Well im back, sorry for the delay. I have been injured ever since the Mile in the graded, i got pushed and twisted my ankle. It was hard to take considerin i had 500m left and i was on for a sub 4.40 mile for sure. I know im fit its just whether or not i can get over this ankle thing before all the good races go by.
It didnt help that last tuesday one of my friends hurt my ankle even worse playing football.. Its still a lil brusied so im taking things slow. But im positive im nearly in the clear.
I attempted the Graded 800m last wednesday, to no afail. Dropping off after 400m. Im not too worried about that, i know i am in PB shape for sure its just finding the race and time to do it..
After the mile in the graded i took a few days off, it worked out well because i was down in athlone helping the Community games. Since then tho i have been back running, iv done one session since then and this was the reason why i tried the 800m, The Tallaght Track is no finished so i had to do a session on it.
I was joined by Sean Fitz and we did 10x400 with every 3rd one in 64 and the rest in 70 and the rest was 2mins. It was grand, felt good.
Since then i have just ran,
1st of June - Monday
40mins with anto,4x200m strides
3rd of june - Wednesday
Graded 800m(went through in 61)
4th of june - Thursday
40mins with Sean Fitz, 4x200m(27s)
5th of june - Friday
40mins with anto and peter fitz
7th of June - Sunday
50mins with anto
So last week wasnt a great week by all means.. I havent had any pain in my ankle this week so im going to train hard on it this week to test it. I havent lost too much fitness just need to get a few miles under me first. The Leagues are this Sunday down in antrim, if im not needed im goin to guest in the 800m or 1500m maybe both im not sure. So Then this week im goin to hit high enough milege, get a few doubles in and iv a session tuesday. Depending on how that goes ill see what event ill run on Sunday. So this week started nicely, I decided to do a double Mon,tues,wed,thur. On monday i did
8th of June - Monday
9am - 40mins
6pm - 20mins, Cricuits, 20mins
(12miles)
9th of June - Tuesday
15mins warm up, 4x400(61,63,64,63) 4x300(46,44,44), 2x200(28,27), 10mins cool down
10 of June - Wednesday -
9am - 45mins(6miles)
6pm - 30mins(4miles), Hurdle practise
11th of June - Thursday
10min warm up, 8x100m hurdle practise, 5min cool down
12th of June - Friday
40mins steady around Tallaght Village
13th of June - Saturday
30mins steady around the running club and village
14th of June - Sunday(National Leagues Rd.1) antrim
Finally the National leagues, i really love doing these events as its the only time of the year were the hole club compete with each other. This year we feel if we get all our top runners back and fit we could have a shot of Promotion this year.
Our first Step was round 1 up in antrim, we had a decent enough group a few northern teams, sligo, sli cluann, olympian Youth.
The trip up was a bit of a long one but all the same enoyable. The first track event of the day was Sean Morris in the 110m hurdles, Moe finished 4th in that and got us off to a decent start. We Knew our field events were going to be our downfall but Sherife pulled a big throw out of the bag to get a 2nd place. I was next up in the 400m hurdles, i ended up in 5th after nearly falling coming into the final 100m(thanks to a certain Clonlife girl) and i finished in 68 which was around what i wanted but im sure i can run quicker for the next round if im picked.
Our 4x100m team was very strong but they hadnt done any baton changes yet, and somehow we managed to get to the last leg in the lead but we were just caught at the end and finished 3rd. A bit more practise and we can win that for sure. Up next was Thomas fitz who only the day before ran a huge personal best to run 3.51. Tom like a few others made it back in time to help us out, and that he did winning the race in 3.57 winning not only our group but the premier Divison. Nicely done! Ciaran ran a strong race in the 400m and finished 2nd with a PB 52.06. The steeple chase was our next track event and again i stepped into that. Knowing that there was 4 in my divison i just jogged it and got around, although i found it tough i ended up with a time of 11.55, not happy but i finished which is saying something. 200m was up next and Bolger was in this, coming down a distance for this one and ran a solid opener with 4th. Our day got even better when anto leighio who the day before ran a pb 1.51.8 won our divisons 800m in 1.57 and sean then ran a smart race to win the 5k. The last event of the day was the 4x400m relay, with us missing our top sprinter National Junior record holder brian gregan we managed to send out a every strong team. Bolger ran the first leg and passed the baton in first with a split of 51.9 to ciaran mackey(52.0) Jk was next as he was the replacement for grego ran a solid leg for him after his first race in alomost a year handed the baton onto Anto in 2nd but anto having the 800m the day before and today in his legs cudnt catch 1st and we finished 2nd.
Our points tally for the day was 91 and that got us 4th in our pool. Knowing we can do better in some field events and a more baton practise in between now and the next round we have one foot in the door to making the final in Tullamore on the 8th of August
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