Monday, 25th February – 11.8km Recovery Run with 10 x strides
A very easy recovery run this evening. Felt great for first couple of kms but slowly I started feeling the weekend’s running hit me as the run progressed. It’s only now that I’m learning the real worth of a properly slow (5:4x/km) recovery run and not a 5:15/km ‘easy’ run!
I was feeling like it was a read plod for the middle section so I threw in 10 sets of strides towards the end just to change things up and to ward off the boredom. It seemed to work well so I think I’ll do similarly for future runs.
Wednesday, 27 February 2013
Monday, 25 February 2013
Double-session Sunday
Sunday, 24th February (afternoon) – 17.2km with 13km @ MP Run
I had contemplated going back out for an easy run last night but decided I’d be better served putting full effort into an MP run today instead. So, I drove down to Clontarf for midday and headed off along the prom towards Sutton. The day was pretty cold so I went with a compression top, Long sleeve t-shirt, short sleeved t-shirt and a pretty warm top on the outside along with cap and gloves with a snood stored in my pockets just in case!
I had contemplated going back out for an easy run last night but decided I’d be better served putting full effort into an MP run today instead. So, I drove down to Clontarf for midday and headed off along the prom towards Sutton. The day was pretty cold so I went with a compression top, Long sleeve t-shirt, short sleeved t-shirt and a pretty warm top on the outside along with cap and gloves with a snood stored in my pockets just in case!
Saturday, 23 February 2013
Some things good, some things not so good...
Thursday, 21st February – 11.8km Easy run
Another cold evening to put the dread in me before braving leaving the apartment but once out and about I was well insulated with cap and gloves and, as ever, the reality was nowhere near what I had imagined.
Another cold evening to put the dread in me before braving leaving the apartment but once out and about I was well insulated with cap and gloves and, as ever, the reality was nowhere near what I had imagined.
Thursday, 21 February 2013
Chicago here I come!
My legs were still a little achy from Saturday but not wanting to be too lazy I decided to throw 9 sets of strides at them after 1km of this run. Rather than measure distance or time on the watch I simply counted my way through ‘one 1000, two 1000, three 1000…’ all the way to ‘twenty 1000’. This roughly equates to 20 seconds and avoids me having to keep looking at my watch in the dark (helping me to avoid tripping and falling…again!).
Wednesday, 20 February 2013
Donadea 50km
Thursday, 14th February – 8.9km Recovery Run
Another slow recovery paced run where the main aim was to not do myself injury in advance of Donadea. In fact, the pace was so comfortable that while running down Griffith avenue I failed to notice a piece of footpath sticking up out of the ground and proceeded to clip it with my right foot, which in turn sent me flying to the ground!
Wednesday, 13 February 2013
Treading water
Mon, Feb 11th - 8.9km Recovery Run
Another recovery run just to ease the legs back into it after the CPHT. Felt like I was plodding a fair bit in parts. Beginning to think the issue with right groin is causing the tenderness in left quad by over-compensating during footfall.
Another recovery run just to ease the legs back into it after the CPHT. Felt like I was plodding a fair bit in parts. Beginning to think the issue with right groin is causing the tenderness in left quad by over-compensating during footfall.
Monday, 11 February 2013
Croagh Patrick Heritage Trail
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Eventually I managed to rouse myself to go out again last Friday for a short recovery paced run. I took it nice and handy but there was a recurring pain through my right groin but this only happened once every couple of minutes. Managed to survive it for 11km in total.
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