Category: Running
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Marathon training, take 3
It has begun. My third and (please let it be so) final attempt on the marathon. This time I am following a training plan that appears, at least, to match the kind of running I’ve been doing over the summer. It consists of three runs per week (plus two sessions of cross training – or,…
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Fast and slow
I had a busy running week last week. Both Clarkie and I ran the Pheonix 10k on Wednesday night. I did this race last year, on a distinctly different evening. This year it was hot and almost perfectly still. Sadly, with Clarkie running as well there were no photos (or there were, but they are…
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Freet Footwear Review
I like shoes. I really do. Which, given that I now only like minimalist shoes, gives me something of a conundrum. (Ignoring the no-buying thing, which is even more of a conundrum for a shoe-lover!) For me, a minimalist shoe needs to be zero-drop, wide in the toe box, preferably no toe spring, and a…
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Lazy run
I was feeling a little lazy this morning, so I told myself it was a perfect day for a dawdling run taking photos. What follows is a picture-heavy post! I ignored the first mile, that’s just houses and pavement and stuff. Yawn. This is the part it starts to get interesting. Yup, the oil seed…
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Learning from shoes
Last night I tried to run in my huaraches for the first time. I’ve been wearing a pair of Xero Shoes for the last couple of summers, and they are supposed to be running sandals, but I’ve never felt up to running in them. I lasted about 1.3 miles. My left foot was totally fine,…
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Hither and thither
Well, that was an unintended hiatus. Life has been happening at such a rate of knots around here that when I’ve stood still long enough to blog I’ve needed to just collapse! I shall try to fill in some of the highlights. We went to Berlin at the end of March, for Clarkie’s birthday and…
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Woooosh…
Hark! Is that the sound of time’s winged chariot whizzing past once more? I believe it may be. Whoops. Time for a quick round up, I guess. The weekend after the Bath Half it was Clarkie’s turn. The Cambridge Half this time. The weather had changed somewhat, and not for the better. It snowed for…
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Bath Half
What a fabulous 3-day weekend! Friends, food, and a spot of running. What more could you ask for? Bath is about 4 hours away, which is slightly further away than I’d normally go for a half marathon but we have friends in Bath (hi Jo and Pip!) so it seemed like a good excuse to…
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Running in Rain – a cautionary tale
So last week we had snow. I took photos. It was pretty. Clarkie and I spent about two hours out in it on Sunday, and it snowed pretty much the entire time we were out. I guess the temperature was around -1C, -2C ish, not much colder than it had been all week. We got…
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Running review
I know that the first of January is an arbitrary date, and I understand that really one day is much the same as the next. However, it is kind of nice to be in sync with other people at least occasionally, so happy new year! With all that said, I’m going to do a review…
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Winter boots
I know it’s not strictly speaking Winter yet, but it’s the time of year I start to prepare for the weather ahead. The wind picks up down here on the coast (well, 2 miles back up a hill), which makes the route I’m using for work rather unpleasant. It’s a pretty typical road, single carriageway,…
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A Fine Summer’s Evening
Last Wednesday I did a nice little 10k on the seafront. Given that it was July 18th, I had sort of expected some reasonable running conditions. Not so much. That photo was taken by Clarkie at the start. At 7:30pm. She says the camera lightened the shot quite a lot, and you can see the…