Ok so we had another failed attempt at breaking 20 minutes. Without going into too much details about what went wrong. One thing did strike me as I was up in the 21 minute group, I was certainly one of the heaviest runners around here. I was looking around whilst been in a world of pain to see if anyone was as heavy as me. There was one or two but not many. So it got me thinking about diet again. Now I've prob failed on Diet more times than anything else but I thought what if I could come up with some sort of novel idea to keep me focused. Now there's better more scientific ways of...
So we're 4 weeks into the plan. I'll be honest I haven't made all the sessions but we haven't missed the speed sessions. There's usually about 6 of us turn up on the Wednesday night sessions 6.30pm from shoreline in Bray. The last one we did was 3k warm up and 6*800 meters. So we did this on the southern cross road in bray as there's less traffic and it's lit up quiet well in that part. The only problem is knowing distances. We thought the road was bang on 1k but turns out it's bang on 1 mile!! so the first 800 we did was actually 1.2k but eventually we got to grips with the distance. I...
So it's back trying to break 20 minutes for 5k. This time I'm getting support to do it, so we've opened it up to anyone to help or help themselves to break 20 minutes for 5 kilometres. I know it's not incredibly fast but for me it's a real target. If you are keen to get involved pm me your details and I can add you to the what's app group and you'll get the full training plan and we do one of the four sessions (the hardest one) together. We are going to do the Shanganagh park run on the 16th December so hopefully we can enjoy Christmas having done a PB for a 5k run. We're now...
This was my 6th Ironman so I had some idea what to expect. Signed up early Ocotober 2016 and downloaded a training plan from training peaks that started in March. With work situation training time was really at a premuim. I work for myself so work can change very quickly in this environment and when you thought you might have had a good week training something happens that calls you in and training is the first thing to get cancelled. Long story short training wise it consisted of about 1.5 turbo sessions a week. The swimming training was very good, I trained hard with Titans Monday, Weds, and Friday and I was very consistent. Started training with Declan Hogan on...
So since I've come back from Breca i've really been cramming big style especially on the bike. I'm not great on the bike at the best of times it's easily my weakest of the three and i've really neglected it this time. Having done Lanzarote and Nice bike course I think because they really scared me I trained very hard for them but Barcelona is supposed to be flat and I really have only gone past 100k 2 times whereby I cycled 110k on my own and then last Saturday went out with three "buddys" to do a long bike. The long bike which is only my second one was torture. Normally on a long bike i'd have a...
