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Continuing the theme from last week's club interval session, yesterday's was 2 x 1km (90s) + 10 x 400 (60s). The km reps are a good pointer for me - I run them relaxed but fast - similar to how I think 3000 pace feels. Yesterday that translated to 2:58 / 2:53 in windy conditions - that shows a 2s improvement on last week. Need to Cram in a 3km race now - maybe in late August, after I have run my 1500 but before I switch over to winter (marathon) training.
Nice to see you.
I like the look of some of your up-coming fixtures.
12 stone is TR weight. Probably due to your Tri training. But you seem to run well on it – I think weight is only an issue if the extra weight “wobbles”.
Gobi/CM/JEJ
I’ve a mate who is (was) a decent runner and triathlete. He didn’t like the swimming and so changed to duathlons. He now has a long standing calf issue, so just cycles – and has won a few local (vet) pots too.
I think runners can cross over to biking quite well – cos they don’t mind pushing themselves.
So given JEJ’s running and swimming ability, he will do well at Tri (in TR’s numpty opinion).
The course is dull but the people and the bars are very nice.
Oh and whatever you do get near the front as they have no idea about pacing and there were walkers at the front causing carnege even for people like me who were jogging.
JEJ
that is a huge weight swing. Looks like you really are moving well at the moment, is London 2008 a go ?
Nice to see MTR and Jooles are proper sub 3 aspirants like me. At last someone I can relate to.
Things are going OK. Niggles are lurking under the surface on my left leg....lots of icing, painful self massage is keeping it under control and not flaring up.
My longest run since January was this weekend. Was a planned 12 but underestimated the far point on a large loop and it turned into a 15. Very very slow pace. The midweek 8's are becoming more confortable and getting somewhat faster (it's all relative) 35 miles last week. Slightly more this week all being well. 3 weeks into Dublin build up and all things considered prettty pleased. Long way to go yet though....don't think i'll get sub 3 this time round as i'm worried I'd break down if I upped the mileage to a level that would give me a chance. Number 1 goal is to stay off the bench and reach the start line.
Should've trained over 15 miles then, lazy git.
I’ve no doubt’s that Lance could run well under 2h 30m – if he set his mind to it. Rather than just doing a little bit. Not that old chestnut again !
007
Glad to see you’re still doing a bit. I thought you’d stopped for a bad back.
I too am a real sub3 aspirant !
I am a long distance (cough) runner with one ½ Mar and one 20 mile race to my name !!
But I reckon that gives me plenty of scope for improvement.
TR - I did clock a 2:13 at the London triathlon last year, but the time doesn't mean too much as:
i) the distances were in the region of 1500, 40.8km, 9.5km rather than official Oly distance.
ii) I only swam once in the year building up to it. We were then held in the water for half an hour as the bike route was cleared of traffic. Once finally underway, an elbow in the face before the start gave me a bloody nose which I subsequently stopped using some strange backstroke technique.
iii) Some tw@t who was drafting me on the bike ploughed into me leg following an emergency stop when a numpty ahead took a wrong turn and stopped dead on a narrow section of the course. The bike and run took a lot longer than it should have as my calf seized up, giving me Dull-like cramps for the remainder of the race. the whole experience, plus the mass swim start really put me off triathlon, but as I say, I may try another in a few year's time.
My brief experience tells me that there's more to be gained in the run through cycling training than through having great 10km speed - it's more about being able to run at close to your 10km pace after the ride.
Pug
Still though, the craic will be mighty ;-)
The good news is the prize is worth over £200, the bad news is that they are airline tickets that just take you back to the Faroe Islands.
JEJ Wont give up the booze to get to 6%, but have just been to John Lewis and bought myself some Tanita scales that measure your fat to around 20 decimal places, so I'll be able to bore the socks off you, over the coming months with my progess in getting down to somewhere around 10%.
FYI checked out past results for Torshavn, and it seems I took 16.08mins off the all time best for a V50 over the course.
So I'm the holder of the Faroe Islands all comers Marathon V50 record.
Fame at last.
Dull
My knee aches a bit on the impact area, not the ligament though.
Feeling more positive today.
Dull
Record breaker !
Hoping to do my first proper midweek 90 min run this evening, struggling to motivate myself though. Just need to picture Pug running me down in the last mile in Berlin! Did 4x1M within a 7M run yesterday - normally do this session on the track with clubmates but had to do it on my own and it is so much harder. Had a good round of golf in the evening though - 85 this time, not as good as last week but a much harder course. Sorry to ruin the thread with talk of non-athletic "sports".
Starting to regret entering the off-road marathon on Sunday, but should be interesting. Will certainly be the longest time I've ever run for (winning time usually around 3:30).
TT - yeah I'm certainly aiming for sub-36 but I think Yateley may be a slightly tougher course than Dorney. We'll see...
Golf hasn’t enough sweating for me to class it as a sport. One of my friends was a scratch golfer at 16 yrs old – but he got interested in chasing fillies (he was bloody good at that too!) and gave up.
Don’t worry about Pug at Berlin. He’ll have given up by the last mile, cos he was 0.0001 of a second behind schedule after the first mile.
Took it gently, but it got a bit harder towards the end, and I really need to bin these shoes. They've done 600 miles and I can feel the road through them on the balls of my feet.
New forum layout seems to be encouraging lots of posting today.
They beat Austria some years back. Had a goalkeeper who wore a woolly bobble hat.
They also drew against Scotland even more recently. So if FIFA recognise them as a nation, then that will do for me.
I need my eyes testing
MtR - the most I've done in any trainers this year is 410, though one of the pairs I've currently got on the go probably have another 100 or so in them, which should see them past the 450 (as I get lighter they last longer).
Just added up - 1160 miles for the year so far for me.
Can't believe I've posted 270-odd times. If I'd guessed I would have gone for less than 100. Gobi seems to be doing pretty well. I wonder who's got the most over all the forums?
Padams - nothing wrong with golf; off for a couple of rounds this weekend around a wedding, before trip to Spain on Sunday. A mate of mine, who is a golfer and a not a runner, once said to me after the Marathon des Sables, "I know what that must have been like; sometimes climbing out of bunkers can be really difficult". There was no hint of irony either.
DanA - yeah, it's like people who say they hit "the Wall" during their Cancer Research 10K ("What, the wall at the side of the road?"). Sometimes it just isn't worth the hassle of explaining...
NM2, sent you an email to that other address..
Well done Dull !
*freckled arms are red..
Hope you're having fun.
21miles with a mate. Not doing that again it turned into a race and I was fckd from last night. Got IT bands like piano wire.
Dull I have always said you were a legend. Now it's official. But unfortunately this is the sub3 thread and not the national all comers thread. Now FFS will you get the job done - something tells me you're enjoying this prolonging of the inevitable ;o)
As you were.
Club night for me tonight. Same session as a few weeks ago, 20 x 400m off 35s recoveries. I knocked them out as follows (not in this order, there was a pretty even spread):
5x79s
9x80s
5x81s
and the last one in 77s.
I was just off the back of the first 3 guys around whose 10k times are in the 34 min range this year, so quite chuffed with that :-)