Early indicators for intervals is positive

If I am to keep on running on this little oblong of synthetic black stuff, I realise that I’m going to have to report something more interesting than ‘ran again’ to hold your attention.  I will have a think about this.

Today I was interested to see that my heart rate seemed to be a little [...]

Summertime ends, but the legs are still out

In our garden, in the midst of the ‘burbs and surrounded by trees, houses and tall hedges, the beginning of the GMT half of the year was heralded by a gloriously calm, warm and sunny morning.  (you have remembered to put your clocks back, haven’t you?).  I felt that the Gore jacket and beanie hat [...]

Two lunchtimes in a week!

The proximity of the running machine makes it pretty tempting to use, even on days when I could easily run outside.  But it is unlikely that I would venture out for only half an hour and if I did I would have to run around the local roads.

Today I paused in the work I was [...]

Lunchtime intervals

I was reminded last night that I’d not done any speed work for a while… so I took the opportunity at lunchtime to go on the walking machine.

I’ve already given up on the idiosyncrasies of the in-built programming, so I opted for a set of  manually adjusted intervals, based around the visual 400m track that appears on [...]

Showing my age

I was in no hurry whatsoever to go running this morning and I sat reading The Week for a second quadspresso while I waited patiently for the heavy frost to melt on the windows of the cars outside.  As a result it was 10.30am before I closed the front door behind me and set off [...]

Happy Tuesday!

The last week went as follows:

Last Wednesday I was in Southampton for a networking event in the evening, back at late o’clock.  Thursday we went to Brie’s in London for dinner and got back even later.  Friday night, Karen & Kit came to dinner with us.  Saturday night we were at Tim’s 60th birthday party [...]

That ten-past-six in the morning feeling!

After a highly entertaining dinner with friends in London last night and the subsequent 1am homecoming, an 8am meet-up at Jack and Jill was always going to be a little bit of a struggle.

I was actually there early and was reclined comfortably in my car when Cliff pitched up.  We chatted for a while through open [...]

Greyday road run

If I had not already planned to run this morning, I don’t think that the view from the window would have encouraged me to do so.  It was a dingy grey day, with rain threatening in every direction.

Actually, when I got out there, it was really quite warm and the threatened rain didn’t materialise… although [...]

Of juggs and bottoms

It was comparatively chillsome as I stood waiting for the guys at Falmer this morning.  It was clearly not that cold though, as Andy and Cliff arrived and stripped to shorts and t-shirts.  To be fair, I was also wearing shorts, but my Gore jacket had snuck itself on to my person and I didn’t [...]