Moraghan Training - Stevie G - RW thread
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29 Aug
8:59pm, 29 Aug 2024
72 posts
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Sorequads
Thanks @Windsor Wool. They are great sessions and I love how you gradually build to huge volume and (relative for me) quality. Definitely good marathon training but also useful for 10k upwards, I reckon. Are you at Abingdon this year or have I got my wires crossed? Great to get another SB, @stevieg. You’re getting a bit Mondo Du Plantis - adding a cm to the world record each event. Short shorts briefing man did make me laugh. Great write up @LBAC Si. You compete at a high level and should take real credit for it. Sounds like running faster than you absolutely had to in the heat might have cost something? I would have made Cheltenham Half more of an A race but am taking in a slightly extended role at work so know training will be hampered before Abo and thought it best to get in another session whilst I can. Thinking about it now, probably some twisted logic there 😆. Minimal 4M recovery today at 8:49 pace. In fact couldn’t even be arsed to round it up and settled with 3.9. |
29 Aug
11:27pm, 29 Aug 2024
516 posts
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Forrest Jooligan
Good racing from all 3 regular posters. Finally got some running in this week with 26.2M in the past 3 days. All slow but it’s a start. |
30 Aug
8:08am, 30 Aug 2024
6,447 posts
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Windsor Wool
Yes SQ, the build on those is great. When I 1st started marathoning I was on P&D but over time I found it so hard to get out of the door after work and do the midweek 14-15 milers. Introducing those sessions as a replacement really gave me something to focus on. Keep up the good work 👍🏻 No Abingdon for me I’m afraid - having a jog round the block a couple of times a week is about the limit of ambition for my arthritic body nowadays. |
30 Aug
10:58am, 30 Aug 2024
187 posts
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stevieg
Sounds almost as exotic a location as my midweek race there @LBAC Si  Different class to all of us as always! @Forrest Jooligan I only signed up for race 1 and all 3 races sold out decently early this year. I'm sure last year when I did race 2, there was still the chance to enter race 3 half way into that week, but obvs word has spread. They did a finish line camera that you could rotate angles at. Shame the footage is a little grainy, but recorded a few seconds and whacked it into the fb album. The savouring it after the race with memories is a huge motivator to me, keeping the race numbers etc. @Windsor Wool You'll get sick of us saying it and it's always very hard to apply to ourselves, but compared to the idea of no running at all at the start of the year you've had a decent "at least..." scenario. Ticking over the miles and doing the odd social / low key short race is much better than nothing at all for sure. |
30 Aug
11:48am, 30 Aug 2024
73 posts
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Foppotee
Good effort there SC, sounds like a nice trip. I do enjoy a good PMJ parkrun moan. A free 5k in a public space, it couldn't be any more inclusive. Then you have these mental people that having nothing better to occupy themselves with than obsess over some way in which it's not utopian. The idea that a grown adult needs another grown adult to walk behind them as they stroll round a public park is hilarious. Anyway, I have been on holiday so no structured training. Did a few runs in Lanzarote, the only one of note being up a local mountain. 10 mile there and back with a bit of clambering at the top. I guess I have been averaging just under 20 miles a week though so still maintaining some fitness as well as continuing with the gym stuff. I am trying to organise my next London Physio appointment with LFOTM as his office is only a few minutes from Hyde Park. It'll be more of a barometer of fitness than anything else. Last race was 2023 London marathon so just need to dip my toes back in and then commence training for the spring. It'll be interesting to see what time I can run, maybe I am deluded but I still fancy cracking 17. |
30 Aug
2:18pm, 30 Aug 2024
92 posts
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LBAC Si
Thanks All - feel rough now though. Leaving do tonight, watching the Cherries at Everton tomorrow. Then back on the horse after my slovenly week. |
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30 Aug
8:08pm, 30 Aug 2024
6,448 posts
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Windsor Wool
stevieg wrote: Windsor Wool You'll get sick of us saying it and it's always very hard to apply to ourselves, but compared to the idea of no running at all at the start of the year you've had a decent "at least..." scenario. Ticking over the miles and doing the odd social / low key short race is much better than nothing at all for sure. totally with you. Very grateful here and enjoying what I can do (excl the cycling which is shit!). |
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31 Aug
11:21am, 31 Aug 2024
188 posts
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stevieg
Reportedly over 5,000 at Bushy parkrun today. Must have been mad fun midpack...or something. Reg is that a particularly specialist physio you have, as central London seems a decent trip otherwise. Ideal if you can combine the 2. Although I like the idea of having physio then telling them you must dash, off to race a 5k! Not quite as bonkers as the time I had a heart stress test on a treadmill booked at the local hospital in my year of tests post wyc hm 2015 and got into a right old pickle with traffic and parking . I ended up having to run fairly hard for a mile or so to the appointment. Coming in a drenched mess! |
31 Aug
12:40pm, 31 Aug 2024
34 posts
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TippTop
SC - good racing in a high standard! Does it feel different racing in these events compared to something domestic? SG - good racing. I got told off for cycling to my appointment for the same thing. SQ - weird situation with your race and the gate (and the commenting). Well done though and good luck for the HM. Reg - sub-17 off of 20mpw would be fair going! Did you ever get around to building your gabion wall btw? I've just finished ours - kept getting put off due to fibro issues, but as the new meds are having a really good effect I took last week off work (and running) and powered through masses of hard labour in the garden. We'd redesigned our options a few times so in the end it's a 9m long, 1.2m high wall made from sleepers (with masses of postcrete and reinforcing along it as it's kind of a retaining wall). I'd imagine it's not much more involved than a gabion wall. Jooligan - I'm with you on just getting back to things and all being slow. How're you feeling after the latest bout of covid? Not much to report here. Can't remember when I last posted, and time tight to scan back, so I hope all are doing well! I'm on new meds for fibro which seem to be making a huge difference. Was slowly rebuilding mileage (was up to 40m over 5 days) before taking the week+ off to work in the garden. Currently sitting on 22m off 4 days this week. May or may not do something tomorrow but will combine building mileage back up with finishing the garden project. |
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1 Sep
6:39pm, 1 Sep 2024
190 posts
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stevieg
Really humid today but for a 13 off, 7.25 pace. Not sure it was actually that hot but as we know heat and humidity are different things. Nightmare when they combine though Wouldn't have fancied a long distance race later on in the day. |
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