running log week ended 27th October

Monday - rest day doing course. Tuesday - 5.5 mls at 6.30 am. I thought I was doing around 8.30 but overall pace was 9.20 per mile. No harm but a very slow recovery pace indeed. Wednesday - 6 miles around Charleville. I was dithering about this but a good trip to the men's room put me in good form ;-) I ran at around 8.15 pace, the last 3 miles were closer to 8min pace especially the last one which is pretty tough. Thursday I had a window of opportunity at 2.10 before the PT meeting at 4 so I drove up to Mayfield and ran the old 6 mile route covering 6.5 miles. I ran 24 minutes for the first 3 miles downhill and 26 minutes for the harder uphill portion. I used to do a lot better before on this but I was happy that I managed it with too undue effort and managed to use my "gap" time effectively. I bumped into Don on the way who was doing his own job. He is running the  Dublin marathon on Sunday alongside his wife as are a load of other people I know including my good friend Aidan. Yeah I feel bad about missing this again.On the positive side I did run 14 miles solo on Sunday. The garmin died at 12.5 mls but I was probably slightly over 14 miles if anything. 32 miles this week

training log week ending 20/10/18

 Better than the last few weeks in that I managed to get out 4 times this week. 4 mile recovery run on Tuesday during work time. No garmin just a stopwatch but the pace was certainly slow enough to justify it being called a recovery run (9.30 pace). Wednesday my wife was off sick from work and was at home so it was chance to have the chat before I popped out - 6 miles in around 50 minutes. Again just a stopwatch. I had a good 2 miles with a traveller lad of around 9 years old. Pacy fella too, boxing was his game though. Nice lad.

Thursday I was a bit wrecked and not happy coming out of work. Anyway I managed a another good 6 miles when I came home before I collected Iseult from Grannies. The pace was somewhere in the region of 8.10 per mile so very happy to get 3 runs (limited as they were) in consecutive days. The last run of the week was today. I aimed to run a cutback long run at marathon pace at 8.30 per mile. A couple of years ago this pace would have been 7.30 but it is what it is so we will work with what I have.  I found it a struggle for the first 5 miles to manage 8.30 pace but I was comfortable for the last two miles coming in at 8.15 and 8.05 pace. The rest of the day was spent cutting the grass, making the diners and reading the hand wringing rubbish about the Irish rugby team.

By the way you may noticed ( who reads this - no one) I mentioned marathon pace. I am in the middle if thinking about the possibility of doing one but I have been in that place a lot over the last two years so best to take no notice.

Running log 13/10

2 runs over weekend. 6 MLS Saturday and 12 miles Sunday at 8.50 pace

running log 10/10

Very little last two weeks down to thefact that the running slots were taken up with other stuff. Last Tuesday week no running, Wednesday 6 miles and nothing else until 11 solo miles on Sunday (8.50 pace) around Charleville.

This week just a 5.5 miles 9.10 effort on Tuesday. Wednesday visit my sister in Watergrasshill and Thursday instead of leaving work at 2.10 and going for a run before collecting Iseult from Nana was replaced with a meet and greet with parents.

The days of me running after Aoiffe comes home from work are gone now. I like to spend time with Iseult and Aoiffe in the evening.

Iseult's birthday party on Saturday