Well it's been a while.
The following Wednesday I did a new PB over the timed section of the 3.5 miles - something like 32.5 minutes.
This was promptly followed by getting my weight down to the magic 12 stones again - a cold with bad cough that wouldn't shift, school holidays and other stuff meant no running, and the weight climbing back up to 12 st 4 lbs - back where it was after Christmas. So no net gain.
Been out the last couple of weeks, but missed this week. Ought to try and get a run in over the Bank Holiday weekend I suppose.
By the way, this the fist post via wifi from my new iPod touch - cool eh?
Sunday, 4 May 2008
Monday, 3 March 2008
Friday, 8 February 2008
Thursday, 7 February 2008
another day, more running
Walked the school run, to and from work, total of 3.5 miles, plus a four mile run at lunchtime!
Down to 12st 2 lbs this morning (good news).
No glasses of wine drunk or cigarettes smoked.
Down to 12st 2 lbs this morning (good news).
No glasses of wine drunk or cigarettes smoked.
Tuesday, 5 February 2008
run log update
Well, I can't beleive we're into Feb 2008, and I've kept up the running most weeks for over a year now. Currently up to about 4 miles at a time, I need to go more frequently before extending my distance I think.
Didn't make it to the 10K down at Powderham at the end of September which was a shame. Went out twice last week, which is unusual, and managed to shake of 3 pounds that have been hanging on since Christmas.
So, 4 miles done on each of 16th, 24th, 28th and 30th Jan.
Didn't make it to the 10K down at Powderham at the end of September which was a shame. Went out twice last week, which is unusual, and managed to shake of 3 pounds that have been hanging on since Christmas.
So, 4 miles done on each of 16th, 24th, 28th and 30th Jan.
Thursday, 26 July 2007
Run, Run, Run
A complete log of all the running/jogging I've done ever!! - up to 24th January 2007
Routes
1. "Cadhay" school cross-country
2. "Gosford" school cross-country
3. Bracknell - Out of Nutley, around Ringmead, back past Waitrose/Silver Birch and back into Nutley
4. Met Office footpath - Hill Barton Rd - Pinhoe Road - Vaughan Road - Whipton Barton Lane - Vaughan Rd - footpath - Thornpark Rise - footpath - Birchy Barton Road - footpath - Hill Barton Rd - Met Office footpath
4a. Simplified version of above: Met Office footpath - Hill Barton Rd - Pinhoe Rd - Vaughan Rd - Whipton Barton Lane - Thornpark Rise - Birchy Barton Road - footpath - Hill Barton Rd - Met Office footpath
Runs
* route 1 last done in 1985-ish - I'm sure some of the boys behind me took a short-cut because I definitely wasn't the last boy in my year home
* route 2 done once in 1985? - Mr. Jones took walked us around it - never actually had "the opportunity" to run it
* route 3 done once in Jan 1995(?) - 11 minutes total - ached for a week - vowed never to bother again
* route 4 - 3rd Jan 2007 - with C. - approx 25 minutes - ran approx 60 % of time, pleasantly surprised by how far I got
* route 4a - 10th Jan 2007 - with C. - approx 20 minutes - ran approx 80 % of time, managed to get to Vaughan Rd without walking at all, walked two stretches only
* route 4a - 17th Jan 2007 - alone, C. on hoiday - no idea of time - ran approx 90 % of time, managed to get to first bus stop on Thornpark Rise without walking at all, walked to top of hill only, heel started to come off A.'s running shoes
* route 4a - 24th Jan 2007 - alone, C. recovering from cold - 24 minutes total - ran approx 90 % of time, managed to get to top of Thornpark Rise without stopping, 18 minutes of running, had to walk for a bit on the top of Thornpark Rise to recover from the ascent, first outing in my new running shoes
Routes
1. "Cadhay" school cross-country
2. "Gosford" school cross-country
3. Bracknell - Out of Nutley, around Ringmead, back past Waitrose/Silver Birch and back into Nutley
4. Met Office footpath - Hill Barton Rd - Pinhoe Road - Vaughan Road - Whipton Barton Lane - Vaughan Rd - footpath - Thornpark Rise - footpath - Birchy Barton Road - footpath - Hill Barton Rd - Met Office footpath
4a. Simplified version of above: Met Office footpath - Hill Barton Rd - Pinhoe Rd - Vaughan Rd - Whipton Barton Lane - Thornpark Rise - Birchy Barton Road - footpath - Hill Barton Rd - Met Office footpath
Runs
* route 1 last done in 1985-ish - I'm sure some of the boys behind me took a short-cut because I definitely wasn't the last boy in my year home
* route 2 done once in 1985? - Mr. Jones took walked us around it - never actually had "the opportunity" to run it
* route 3 done once in Jan 1995(?) - 11 minutes total - ached for a week - vowed never to bother again
* route 4 - 3rd Jan 2007 - with C. - approx 25 minutes - ran approx 60 % of time, pleasantly surprised by how far I got
* route 4a - 10th Jan 2007 - with C. - approx 20 minutes - ran approx 80 % of time, managed to get to Vaughan Rd without walking at all, walked two stretches only
* route 4a - 17th Jan 2007 - alone, C. on hoiday - no idea of time - ran approx 90 % of time, managed to get to first bus stop on Thornpark Rise without walking at all, walked to top of hill only, heel started to come off A.'s running shoes
* route 4a - 24th Jan 2007 - alone, C. recovering from cold - 24 minutes total - ran approx 90 % of time, managed to get to top of Thornpark Rise without stopping, 18 minutes of running, had to walk for a bit on the top of Thornpark Rise to recover from the ascent, first outing in my new running shoes
Friday, 29 October 2004
Thursday, 7 October 2004
Diary of a nobody
Well my attempt to become a blogger in the week that Belle Du Jour finished, started off in a suitably Pooter-esque manner...
Having set up the blog on Thursday (during my lunch break at work) I promptly took our home access to the internet offline by breaking our phone landline. I'm at home on Fridays and the phone extension lead that we use broke. A. suggested on Saturday morning that we call BT and arrange for them to move the BT socket. The response from BT was that it was (by their own confession) expensive (order of GBP 100) and you should do it yourself. Knowing that it was a BT line I got A. to call them back to confirm prior to opening up the main socket to see what was inside. This action caused one of the small cables inside to snap off it's connection, and whilst twisting this around to strip off the end of the cable I managed to snap off a second connection. A. was able to verify that the voltage between these two was 50 Volts (the one real use I've seen her put her multimeter purchased from E-bay to good use), and I gave up there and then. A third call to BT was made (via a mobile!) to get them to send an Engineer around to fix our connection and move the socket. Sixty quid call out, sixty quid an hour for labour, no part hours! The Engineer checked we had been told what it would cost and apologised in advance of telling us this. It must be strange working for a company where you have to apologise for the charges prior to every job.
Having set up the blog on Thursday (during my lunch break at work) I promptly took our home access to the internet offline by breaking our phone landline. I'm at home on Fridays and the phone extension lead that we use broke. A. suggested on Saturday morning that we call BT and arrange for them to move the BT socket. The response from BT was that it was (by their own confession) expensive (order of GBP 100) and you should do it yourself. Knowing that it was a BT line I got A. to call them back to confirm prior to opening up the main socket to see what was inside. This action caused one of the small cables inside to snap off it's connection, and whilst twisting this around to strip off the end of the cable I managed to snap off a second connection. A. was able to verify that the voltage between these two was 50 Volts (the one real use I've seen her put her multimeter purchased from E-bay to good use), and I gave up there and then. A third call to BT was made (via a mobile!) to get them to send an Engineer around to fix our connection and move the socket. Sixty quid call out, sixty quid an hour for labour, no part hours! The Engineer checked we had been told what it would cost and apologised in advance of telling us this. It must be strange working for a company where you have to apologise for the charges prior to every job.
Thursday, 16 September 2004
First post
Here goes...
I used to keep a diary but stopped some years ago, recently I've felt I'd like to start again and as I spend far too much time in front of a computer maybe a blog is the way to go.
I used to keep a diary but stopped some years ago, recently I've felt I'd like to start again and as I spend far too much time in front of a computer maybe a blog is the way to go.
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