weekly summary: June 24 – June 30
Following on from the damage done during the Viking Marathon last weekend, this was always going to be a, shall we say, sedate week. Biggest concern this week wasn’t even the complete lack of...
Category: conditioning
Becoming a more honed runner
weekly summary: June 03 – June 09
Another awful week, reeling in the nuisance of whatever is wrong with my left leg. I believed that my problem was with my tendons. However, having spent most of the week off my feet...
weekly summary: may 27 – june 02
Another awful week, reeling in the nuisance of whatever is wrong with my left leg. I still believe that my problem is with my tendons. However, I’m also living in fear that it may...
rice: food for thought
How I wish this was a post about an intriguing discovery about rice and how it fuels the potential to be a better runner. Sadly not. The only RICE of any note in the...
weekly summary: May 20 – May 26
Following Tuesday’s run there was a bit of pain coming from the tendons at the front of the left ankle. I had something like this a few weeks before the Dublin Marathon last year...
weekly summary: May 13 – May 19
First time I’ve ever come within a hair’s breadth of hitting 70 miles for a week. I purposely didn’t break the ceiling after getting carried away last week. Might seem trivial but I did...
weekly summary: May 06 – May 12
The ‘spare change’ added an extra few miles this week. It was only supposed to be a 60+ week rather than a 65+ but it is what it is now.
weekly summary: Apr 29 – May 05
Something a little different again. Back with a solid weight session to kick off the week and ending with a trial marathon (off-pace) to wrap up a nice 50+ mile week. BS = Back...
weekly summary: Apr 22 – Apr 28
No weights this week; mileage still relatively high over the last fortnight and a big month ahead.
weekly summary: Apr 15 – Apr 21
BS = Back Squat; RDL = Romanian Dead-lift; SS = Raised Back Leg Split Squat Warm-up: BS 5x70kg, 5x90kg, 3x100kg BS: 2x(5-rep) @ 110kg, 1x(5-rep) @ 115kg RDL: 3x(8-rep) @70kg SS: 3x(5-rep each side)...
