OMG - Where has the time gone?

It's been 2 years and 1 month since my last confession. Where has the time gone.

This effort must start again!

Tollaling up Week 8.

Toting up the km's for week 8, 2nd of July to 8th of July.

Sore lower back means no exercise!

• Saturday  : 182km cycle
• Sunday    : 0km
• Monday    : 0km
• Tuesday   : 0km
• Wednesday : 0km
• Thursday  : 0km
• Friday    : 0km
• Total     : 182km cycle

Totalling up Week 7.

Toting up the km's for week 7, 25th of June to 1st of July.

• Saturday  : 0km
• Sunday    : 60km cycle
• Monday    : 8km
• Tuesday   : 0km
• Wednesday : 7km (Tountinna)
• Thursday  : 0km cycle
• Friday    : 0km cycle
• Total     : 15km run + 60km cycle

Ring of Kerry Cycle 2011

The Ring of Kerry Cycle took place on Saturday the 2nd of July.

My wife, through banter at work, had somehow talked herself into completing the 182km cycle this year. To be clear this banter took place back in late April. Dear Tracey didn't even own a bike in April, hadn't cycled since secondary school. Yes in just over 2 months she went from not cycling to a 182km jaunt around the beautiful Kerry. Well done Tracey..

90% of the cycles were completed after work in the evening. Due to my running I didn't complete the same amount of good ground work Tracey did and I've paid the price over this last week, since the event. On the day I was fine, we took a nice steady pace. We took plenty of water and food and stops. All went well.

However the next morning my lower back was sore. This has taken the whole week to subside and only today, 8 days later would I even consider running again but I decided to give it an extra day..


When Tracey started training she roughly followed the training schedule below;

Week 1 (25th of April to 1st of May): 12km cycle. 3 times

Week 2 (2nd to 8th of May)          : 17km cycle, 4 times

Week 3 (9th to 15th of May)         : 17km cycle, 5 times

Week 4 (16th to 22nd of May)        : 17km cycle, 7 times.

Week 5 (23rd to 29th of May)        : 17km cycle, 6 times. 

                                      40km on Sat.

Week 6 (30th of May to 5th of June) : 17km cycle, 4 times.

                                      34km cycle, 3 times.

Week 7 (6th to 12th of June)        : 17km cycle, 3 times.

                                      34km cycle, 4 times.

Week 8 (13th to 19th of June)       : 17km cycle, once.

                                      34km cycle, 6 times.

Week 9 (20th to 26th of June)       : One 60km cycle on Sat.

                                      34km cycle, 4 times.

                                      17km cycle, 2 times.

Week 10 (27th June to 3rd July)     : 17km cycle, 2 times.

                                      Ring of Kerry, Sat 2nd.

Ring of Kerry Cycle 2011 Details

Tountinna trail run - Wednesday 30th June, 7km

This is the first night I got to use the Garmin 310xt on an actual hill run. We visited Tountina, near Ballina in Co. Tip. This was a great night for a run. Clear blue sky, a light breeze, dry and plenty of runners. Easly 30 people turned up, which is great.
Tonight just over 7km took me, just over 35minutes, I was "To the pin of my collar" as they say and only a running buddy Owen kept the push on, I wouldn't have got near the 35mins..

Totalling up weeks 3, 4, 5 & 6.

Mental note: Don't let this get behind again!

I used my Polar RS200 + email + phone gps logs to build up these logs which I'm 95% happy with.

Since my last major update I have couple of new trails to upload. You'll see these sometime tomorrow evening.

Toting up the km's for week 3, 28th of May to 3rd of June.

• Saturday  : 0km
• Sunday    : 8.5km
• Monday    : 10km
• Tuesday   : 3km
• Wednesday : 14km (Keeper hill)
• Thursday  : 20km cycle
• Friday    : 20km cycle
• Total     : ~35.5km run + 40km cycle

Toting up the km's for week 4, 4th to 10th of June.

• Saturday  : 6km
• Sunday    : 6km
• Monday    : 10km
• Tuesday   : 2km
  
• Wednesday : 10km (Cratloe woods, IMRA)
• Thursday  : 5km
• Friday    : 5km
  
• Total     : ~44km

Toting up the km's for week 5, 11th to 17th of June.

• Saturday  : 0km
• Sunday    : 8km
• Monday    : 5km
• Tuesday   : 0km
  
• Wednesday : 12km
• Thursday  : 3km
• Friday    : 0km
  
• Total     : ~28km

Toting up the km's for week 6, 18th to 24th of June.

• Saturday  : 8km
• Sunday    : 8km
• Monday    : 8km run + 28km cycle
• Tuesday   : 0km
  
• Wednesday : 8km
• Thursday  : 20km cycle
• Friday    : 28km cycle
  
• Total     : ~32km run + ~76km cycle

OMG, June is gone!

It's been a busy June and my updating of the active log has fallen behind. Rest assured I have been training away but not as much as desired. My mileage has half but I have worked a bit on speed and style.

Just received my new Forerunner 310xt, so now the mapping issues with goggle will be a thing of the past. Below are my first 2 outings with the 310 and I have to say it's a nice piece of kit. Very easy to use, light as a feather and swaps between wrist and the bike in a heartbeat.




Just one week from the Ring of Kerry cycle. See link below for details;
http://www.ringofkerrycycle.ie
This will be a not so easy 112 mile / 180km cycle through the mountain roads around Kerry. Can't wait. When finished I'll upload the route, with some pics. This will not be a race but a "leisure cycle" with my wife. Below you can see our last training cycle, 60km around Limerick.