Mark Kenneally

@JordanSudafrica @ArturoCasadoAld 1st published paper on, hopefully, road to PhD journals.humankinetics.com/doi/abs/10.112…

🚨 Effects of different aerobic high-intensity interval training prescription approaches on cardiorespiratory fitness and performance in distance runners 🏃‍♀️ ❤️ NEW #PhDAcademyAward 🏆 Read ➡️ bit.ly/3HnZ1Iu

We're conducting a study on how lactate measurements are used to monitor endurance training intensity. If you're an athlete or coach who uses lactate testing in your sessions, we’d love your input! 🧪🏃‍♂️ Link: forms.office.com/e/uM1jJ0zRGc Sharing is appreciated!! @GIRD_UCLM

@StephenSeiler @OyvindSandbakk @markk42k @AndyBeetroot

Athletics Ireland have now officially launched their Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S) referral pathway This pathway has been put in place to support all athletes, coaches & parents from grass roots to high performance For more info visit⤵️ athleticsireland.ie/red-s-referral…

@jem_arnold @OyvindSandbakk Ultimately task specificity determines “optimal” training in real world. questions about task demands, with interventions designed to challenge thoughts on development of same are imo way forward

Some wise words from @OyvindSandbakk for sport science researchers to consider when designing training intervention studies paper link🔗👇

🚀Just published: "Tactical Behaviors in Men’s & Women’s Middle-Distance Global Championship Track Finals" 🏃‍♀️ Key insights: Leading intermediate positions in the 800m & a faster endspurt in the 1500m are critical for success. journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/… #TrackAndField #Athletics

@jem_arnold Well done Jem-interested to read this-will do today but love to see further depth added

Polarised🆚Pyramidal🆚Threshold Which training model is best?🏆 It might matter how trained you are🤔 Our new meta-analysis tries to answer which training intervention produces the greatest improvements in endurance performance in trained athletes Thread🧵 & 🔗links below👇

A giant of a man taken far too soon. Our beloved colleague and friend, Dave Fagan, has passed away after a short illness. Rest easy Dave. All our thoughts are with Pam, Shauna, Ciarán, Eoin and all his family. 🔗 | bit.ly/4gm1Sxz #RIP

Richard Harris (died #OTD in 2002) tells a story about working on a London theatre productions of Macbeth with an anti-Irish leading actor.

So chosen clubs get up to 3 teams in divisions at higher standard than smaller clubs teams. Without explanation, and for €30 reg per player. 28 divisions U10 x 12 teams per division x 12 players per team = ~€120,000. And no explanation. How does this work?

@DDSL_Official @FAIreland multiple requests for clarity on underage league formation committee personnel, process and decision making, no response. Using U10 boys as example-48 places in top 2 divisions Sat and Sunday-15 places go to 7 clubs. There are 132 clubs in the DDSL (1/2)

@stevemagness Organised around the specific target, with credence given to recovery time needed at specific intensities. Despite the fact that I’ve spent time going through distributions I think this just further goes to specificity of target, against background of understanding physiology

We hear a lot about the training distribution of endurance athletes. Here's how one elite actually trains, a 2:03 marathoner. This is an analysis of 3 months of data, based on % of total miles at each pace. What do you see? There are NO grey area training zones...

My favourite Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh quotes: "Seán Óg Ó hAilpín. His father's from Fermanagh. His mother's from Fiji. Neither a hurling stronghold." "The stopwatch has stopped. It’s up to God and the referee now. The referee is Pat Horan. God is God." "Teddy McCarthy to John McCarthy, no relation. John McCarthy to Teddy McCarthy, still no relation." "Anthony Lynch, the Cork corner-back, will be the last person to let you down. His people are undertakers." "1.5 to 0.8 - well, from Lapland to the Antarctic, that’s level scores in any man’s language." "I saw a few Sligo people at Mass in Gardiner Street this morning and the omens seem to be good for them. The priest was wearing the same colours as the Sligo jersey. 40 yards out on the Hogan Stand side of the field, Ciarán Whelan goes on a rampage, and it’s a goal. So much for religion!" "Pat Fox out to the 40 and grabs the sliotar. I bought a dog from his father last week. Fox turns and sprints for goal. The dog ran a great race last Tuesday in Limerick. Fox to the 21, fires a shot, it goes to the left and wide. And the dog lost as well." "He grabs the sliothar. He's on the 50. He's on the 40. He's on the 30. He's on the ground." "Colin Corkery on the 45 lets it go with the right boot. It's over the bar. This man shouldn’t be playing football. He’s made an almost Lazarus-like recovery from a heart condition. Lazarus was a great man, but he couldn’t kick points like Colin Corkery." "Pat Fox has it on his hurl and is motoring well now, but here comes Joe Rabbitte hot on his tail. I’ve seen it all now, a Rabbitte chasing a Fox around Croke Park." "He’s not a big man, he’s not a small man, he’s what you might call a handyman." "Brian Dooher is down injured. And while he is, I’ll tell you a little story. I was in Times Square in New York last week, and I was missing the Championship back home. So I approached a newsstand, and I said, 'I suppose ye wouldn’t have The Kerryman, would ya?' To which, the Egyptian behind the counter turned to me, and he said, 'Do you want the North Kerry edition or the South Kerry edition?' He had both so I bought both. And Dooher is back on his feet."

@DrTEHughes Great explanation Tom

So as promised. Thread no. 1. on the dreaded LT1. I will try and keep these pretty brief, address some common misconceptions and give some practical points (I hope) So, LT1, or Lactate Threshold 1. Sometimes called the Aerobic Threshold (although I think that is a bad name) 1/

🌟2023 Highlights🌟 Ciara Mageean had the season of her life, finishing 4th in the world and updating her pretty impressive array of national records....🤯 ⚡800m (1:59.27) ⚡1000m (2:31.06) ⚡1500m (3:55.87) ⚡Mile (4:14.58) Roll on 2024! #IrishAthletics

Fionnuala McCormack qualifies for record fifth Olympics via @RTENews rte.ie/sport/athletic…

@BillySperlich @manuelmatzka @HCHolmberg1 @FrontSportsAL Great paper - really thorough and well presented

New 🆕publication around "Training Intensity Distribution in Elite Endurance Athletes" together with @manuelmatzka & @HCHolmberg1 Here are the main take homes: frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… @FrontSportsAL

This is an excellent paper, and sums up much of the thoughts we were having when writing up recent papers.