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Catching up - details brief. I reckon that our team’s still in first place after last Tuesday’s performance. Despite injuries taking out two of our runners, everyone put in a fantastic effort, leaving it all to run for on 30th March . . . . . . as our team captain’s email said, "Run, run, as...
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So after the bike . . . the run. I got home just after midday, and it was warm enough for me to change - my first time in shots this year! I just hope that the sight of my winter legs didn’t scare too many horses / offend public decency too badly. This was...
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Yep. I’m pretty good at this. Usually it’s because I forget to drink enough before / during / after exercise. Or I drink the wrong kind of stuff (Guinness may well be good for you, but not during a race!). But this one was a whole new experience in incompetence for me… … I was...
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Something really strange happened yesterday. It wasn’t raining, and the sky was a really strange colour - blue. It just didn’t feel right to be running in such conditions, though looking onthe bright side, it was unbelievably cold. There were areas of the pavement where the waves had splashed up during the night, and...
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Bah. Howling gale from the North East. Raining cats & dogs. And just above freezing. The wind was such that the full set of waterproofs I was wearing gave up the fight within just over a mile. And after that there was another twelve miles of soaking slog. Highlights included my Sealskinz GoreTex...
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Another morning, another run - my short run for the week, which is now eight miles. And yet again, I had the experience of running on fresh snow, while the wind was throwing more of the stuff into my face. I could say, "Bah!" to this, but it was quite refreshing. And when the sun...
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Why do I do it to myself? At least the ice and snow encrusting my nether regions had melted before I went for my cool-down run. Not that I could have been any cooler. Just out of interest, does anyone know when this winter’s going to end? Workout: Type: Run Date: 02/21/2010 Total Time: 00:20:00.00 Calories: 304 Distance: 2.5 miles Average Pace:...
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Friday is long run day. So I left work early, and managed to get home, changed and out by 4:30. Driving home, I thought the weather looked almost spring-like, and I was tempted to go out with just a couple of T-shirt layers on. I was glad I didn’t though, and instead opted for...
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The mileage is about to start ramping up, as next week mark’s the start of my training plan’s Base 2 period. I wasn’t feeling too brilliant though, so I took half a litre of fluids with me, and a gel for the turnaround point - from now on all long runs are run /...
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Last night was the 5th in this season’s North Shields Poly Grand Prix hadicap race series. Somehow, our team was in first place, but only leading on a technicality - we had the same number of points as the second place team. So there was everything to run for, and pretty much all of us...
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