance. after all there are so many more exciting places to run in Derry. they should make it more scenic. if every other county etc and place in the UK can run sucessful road races why cant Derry. I makes me mad.
I just did a long run... managed to stretch it out to 21.5KM... 2:04... well pleased.
See you on Monday eilers12 good luck with the relay my number is 1022 give me a shout if you see me I will be wearing a green Macmillan vest.
Calypso the Derry half is on the callender for Sat 9 September. Not sure what the course will be but the police have refused to issue a permit on safety grounds. 600 runner running down the main road to Coleraine was just too dangerous and cause a backlog of traffic. Last year the marshalling was first class a couple of years ago there were very few marshalls and you had to cross the Caw roundabout dodging between the cars. Will update you if I hear anything about a new course.