"If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.”

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11th of may, Monday
6pm - 7miles in the park

12th of may, Tuesday
5pm - 15mins, 1200m(3.20),8x200m(27s),15mins

13th of may, Wednesday
6pm - 50mins(8miles) in the park with Rob Fitz

14th of may, Thursday
7pm - 30mins(4miles) with anto

15th of may, Friday
7pm- 30mins(4miles)

16th of may, Saturday


17th of may, Sunday
-Race-

Well another week, more miles in the bank. This has been a good week of running for me, last week could have been my best week of running. So i really wanted to get my head down this week and keep up the good work. This week my buddy rob fitz was back so i was looking forward to hooking up with him. We trained with DCU on tuesday in santry and that was good, even if we were told to hold back. Eamonn has organised an 800m race at the AAI games at the weekend in Athlone. So im going all out to get me a pb, my 1st 800m pb in 2years. My pb stands at 2.05 so going under that will be great. After that race on sunday ill be running in the graded meeting in santry on the wednesday, there is a mile and a 400m race so im not sure what ill be doing yet.

"Dream barriers look very high until someone climbs them. They are not barriers anymore"

Quote of the week is by Lasse Viren

Time to get my running back on track this week in the Dublin Graded meeting 1500m. It is my first outdoor track race of the season, its my first 1500m in 2 and a half years aswel. Im looking forward to the challenge, if my training of late is anythin to go by I should be up there for a pb. Im not really hoping for any time im hopeing to run well and compete. Ill be running in the B race, so you never really know who is going to run. It will be in Irishtown and as most people know that track is always windy and today(tuesday) the wind seems strong. Anyway times arent the important thing, get out race and enjoy myself. Iv been lining up a few races for the year.

6th of may - 1500m, Graded Meeting
13th of may - 1mile, Trinity Games
17th of may - 800m, 3x800m relay, AAI Games
20th of may, 400m, Graded Meeting?
30th of may, 1500m, IMC, Irish schools
7th of June - 800m or 1500m, Leinster Seniors
14th of June - ?????, National League
28th of june - 800m or 1500m, National u23s
5th of June - ?????, National League

There are just a few races i had been looking at, there are a few graded meeting races aswel ill be running and maybe a few IMC races. The u23s is wat id call the big one for me, id like to run well in that one. But im really looking forward to running in the National Seniors, Iv been saying im going to run every year now for 3years but every year im not in shape so this year im going to be running it wether im fit or not.

This week so far has been just taking it easy.

4th of May - rest day

5th of May 20mins, drils, 4x100 strides, 10mins

6th of May - 11am - 3miles with anto
9pm - 1500m(4.23)
7th of May - 6pm - 7miles with anto, sean murray and sean fitz.

8th of May - Rest day(thank god)

9th of May - 20mins warm up
3x400,3x300,3x200, 2mins recovery between and 5mins between sets
(60,61,63)(45,46,47)(30,29,28)
10mins cool down

10th of May - 11am - 8miles, with anto around tymon park and tallaght village.

Not a bad run, its 1 seconds of my PB and considering everythin Im happy enough with it. Im just glad to be back racing, competting, and runnin times. The race itself was ok, got stuck in the middle of a big field and found it hard getting into my running. Got a few elbows and everythin, just racing i guess. I thought on the last lap ok here we go david, im not that tired. Wait till 300m and go from there, but just cudnt get going. Went thru in 67, 2.16 and then i dont know. It was very cold and the wind played a big factor tonite. Ill take it and move on, roll on next wednesday and the AAI games.
Saturdays session was good, i did this session awhile ago on the tallaght track on my own. Today i ran much quicker and the recovery was pretty much the same. My foot was very sore tho after this session. I have really weird feet but i got thru the session anyway and Im pleased with this week. You could say that this was an easy week, because of the race on wednesday I was just tapering down but still got runs in and a session with the race.

"Even if you fall flat on your face·at least you are moving forward"

Quote is by Sue Luke

Sorry for the delay but iv been off training hard. Training this week couldnt have went any better im starting to feel like im in good enough shape to really run. For the last two years i have been kidding myself entering races not prepared, not ready but yet expecting pb's every time. This wednesday i hope to run my 1st pb in the 1500 in nearly 3 and a half years. Its madness to think the last time i ran a 1500m race was my 1st year at inters in school.
This week i have been quiting logging my miles, and feeling strong doing so.

Monday
11am - 3mile run
6pm - 7mile run

Tuesday
7pm - 8mile run

Wednesday
6pm - 15min, 4x400,4x300,4x200, 15mins
(2min for 4's,90s for the 3's and 60s recovery for the 2's)
I averaged 65s,47s,28s for the session and it was very windy. Felt strong

Thursday
7pm - 8mile run

Friday
5pm - 10min, 4x400, 4x100 strides, 10mins
3mins recovery inbetween the 400s
I ran 60,61,62,63 feeling very good.I was running the first lap with anto and john while they were doing 600s. I was very happy with this session today and now im looking forward to wednesday. The idea of todays session was just to get the legs rolling, nothing to hard because the lads had a hard week. In the end I should have done more but eamonn was suprised with me.

Saturday
6pm - A nice steady 8mile run with anto and peter. We were fairly moving today

Sunday
11am - 10miles in the pheonix park with anto and john

Total milege this week = 55miles this week and two sessions,
This was a very good week, 1st week back from monte gordo and training is going very well. Im pretty confident going into next week and the race on wednesday. Im going to race ths trinity games the wednesday after the graded, there is an open mile so ill prob just run that to get a nice workout. So this is the last week before i start really racing. Everything is starting to fall into place, i was very happy with my session on fri and my run and sat and sun. All in all it was one of my better weeks for training. Just have to keep the ball rolling now

Till next time, peace!