Not a social faux pas, although it was in drunken company- on my walk home from a night in town I turned over on my ankle and it swelled up and went black and blue. That was me out of action for the 10 miler last weekend, and 7 days on, the swelling and bruising have gone down but it is still very sore and swimming is even a bit much for it. I could be looking at a 3 to 4 week healing here, unless of course I have broken something, which I am not ruling out. Hope not, last week sucked- could barely put on my left shoe. Got more mobility now and will look to strengthen it this week.
On the 300 challenge I managed 16 Pull ups and 35 Press-ups continuously. Left the run well alone!
Also came down with a cold and cough and it is really difficult to gig with enthusiasm then but scraped through it. Got some wedding gigs approaching and I see this as a good long term strategy, both the afters and the ceremony.
So, I'll use the gym and keep motivated and hopefully be right as rain for the half marathon in mid Sept...
As an aside, I was in the All Irelands in tag TWICE this year! Great stuff- we won the league with the Taguars and got to the semis of the SuperBowl in the All Ireland. And I was drafted into TAGGAGE in the IRFU All Irelands and helped them win the Superbowl- emotionally I put down the winning try in extra time!
Monday, August 23, 2010
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Cometh the hour, cometh the man
Just a quick update- I am back training and have completed a 5 mile race in 39 minutes some weeks back in the phoenix park. The 10 mile race is up weekend after this. Hoping to get some good fast times and really run the marathon instead of just completing it like last year. No target time yet but looking at 4 hours, instead of 4.5 last year. That's a minute faster per mile or so which is a big ask.
My training is starting to ramp up now, thankfully I am injury free and during the summer my tag rugby team, The Taguars won our summer league and competed in the All Ireland tag blitz which was great.
The longest run so far is about 10 miles in training, I am still playing 7 a side soccer and Gillian accompanies me now most evenings on her bike. I am feeling a lot stronger and every week doing the 300 challenge. Its quite simple - Pull ups on a bar, Push ups and a 3 mile run. Total points possible 300. Pull ups, no stopping = 5 points, push ups, good form no stopping = 2 points and 3 miles in 18 mins 100 points. Every 10 sec outside, deduct 1 point.
Week 1 Pull ups = 9 Push ups = 25 Run = 58 points TOTAL = 157
Week 2 Pull ups = 12 Push ups = 30 Run = 77 points TOTAL = 197
My training is starting to ramp up now, thankfully I am injury free and during the summer my tag rugby team, The Taguars won our summer league and competed in the All Ireland tag blitz which was great.
The longest run so far is about 10 miles in training, I am still playing 7 a side soccer and Gillian accompanies me now most evenings on her bike. I am feeling a lot stronger and every week doing the 300 challenge. Its quite simple - Pull ups on a bar, Push ups and a 3 mile run. Total points possible 300. Pull ups, no stopping = 5 points, push ups, good form no stopping = 2 points and 3 miles in 18 mins 100 points. Every 10 sec outside, deduct 1 point.
Week 1 Pull ups = 9 Push ups = 25 Run = 58 points TOTAL = 157
Week 2 Pull ups = 12 Push ups = 30 Run = 77 points TOTAL = 197
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