Monday 6th August to Sunday
12th August
On my holidays in Basque France
and Basque Spain. It was very warm and coupled with a good holidaying time
(beer, food and ice cream) I tried to fit in as much running as possible. I had
notions of around 32 miles, calling the week as a cutback week. Tuesday did 7
slow miles. Wednesday 4 recovery miles – all run in Toulouse. Friday 10 miles
and Saturday around 8.5 miles –all run in Bayonne. Sunday – run 3 or so miles
on the beach in San Sebastian, giving me a total of 32 miles for the week. My
distances were all approximately measured and I erred on the conservative in
this regard. This was because the Garmin I packed got lost somewhere in
transit. Gutted to put it mildly. The cost of replacement I don’t even want to
think about.....
Total miles 32 miles
Monday 13th August to 18th
August
Took a rest day on Monday. Tuesday ran for a hour along the
seafront past the Guggenheim in Bilbao. Managed to find myself in some dodgy
looking parts of the docklands after 33 minutes so I did the sensible thing and
doubled back. Repeated the run on Wednesday and Thursday taking the more scenic
route. It was great running in the heat but I had to be careful managing my
pace in the heat. Really miss that garmin.
Friday morning. Was back in Charleville for this one. Was
surprised at the amount of pep in my step. Ran for 70 minutes. Reckon I covered
8.7 or 8.8 miles.
Saturday. Ran 7 miles at a slow recovery pace. Around 70
minutes or so. Supposed to be running a 13.1 mile race in Clonmel to-morrow.
There isn’t a hope of me racing and getting a PB that’s for sure as I haven’t
raced a long distance since the Cork half marathon. I had targeted the race as
an attempt to run a long distance at Marathon pace and was thinking a time in
the range of 1.40 to 1.44 would be respectable. Now I’m not too sure. I have
targeted 2 other half marathons in September and I should be well up to racing
speed by then. The time between now and the 7th of October will be
crucial in particular how I manage long runs, marathon pace long runs and
midweek tempo runs
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