The SIx Million Millimetre Man

October 15th, 2009 matt

Tonight I avoided hills, and went out on a nice flat route, to bump up my dis­tance a bit, and see if I could do 6K rather than 5K.

I’m start­ing to under­stand the phrase “to hit your stride”. The first third of tonight’s jog was quite ploddy, and I wasn’t enjoy­ing it much. Then, fairly quickly, some­thing just clicked, and it stopped being a problem.

I don’t know whether it’s psy­cho­log­i­cal or phys­i­cal or a com­bi­na­tion of the two. It would just be nice to know how to make it kick in a bit earlier!

I believe it was musi­cally assisted to some degree. If you enjoy gui­tars but don’t own a copy of The Stone Roses’ self-titled first album — maybe you were in a coma from 1989 to 1994, for exam­ple — then you should prob­a­bly stop read­ing this and go catch up.

Luck­ily, I’ve had a copy since I was at uni­ver­sity, and while the fact that the 20th anniver­sary edi­tion has just been released makes me feel old, it doesn’t stop me lov­ing it, and it was def­i­nitely She Bangs The Drums that played me into my stride, what­ever else might have been going on with diges­tion and glyco­gen levels.

And from that point, it was easy. I got to halfway, turned around and headed back into town, and perked up even more when the Sus­pen­sion Bridge hove back into view. Toward the end, when Pulp’s Com­mon Peo­ple arrived at just the right moment, I really went for it, doing some proper actual run­ning to fin­ish off.

So, that’s another six mil­lion mil­lime­tres under my belt. Huz­zah! Full details here on RunKeeper.com.

Finally, my new cam­era, the Pana­sonic Lumix DMC-FP8, arrived! At some point, I’ll run some­where dur­ing the day and take a few nice bright cheery shots. For now, you’ll have to make do with the Port­way at night, look­ing out along the begin­ning of my run­ning route ;)

Portway

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  1. Steve Mar­vell
    October 15th, 2009 at 21:31 | #1
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    That pic­ture is of smash­ing quality.

  2. matt
    October 15th, 2009 at 21:36 | #2
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    It’s not bad. Cer­tainly not as bad as I’d feared for 12 mil­lion pix­els crammed on a tiny sen­sor. I used the built-in “night land­scape” mode, which prob­a­bly helped.

    Over­all, it’s not a bad cam­era, espe­cially for some­thing so slim­line. Cer­tainly a good option for me, as I can always drag the SLR along if I want proper qual­ity; what I’m look­ing for in a com­pact is rel­a­tively cheap portability…

    I’m hop­ing to post a proper “first impres­sions” review on my blog at some point soon, pos­si­bly this weekend.

  3. Ben­john
    October 15th, 2009 at 21:52 | #3
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    Photo does look very nice. I’m glad I was wrong! A mate at work also has a Lum­nix, and it’s clearly a com­pletely dif­fer­ent model from the one I got, which is much smaller.

    Well done on the run again!

  4. matt
    October 15th, 2009 at 22:04 | #4
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    The Lumix range is really big; they have lit­tle snappy ones like mine, decent mid-range ones, and stun­ning ones like the LX3… I took a bit of a chance on the FP8, as it’s only just come out and reviews are few and far between, but so far it seems pretty good. Real shame you got such a rub­bish one — which model is it?

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