Road to nowhere

sunday run dangan 16:10 - was supposed to be an hour long session but I cut it severely short! muscles in my legs were quite sore especially in the left hand side (where I do all the turning on the loop) also stopped prior to stretch my glutes, which were quite sore today. chest felf great (despite 2 consecutive 4 hr sleeps fri & sat night, nothing new there) but it was my body that said no today...

in short I chickened out & managed to convince myself that I would've done myself an injury had I kept going... I found out I was working tues evening (my next planned run) so I should've not ran at all & went out mon & wed night instead etc...

On tues I was physically sick (just general stress) & then dragged myself to work (so that was a 10 mile cycle - great cycle home, felt right as rain again, nice & mild & no rain, happy days...)

then earlier tonight I did a nice 10km 44:25, good time but I could've gotten so much more out of it.

I pushed hard from the get go & was 7:20 on TC2 (& 3:06 at TC1 - so dissapointed at this when I looked down at the watch - thought it was sub 3 for sure... so for the rest of the run I felt I was playing catch up), 11;45 TC3, 16:30 TC4 (got 2 stitches inside the 1st 15 mins - can only be a good thing - indicates that you're pushing hard...), 17:45 TC5, 20:55 TC6, 24:47 TC7, 27:45, TC8 30:20, TC9 31:20 (raging at this time - I used to be sub 31 here no problem! only then to lose speed later on...) TC10 can't remember (36:something I believe). TC11 38:05 (good but if I'm not mistaken I've done 37 here before (it's still better than the few times I've been here in 39:something...)).

At this point I was spent/had no motivation to really push - I didn't believe that I was in for anything decent & decided to settle for sub 45, the wheels really came off & I was jogging more or less, legs were a bit wobbly alright throughout but my chest was perfect the whole way around (i.e I'm capable of sub 40 easily - my cardiovascular system wouldn't be too bothered about that - so that's encouraging - it's just getting everything else right that's the difficult stuff), little did I know I was throwing away a golden opportunity for a sub 44 - perhaps I didn't subconsciously believe I deserved a time as good as that considering my weight etc... I don't know.

Regardless I'm in the ball park so that's good news

Also found out I again (for at least the 4th year in a f%&$ing year in a row that I won't be able to run the fields of athenry 10km this year due to work & family commitments - I'm fuming to say the least but it's ok as I can focus now to the Tuam 8km as a warm up for the Maree 8km...)

Time can be improved with the following adjustments - brace yourself, as you've never encountered these mistakes before:

• get running with people 
• drop 5kgs at least (hovering at 80kgs now - shocking & I have a very noticeable visible belly now...)
• healthier sleeping pattern
• eat better - cut out all the CRAP
• & train more - more cycling & sprints & longer stuff including building up base mileage.

I will do my 6.7km loop on friday for speed & will attack for a sub 27:30 for a pb...