October 20th
2013
First up to
issue offer congrats to the Mallow AC runners who were running in the Amsterdam
marathon. A couple of notable PB’s were achieved including another sub 3 hour run
by club captain Aidan Buckley and a excellent 3hr36minute run by Darragh Wiley.
This was Darragh's 3rd marathon this year and his second marathon PB
in the same period .Hard not to feel wistful all the same, especially with the
Dublin marathon coming up. My wife on the other hand is quite glad I am not training for any marathons at the moment able as she is to get me to do as many jobs as possible.
My running
this week was compressed into the last 5 days of the week. Not ideal for me but
it was the way iit worked out. Did my usual recovery walk on Tuesday (2.5
miles) before heading up to Mayfield on Wednesday for a hilly run. This was my
best run up there in a while, running 5.8 miles at 8.50 pace. The last 2 miles
are pretty tough but felt strong enough to nearly tack another mile on to it. I
followed this up with my fastest run in a while also. 5.5 miles at 8.04 pace.
The last 4.5 miles were all sub 8 minute miles. The only annoying aspect was
that the HR strap was giving daft readings – 119 HR for example.
On Friday I
had a half day in work and repeated the route of my Thursday run but the Garmin
died after one mile. No idea what pace I did so I will err on the conservative
side and call it as a nine minute pace though I suspect it was much faster.
Saturday was
a non running day preoccupied as I was with my wife’s on going gardening
project. 4 hours digging out beds is enough cross training for anyone. Still though it meant I scored quite highly in the brownie points ledger.
That meant I
under took my weekend run on Sunday. 7.5 miles at 8.40 pace. I was a bit tired
for the last 1.5 miles and once again the Hr readings were a bit daft.
Previously in August and September the readings were too high, well into the 160’s now they are
totally low less than 120. Obviously the problem lies with the strap and will
need a clean and / or a new battery. Hopefully no fear of the symptom’s of
Bradycardia – abnormally low heart rate. Nevertheless it does annoy me. Anyway
a period of further investigation awaits me. I will update in due course.
Tuesday 2.5
mile walk, Wednesday 5.8 run, Thursday 5.5 run, Friday 5.5 mile, Sunday 2.5
walk followed by 7.5 mile run. Total mileage 24 miles running and 5 mile walk.
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