It's been a while since I posted. The last post was Dublin marathon 2017. In the meantime I had planned to enter the Dungarvan 10 mile and the Manchester marathon (April 2018). Neither races happened flogging one race entry and deferring the other.
Quite simply put I fell out with running and I'm not completely sure if I am have made up with my old friend. I have entered the Dublin marathon but that was out of a sense of panic last May as it was selling out.
The period November to February saw one aborted comeback after the other. I might run 5 miles on Monday, run a dreadful 5 miles on Wednesday, 8 miles on Saturday and then do nothing for 2/3 weeks forcing me to start from scratch all over again, hating every mile I took. Eating and drinking and lounging around became a lot more attractive proposition.The other situation was that I was picking up chest infections (3 to 4 in the space of 10 weeks), numerous headcolds and some sort of nasty flu virus (that hit me like a train in March). I was probably either run down from the poor diet, wrecked from the previous years training or picking up bugs in the doctors surgery from the little one. She was there quite a lot from November to March. There was other issues, on a work level, that were taking up quite amount of time too. No point in making a big drama about the whole thing, it was a case of real life intruding on the insular runners bubble.
Currently as things stand I am still finding it hard to make inroads in the Dublin training plan. The ambition is very basic this time. Simply get the training done and get to the start line. and run a sub 4 time. After that recover and make running a more sustainable prospect over the winter and spring.
My end of July idea was to run as easy as possible and ideally get up to 3 X 7 mile runs midweek with a 4 mile recovery on Monday and a 15 mile LSR on Saturday/ Sunday.
Currently where it stands is 3 X 7 miles with a at best a flaky 10 mile long run under my belt. I have no plans to enter any races and I haven't renewed my Mallow Ac membership (I simply couldn't get the time or find the motivation to get down there). Truth be known I was a bit embarrassed as to how unfit I had got. Hopefully I will get back down to them again.They are a great club.
At least the blog is back and the bubbins is well fed !!!!
Miles last week Monday 4 mile recovery jog, Wednesday 7.3 miles, Thursday 7 miles with 5k tempo, Saturday 9 miles in 90 minutes. Completely wrecked Sunday and Monday. 6 miles this Tuesday.
