Training Log Archive: roar

Going to the race in the park. Some jogging and some walking. Lovely morning out.

Warm up, few dynamics and strides on the road to loosen up. Feeling a bit tight after the gym and climbing yesterday but not too bad.

10km Mo run.

I decided I would go out and try to do the 40 mins that I wanted to do and see what happened. Kinda knew it would be super tough going by my interval speed but why not try. Also it was a relatively tough course with the hill out of the furry glen and a bit of a drag up furze road

km splits:

3:57, 3:57, 3:54, 4:16, 4:07, 4:11, 4:12, 4:11, 4:38, 4:08

1: Started out a bit far back in the group as I had no idea where I should be. Sat a the pace I though I should be doing. 3:57 perfect

2: Kept going, little hill at about 1.5km starting to find the group of guys I wanted to be running with. Still feeling good, 3:57. Excellent

3: This had the big down and uphill. Knew it would make or break me. Thought I had to keep the pace close to 4 min/k. Did a little bit of fighting passed out some orange guys and the blessington lakeside fella who stopped to tie his shoelaces. This is also where I started to catch up with the back of the 5k runners. 3:53! with the hills, oh?

4: Gina was here cheering me at the top of the hill which was nice. Weaved my way around the 5kers and suddenly realised I was not feeling so good. Hung on as much as I could. 4:16, ah this is why the hill was a bad thing. Had no idea who was around me due to the mess of 5k people.

5: was still very close to the 4 min/k mark average, only 4 seconds over so I thought if I could bring the pace back down I could still do it. Tried up the straight and tried 4:07. Starting to get sore now. Just ran a 5k PB, only just though. That might be bad?

6: start of the second lap, 5kers gone. So were all the 10kers for no apparent reason. Was completely along except for some guys off up the road who I knew would be close to the 40. Tried to do something about staying near them but nothing happened. Orange guy came past me at the 6k mark, 4:11

7: Keep fighting to hang onto orange guy. Gina cheering here again was useful but orange guy pulled away on the slight climb. 4:12

8: back to the hilly section and me fighting. Fought well, took a little relax on the downhill but handled the climb well, 4:11

9: or so I thought. Came to a standstill, metaphorically. Lungs burning people passing me out trying to up the pace but nothing. Suffer suffer suffer, 4:38!!!! oof

10: Back to Gina who ran along beside me for a while. I was giving it my all to stay with the guy who had just passed me and not let anyone else past. One guy came past and then I tried to hang onto him. Just about did. Pushed a bit and had a small increase in pace near the end but he had some life and stayed ahead of me just. 4:08



Happy enough really. The 40 mins was a high ambition especially with the hill. Learned a lot though. The hill is not the hard part, it's the bit after the hill. Had I kept the pace lower (maybe 10s slower for the k) the first time up the hill I think I could have been maybe 30s faster on the rest, or a 20s faster time. Maybe. Somewhere to start in any case. Also not being just at the end of a sickness could help a lot.

HR monitor is a bit nonsense really, have to get that sorted.

jog home with Gina. Some of the way. It was a nice day so we walked some of it and ate my free things. The coconut water was awful.