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Kim has been encouraging me (with a pointy stick) to increase my mileage as part of my pre-marathon training as the it’s only 11 weeks away now. I just brought my mileage record up to date (since August last year) and am happy to confirm that I had my biggest month since starting to write my blog [...] Part way through my run today I heard the inexorable approach of feet from behind and turned to find Kurt from Run in Hove just about the slide past me with his friend Ken. They were out for a 15 miler and though they were into the last stages, were clearly still running a tad faster [...] I had quite a thoughtful run on the machine this morning (Friday), the subject of which I will come back to some other time… right now my ears are ringing from going to a brilliant Soul Katz gig! But while I remember, I was focussing today on keeping my heart-rate down slow, by trying to run [...] I was just in the process of making a quick round of cheese on toast to eat at my desk when I realised that I was supposed to be running today. I only had a 40 minutes window of opportunity if I wanted to have time to shower before I needed to be out the [...] Cliff arrived late this morning with some lame excuse about having had a nose bleed… it looked more like one of the dogs had shoved a toy up his nose to me! I have a picture if anyone is interested… So the gang this morning consisted of stalwarts Andy, Nikki, Cliff and myself, plus Jane and [...] Bravado got the better of me yesterday and I foolishly volunteered to try to run 5km in sub-20.30. As I started running on the machine at lunchtime, I finally worked out the speed I would need to do to achieve this: 9.4mph for 3.125 miles. Eeeek! I thought I had better warm up thoroughly, so completed one [...] It took me longer this morning than usual to calculate my quarterly VAT return, in part because my accounting software doesn’t easily cater for the differential rates of the Flat Rate scheme, but mostly because the department that sold me on the idea of Flat Rate told me to do it incorrectly (using the net [...] Having sat on my drive under a blanket of snow for a couple of weeks, it was probably expecting a little too much of my car to fire up properly this morning. Which is a real shame because I was looking forward to driving it… and now the guys at the garage are probably practising [...] At the back end of Friday and before Kim got back from work, I managed to sneak in a quick run. It was my intention to run three miles. This started out badly, as the two Hot Cross Buns I had wolfed down mid afternoon refused to budge and I hence ran the first mile with [...] I was told, in no uncertain terms, that I was to run five miles today. In tervals. I tried to get out of it by clearing the snow from the drive into a small pile… … but I really didn’t think this was going to carry any weight as an argument, so I set to at lunch-time [...] |
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