Week
beginning 17th April
It’s been 11
days since the marathon in Connemara and at this stage it’s time to move on.
It’s the period after a marathon that is always the strangest time. All the
training is over culminating into a satisfying race. Time to move on- but not
quite yet. That said having had a bit of time to mull over the race I was
wondering where I could have improved. I still think losing 2 minutes at mile 5
(the time where my bib started to come off) and 2 minutes in the last 2
downhill miles (the legs were thrashed at that stage – didn’t expect that) was
unfortunate but I was no closer to getting a sub 3.30 either way. Connemara is
a tough course but I wouldn’t rule out a return. As stated before hand I was
happy with getting my second fastest time of 3.37.23.
The big plan
for the summer is get a bit of speed up on the legs. Essentially that means
running a number of shorter races over the summer – 5 mile and 4 mile races and
hopefully having some personal success in those. This all in turn is to play it’s
part in getting me a PB in the Dublin marathon in October 2015. My dream time
would be a sub 3hrs20mins but we will start with the basics for the moment. There’s many a slip between cup and lip.
I headed for
a 40 minute jog on Tuesday , Wednesday and Thursday. The latter run was in the
company of my buddy Dermot and we were happy to do more talking than running.
Anyway the legs felt fine. I covered 4.6 miles, 4.8 miles and 4 miles. All very
easy and relaxed and no obvious physical or mental reaction. The only annoying
aspect was the sore throat I picked up last Sunday in Fota attending a garden
expo with my wife. All the symptoms were
above the throat but it has left me feeling a bit crocked nevertheless. Guess I
will stick with the easy stuff for a while yet before moving onto any kind of
speed work.
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