Running

No swim this morning - I took the extra hour in bed. But I did finally got around to my first brick session of the season - a 25k bike trip (work related), which I felt so zingy at the end of that I thought I really should go for a run too -...
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You’ll remember how impressed I was with my new and very comfortable Asics Cumulus VIII running shoes that I bought from SheRunsHeRuns in Kent last month? Basically this was the first time I’d found a shop that actually took any notice of my feet, and how I run on them, and what kind of running...
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So last Friday, we all went off to Sigean safari park. We have all the usual photos of lions, ostriches tapping on the car windows, giraffes, etc, that I won’t bore you with here. The only one I want to show you is my daughter (on the right) in the back of the car...
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Last Thursday morning was my wife’s parents’ French lesson, which we tagged along to. The teacher, Caroline, lives in Abeilhan, which is conveniently just under 8km from Gabian. So I went with my running shoes on, my shorts under my trousers, and a breathable / wicking top in the back of the car. The weather...
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When Von SmallHaussen came to visit a few weeks ago, she commented as we were leaving the gym that she thought I was a bit of a metrosexual. Now, I live in the North East of England, where the culture is distinctly butch and hard drinking. So I was a little worried about this label....
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This is great countryside for running in - especially at this time of year, when the weather’s not too hot (like The Big Yin, my skin isn’t white - it’s more of a pale blue . . . ). If I’m here in the summer, when the temperature’s often in the mid 30’s centigrade,...
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Drove down from Whitley Bay to my parent’s place in Kent on Friday night. We left late, after my daughter’s swimming lesson, so as to avoid the worst of the traffic on this 320 mile journey. So we didn’t get in ’till gone midnight, and to bed ’till 1:30. But for some reason, I was...
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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about buying my very comfortable new running shoes from She Runs He Runs at Bluewater in Kent. They have a great fitting service, where they actually pay attention to your feet and running style / technique. Turns out that if you live in the US, you don’t have...
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I had my induction at the gym yesterday evening. The alarmingly young personal trainer (is it me, or does everyone in uniform look younger these days - especially police). The usual measures - height, weight, lungs, body fat, heart rate, BP, etc. As expected, I could do with losing around 1.5 kg (a massive...
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My target this year is to get my 10k down to 40 minutes. I also want to graduate to Olympic distance triathlon (which features a 10k run). With my running fitness in rather poor shape, I’ve opted for a programme of interval training to get me back to peak pavement pounding performance. Interval training is...
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