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Faster, faster!

January 27th, 2010 matt No comments

No personal best for the 5K this evening — that still remains at the just-under-31 minutes I managed back in November, running as fast as I sustainably could all the way.
But tonight, I think, was the fastest since then, at 32:26. And considering I did a normal jog on the way out, then just did [...]

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Speedwork

January 25th, 2010 matt No comments

Okay, back on the road again tonight after my birthday break. Tonight I tried a bit of speedwork, doing some fartlek training where I sprinted a bit and then recovered for a while at normal pace, sprinted again, and so on.
I travelled out down the Portway as normal, because everyone seems to say that warming [...]

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Another 10K

December 13th, 2009 matt 2 comments

Definite rule of running: once you’ve done a distance once, it’s a lot easier, psychologically, to do it again. Today I was feeling pretty good, and I’d had a decent night’s sleep, and the weather looked okay, so I decided to do 10K again.
And here it is on RunKeeper.com. It was actually 10.42km, about the [...]

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Deep Six

December 8th, 2009 matt No comments

…well, deep puddles, anyway. I want to push my weekday runs out a bit further, so I figured I’d do 6K this evening. It varied between drizzle and outright rain, but it was still good. I felt fine, and kept up a nice pace. About the only thing that wasn’t great were my calves/ankles, and [...]

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Where did that come from?

November 28th, 2009 matt 4 comments

I don’t know when this week became the week to push and to prove myself. But apparently it did.
I should have got out running last night, but I was knackered after work, so I did what any brave and stout young fellow would have done: gave up on the idea and went to bed early.
This [...]

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The Need for Speed

November 25th, 2009 matt No comments

Seeing my friend Bert’s tweet earlier on got me thinking. I have generally been going for endurance rather than speed, especially recently.
Also in my mind was my friend Bananza’s advice that “if it’s easy, you’re not working hard enough”.
So, tonight I I mixed things up a bit. I figured it’d do me good to push [...]

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“Everything is for the best…

November 15th, 2009 matt 1 comment

…in the best of all possible worlds”.
I’d not noticed this bit of literally Panglossian optimism in Babshambles‘ Deft Left Hand before. But it seemed to be the theme of the morning, as I climbed up into the sunshine on the Downs, and my iPod randomly picked the most cheerfully British of Pete Doherty’s output, from [...]

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Accidental Progress

November 7th, 2009 matt 2 comments

This morning I had a bit of an accident.
My general plan was to skip the running last night, and instead go out this morning, as I’ve found my last few Saturdays have been low-energy, wasted days, and I thought I’d see if starting with a run would help pick me up a bit.
So, I went [...]

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On a Whim

November 4th, 2009 matt No comments

“How far should I run tonight?”
“6K? No, erm, 5K. Erm.”
“I could do 6K.”
“Okay. 6K, then.”
And so it was decided. Tonight I was a bit knackered, but I did feel like doing a decent distance on the flat, so I ran 3km out along the Portway, and 3km back again.
Looking at the times, I did it [...]

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Power in the Blood, Justice in the Sword…

November 1st, 2009 matt 2 comments

“…when the call it comes I will be ready for war.”
Today’s title is from Alabama 3’s fantastic track Power In the Blood, from the album of the same name. It helped me get off to a nice start on the Downs after I’d clambered up Bridge Valley Road.
I woke up to the sound of fairly [...]

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