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Dublin Marathon - 29th October 2007
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My old running calendar is fully booked until March and I'm hopeful of a place at FLM in April.
Perhpas London might be the place for a few of us to meet up.
If I don't get into FLM - Cork in June sounds good.
I've put my future races in my profile.
SJ
Is there anything on in Manchester area worth doing in the spring? I have chums in Burnage who would put me up for a couple of nights.
Interestingly I am planning to follow a 20 week training plan for the Ironman UK, which is a sensible plan. Quite aptly it will mean it starts on 1st April.
We reliably informed at dinner that we were staying in the suite that President Clinton had stayed in...hope they changed the sheets!!
I start my 20 week schedule for London at the start of December...I'm looking forward to being told what to do again!! I love working to a schedule!
HAve a good day all!
As for races, off tomorrow to do a local half marathon at St Neots, if the weather holds and the wind drops a little am hoping for a good time.......
Hope everyone has a really good weekend......
All the best for tomorrow Ian
-4 toothbrushes
-10 unidentified keys (although I suspect one is the sole copy of a key to my mum's garage that went missing a while ago - won't be owning up to that one!)
- 7 nail files (3 of the fancy 4 sided ones)
- 10.53 in copper coins (ok I made it up - even I'm not bored enough to actually count them. Zuppy junior makes a good living getting a 10% cut for countint loose change whenever he visits)...
13 batteries and
3 pencil sharpeners...
Also found some embarassing stuff ;-) but I don't know any of you nearly wel enough!
I've talked a semi-sedentary friend into doing the Edinburgh Half on April 1st (he lives there) so if anyone fancies it I know a nice bar that does divine melon martinis for after the run...........
Not doing London (cheque not cashed - boooo) but HH is, so will be with my running club cheering y'all on near Shadwell. so we should see you at 13 and 22 I think....
Are you coming to London...I'm looking forward to seeing all my Dublin friends!
SL..c'mon now...I think you know us well enough no judgement...(:::lies:::)
I really don't know how this has happened, but I just ran my fastest half ever 1:35:20. I am so happy at the moment.
But I do have to say the marshall at the end of the race nearly got more then he expected when he asked me if I was ok ;o)
I'm trying to organise a training plan for next years season.... I've never followed a plan before so it's taking quite a while
some random questions. Ok, so on average womens max HR's are about 6bpm faster than mens and women have higher HR's for the same level of effort. do the 6 beats account for this or when a schedule says @70% MHR do I need to adjust it in some way because I'm a girl?
Can someone suggest tempo (which I think means steady for moderate length of time?) and speed (puke at the end?) runs for marathon training? Should these progress through the training plan. I'm going to have a look at the one Amadeus was talking about the other day.
Those of you who have followed plans before, what do you do whne life gets in the way?
Am by no means an expert as you know.
But because it is a percentage of your max HR, would that not take into account the difference between men and womens HR's?
As for tempo, I would say this is just above your race pace, and for dublin I was doing a tempo run every other week or so of only between 3 to 5 miles. Steady I think would be more like race pace. And speed sessions yep puke up at the end.
I more or less managed to follow the 3:45 plan from this site. I didn't follow it to the letter I had off days missed days out and sometimes didn't complete the runs. But when I did miss a run I didn't try and catch up! I had missed it so therefore just moved onto the next session! Also the speed sessions on the plan on a Tuesday I never did. I went along to my running club, and did theirs instead. These sessions were the only ones I did with the club, all the other runs tempo, LSR's and steady runs I did by myself.....
Not sure of any of the above helps, but it seemed to work for me!
Ian - Congrats! that's a fabulous time, you must be so chuffed!
SL I'm less of an expert than pretty much everyone here, yourself included, but I had the impression a tempo run was just a different name for a threshold run - ie sustainably hard effort a smidgen below the pace at which you go anaerobic? might be wrong though.....!
Giller having my spare gel and energy bar was FAB in Dublin, so only fair I should do it for someone else eh? :-)
Like Ian though I had tempo as quick (10K type) pace and steady as Planned Marathon Pace (quick but sustainable). LSR is PMP + 30 / 90 secs. Thats how I worked it out for teh last couple of plans anyway and they went ok.
It's called Hotel Aacr Museo - nice and friendly and good value for money - here's the link, lazy of me, I know...
http://www.booking.com/hotel/es/accrmuseo.en.html?aid=307415
What are all you lovely Dublin 2006ers doing running-wise at the mo?
I've spent the entire afternoon working on a training plan... It's all colour coded and everything. Mr H will be proud of me. Our resident astiste DTB may think it looks more like the work of a pre-schooler. Who would of thought that there are so many clashing colours in a palate of 256000 :-) Amadeus, I used the FUrman training programme for the run portions. some of the speed stuff looks kinda tough?
Thanks Ian for the hotel link.
If so could I have a look
The whole plan looks tough, not just the speed parts! One of teh atrcations for me was the sheer quantity of teh long runs. The blurb along with the plan empahasises quality over quantity and people who have used it swear by it. It also tallies pretty well with teh plan that SJ mooted which is a good sign.
Anyway it was designed by Yanks, so how tough can it be????
If you google him you'll find him...or I think I have his email address if you want I'll send it to you.
This week I got back in the water and I have so enjoyed my swimming (brick session this morning...5 mile run and 1K swim...gee but I'm slow!!)
Apparently next week I'm going out for a 2 hour bike ride with MrGFB...Lord help me!!
I'm going at a low heart rate, apparently now is the time for base training so HR's have to be low (like don't be afraid to walk slow!!)
SL...here is the website for Simon Ward Simon
He's a nice guy with a good reputation for Ironman coaching (I think he was the official coach for HIUK)...it might be worth a go getting "professional help" LOL!!
SL, would it be possible to have alook at the plan as well?
oop's just seen you Ian, I'll email you too. It's a bit tailored towards me and what I'm doing but it's always good to see as many people's versions as you can.