Lockdown 2021 Run Challenge

[Thomas_Brady]

How do you mean tempo? Takes me around 26-27 currently for a 5k. So what would a tempo run look like for me with an aim of getting below 26… Running at that speed for a shorter run?

[TreatyStones]

My understanding of a tempo is that it’s about 25 seconds slower than your target pace, but you run for a period of time (e.g. 20 mins) as opposed to over a set distance. e.g. if you were targeting 5mins per km, you would run it at 5:25 pace.

[artfoley]

@Locke

Fair play to you Fran, downhill all the way. We could all learn from your cunning.

ah lovely, ill get the missus to drop me to the top of newtownpark avenue and run into DL from there.

CC @Fran

[caulifloweredneanderthal]

Here’s the times I’ve logged so far (obviously ye can try as many times as ye want) and the categories that all of you indicated you wanted to be in at the start of the challenge (@Mac I couldn’t find a declaration from you so stuck you in Senior B, and @alf_stewart, what the fuck were you thinking?). If anyone or anytime is left out, please notify me.

R indicates relegation
P indicates promotion

[Bandage]

I’m back in training. I aim to go 26:30 before the end of the month. I did a couple of “fast” kms there, mixed with shorter fartlek type stuff. It’s from the plan the dearly departed @caoimhaoin gave me back in 2015. I got accosted in St Anne’s Park Rose Garden by an auld wan, presumably for running on the wide path there and upsetting her bush viewing activity.

[flattythehurdler]

Is there any way you can lend that 0.05km to @Fran on strava?

[TreatyStones]

@Bandage

I got accosted in St Anne’s Park Rose Garden by an auld wan, presumably for running on the wide path there and upsetting her bush viewing activity.

3 nuns were walking through a park one day when a flasher emerged from the bushes, waving his mickey and frightened them before running off. The first nun got a stroke. The other two weren’t close enough.

[flattythehurdler]

Hmm
That training plan assumes a lot.

[fenwaypark]

This explains it better I could

What is tempo running and how do I do it?

[Fran]

@artfoley

@Locke

Fair play to you Fran, downhill all the way. We could all learn from your cunning.

ah lovely, ill get the missus to drop me to the top of newtownpark avenue and run into DL from there.

CC @Fran

I’ll be waiting at Newpark to run you down

[Locke]

You’ll be waiting at the finishing line too…

Edit: reading back you want to kill him, not run against him. Carry on

@Fran

@artfoley

@Locke

Fair play to you Fran, downhill all the way. We could all learn from your cunning.

ah lovely, ill get the missus to drop me to the top of newtownpark avenue and run into DL from there.

CC @Fran

I’ll be waiting at Newpark to run you down

[artfoley]

@Locke

You’ll be waiting at the finishing line too…

Edit: reading back you want to kill him, not run against him. Carry on

@Fran

@artfoley

@Locke

Fair play to you Fran, downhill all the way. We could all learn from your cunning.

ah lovely, ill get the missus to drop me to the top of newtownpark avenue and run into DL from there.

CC @Fran

I’ll be waiting at Newpark to run you down

[Mac]

Surely @alf_stewart should be automatically recategorised?

[alf_stewart]

Happy to do that

[caulifloweredneanderthal]

@Mac

Surely @alf_stewart should be automatically recategorised?

This will have to go before a special sitting of the committee

CC @Locke

[artfoley]

@Fran

I’ll be waiting at Newpark to run you down

enjoy your wait, i turn right at the garage

[Tassotti]

I’m missing from the senior list, in post 654 I declared I was in

[caulifloweredneanderthal]

@Tassotti

I’m missing from the senior list, in post 654 I declared I was in

Lovely. I will add you to the file and look forward to receiving your time. You had a few DNFs in the summer so hopefully you are back on form these days

[Locke]

We’ll discuss it on the weekly Teams call.
cc @Mac

[Thomas_Brady]

When are you doing ‘my run’ ? I’ll be out with flags and offerings of water