Run

Hey! Guess what!? It wasn’t raining on my run this morning! So for a change, I headed south along the coast, planning on the 5 mile round trip to the end of the North pier of the Tyne’s harbour. I even took my camera along, planning to record a short ‘Hello’ to y’all from...
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I’ve just seen the time, so this’ll be short. I went for a run this evening along the beach to the lighthouse. At the weekend, I bought a hydration belt thing, as I just couldn’t get on with the Camelbak-type thing - it requires too much suck to make drinking on the run a...
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Got up late as I forgot to set the alarm. Maybe this was a Freudian slip though, as I wasn’t really in the mood for the planned long bike ride! So I went out for a run in the rain instead. Workout: Type: Run Date: 06/23/2007 Total Time: 00:47:53.00 Distance: 7 miles Average Pace: 6:50.49/mile
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I really don’t like interval training. At all. But if there’s one thing to make me Big and Strong and Tough, then this is it. So that’s what I did for my morning run today - I jogged up to Churchill Playing fields, where there’s a 400m track, and then did 4 x 700m intervals,...
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I’d planned this week with an eye on the weather forecast, which was for a rainy second half of the week. So I knew that today’s run was going to be wet and windy. To compensate for this, I dressed like it was winter - a cheap tri-suit as a base layer, track pants, breathable...
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Unlike the folks from Seattle who run Sweat365 (and regularly post / comment at between midnight & 3am local time), I need my sleep. Seven hours is good, eight is just great. I’ve been feeling pretty tired all this week - not so much during the day, but it’s been hard to get out of...
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