3 days to go!

Hmm, was going to say I can’t believe its just three days to the Great Limerick Run (Limerick marathon), but really I just want it to happen now! Did 30 mins light running yesterday, and 40 mins day before, but its rest now till Sunday, natural feeling is to want to be active…but I guess come mile 20 on Sunday I’ll be glad I rested.

I am feeling good and think preparation has been good too. Two weeks ago I shared the Nenagh Triathlon with Cathy (she did the swim and me the cycle and run). We came in 100th of 212 which was great given the competitiveness of the field. Chuffed with my cycle (61st) but felt I left some of myself out there on the run (106th). Once this marathon is over I might forego long distance for a while and work on speed for 5 and 10k runs.

Anyways, not afraid to pin my colours to the mast and say that I am aiming to beat 4 hours this time. My plan is 20 miles at 9 mins ea, and then improve per mile thereafter. I’ll take water every 3rd mile en-route, and feed with energy bars on 3, 9, 15 and 18. Hope weather will be good to us, Its been unnaturally good of late but raining slightly today.

Taking on lots of water, pasta, noodles, bananas and fig rolls at the moment. Next time I blog on this I hope I have beaten my target of 4 hrs! Good luck to all the other 6,000 taking part in their respective distances on Sunday. For now its back to the job that pays at platformweb!

Cycling at Nenagh Tri April '10

Limerick Marathon preparation going well

I did my last major long distance run yesterday in preparation for the Great Limerick Run. I ran 20 miles, or 32k if you prefer it that way. Covered it in 2:47 which I was a bit disappointed with. Think I may be suffering a natural dip in form as my cycling and short distance running has not been hectic either last week or so. Previously I had done 30k in 2:31, so a bit of slippage some where but not really too sure where. Perhaps I ought to time my 5k intervals better.

I enjoyed it anyways and it was good to use the run for headspace to think about some new plans and developments happening for me at Platform Web.  It feels good now that the 20 miler out of the way. I’ll do a 16 mile run next week, then 12 etc.

10 days to go to Nenagh Triathlon. Am sharing that one with Cathy who is doing the swim, but I think we both wish we could have applied in time to do it all individually. Oh well, there’ll always be another one!

Tried using energy gels yesterday for first time, not sure about them to be honest. While they may have helped I did not like the taste! and had to carry extra water to dilute them inside me. Will stick to actual energy bars and fluids on the big day methinks.

Over and out for now.