Northern Ireland Running - Page 763 - General running

Cavehill75

27/05/2011 at 10:56

Mags - thanks and fingers crossed for your recovery. Must be v frustrating for you.

Rodney - physio? Havent heat you mention the word physio yet? Money well spent in my view. My left soleus was v tender after BCM this year but two treatments later, i was back doing speedwork. Listen to your body. Get physio.

Paul B - Lisburn is a tough course IMHO. Those hills are long and tough.

John - good advice on here re HM training. Working your HR at the upper limits for at least 30 mins is the best training for results. Tempos and intervals need to be paced just right. Something I'm still learning myself lol!

JMcC - when's your next race mate?

PTB - are you doing any other 10k races soon?

Good write up in Irish News today on local scene. Some cracking times at the Buncrana 5km on wed night.

Have a good weekend folks. Will be looking for a MESSI hat trick tomorrow night to cheer me up. As Olympic tickets looking less and less likely i think..

Paul D Brannigan

27/05/2011 at 11:16

I'm sorry to hear your knee is no better, Mags. If its a meniscus tear, the pain usually feels sharp. It's usually not bone rubbing, but the knee is a sensitive area and even small disruptions can be very painful. Your knee still sounds stable, so a knee support or brace probably won't help much.

You're wise opting to go to the Belfast Knee Clinic/. The surgeons there have a good reputation. If you need a knee MRI, I know one of the private imaging centres in Belfast can do it within a day or so at the moment.

No, you can't run at the moment, and even have to be careful walking. But can you borrow a bike to at least get you out on the road and help strengthen your quads a bit?

Joe Rocket

27/05/2011 at 11:17

Gave Buncrana a lash myself on wed night- seems like everyone is starting to get on the pace a bit as its the third race now- good times all round. Tough old 3k out with the head wind, and a wee bit of shelter offered from runners in front. Hill at 4k is a tough one, hard to get back on the pace for the final push. Still a bit over the PB area for me, but given the conditions it's looking good.

KB- Heading over to run the home turf on Sat morning for sure!! Not too sure how the recovery will be since wed nights effort, but looking fwd to it. Hope the wind on the Portstewart road is at our backs or it'll be a real slog if there's no others to shelter behind! It's a good fast course too at Coleraine, so fingers crossed.

JMcC

27/05/2011 at 11:24

C75 - intend doing Craigavon Lakes. PB potential race there ,then probably Lisburn Half, and maybe Ards Half if I recover from birthday weekend in Dublin at take that . up a category to Male 45

8 mile @ 6.33 ave last night ( the long tempo). Splits a bit uneven due to the wind but HR effort contstant throughout.

Mags - have you tried icing the knee. For past week I have use an ice pack for about an hour on left knee. still a slight problem and am seeing physio in next week or so but able to train well and little or no post stiffness / pain.

Jim IA Moore

27/05/2011 at 13:14

One wish for the weekend a Barca win please and if I am greedy a decent run at Newry on Sunday

Well done to SCOTT on winning the RRFFFL

# Team Manager GW TOT
1 Limavady United XI Scott Rankin 35 1960
2 RunCurn Athletico C Curran 30 1873
3 Roy's Reds Richard Rowe 28 1868
4 Super Reds Jim Moore 28 1797
5 44 years of hurt Paul Gaskell 41 1789
6 Up & Runners Utd Donald Smith 45 1648
7 AR's Young Boys Alan Ritchie 44 1620
8 ultrax2 robin alexander 37 1599
9 HMM 38.20 Jim 38.23 Peter Fleming 51 1585
10 DUFFIN UNITED COLUM DUFFIN 31 1572
11 Ronaldos Children Jason Reid 28 1511
12 springwell utd gerry o doherty 31 1427
13 The Winners Darryl Blair 25 1335
14 Springwell Kenneth Bacon 36 1255

paul the builder

27/05/2011 at 14:05

JMcC - that's a good looking tempo pace, or distance. One or the other.

Sorry for folk who are having difficult injury spells - being patient, and taking some professional advice if something isn't getting better on its own, sound like obvious advice, but we're all guilty of failing to follow them at times.

The gods were shining on me this morning - beautiful conditions for a long run in to work (thank god that blustery wind is away). 15.5m or so, starting at around 6am. Mornings like this make me think I really should do it more often.

It'd be nice if lady luck continued to shine on me at Down Royal later this evening. But she's very fickle.

No racing this weekend for me, but over to Stranraer for the HM next weekend, and I'll be at the Decathlon 10k the following weekend.

Good luck folk racing - Newry or elsewhere.

tommygunn

27/05/2011 at 14:52

Mags it's tough but you kind of end up getting used to it after a while so coming back gets harder...

The important thing is though to make sure and replace the running with something which will be beneficial to any injury - I used to lunchtime run then I replaced that with flexibility / core work and now I do that every day. Use the time you had for running to your benefit. Cross training of some description will retain fitness too.

Good running in your 5k JR.

Going to give parkrun a blast tomorrow morning in the hope of knocking a bit of time off my time from 3 weeks ago though be another month or two before looking at any PB threats unfortunately

Good luck Jim in Newry marathon and anyone else doing any running over the weekend.

Cavehill75

27/05/2011 at 17:50

Definition of smug? Running home from work through traffic chaos and security alerts.

Kenneth Bacon

27/05/2011 at 22:00

Ran the 5K fun run in Ballymoney tonight. The legs are still a bit heavy after the 10K on Tuesday evening but loosen up and picked the pace up a bit on the second half. Good wee run and a bit of money raised for Cancer Research.

Joe see you in the morning hopefully the wind will have eased off.

Jim good luck on Sunday. TG have a good run at the Park Run

Mags I am hard to live with when I am injured. Try to find something to keep the fitness up.

Bracken

28/05/2011 at 09:38

Anyone know anything about the Decathlon 10k? (other than what is on the website). Planning to enter Lisburn but noticed this race and as a weekend suits me better am considering entering.

Concerned that entry numbers may be low - anyone any inside info on the Decathlon set-up, expected entries etc?

Cavehill75

28/05/2011 at 09:54

I've heard quite a few people talking about it. No info anywhere though. Presume it will run around the harbour estate. I've entered it but will decide on the Saturday whether to run it or not. Seems low key.

Bracken

28/05/2011 at 10:25

Thanks C75 - Sort of had that feeling - Probably enter Lisburn 10k, pity its run midweek however.

Cavehill75

28/05/2011 at 10:44

Lisburn 10k is a good course for a time Bracken, plenty of people do it so chances of racing in a pack are good (and ending up in no-man's land low).

Carrick 10k cancelled this year.

Kenneth Bacon

28/05/2011 at 13:42

Disappointing turnout at Coleraine 5K. 38 finishers win for Emmett McGinty City of Derry 16:47. Difficult conditions with strong cross winds most of the ay round the course.

tommygunn

28/05/2011 at 13:48

I thought Carrick was a great race last year - pity.

Pity about your turnout Kenny - bank holiday weekend so maybe a few people away.

Ran the parkrun this morning. Finished up in 18:50 on a very windy day. Haven't done enough speedwork as 6 minute miles is still a massive shock to the system so need to step up the tempos! 15 seconds quicker than 3 weeks ago in considerably worse conditions so happy enough as all I'm looking for at the minute is progress. 139 or so participants so we're still getting the numbers with 2 races.

The decathlon race is being well advertised Bracken. I suspect there'll be a good enough turnout and they claim to offer £25 worth of goodies for something like (though don't quote me on this) £12 entry so I would guess that will entice plenty of people.

Rodney Livingstone

28/05/2011 at 14:40

Well done at parkrun TG. You are progressing well.

Kenny, I was speaking to JamesT and he said conditions were tough in Coleraine. A low turnout for you but a good day for Ballymena Runners with 2nd and 5th positions for James and Noel.

I got a slow 9 miles done today on grass. Averaged 8.29 pace and kept HR below 70% for 96% of the run. A few slightly higher readings but overall I am happy with the run.

All the best tomorrow Jim and is Robin doing the full marathon too ? Good luck to him too if he is.

Edited: 28/05/2011 at 14:40

Ferdy

28/05/2011 at 18:37

Mags - sorry to hear about the injury. When my IT band put me out for 3 months a few years back, and I couldn't even cycle or swim without pain, my hubby bought me a punchbag. Partly so that I could get some form of exercise and partly to stop me taking my frustration out on him . I can highly recommend it.

Fair play to anyone racing today - it was pretty windy! I almost got blown off the top of Knocklayd mountain! Fingers crossed it will die down for tomorrow's race. Good luck Jim and anyone else doing it.

It's good to hear that the comebacks are progressing for Tommygunn and Rodney.

Edited: 28/05/2011 at 18:39

Robin Alexander

29/05/2011 at 16:03

ran newry marathon in 3hr 35.09 over 3 min pb.didnt think i would finish as had to pull up after 3 miles with left hamstring pain, took 6 miles to get some sort of pace back but by the second half I had plenty left and managed to pass every body that had passed me early on. ended up with a negative split of about 8 mins. weird to go from thinking of pulling out after 3 miles and then get pb ,its a strange sport

I had never run newry and really liked the course/organisation, even had ice bath at finish, well done newry

Paul D Brannigan

29/05/2011 at 18:08

Very well done, Robin. I see the provisional results are up now. You made a really good job of catching up with Jim.

I did it last year and liked it. It's small & friendly, with bottled drinks and gels galore along the way. And I loved the Mars bar & crisps at the end! The canal path can be a bit lonely though.

Excellent bit of running, Robin.

Jim IA Moore

29/05/2011 at 18:56

Well what a balls up of Newry i made today target was sub 3hrs 30mins so i set off and ran the first half in 1hr 40mins which was 3.20 pace this was crazy but i just could not help myself as i loving the hills over the first half as it just like the roads we run on during our Sunday morning runs anyway the pace told and the wheels came off over the last 6 or 7 miles i took 1hr 54 mins for the second half and its far easier than the first you would think i would know better but you know i still enjoyed the run even know great event despite it being a low key marathon.

Great stuff by my mate Robin who got a PB and was catching me fast and would of had me if there was another few hundred yards to go.

Would i do Newry again yes

Was talking to Alan R who was floating about on his bike today

OH and by the way where are all the UTD men hide your heads in shame