Clonakilty 10K race report

3^rd December 2012

Monday – rest day. Being honest it was too wet to go out.Lazy I know...

 

Tuesday 4^th December

 

Hill session with the club.  .1.5 mile warm up. 8 X 2 mins hill session. Getting better at these. Covered 0.29 miles, 0.30 miles,0.29 miles, 0.29 miles,0.30 miles,0.31 miles, 0.30 miles, 0.31 miles in each session with equal jog back. Definitely making more progress each week. In the last couple of repeats I was running very strong. Hope to maintain 0.31 distance next week. 1.5 mile jog back to the car in bucketing rain.

 

7 miles with 8X2mins hill session.

 

Wednesday 5^th December

 

Did 3.5 miles at 7.42 average pace. Then another 3.5 miles fun run with 1^st year students where the girls met and spoke to Olive Loughnane, 4 times Olympic race walker.

 

Thursday 6^th December

 

1 mile warm up with 3 X 1 mile repeats – 6.54,6.56,7.08. Was getting slower and slower with each mile but I didn’t feel I was getting slower. A disappointing set of splits but that “banged up feeling” around the legs still persists. I think this may be due to the hill repeats on Tuesday,

 

5 miles with 1 mile warm up and mile repeats at 6.58 average and 1 mile cooldown.

 

Friday –rest

 

Saturday – Ran the Clonakilty waterfront 10K. Did the half marathon last year and enjoyed it. This year entered the 10K race with Dermot and Aidan. Great to met my buddies and despite the early start the craic was good in the car. After the race met up for lunch in Ballincollig and then for beers in Cork city. Great night with a big gang of us out – Derm, Aidan, Doyler, Timmy, Don, Annette, Riobard, Ger Condon. Suffering next day...

 

Oh yeah I  almost forgot to write about the race itself. A right mess. The organisers did a cute one alright charging 25 euro for a what was essentially a slow jog down the back. See the comments on Cork Running Blog. Did the 6.0 mile course (it wasn’t 6.2 miles) in 48 minutes. Last couple of miles were in sub 7 pace. I won’t be going to it next year and I hope they sort it out next year. It’s obvious the organisers were looking to make a few bob without looking after the punters. Sort it out guys and don't be taking the mick like this again and besmirching the name of a great place like Clonakilty.

 

Total mileage. 25 miles for week