Now before you get excited, this post is not about muscular Sven from Helsinki. Amazingly, I DID wake up at 03:30, breakfasted, threw together a few provisions and was in the car heading for Sutton Park by 04:04hrs. Instead of parking in a side street, as planned, I was able to drive into the park …
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Rest
Today, according to the master plan, is a REST DAY. It’s all very good clocking up mileage day after day but the body needs time to rebuild and come back stronger. Today was that time. Catching two buses meant that I had only a short walks to get to work. Mid-afternoon, I received a call …
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MOT Runaround
Today, I had to drop my car off for it’s annual check-up. The garage is about two miles from work so a couple of miles at each end of the working day would boost my total by another four miles or so. The car was duly dropped off and I took a rather breezy walk, …
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Captain, we are being scanned
Had to go to work in the car today as I needed to get over to Solihull in the afternoon for my MRI knee scan. They kept me waiting for a while before strapping me down for twenty minutes of buzzing, banging and clicking (or was it humming, tapping and whirring?) whilst my knee was …
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Two Walks Tuesday
The master plan called for eleven miles today but I arose early and decided to walk into work. The shortest route is seven miles – not the prettiest but the quickest. One hour and forty minutes after leaving home I arrived at work. Oddly, after all the hastle with my Garmin yesterday, immediately upon stopping …
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Technology
After a Sunday evening spent trying to resurrect my email accounts (my ISP had deleted all my email addresses) I made my way into work via the familiar bus and two mile walk. Arriving at work, I stopped my Garmin and clicked to save my workout. At this point the watch usually uploads the workout …
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Wone or O-Nay
Odd title – so what’s it mean ? It’s my new shoes. Made by a fairly new entrant to the sports shoe arena, Hoka One One have bucked the trend for more and more minimalist shoes by going the other way and producing a range of very well cushioned, wide soled shoes. Even if the …
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Sutton parkrun – take two
Saturday morning so how about a parkrun ? My training schedule says twelve miles for today but a parkrun is only 3.1. A bit of maths reveals that I’ll have to walk a further nine miles at some point today. At 06:13, I left the car and proceeded to Sutton Park for a circuit of …
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Smooth
Whilst messing about on Youtube, I came across this video. This guy is so smooth in his technique but really fast. I am impressed !
Planning
With the Bullock Smithy pencilled in for September and a few other events, including Charnwood, Corvedale and the Across Wales walk also on the agenda, I thought that it must be time to draw up some sort of training plan. Adapting a plan that I’ve used before I’ve got all my walks sorted from now …
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