Moraghan Training - Stevie G - RW thread
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14 May
2:46pm, 14 May 2025
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LBAC Si
Nicely paced race @stevieg Looks a nice event with good support, thats why I like the Newport Pagnell 5k - lots of people cheering you on too! 7 & 5 with Ollie on Monday, buses were shot yesterday so had to train at home, decided to do the 10k tempo again. One of those you realise after half a mile that it was the wrong choice, but you need to stick it out. Not a proper tempo as I went a bit too fast, definitely wouldn't be able to another 15% comfortably! So 37.50 on a undulating town route with no warm up was quite pleasing. Hard though. 5.5 this morning, usual jog round Islington from work. |
14 May
4:14pm, 14 May 2025
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Foppotee
philip_m_jones wrote: Foppotee wrote:was supposed to be 3.5 hours with 5 x 20 minutes at about 270w I can see I have some work to do: I was on the bike for 50 minutes this morning and my best 20 minutes was 176W. I did a seniors circuit class on Monday but got enough flak from my eldest daughter about that as she lifts 100kg+ and I was doing 5kgs so don't need comments. I have probably increased my 20 minute power by a 100 watts over the years. Starting at about 265w and peaking at 365w. So plenty of scope to increase. |
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15 May
9:06am, 15 May 2025
295 posts
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LBAC Si
@Foppotee doing a 3,000m race around here next month, not sure if the course will be the same. Looked brutal! |
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16 May
9:37am, 16 May 2025
210 posts
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Foppotee
LBAC Si wrote: @Foppotee doing a 3,000m race around here next month, not sure if the course will be the same. Looked brutal! https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=crit+race+kings+cross that link doesn't work SC |
16 May
11:18am, 16 May 2025
228 posts
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Sorequads
I sued to double quite a lot, @Muddyfunster. But one key change for the winter-spring coaching was almost all singles (so longer runs on average). Currently is just a bit of what a fancy in nice weather. The midweek races sound good. Where are they? Tidy tempo on a warm evening, @LBAC Si. First trot on the school grass track on Wednesday. Usual warm up and down with 3M tempo on the track. Appalling paced, not helped by the heat. But 6:10 average. Worcester half (the hilly one, rather than the flat but twisty run) coming up on Sunday. Annoyingly, seem to have come down with a bit of a head cold, so going to have a rare day off today. |
16 May
11:50am, 16 May 2025
13 posts
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Muddyfunster
@Sorequads I'm involved in a couple of them - the Hereford Couriers 5k series entrycentral.com and the Worcestershire midweek series: stuweb.co.uk which is Hagley, Arrow Valley, Droitwich and Clent - all of which I suspect are too far north for you ? I was thinking about Worcester half for a session in company but turns out it is sold out. Surprised at the prices for that - it feels like since I emerged from semi-retirement, race prices have gone mad. Or maybe my income is not going so far (reader: it's those expensive shoes!). The days are gone of just hopping into a race casually, now I need to save up. The races linked above are very good value by the way ! Just a couple of easy runs to report since my 8m with the club, a 4m and 6m, with approx. 5m easy hoped for at lunch today. A parkrun run and scan looms tomorrow, so I'll make my session work around that instead: 2 x 9 mins at 6.30 ,min/mile, then a 19 min parkrun. |
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16 May
12:15pm, 16 May 2025
229 posts
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Sorequads
Cheers, @Muddyfunster. The Hereford series is sold out which is a shame - fancied a couple of them. Agreed re race prices - although it does make the cheaper club organised ones absolute gems to treasure. Talking of which, any Blaisdon 10k action this year, @Forrest Jooligan? |
16 May
1:28pm, 16 May 2025
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Curly45
Fell running is the answer to cheap races - £6 for Sunday's 9kish. I don't think I've seen a local one more than this. I hate expensive races as there are two of us so it makes everything twice the price. |
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16 May
2:01pm, 16 May 2025
296 posts
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LBAC Si
@Foppotee Had a feeling it might not work. Look on youTube if you fancy it. Pretty full on race for the slowest one! Got chilly again though @Sorequads  Agree prices are silly now @Muddyfunster you do have to shop about Kicked off the track by a school meeting again, so 12 x 400 off 60 on the tuesday road ciruit. Usual 72 to start, averaged 69 for the rest. Groundhog day tomorrow - Wrest Pk to train, then bus to Bedford to watch Ollie run a 3000m in the SAL for Bedford. Then 'relay season' (Round MK, Greensand Ridge & Stevenage) kicks off Sunday, Leg 1 from Bletchley to SW MK. 9.3 miles so a good workout. |
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16 May
3:18pm, 16 May 2025
211 posts
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Foppotee
Si, I have no idea what I'd be searching for it just says crit race kings cross. Are you running around a crit race course? Had a headache yesterday, tried to run it off but didn't manage it and just ended up making a bush visit and cutting the session about 10 minutes short. It should have been 2 x 2 minutes and 4 x 45 seconds twice over but I barely got into the second round. Today was 60 minutes with 10 x 1 minute builds with 2 minute floats. I quite enjoy these runs, the averages only come out around 7 minute miles but there's plenty of efforts in the 5-6 minute miling range. 3 hours on the bike with a 30 minute brick run (3 x 5' at threshold) tomorrow, 1:45 min run on Sunday which will be my longest run so far with 6 x 1km at tempo at the back end. Might also squeeze in an easy swim at the lake Sunday morning. Should be a tough weekend then one more week before taper week into a middle distance race. |
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