(I dont mean encouraging runners, but more of that anon).
Very little blogging the last few weeks due to a) holidays and b) tiredness; but i have a couple of weeks of loving/hating my running so i thought i'd catch up with myself and my thoughts.....
Since my last post i've still been keeping to my non-plan. However i checked my runs against the hal higdon plan i was following earlier in the year to find that as of yesterday i was only 15km short of where i should be by now.....cue surprise.
Holidays
We headed to Wexford on holidays for the 2 weeks of the 8th & 15th August.
Running was on the back foot but i got out for a few runs, but not as many as i should have done (my catholic guilt over not running was getting more exercise than my legs).
Notwithstanding this I did a good bit of sea swimming during my hols - swimming in 15C water for half an hour certainly gets the blood pumping (i must invest in a wetsuit at some stage but i dont like the feeling of them).
So a summary of my runs from Wexford...........
Week 1
Sun 7th August - 8km along beach - 48:08 mins
Tue 8th August - 12km 'out the road' towards wexford, 1hr 9 mins (running on a busy road with a 100km speed limit concentrates the mind).
Wed 10th August - 8km along beach - 54:29 mins (in my defence, very windy)
Week 2
Mon 15th 19.5km, 1hr 56 mins; yep bit of a gap to this run, but this was one long slow run that was really enjoyable, ran out to Rosslare Port and back early in the morning, went down to Rosslare Strand before starting the run and saw a beautiful sunrise.......
When i got to the port i had to use the facilities in a local coffee shop, so i felt obliged to buy something, hence the photo of the most expensively uninspiring cookie ever....€2 for this....
And it tasted every bit as gross as the packaging suggests.
Anyway that run was wonderful, and since then
Wed 17th August - 5.3km 32 min (just wasnt in the mood and had to force myself out)
Sat 20th August - 8km 49:58 mins - back to running at 10p.m. after driving back from Wexford & helping unpack & get kids to bed, again this was a force yourself out run,
This week has been better, 32 miles in total
Mon 22/8 - 8k, 44:04mins (really tried to speed this one up, dont know where it came from, but if felt pretty good)
Thurs 25/8 - 14k, 1hr 25min - tried to stretch the distance a bit
Sat 27/8 - 8km 54:14mins - ran with a friend who is just back from injury so we took it slow (but i wasnt complaining much)
Sun 28/8 - 22km - 2hr32mins - yes i know it was slow, but i got there...
and .................. Egging on Runners......
That run last night of 22km started at 10:30pm and i got back home past 1 a.m.
The streets were wonderfully peaceful, but from a tiredness point of view i would have been happier to be in bed.
I went out to Howth village, then back along the Coast Road to the Clontarf Bus Depot. I had planned to do 24k, but i was seriously knackered by this stage, so knocked off the last 2 k.
And the title of this post? As i ran along the Coast Road, a car flew past and with a guttural shout the passenger threw an egg at me. Thankfully it missed, a little bit splashing the back of my leg.
I dont get it; what kind of a mindset would do this? The lads werent young if they were driving a car; they also had to have the foresight to purchase the eggs. I just cant understand how they can disrespect other people to the point of thinking this funny. They must make their parents very proud.
Anyway they certainly didnt spoil my enjoyment of my run, or my sense of achievement in having gone out so late and still doing the long slow run, so F. them.
This week i hope to do some short runs during the week and run the Waterford Half Marathon on Saturday (altho i definitely want to do 24k so will have to keep going after the finish)....Lets see how it goes.
Very little blogging the last few weeks due to a) holidays and b) tiredness; but i have a couple of weeks of loving/hating my running so i thought i'd catch up with myself and my thoughts.....
Since my last post i've still been keeping to my non-plan. However i checked my runs against the hal higdon plan i was following earlier in the year to find that as of yesterday i was only 15km short of where i should be by now.....cue surprise.
Holidays
We headed to Wexford on holidays for the 2 weeks of the 8th & 15th August.
Running was on the back foot but i got out for a few runs, but not as many as i should have done (my catholic guilt over not running was getting more exercise than my legs).
Notwithstanding this I did a good bit of sea swimming during my hols - swimming in 15C water for half an hour certainly gets the blood pumping (i must invest in a wetsuit at some stage but i dont like the feeling of them).
So a summary of my runs from Wexford...........
Week 1
Sun 7th August - 8km along beach - 48:08 mins
Tue 8th August - 12km 'out the road' towards wexford, 1hr 9 mins (running on a busy road with a 100km speed limit concentrates the mind).
Wed 10th August - 8km along beach - 54:29 mins (in my defence, very windy)
Week 2
Mon 15th 19.5km, 1hr 56 mins; yep bit of a gap to this run, but this was one long slow run that was really enjoyable, ran out to Rosslare Port and back early in the morning, went down to Rosslare Strand before starting the run and saw a beautiful sunrise.......
When i got to the port i had to use the facilities in a local coffee shop, so i felt obliged to buy something, hence the photo of the most expensively uninspiring cookie ever....€2 for this....
And it tasted every bit as gross as the packaging suggests.
Anyway that run was wonderful, and since then
Wed 17th August - 5.3km 32 min (just wasnt in the mood and had to force myself out)
Sat 20th August - 8km 49:58 mins - back to running at 10p.m. after driving back from Wexford & helping unpack & get kids to bed, again this was a force yourself out run,
This week has been better, 32 miles in total
Mon 22/8 - 8k, 44:04mins (really tried to speed this one up, dont know where it came from, but if felt pretty good)
Thurs 25/8 - 14k, 1hr 25min - tried to stretch the distance a bit
Sat 27/8 - 8km 54:14mins - ran with a friend who is just back from injury so we took it slow (but i wasnt complaining much)
Sun 28/8 - 22km - 2hr32mins - yes i know it was slow, but i got there...
and .................. Egging on Runners......
That run last night of 22km started at 10:30pm and i got back home past 1 a.m.
The streets were wonderfully peaceful, but from a tiredness point of view i would have been happier to be in bed.
I went out to Howth village, then back along the Coast Road to the Clontarf Bus Depot. I had planned to do 24k, but i was seriously knackered by this stage, so knocked off the last 2 k.
And the title of this post? As i ran along the Coast Road, a car flew past and with a guttural shout the passenger threw an egg at me. Thankfully it missed, a little bit splashing the back of my leg.
I dont get it; what kind of a mindset would do this? The lads werent young if they were driving a car; they also had to have the foresight to purchase the eggs. I just cant understand how they can disrespect other people to the point of thinking this funny. They must make their parents very proud.
Anyway they certainly didnt spoil my enjoyment of my run, or my sense of achievement in having gone out so late and still doing the long slow run, so F. them.
This week i hope to do some short runs during the week and run the Waterford Half Marathon on Saturday (altho i definitely want to do 24k so will have to keep going after the finish)....Lets see how it goes.
