Posted on September 4th, 2008 by Karl On Sea
I’ve heard from several places that cyclists, out in the open air of our cities, are actually exposed to fewer chemical nasties than drivers of cars. It sounds a little counter-intuitive, when you think about the clouds of exhaust gasses we ride through, while drivers have their windows shut and the aircon keeping them cool.
But […]
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Posted on July 5th, 2008 by Karl On Sea
The run was interesting.
I hadn’t banked on it being such a cross-country affair, nor on the weather being so wet. I also thought that the route was a simple out-and-back, so within 200m of what I thought was the end of the first lap, when the route headed off for a circuit of the lake […]
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Posted on July 4th, 2008 by Karl On Sea
Can you tell how edgy I am about tomorrow’s race? The clue’s in how much I’ve been going on about it. Well this is probably the last post where I’ll be talking about it in the future tense, so the end is in sight!
Having spent the day pacing up and down, packing & re-packing my […]
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Posted on June 1st, 2008 by Karl On Sea
Despite my training plan having Sunday 1st June down for being hungover, I felt fit as a fiddle. It was just that the weather was awful. I held off for as long as possible, hoping for the rain to stop, but it just went on and on, so in the end, I headed out to […]
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Posted on May 10th, 2008 by Karl On Sea
So today is a long run, according to my schedule. I did ten miles, carrying fluids in a Karrimor waist belt that has pockets for 2 x 500ml bottles, and on a run/walk strategy with 60 seconds walk at every mile mark. This run didn’t seem as easy as the last time I did it, […]
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Posted on May 5th, 2008 by Karl On Sea
. . . so I didn’t drink as much as I should have done on the bike.
Anyway - the Run. VonSmallhaussen’s up to stay for the weekend, so she volunteered to come with me for the run - to the lighthouse and back. Except she was going to cycle (borrowing Wife’s bike), so that she […]
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Posted on May 3rd, 2008 by Karl On Sea
I’d originally intended to do this at Early O’clock on Saturday morning. But after the previous week’s burning the candle at both ends in a pure oxygen environment experience, I opted for a lie in instead. For some reason, 08:00 now counts as a lie in, but there you go.
Anyway, the plan was to do […]
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Posted on May 1st, 2008 by Karl On Sea
Only one question really - what on earth went wrong on Monday? We did lots of sets of 50’s and 100’s tonight, and right the way to the last 100, I was able to hold my goal paces - 1:01 for 50m, and 2:02 for 100m. So how come on Monday I was down at […]
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Posted on April 24th, 2008 by Karl On Sea
For this morning’s run with Shana, we did the steps between here and Tynemouth. Basically you run along the promenade, and every time you get to a set of steps, you have to use ‘em. I think she found this pretty hard going, so for the return, we just ran along the flat. I’m sure […]
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Posted on April 21st, 2008 by Karl On Sea
Remember the kid at school who spent ages putting together the perfect exam revision timetable? The one that was colour coded, with each subject highlighted, and every hour of spare time between now and the exams planned out in meticulous detail?
That was me.
Of course, the knack is to schedule the time to plan out the […]
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