Tonight was my first Tuesday night run of the week having attending the SOC club night last week. We did the Thursday Night Run backwards (apparently!). I was just glad to keep my dinner down having finished eating only half an hour before the run. I’ve got used to eating at half five these days and find it hard to wait until eight o’clock or later. I put it down as good mountain marathon training!
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Thursday night run
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009Frosty Cross-Country
Saturday, January 10th, 2009Run Some Pubs
Sunday, December 21st, 2008
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Dibden Street-O
Thursday, December 18th, 2008Thanks to Jon Forster for organising the first SOC street-O of the year at Dibden. Jon had promised that this year it would be ‘doable’ to get all the controls (lamposts). With the tail end of a cold and the occasional wrong turn it wasn’t going to be (and it would have been tough even on a good day). I made all but two and was just under a minute late (although I’ll claim that back from number 16 being out by one lampost).
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Chalk Hill
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008A small but hardy crew braved the bitterley cold weather tonight for a run up Chalk Hill (which forms the Eastern edge of the route shown below).
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Tuesday Thursday Run
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008Yesterday night’s run was what is confusingly referred to as the Thursday night run after it’s original place in the weekly running calendar. It was a fairly fast-paced run with not a lot of stopping so I was glad to have a bit of spring in my step (probably due to having not done much for the past few days). Unfortunately my watch hadn’t picked up enough satellites when we started off so the run appears to start somewhere in Portswood. You can imagine for yourself how we might have made it to there.
Heart still beating
Monday, November 17th, 2008My Garmin has failed to read my heart rate for a few weeks now (probably longer as I actually rarely look at the trace once downloaded). Rather than replace the battery again, I thought I’d use the spare strap that Garmin sent me last time they replaced my watch. Although I knew the transmission between strap and watch was coded, what I hadn’t realised was that the pairing was a one off process and the watch thereafter remembered which strap it should be talking to. Fortunately it’s a simple matter (once you’ve consulted the manual) to select Settings > General > Accessories from the main menu and then, for the heart monitor, select Restart Scan. And voila, I once again have a heart beat. I’ve even added the heart rate back on to the main display of my watch so maybe I’ll actually start looking at it!
QE2 sightseeing run
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008In honour of the QE2 departing Southampton for the last time (it’s heading off to Dubai to become a floating hotel), we decided to do the Itchen Bridge run last night with the minor variation that we crossed to the south side of the bridge to join the hordes looking out over the water to where the brightly illuminated QE2 was berthed. If we’d been a bit more prepared we should have started running half an hour later as, when the fireworks started to mark the ship’s departure, we were already on our way back up the Avenue.
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