David McCarthy’s Cold Weather Training in Limerick
Hi all,
David McCarthy here. As the only 800m runner in the group I clearly have to do the hardest sessions-which I’m sure the other lads will agree with!! Joking aside, I’m still in pretty heavy training doing sessions like 3 or 4 x 1000m (my personal favourite!!). Training has been going really well the last couple of weeks-my speed is good and I’m getting close to where I want to be in terms of specific 800m stuff. We had a time trial last week and I equalled my PB for 600m, which is encouraging given that it’s February and it was about 2ºC! (Not quite getting the same weather here as McKee is enjoying in South Africa!!) The 1000m runs still need to improve a bit but there’s plenty of time for that and they are going in the right direction.
I haven’t started planning races yet but the intention is to do a couple in mid/late May and then race through to the 23rd August (Olympic Final). Between now and then it’s more hard training to make sure that I can get around the two laps!! We’re off to Spain for a week at Easter, which is something to look forward to, and it will be a nice break from the cold weather here!
That’s all for now.
Dave
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February 22nd, 2008 at 5:47 pm
hi dave, im a 1.49 800m runner, i was wandering if you could give me a few sessions to make up a typical weeks training in April. i hope to run fast in june.
June 15th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Hi David,
I am delighted to see you training so hard in cold Limerick, it will pay off later in the year. I hope you qualify in the 800 as well as the 4×4, enjoy the Irish ’summer’.
Best wishes,
Margaret.
p.s. I may see you in UL as I will be working there come September.