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The Tide Is High, I’m Holding On…

October 8th, 2009 1 comment

Actu­ally, to be fair, the tide wasn’t high. My run took me along the Port­way again tonight, next to the river, and it was very much low tide, with the steep, muddy banks of the Avon glisten­ing on my port side. But I was listen­ing to Blondie’s Greatest Hits, so the song was in my mind […]

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Well, That Was Easier Than I Thought It Would Be

October 6th, 2009 1 comment

Wow! I just ran up Bridge Val­ley Road. Well, I say “ran”; actual run­ners might take issue. But it was a def­in­ite jog, at least. I’d dug around for advice on teh intar­webs, and basic­ally just star­ted off the hill nice and slowly, with a shorter pace than my on-the-flat run­ning. And I kept it slow […]

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Uphill Struggle

October 5th, 2009 1 comment

Just a quick check-in: I’m still alive. My run today was a bit rub­bish — I’d for­got­ten that bit of the A4 Port­way between me and my tar­get hill, Bridge Val­ley Road, was closed all day today. They’re doing rock­face safety checks, basic­ally mak­ing sure that no fall­ing rocks are likely to kill any ped­es­tri­ans or […]

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It’s All Uphill From Here

October 3rd, 2009 2 comments

So, tomor­row I should do another run, if I’m going to keep up my nor­mal pat­tern. And I think I’ve decided what I’m going to do. It’s time to tackle some­thing dif­fer­ent. Some­thing ter­ri­fy­ing. A hill. Those of you who know Bris­tol know that it’s mainly hills, in fact. There’s not many flat bits, and you […]

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What a Long, Strange Trip it’s Been

October 1st, 2009 3 comments

FX: Fan­fare. Brrrrup-pa-pa-pa-pa-paaa-paaaah! Whoo-hoo! Tonight was Week 9, Run 3 of the Couch to 5K. Earlier on, I made a decision about tonight. Instead of the time, it would be about the dis­tance. Because I don’t think, in all hon­esty, that you can say you’ve com­pleted the Couch to 5K until you’ve actu­ally, you know, […]

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