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A hitch in my stride

A hitch in my stride

So the plan has been going well, 4 workouts in the last 7 days.  It would have been 5.  Last night I went to bed, determined to go out today and put some miles into my legs.  Today, I woke up with a stinking cold.  Until about 1pm I brushed it off and told myself that I’d go out and ‘run it off’.  Many sopping wet, sometimes blood-filled tissues later, I decided that probably wasn’t the wisest course of action. And…

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When technology fails…

When technology fails…

Thomas Edison once said  ‘Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.’, the same could be said of my Garmin on Saturday. Initially I headed out of the door intending to do a quick 5-mile run in between other commitments, in reality, I doubled that distance.  The ‘problem’ with my run wasn’t actually in the run itself and, after a lot of thought and consideration, wasn’t really a problem at all, just a…

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Through the fog

Through the fog

Through The Fog   Visibility for Tuesday’s run was fine, as fine as it could be for an Autumnal evening anyway.  The ‘fog’ came from the way my head and legs felt.  Although I later discovered that I had ran 3.56 miles (clocked on my Garmin) at an average pace of 9:06 minutes-per-mile, at no point during the run did I feel comfortable. It’s hard to describe exactly how I was feeling but I described it afterward as ‘like running…

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When controlled falling goes wrong…

When controlled falling goes wrong…

As you can probably tell by the title of this piece, my last run wasn’t exactly a success. I started off well enough, planning to do anywhere between 3 and 5 miles to bed-in my new Asics Gel Nimbus 14s.  Recently I’ve been in good form when out on the road, my 5k time has tumbled to 24.40, a full minute quicker than my previous 5k personal best, so it wasn’t a surprise when I fell into a comfortable rhythm….

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