Fitness

You know those days where you have a deadline that cannot be missed? And unlike Douglas Adams, you can’t just admire the ‘wooshing’ sound it makes as it passes? Yeah. Well, I had that sort of day yesterday. I had to . . . Finish off the periscope for my rugged video camera. Periscope? What!?!! Well...
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To celebrate having got my run yesterday done before 10pm, I had a couple of beers last night. And a nip of that nice Talisker. Oh, and forgot that for the rest of the day, all I’d had to drink was two cups of coffee in the morning, and a cup of tea in...
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I had a busy day in the office today (reading blogs, twittering, oh, and doing a bunch of research for an article), which spilled over into the evening. The result of this was that I didn’t get to go out for my run ’till far later than I’d usually like to. As in, I’d prefer...
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I wanted to get out and do a short run last night, just so that I could say that I had: 1 mile warm up: 7:30/mile. 1 minute rest & stretch out those calves & heels. 1 mile time trial: 6:44 1 minute rest & stretching A little cool-down jog around the block. The run back to the house was...
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Second run of the year last night (Brad - you may have started something . . .), and this time, I took Huge Dalmatian with me. I don’t generally run with him, ‘cos he’s a real pain - either running like a lunatic, or acting like a sack of potatoes. But last night, he was...
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Third run of the year this evening, and I decided to take along some music. The problem was that I just put some stuff on that grabbed my attention while scrolling down through my iTunes library: Motorvatin’ - Hanio Rocks. Great, but just too up-tempo and bouncy for an opener. The guitar solo had me...
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Anyone seen my fitness? I’m sure I left it round here somewhere. I mean, I’ve turned the place upside down looking for it today, and I just can’t seem to find it anywhere. Let me think, where did I last have it? Oh yeah, during the Cleveland Steelman in July last year. Since then, I’ve...
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After finding out about Daisy’s brakes in the rain, I wasn’t too keen at all on collecting Daughter from her stage class on the Tandem. So I thought I’d kill two birds with one stone, and run home with her. That way, we wouldn’t be driving (not that we can this weekend), AND she’d...
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When I did the Whitley Bay Pudding Run last year, Daughter was shocked to see that there were children doing the run too. She immediately wanted to join in, but was restrained by Wife, who knew better than to put herself in a position where she’d have to try and catch an enthusiastic six...
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So there are a bunch of people doing amazing stuff today - Brad & Big Dave & a few others from sweat365.com are doing the Steelman Triathlon somewhere in and around Las Vegas. 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike, and then a full marathon. Any race with those kinds of distances is tough, but for...
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