Training Log Archive: ColmM

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.

Easy Sunday run.
Tried to get Clo ou, but she had too much work, and tried with Niamh too, but she's scared of the hills.
So, ended up just me and Coco ripping up the hills.
Chilled from Pine Forest to Fairy Castle and back. Little slow on the way back waiting up for Coco.