First of All…..HOW CUTE

ON THE SHOW TOMORROW (This took a while…..)

The Totally Super Awesome Noughty Threesome – Every day at 8.45 we bring you three stomping tunes from the decade we like to call the Noughties. So, just You, Me and Tracy (oooooh, yeah) for 3 big tunes back to back to get you to the door of your work, school or college. Today we played (1) KernKraft 400 – Zombie Nation (2) and (3) – There’s another 3 noughties tunes tomorrow morning. 8.45, Miss it, Miss out

Punderwall – Follow out antics on the Punderwall by clicking HERE – It’s very simple. Every day at about 9.20 producer Katie gives us a story from the paper and pun headline they have come up with. We get 30 seconds to come up with our own puns, then you guys get 5 minutes to do better than us and the papers to win yourself €100. Sweet as Mate. Go on, get your puns out and see if you can do better -

War of the Words - There was a bit of a Bru-Ha-Ha about War of the Words on Tuesday when Tracy’s caller firstly couldn’t hear us and couldn’t be heard, and then eventually hung up/got cut off. I pronounced (all official like) that I should take the point by default. Tracy disagreed (as you might expect). Eventually the decision was reached that we would just play the round again on Thursday with the letter E again (rubbish decision) – So, play tomorrow to win your place at the winner’s table. The letter is E, and the game is ON!!

PLUS – 1 hour of tunes reqested by you from 6.45 with the hour of power, lots of good news with the Good News News, all the hottest gossip with Rory in Twit Twoo, and your chance to win €3,000 in cash. Totally super awesome right?? See you tomorrow….

Fully Charged with Ryan Phillips and Tracy Clifford is back tomorrow morning from 6.45 only on the most music station, Spin1038, Dublin

Today I was back at Marlay park to have a go at the intended training for the day, which was a VERY basic 1 mile jog. As my leg was still sore from the run on Sunday, I decided not to take any chances and drove to Marlay park instead of walking the mile and a bit there. Then, as an extra precaution, I covered my leg in Deep Heat, which smells gross and doesn’t actually help at all as far as I can tell (with the benefit of hindsight) and started off. A load of stetching to start, a short walk for a warmup and then 1 mile at race pace. I was about 3 steps into it when my leg started throbbing. To be fair, it eased a bit as a ran, but after the mile was done, which meant a grand total of 8 minutes and 20 seconds exercise and running by the way, I was in agony. It’s really hard to credit that something so innocuous as the muscles around the shin could cause so much blood pain and problems.

Back to the car, lashed on the deep heat (which did nothing, see above) drove home, which was hard because it was hard to push the pedals with the shooting pain in my right leg, then spent the rest of the afternoon and evening putting ice packs on the leg, massaging the muscles (while grimacing and making funny noises with the occasional curse thrown in) and, if I’m being totally honest, sulking.

As I type it’s 20:11 and I have the water on for a bath to try and loosen the muscle, then I’ve more massaging and more icing it to do. I’m determined to make it back out to Marlay Park on Thursday to do the next mile….well I am now, about 4 hours ago I was determined this marathon thing just wasn’t meant to be and i was giving up, but now I’m back on a positive buzz and settling into a regime of icing, massaging, soaking and repeating until I can run pain free.

Orla has decided she’s going to call me precious because I’m so easily injured. Bitch

Orla thinks I should join...

This, as you will know if you’ve ready recent posts, has become quite the niggling injury and despite all my efforts to ease gently back into action on it, after one short 3 mile run, it’s in bits again. As a result, I didn’t really do any training today. I went for a 50 minute stroll around the area (and took in some houses that are for sale at the same time, two birds and all of that) but only covered just under 2 miles in distance, and even that was putting the leg under pressure.

I’m starting to seriously doubt that I can even make it to the start line of the marathon, let alone run the 26 odd miles when I get there. Today, for the first time, I started thinking about what I could do as an alternative, and thought about buying a road bike and joining a cycling club. Orla’s brother Mark and all his friends are big into cycling and he told me that on some of their big Sunday cycles you could lose 7,000 calories, which is pretty impressive. It has the advantage that it’s low impact (which clearly suits me) and is something that I think my body could handle a bit better than the running, which it is seriously struggling with.

Anyway, I haven’t given in yet, but I’m fairly down about the whole thing. I’m scheduled to run JUST ONE MILE tomorrow as part of the gentle easing back in training, but I’m not sure I’ll even be able to do that at this rate, which after 4 months purportedly training for a marathon is about the most depressing thing I have ever heard…

I know how he feels...

ON THE SHOW TOMORROW

The Noughty Threesome – We’re very excited about this and not just becuase of the cunning sexual innuendo either. Every morning at 8.45, we bring you 3 big tunes from the decade that was the noughties. Today’s noughty threesome was (1) Black Legend – You See the Trouble With Me (2) Girls Aloud – Sound of the Underground (3) U2 – Elevation. Sweet. Another 3 tunes from the noughties back to back tomorrow morning at 8.45

Pop Bitch – You can take Tracy on in Pop Bitch tomorrow morning just after 8. We play some tunes backwards and you’ve got to guess what they are. It’s not rocket science people! There’s still only one person on our Pop Bitch Wall of Fame. In 2 weeks, only Leanne has managed to beat Tracy. Another chanc to get on the wall tomorrow

Twit Twoo - Live from Hollywood California, it’s Twit Twoo, and quite right too. Each morning, just after 9, Rory has your daily clebrity update with Twit Twoo. He’s stalking all the celebs on Twitter so you don’t have to. Plus you can play along and see if you can guess the mystery tweet each day.

Money Money Money - There’s another chance to win €3,000 in cash when we “Hit the Road Jack” with Aviva. Steve K is going to pick a winner on Spin Hits on Friday and we’ve got another chance for you to get in the draw tomorrow morning

Fully Charged with Ryan Phillips and Tracy Clifford, bringing you the most music every morning from 6.45am, only on the most music station, Spin1038, Dublin

However, the Half Marathon training plans starts with a 4 mile run, and that’s too much for me at the moment. SO, I’ve had to come up with my own plan, which starts with a 2 mile run on a Sunday (followed by 1 mile runs during the week) for 2 weeks, then 3 miles on Sunday (followed by 2 miles during the week) and building up gradually from there. Yes, it’s very little to start with, but that’s what injury does to you I guess.

So anyway, I walked down to Marlay park today (which is over a mile walk, and seemed like a decent warm up) to jog 2 miles. Iphone in it’s armband, all ready to go, when I found out there was no music on the iphone, as it had all been deleted when syncing with itunes. Bastards. I fired my my “may my run” app to log how long I was running and at what time/pace. Did the first mile in 8.5 minutes, an ok but not great pace, and felt like I was about to die. Kept going anyway, determined to make the 2 miles and I ran and ran and ran and ran. The app is set up to tell me every mile how far I have gone and how long I have taken. But the GPS must have gone offline or something, because when I eventually did reach 2 miles, I had been jogging for 25 minutes. If the app is right, I ran the first mile in 8.5 minutes, and the second in 17 minutes. Which is stupid, because my walking pace is a mile every 15 minutes, meaning I jogged it slower than I walk it.

So I’m not sure exactly how far I did jog in the end, but it was close to 3 miles by my reckoning. That’s great and all, but the whole reason for starting off REALLY slow with just 2 miles was to avoid injury to the leg, and sadly it’s really been at me since I got back home. Not killing me, but certainly not fine either. I’m doing all the exercises and stretches and massages that my resident physiotherapist told me to do, and I’m only due to run 1 mile on Tuesday, so hopefully by the time that comes around in wont be a problem, and I’ll be able to Run ryan, RUN!

Ryan Phillips is training to run the Dublin City Marathon on 25 October 2010. Over one third through the year now and he’s still not able to run more than 2 miles without getting injured. Things are starting to look a bit grim. Day 131 was Sunday 7 March 2010

Since I’m going jogging tomorrow and have been doing some form of exercise every day for the last 6 days, I decided to take the day off today and rest all the muscles and what not. This is a fairly thinly veiled way of saying, I got lazy and figured I could probably justify a day off, so I took it.

Then I did my best impression of the Russian Olympic Vodka Drinking team and horsed into a load of Vodka and Lucozade as though the nice people at Howl at the moon might run out soon. So, no exercise, I ate nearly a full White Sliced Pan and then a shit load of vodka. If anyone asks, marathon training is coming along really well….

Just Add Vodka

ON THE SHOW TOMORROW…

The Noughty Threesome – We started a brand new feature today on the show today, it’s called the Noughty Threesome, and each morning at 8.45 we play three big tunes from the Noughties back to back. Today’s threesome was (1) Madonna – Music (2000) (2) Booy Luv – Boogie Tonight (2006) and (3) Kanye West – Stronger (2007). Three more top tunes from the noughties tomorrow morning at 8.45

War of the Words - Its 3-1 to Team Ryan, this shit is in the bag baby!! We’re up to the letter E and there’ll be a really simple qualifying question tomorrow morning just before 8. Fastest finger first plays for Team Ryan and Team Tracy and you can win a seat at the winners table for some free grub if you end up on the winning team!

FREE MONEY!! There’s €3,000 up for grabs on the show this week with thanks to Aviva. All you have to do is answer a really simple question on motoring and hit the road Jack. You can win driving lessons each day and then someone will win that big cash prize to spend on whatever they like. Nice.

Punderwall – Today as a shocker. Bad puns left right and centre, from both us and the listeners. Check out THE PUNDERWALL to see if you can do any better from Today’s story about David Beckham’s Tatoo – Another chance to play Punderwall at 9.20 tomorrow morning. €100, absolutely punderful!!

Fully Charged with Ryan Phillips and Tracy Clifford, bringing you the most music in the morning and back tomorrow from 6.45 on the most music station, Spin1038, Dublin

Ok, now at this stage I can appreciate the point that I might be taking the walking thing a bit far, since all I seem to be doing at the moment is walking. Again, I put it to you, the good people of the Jury, that walking is a great form of exercise, plus it ticks of the box of being relaxing, it’s nice when the weather is as sunny as it has been the past few days, I can listen to my audio book while I walk and it’s a good way of starting to put weight on my shin muscles without running, thereby hopefull avoiding injury when I start jogging again on Sunday.

So, I walked just over 5 miles today (meaning I’ve walked 15 miles in the last 3 days, which I still count as good work) down to Marlay Park, a lap and a bit and back home. I also took in some houses for sale in the area on the way, which was even more productive! Then I did my 8 minute abs and left it at that. The running training begins again this Sunday, so hopefully the walking will have tee’d me up for a problem free easing back in…

Here’s the Stats (but not that map, because the maps aren’t embedding probably in the blog for people using browsers other then internet explorer)

Ryan Phillips is a DJ on Spin1038, a radio station in Dublin, Ireland. Join Ryan and Tracy for Fully Charged, weekday mornings from 6.45am GMT on the Most Music Station, Spin1038. Today was Friday, 6 March 2010, Day 130 of his training for the Dublin City Marathon 2010 on 25 October 2010

Anyway, when I got back from Marlay Park (after walking 4.5 miles remember) I did 20 minutes on the cross trainer and my 8 Minutes Abs thing, and that was it for Day 129. Then, naturally, I went about undoing all my hard work by eating 8 Jaffa Cakes and a big Centra Bag of Bacon Fries….Nice Job, dumbass

Ryan Phillips is a DJ on spin1038, a radio station in Dublin Ireland. When he’s not talking shite on the radio he’s training for the Dublin City Marathon 2010 on 25 October….or he’s sleeping, watching porn or eating junk food….but increasingly it’s the Marathon Training. Follow his progress here each day or on Twitter or Facebook. Thursday 4 March 2010 was day 129 of his training.

Marlay Park. Lovely place for a nice walk!

ON THE SHOW ON MONDAY

Good News News – If you missed it this morning, you missed the cutest little girl in the world with her good news. Give yourself a pick-me-up now then, and rejoice in little Sarah’s Good news by clicking below. We’re trying to get little cutesers every day for the good news (because little people have the biggest news) and we’ve an absolute gem lined up for monday, so don’t miss it! Click below or Sarah’s Good news

The Hour of Power – It’s back Monday morning from 6.45am – I wouldn’t miss it, that’s all I’m saying. One hour of cracking tunes back to back with you picking the full lot? Sounds good right? It is – Today we play (1) Destiny’s Child – Independent Woman (2) Nalin & Kane – Beachball (3)Lenny Kravitz – Fly Away and the Road Rave was Sandy B – Make the World Go Round

Pop Bitch – Leanne in Ballybrack asbolutely killed Tracy in Pop Bitch today. 7-0 was the score for those keeping score at home. In fact, to be fair, Tracy was quite hard done by in that she called the streets song “might well be in” when it’s “could well be in” and I refused to give her points. Then she said it was Gwen Stefani – Hey Baby when it’s actually technically No Doubt – Hey Baby (I gave her the points, then took them back). ANYWAY – Leanne goes on the Pop Bitch Wall of Fame and you can too if you Play on Monday.

Ryan Phillips and Tracy Clifford are back with another Fully Charged this Monday at 6.45am only on the Most Music Station, Spin 1038, Dublin