Cathal Lombard Breakthrough

This Lombard guy reminds me of that Irish 1500m girl that tested positive last year for nandro after an astounding breakthrough. Hendriken, she took 14 seconds off her 1500m time in 2002! His improvement is even more suspicious as at least she was an NCAA champ.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/athletics/2818947.stm

Whats going on there in Ireland? Can we expect to see other Irish athletes making huge jumps over the next year? Are they going to be the next "Spain"? Even the Irish sprinters are winning medals, they took a bronze at the world indoors this year in the 4x400m.

Lets face it, these Drugs are very good. Those tour cyclists don't take them just for kicks.

wannabekila wrote:...........

There is no doubt that the years of mileage have benefitted Lombard and he may have continued in a similar vein, and found he got results at a later stage.

What is of interest to me, is that what type of training he would do in his off phase.

Because we can assume that his sumemr training is more intense, so when does he put back into his fuel tank?

He can't carry this through to the Olympics, so he will need to have a down period.

Yes ?

Where did Cathal attend school ? U.S or Britain ?

BTW - what are the other irish lads up to ? Vinny and Keith ?

Come on everybody in Ireland knows what a load of robbing wankers solicitors are, the are making out like bandits on all the tribunals. The fact that Lombard is a qualfied solicitor just makes the kid look more dishonest!

athens bound wrote:

Winter training

Monday--20 mins easy followed by 16 by 70 m sprints followed by 20 mins easy

1 hr of gym work

Tuesday--am 40 mins easy

pm--20 mins steady, then 20 mins of plyometrics and drills followed by 20 mins easy

Wednesday--20 mins warm up, followed by 5 long efforts of 5 to 9 mins with 60 seconds rest, 20 mins cool down

Thursday-- 60 mins easy

Friday--repeat of tuesday with 1hr of gym

Saturday--set of long hill repeats 3 mins long, 20 warm up and cool down

Sunday--90 mins steady, 15 miles

Summer training

Monday--track 6 by 1k reps average 2.42 with 200m rest

Tuesday--50 mins easy

Wednesday--20 mins easy followed by 15min tempo and 15 mins easy

Thursday--20 mins easy followed by 8 by 70m sprints, then 15 mins easy

Friday--30 min easy

Saturday--race

Sunday easy run

Thanks for that info, I'm wondering if you know any details of what type of gym work and plyos he does?

Cathal, god forbid if you're reading this shit but congrats on reaching the pinacle of an athlete's career: getting ripped on Letsrun and being accused of being a drug cheat. You have officially hit the big time! Cheers.

Dr. Rosa, what is the protocol you follow with your runners. (My sympathies on Chepchumba being caught - but throwing one to the wolves is a good way to keep some off our backs, right?) We tend to mix our doping periods with high and low altitude periods and sessions. Do you do the same, or just shoot up at home, with a "booster" every so often during the racing season?

It is funny that the silly Euros have to put up with testing. Thank God we can use genetic speak and the race card for defense.

DrRosa wrote:

Whats going on there in Ireland? Can we expect to see other Irish athletes making huge jumps over the next year?

Yes. But it won't be because of drugs. Moreso because of hard work and the gritty attitude of the Irish. They're tough as nails.

He is also currently advising Cian McLoughlan

Lombard and Cragg's Outstanding Performances - Statistical Observations

6 May 2004

With the outstanding weekend performances of Cathal Lombard and Alistair

Cragg at the Cardinal Invitational at Stanford University making a huge

impression in world distance running circles the question has to be asked:

will these performances lead to a rejuvenation of the Irish middle/long

distance running scene?

Taking Cathal Lombard's 10,000m performance (27:33.53 when finishing 3rd at Stanford) in context, as well as smashing Mark Carroll's Irish record and

moving up to 29th on the All-time European 10,000m Ranking lists only three

European Athletes (Kamiel Masse - 27.26.29 in 2002, Jose Rios - 27.29.60

and Jose Manuel Martinez 27.30.56 both in 2003) have run faster than

Lombard over 10,000m over the past three seasons.

A statistic of more relevance to Lombard is that his run in Stanford would

have placed him 6th in the last Olympic final and positioned him well ahead

of the first European in the Sydney Olympic Final, Karl Keska who clocked

27:44.09 to finish a highly respectable 8th place.

His new Irish record time would also have placed him in 4th place at the

Atlanta Olympics well ahead of the first European in that final - Germany's

Stefan Franke who finished 9th in 27.59.08.

Lombard who was ranked 5th over 5000m in Europe last year with his

13:19.22 run in Heusden last August has now established himself as a

serious contender at international level and lets hope his performance in

Stanford will get the respect and coverage it deserves from the Irish

media.

Alistair Cragg's world leading 13:16.98 coming on the back of a successful

indoor campaign where he clocked an Irish Indoor 3000 record of 7:38.59 as

well as an NCAA Indoor 3000/5000 double safely ensures Olympic

Qualification.

Considering that Cragg won his race at Stanford by over nearly 30 seconds

it is safe to assume that the Clonliffe athlete can expect a sub 13:10

clocking in the faster paced European meets in June/July. Surely it's only

a matter of time before Mark Carroll's Irish record of 13.03.93 from 1998

is under threat.

With thanks to David Reid

actually not the first ... didn't maria mc mahon get done in atlanta for ephedrine? (...came from cough medicine).

also, i have a recollection of some hammer/shot trower getting done but i can't remember his name.

actually (and I could be wrong about this) didn't the long jumper Kron/Cron get done for sometthing trivial at some stage! I sincerely apologise if this is wrong!

DIRTY ASS!

American tourist wrote:

I'm friends with an Irish guy who used to go to college over here. He told me that Lombard's PR for 10k 2 years ago was 30.35 and his 5k was 14.18. That is a serious jump(27.33 and 13.19) and begs the question "is this guy clean?"....my guess is that he is dirty...too dramatic a jump, but I bet he never gets caught...sad really....

DrRosa wrote:

This Lombard guy reminds me of that Irish 1500m girl that tested positive last year for nandro after an astounding breakthrough. Hendriken, she took 14 seconds off her 1500m time in 2002! His improvement is even more suspicious as at least she was an NCAA champ.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/athletics/2818947.stm

Whats going on there in Ireland? Can we expect to see other Irish athletes making huge jumps over the next year? Are they going to be the next "Spain"? Even the Irish sprinters are winning medals, they took a bronze at the world indoors this year in the 4x400m.

Lets face it, these Drugs are very good. Those tour cyclists don't take them just for kicks.

OK - pretty good.

what else can you see in your crystal ball?

Woof woof

Scooby Doo wrote:

Woof woof

by now you should be hoarse

pml

American tourist shut the f*** up! Yet another wanker bringing up the drugs card when people are running well. Cathal just like Mark Carroll has a major chip on their shoulders about people who take drugs. I believe that Mark Carroll would probably be the best "CLEAN" runner out there when he was running his 13:03. As for Cathal the sky is the limit and I predict that he will get faster. Tthe only sad person here is you, you penciled dicked yankie cocksucker who only wished he could run under 16 mins for 5k. Piss off. Your comments are not valid towards this person.

what the hell are you saying you dumb american shit. you think that irish athletes are on drugs. geraldine hendrican was the first irish athlete to test positive for drugs, she got hammered by press, and rightly so, she's guilty as hell. she brought ireland a bad name. but then you claim cathal is on drugs. the guy is a solicitor, if he was caught on drugs he would never get a job again. the irish relay team you named, they probably need some drugs. they did well to get into the final and then they get a medal just because everyone else f***ed up. the fact is that you couldn't get any of them drugs in ireland even if you had shitloads of money to spend on them. cathal only qualified a short while ago as a solicitor so i don't think he would even have the money for the drugs. he dosent even have a proper endorsment, i think he just gets some gear off nike, no money--not for long i should think.

best of luck to cathal in the rest of the season, never mind the little american shit head.