I noticed this too, last week on a return flight with Ryanair, Luton to Reus and back. We circled the airport about 5 times as we were 25 minutes early and then on the final approach the pilot appeared to be speeding up and the nose going up, we had a very heavy landing and an extremely long and very fast journey along the runway. I'm not a confident flyer and I sat in row 11 because someone told me you feel less turbulance in this seat........we bounced around all the way back