On wednesday I did a sort of a track session. Cycled in & out of college & then to the track later on in the evening. Up every day at 12:30pm & going to bed round 3:30am - recipe for disaster.
did a 1 mile in 5:58 (& on the 3rd lap felt like I was crawling along though really (& really noticing the sheer lack of endurance I have)). That was ok then went & did 2 400 meters off jogging rests (at least 2 mins each) did in about 1:17 each - terrible really, was hoping for 1:10's but it wasnt happening - again from even 150 (250 to go I was hanging on...). then did a few 100m sprints (easing up at 80) & this time not from the 110m line - thats why my times were so slow previously! managed 14.5 secs for those... then did a 1km repeat, tried to but lost count of laps & sorta gave up, then I went to do it again & at 400m & decided to call it a day - a weird session but I was very tired & could really feel it in my chest -like the beginning of an onset of a cold type thing...
The race then was good. working 7:30-4 but dad was taxi for the day so that was refreshing! (I'll be cycling to work tomorrow though!) then the race at 7.
Overall I can't complain only we got soaked at around the 2.5km mark... it's odd weather recently - just really heavy showers on & off occasionally throughout the day.
was knackard & never really got going at all in the race, 1st km in 3:30 flat & didn't feel like I was moving at all so that's a good sign, that was the track session paying off I guess - either that or just 1st km ambitions - my efforts put me into 3rd place which I held until about the 1km mark, then the usual suspects passed me one by one...
The early pace felt right - I was even taking my time & I just by default found myself chasing the 2 leaders - this keeps happening - it's obvious that the better athletes are in no rush - but its as if (because the running community in galway is so insular by nature - you go to a race & you can almost tell whose gonna come where even before the gun goes off) they're all out for a training run with each other. to me a race is a race - it's almost too friendly I dunno...
The guy who won it (no Bidwell tonight) from ennis track, was unbelieveable! 24:48 was the wining time, phenomenal & the fact that I've never heard of him either - that's scary to know that you can be that good & yet be an absolute nobody at the same time... it's shocking really
It was a good field tonight, plenty under 30 mins but as they passed me & I still reckon if I trained right I'm convinced that I could have gotten 3rd place - would've required a sub 29 finish - but it's in me. Just so many average runners passing me tonight - it didn't annoy me as such but just to realise how beatable they are. But I'm focused on other things really with college & work etc... but so too are these other people juggling family life & jobs etc so fair play to them...
It's just that sub 30 pace, if fit isn't that bad really, it's just that when your on say 27:30- 28 flat range to improve from there then takes a significant increase in milage etc.. you need to become a very different athlete for that sort of caper...
As for my own performance, 33:18 in the end. not a disaster but not great either... The 4th km I went through in 15:20 so that was good, But I just didn't have it in me tonight at all. I didn't really get my second wind at all & I was toast at the 4th km & never really recovered, went through 5km in 20:18 & I wasn't hurting that bad but I knew that my chest just was't gonna let me dig into my reserves for the last 3 kms
I am in sub 32 shape, & I should get it in the streets alright next month, but I gotta go to bed earlier etc, drop the weight & do some more running itself. The bike is marvellous but at the end of the day there is no substitute for an 8 mile tempo run - which I intend on doing soon...
I am getting fitter all the time though. As in fairness I am only 40 seconds off my PB & in parts felt like I was going awful slow. I just didn't have the edge tonight at all - I treated it as if it was a training run really... When it rained I felt like sneezing - onset of a cold developing so I subconsciously pulled back - I was wheezing a good bit too (asthma from my childhood playing up), just felt weak as a cat overall... tied I guess from biking it 7 days a week either to college or to work...
I'm happy overall though - a few battles on the road with Brendan & Martin etc. Good to speak with them again, their the best of people...
might run on tuesday - don't know what distance yet - maybe an hour on the grass, we'll see...
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