Sunday 15 May 2016

Race update

Week ending 15th May

I have been averaging around 35 miles – 40 miles a week. It’s reasonable mileage and I have been trying to run one race a week. No PB’s set in any of them but they weren’t all that bad time wise either. Essentially they were all in the average range. I am probably one of the slower runners in the club now whereas once I was a solid midpack runner. The standard is getting better all the time.

Ballintotis 4 mile in 27.20, Carrigtwohill 4 mile in 27.23, Cobh 10 mile (very tough – went out too fast) 1.14.04,
Midleton 5 mile in 34.28, Killarney Lakes half marathon 1.35.58. See photo below and my rather odd running stride.

I have also been putting in a bit of speedwork on Tuesdays (8 x 2 mins and 5 x 1 miles at 6.45 pace) with the usual long run on Sunday and when possible throwing in a few marathon pace runs or hill runs up in Cork. I haven’t run many club sessions apart from the Doneraile hill sessions. Just too busy with work and looking after family members.


At this stage my aims over the summer are to stay injury free, get around 40 miles a week in, get a good race in once a week and hopefully one of two PB’s. In terms of marathons I won’t be running either Frankfurt or the Dublin marathon or any marathon at all for probably a long time. Longford might be a option in August. Impending parenthood has a (nice) habit of changing my plans..