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Ten on the tenth… part two

So far this week we have seen three very interesting movies: Synecdoche, New York and 500 Days of Summer thanks to Karen and Avatar thanks to Jason.  Synecdoche was supremely hard work to trawl through, but highly rewarding in that the point is worth getting, even if, as in my case, it was right at the end! [...]

Onwards

This is such a cool animation… and SO accurately portrayed!

Onwards from AKQA on Vimeo.

New splodge and a change in training tempo

Kim and I both bought new splodge during our visit to Run on Saturday and it was the inaugural outing for my pair today. I say outing, but as my plan is to use them only on the running machine for the time being, I should probably say inning.

Also, although my head has been [...]

Flat calm greyday

It was back down to my parents house in Woodingdean this morning for another long road run, though there wasn’t as much bounce in my step as last week.

Maybe this had something to do with the weather, which was flat grey and though not quite as cold as last Sunday, still very chilly indeed. [...]

21 seconds

I didn’t really want to run this morning (there’s clearly a theme here!) but I knew that I had to, so I jumped on the machine and set off to be a bit quicker than my Friday run last week.  This involved warming up for a nanosecond before dialling in a speed of 7.7mph [...]

Failure to average seven-point-something mph

This morning I ran the intervals that I didn’t run yesterday, legs still a touch stiff from Sunday, but in a nice way.

I started at 7mph and increased this by 0.5mph for each 400m lap until I got to 10.5mph.  By this time my legs and particularly my ankles were causing me discomfort.  Also, [...]

No run today

Some readers will be pleased to know my legs still ache from my Sunday run. No running today!