Training Log Archive: ColmM

Queens Elms Sprint - 2nd.
Not a great race. Had a lot of mistakes, probably not too far off a minute in total. Most others were worse or equally bad, but Corbett was too clean for me, and nipped in 4s in front.
In theory, I could do with more sprint training. In practice, I'm not too bothered.

Intervarsity Championship, Tyrella - 1st.

Great team result today, UCDO dominated the weekend.
I had been focusing towards this race for a few weeks. It worked well around my training plan, because it meant I could get into decent shape for this, and then after the intervarsities, I would be in decent enough shape to try and hit proper base training.

My race was good. Happy to be back racing on a nice map really. And Tyrella is a very nice map, one of the best we have.
I started quickly enough, was maybe a little too concious of what others could do, but settled down a bit more, and found a nice balance between trying to push through the terrain, and reading the map well.
Twister my right ankle slightly after making a small mistake on 6, but I tried to just run it off, and it was gone pretty quickly.
Had minor misses on 14, and 18, 10-15s each. Had a bad route choice to 19 which brought me through some shittier stuff, and saw Laurence overtake me, after I'd caught him.

Generally clean though. Think our map may have been 1:7500, the course didn't feel easy, but that scale probably did make it easier, I didn't have any trouble reading detail at speed, and I think that was something I did have issue with here before.

Intervarsity Champion for the 2nd time though. Sweet. Hopefully more to come.

Warm down with a team of champions, Róisín, Laurence, and Niall.

Had the pleasure of anchoring UCDO's boat race team, but realistically our first 4 legs were too strong for any of the other colleges, and I could just cruise home with an enjoyable pint.

Brown - Splits

Easy lap of UCD before intervarsities tomorrow.
Short team run with Róisín, lorrieq and CillinC.
Team is in good shape.

Saw a car run-over 2 deer and a fox on my cycle home. Dinner sorted.
Planned on putting 1 deer and the fox away for tomorrow's lunch and dinner. Problem was, after all that study, when I got home I was so hungry both deer and the fox were cooked and eaten!!!

Easy lap of UCD with Róisín, and Cillín, and Niamh for the start too.

Did 10 * 200m with Laurence and Corbett before the weekend. Legs feeling good, very easy week this with focus on intervarsities and starting winter training next week.

9:54 on Saturday apparently. Happy enough with that, that's essentially a PB, as I don't know what time I was through 3km in the 5k I ran in April.
Can't be sure of distance, but everyone seemed to imply 3km at least (it was meant to be 2 miles, so).
Wasn't ideal running conditions (3hrs sleep, some alcohol, and a bowl of cheerios 1hr before for food), but I also wouldn't have been that quick if I hadn't had the Trinity lad.
I'm pretty happy.