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Art O’Neill part 2 it’s really art…

…art of trail running. We were running today just one part of Art O’Neill route. I would say the hardest one (haven’t run the first bit – 30 km from Dublin Castle to Wicklow Mountains). Even that training was during day-light I found it kind of hard. Not HARD hard but still finding trail running much tougher than road running. Harder to pace yourself, harder to be sure if your feet will land on the steady ground or not. Another thing, especially now, is that most the time I’m comming back home soaked feet. And no matter how I would like to avoid streams, water, muck there is no way not to step into one of these or even better to fell into… Read more

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Regular day in the office…

I wish I could say that looking at that picture… Unfortunately that just picture of gear after training session in Wicklow Mountains…

Really nice session with Trail Heads. Over 1.5 hours of running up and down the hills, avoiding (not too much) mud and muck and trying to keep your feet dry when crossing the rivers (didn’t work at all)… Must admit that on the beginning of the whole trail running I wasn’t great fan of that. But now I really enjoy it. There is small issue at the moment thou. It is my eye sight. If I’m not wearing contact lenses I’m blind like a bat and even best headlamp won’t help. Read more

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THE PLAN

Recently I was checking races for next year… which I can run, which I will need to pass and which I can run outside of Ireland.

I wanted to do maybe 4 foreign ones and the rest in here, in Ireland. Planned as well maybe 1 or 2 longer runs – ultra and that was already sorted out by My Wife when she have signed me into 50 KM run in Donadea in February. That was the plan. Quiet but still pushing me to get more marathon runs… Read more

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Clubbing

For the first time I had three sessions of training with club in one week – Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Usual Tuesday run besides lake in Roundwood, Wednesday speed session in Greystones and Thursday hilly session near Three Rock… Read more

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First consultation

So… I have decided to join the runners club. It isn’t regular athletic running club, it’s more of a trail running club. Name of this club is Trailhead – http://trailrunner.ie/. Having talked to a  couple of runners about Don (owner and running coach) and his philosophy I decided that it will be the best way to go. I had to talk to Don first and that’s what I did when I was there on Sunday (assessment) and today… Now I can’t wait for results. Read more

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I was assessed

And apparently my fitness level is not too bad. It is funny feeling when you know that somebody is watching you during whole run. Checking if you can run uphill at full speed and repeat that. You are trying your best to show that you are not a wimp, but when it comes to proper ‘running coach’ you won’t hide your weaknesses and if you would like to show-off you just won’t be able . It is proper assessment, nothing will go unnoticed. Read more

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Where is my fitness?

Went somewhere? Don’t know, but looks like it unfortunately. Not long ago I haven’t got a problem to run daily 30 km for 4 days and additional two half-marathons over the weekend. Actually, it was not even two months ago. And now? Now I’m struggling to run 23-25 km a day, morning exercise making my heart to run faster and demands from me more oxygen (that was never the case before) and last but not least getting big cramps at the end of marathon (last two)… Read more

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Books…

More than a year into running and I think now is the time to work a little bit on the technique and do proper running training plans… Time to ‘get a grip’. Clocking mileage will probably not work any more. Read more

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Rest day…

I hate that… but time to time you have to have at least one rest day. And it seems that today is that day.

I would like to run but can feel that my body need rest from running. Only exercise probably I will be able to do will be core muscle exercise but not cardio. For me such a days are like torture, I feel like somebody cheating and not doing what I suppose to do… But you can’t do anything with that. Last rest day, without running (but still with forest Via Ferrata) was Saturday week ago, so means that I was running again for 7 days without any break. Read more

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I want to breath…

Precor treadmill

I don’t know if that’s because I run marathon last week or just… because it’s so warm in gym but for the last couple of days I cannot run distance I would like to run…

It seems that I’m sweating now more and I’m losing breath and can’t run any more. I know that after marathon I decided that I need to lower mileage I’m doing daily. Before marathon it was about 30 km daily on the week days (not Wednesday) and about 28 km daily over Saturday and Sunday. Now I would like to ‘downsize’ to 25 km and 25 km… Read more