[Training Diary] The curse of exuberance...

W/C May 25th

Solid start to the week last week. First week training after the #Coast2Coast adventures with +Edel O'Reilly-Conroy.



I'm following the Experienced Marathon plan and working on incorporating that in and around cycling and strength training over the next 2 months as the #TriHarderAR team build towards meeting the Beast again in August.

Monday:
A good day which started with a great kayak session on the Craughwell / Dunkellin River with Edel.

13k or so and a nice chunk of the turlough explored.

Managed to get out for a spin on the MTB with my young lad and then again in the evening for an hour by myself. I gave Mattress Hill a run and should have stopped at the successful 1st run.

A tree got in the way for the second run.

Tuesday - Saturday:
Run sessions as per the Experienced Plan though on Wednesday I did a double day as there was a run with SauconyUK in the evening which turned out to be a fairly lively tempo run for me.

Do no harm! :)


Sunday:
We were originally planning to go camping in Lough Key Forest Park on Saturday evening as we have to be in Cavan on Monday. We ended up deferring until Sunday morning for departure so as Edel did her 18k I packed the camping gear and prepped the van for departure.

1st Procrastination was leaving my run until we got to Lough Key.

By the time we got the tent pitched the kids wanted to explore a little so 2nd procrastination was to wait until we'd had dinner and put the kids down before I went exploring the trails.

Cheeky monkeys!!

3rd procrastination happened shortly after having a BBQ and settling the kids (VERY excited) in their 'bedroom' when the local neighbours started playing rockabilly and rebel songs. The only dry pitch was in the middle of a triangle of 3 caravans 20m apart and they insisted on shouting back and forth.

That was the end of that and we all hunkered down to endure the off key singing and back and forth until well after curfew at 11pm.

Sure I'll do 18 early in the morning before the kids awake.

Yeah right!! 6am the birds started and the kids were awake.

We decided to pack it up, quick breakfast and to loudly ringing rendition of "Let it Go! Let it GOOOO!!" we left at 8am for the trip to Cavan.

Arriving home in Galway after driving in horrendous conditions I message Dave asking if I should squeeze in the session or skip. He said skip but not again! :)

Phew!! :)

All told, a busy enough week, reasonable amount of training, one missed session and a ton of driving; gotta be happy with that  result.