Moraghan Training - Stevie G - RW thread
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6 Jul
10:37am, 6 Jul 2024
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Sorequads
Sorry for the health issues, @TippTop. Sounds a painful way to run a half. Good luck with getting in some mileage again, @philip_m_jones. Hope the move goes smoothly. Nice racing @LBAC Si. The one way 5k sounds fun! Tidy session, @stevieg. Looking forward to a photo of your garden gnome. |
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6 Jul
10:38am, 6 Jul 2024
45 posts
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Sorequads
13.1M at 8:05s last night. Good to get along the canal again and see the heron. Token 3M this morn in the pouring rain before we head down to Cornwall. |
7 Jul
7:10pm, 7 Jul 2024
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stevieg
Race prize geezer hasn't come back to me yet, so the saga continues  Old club (well, now 2nd claim club) had their Beat the Boat 10k today. I've done the results the last 2 years, so was happy to again now to stay in touch. Long old day. Up at 6am as per usual, but it felt a bit like one of those up unnaturally early for a trip abroad type wake ups. Quick eat and mess about then out at 630ish, to arrive at 705. 8.5miler, change, then 0.5m jog with backpack with warm gear / folder for results etc. Kid's race 9, main race 9.45, so some down time, but then manic thrashing finisher race numbers into the spreadsheet and work out as quick as poss who the category winners were. All went to plan with that, but the fun comes later when you try and add the splits and hope it all ties up The 2 race chip takers always take different amounts to each other, which is usually different to the total finisher numbers written down. By the time you de-dupe, work out typos, work it all out, it's suddenly 4.30pm But should all be tidy and a decent job all round by the club. Off work tomorrow which helps, so will probably get an 8-9mile single in, pre a turnout Tue night. |
8 Jul
11:08am, 8 Jul 2024
68 posts
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Foppotee
Glad you got through the HM TT, I am surprised you keep pinning a number on in sub-optimal shape, I think I'd just be waiting until I felt like I could confidently put in a good time. Good news you're getting some sleep SC and like SQ says, nice racing. I look forward to hearing about this prize SG, hopefully it's either an amazing prize or something terrible, to complete the saga. I've been a little quiet but I did do a running thing this weekend. Club 5k run championship was conducted within Reading parkrun, which I'd never actually done, it showed. No real warm-up, jogged over last minute from the gym, which is next to the start. A chap from our club that ran 17:10 at Woodley last week was there, so I had to decide if I wanted to go for it or not. Club mate stormed off into the lead and I started conservatively, giving up a fairly big gap. After the first km I was holding the gap and so set about trying to slowly close to him and the two others in the leading group of 3. I eventually got back to them with about 1km to go. Once the course opened up for the final 400m or so I hit the front to try and wind it up but had a bit of a navigation issue, missed a turn to go round some cones so had to double back and ended up back in 4th having lost about 10 seconds. Got back to 3rd and won the club thing but couldn't catch back to the other two. 18:02 - would have been circa 17:50 without the balls up, on a slow wet course. |
8 Jul
12:06pm, 8 Jul 2024
45,060 posts
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SPR
Hi All I said on another thread somewhere that Moraghan used to be a frequent poster on the sub 2 800 thread when that first started. Even though there weren't with that as a real target, it was a great thread for those of us that were targeting middle distance while it was going. I was new to it all back then so I found it very useful. I very much agreed with Moraghan's distinction of what speed work was as I learnt more. Here's the thread for anyone interested. Moraghan first post is on page 9: fetcheveryone.com/forum/sub-2-minute-800m-new-group-35019/1 @LBAC Si good to see someone else on Fetch regularly racing MD again. Also some great times there! Re the session on page 1 where you ran 4:18.75 1500 pace followed by 4:15 for 2 x 8 x 400 with 70 secs and 2 mins recovery, that's an amazing session and you must be in better 1500 shape than the fastest set there! I've run 4:24.1 this year and considering 10 x 400 at 70 secs (4:22.5) with 60 secs recovery as my session tomorrow but with a fall back of 2 x 5 x 400 with 60 and 3-4 recovery as I'm not sure I'll be able to do 10 straight at that pace. Don't think I could get to 8 and then do it all again 🤣 |
8 Jul
2:19pm, 8 Jul 2024
39 posts
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LBAC Si
Hi @SPR Thanks for the compliments, I'm not bad for being able to do a few sessions a week. But I can't seem to build that well - my form seems to waver about! I'll pop over to the 800 one too. Nice for the helping out @stevieg, not too shabby on the Parkrun @Foppotee Weekend - where to start. So - driving to the Newport Pagnell 5k up the A5 near the main MK turnoff, then see about 100m ahead, lots of red brake lights, smoke etc... Long story short - trapped there for an hour and a 1/4, before being turned around and led back down the carriageway at 11.50. Race was off at 12, so missed that and had to go back home. Got dropped off outside town, so me and the kid did a 6k tempo back. Some really fast times today - 1st V50 15.40 odd. On old hand who must have been targetting the new AG. So - annoyed I headed over the track to bang out an angry 30 x 200 (the 10 with 10, 10 with 20, 10 with 30 one). Weather was a bit crap, but had just stopped raining and there was no one at all on the track! Low and behold, within 2 mins, the first of the Crufts mob arrived and then about 5 more within 10 mins, all OBVIOUSLY making a bee line for the track. The surrounding acres too wet for their little white trainers. Anyway got on with it, all of the dog walkers were fine apart from one who would't move and we had a bit of a discussion. I was wearing my club vest so she has contacted them, plus the boys in blue LOL. So will see what comes from that. The missus was track judging for the NAL at Bedford yesterday, so I ran 6 miles to the track then 7 miles with Ollie. That was a more pleasant experience. Saying that - the cash on the A5 looked nasty. Still can't find anything about it on the news. |
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8 Jul
4:15pm, 8 Jul 2024
45,071 posts
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SPR
Dog walking on a running track?! Since when was that allowed?! Annoying to miss the race. |
8 Jul
4:36pm, 8 Jul 2024
4,716 posts
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Curly45
Used to happen at Feltham (abandoned track) and Osterley (gates left open when hired by a running club) as well. Often you'd get kids on bikes at Osterley. I just used to tell them to get lost. Used to be amusing in winter at Feltham though as no flood lights so we'd be doing reps with head torches on and scaring everyone away 😂 |
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8 Jul
4:38pm, 8 Jul 2024
45,074 posts
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SPR
The worst I've seen at my track is the odd person turning up and trying to run with headphones on. Guess I'm lucky, lol.
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8 Jul
4:58pm, 8 Jul 2024
4,717 posts
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Curly45
I mean if you've got a lack of public space and a lack of understanding what the track is for I can understand it. You see people walking dogs all over football pitches for example. It's frustrating though for the athlete having to think about another thing while training. People always want to seem to use Lane 1 as well. Just move out the way to lane 6 and they'd be grand! |
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