Tonight I ran the EMC 5k and it was hard 🙂
The weather was dry and mild, with the temperature about 18 degrees.
I ran the 5k in 21:06 and I am delighted with the result, over 6 minutes faster than the same race last year.
It was great running with John Twomey again and I know running with him helped my over all time. At points I believe I would have given up if John wasn’t there.
Looking forward to seeing the official results, and my Garmin ANT data.
What do I want to achieve?
What would be a great result?
What would be an amazing result?
These were the questions Peter asked me last Friday during physiotherapy.
I answered 3:30 would be a great result and I believe I can achieve it.
3:15 would be an amazing result (3:10 is the qualifying time for Boston)
3:00 would be a dream result.
Peter told me in 18 months I could achieve a 3 hour marathon!
He also told me I need to build muscle to get there.
Today was to be my first coaching session this year with Peter Maher, (who I discovered his daughter is married to my first cousin)
I arrived about 20 minutes early for the session, and there was no sign of anyone there, I waited until 18:30 before I called the office number, Breda called me back to say Peter was waiting for me on Monday night, and did I get the day wrong, also they were helping my cousin to move house tonight!
Anyway Breda will call me (hopefully tomorrow) to arrange a replacement session.
I’m really looking forward to getting really started. I decided to do nothing tonight (small bit of stretching) in preparation for the EMC 5k tomorrow night.
And guess what Sinead went out for her 2nd night on her 0 to 60 program.
I’m really impressed that she is keeping it up.
Last night was the first session of a 6 week course of Pilates I’ve started.
So how was it you ask, well as a first night it was easy, the last course after the first session I was sore, I’m not now.
Maybe I’m not sore because I’m fitter or maybe it was easy.
What a great day, the sun was shining and it was great to get out.
I did the normal 4 miles, and probably did them a bit fast 🙂
On the way back my left hip was letting me know it was there.
As I still haven’t found the ANT device I haven’t uploaded anything to endomondo. I need to find an ANT.
A new day and getting near to my Dublin Marathon training needing to start, but not yet. I’ll run the EMC 5k first and then really start training.
Today I went for an “easy” cycle of 8 miles, and as I hadn’t cycled since last August, my bum is now sore.
It was a good day, my ANT device is on the missing list so no uploads to endomondo, but everything is captured on the watch.
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