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Long shot

Posted on: Thursday, October 30th, 2008 in: Short run

Then I walked to the office and, losing my footing on the stairs, managed to wow the four people watching as I skied noisily down to land on my feet at the bottom!

Cross fertilisation

Posted on: Sunday, October 26th, 2008 in: Other thoughts

The Clustermap logs for my two sites were recently archived and it was interesting to see the different reach of the two sites.  I’m sure that much of this is because each of the sites probably appeals to different people, but just in case it’s because you didn’t realise that I have two, the other one [...]

Hot and wet

Posted on: Sunday, October 26th, 2008 in: Other thoughts, Short run

Most importantly, you have to watch your step, ducking around the trees and under low branches.

Short Thursday run

Posted on: Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 in: Short run

Nick called yesterday to cry off this morning’s run, which was a really good thing as I had forgotten that we had changed it to Thursdays.  I didn’t tell him that though, rather allowing him to expand on his elaborate excuse, something to do with looking after someones bored nose, which was an entirely new [...]

Slack week, chortle chortle

Posted on: Monday, October 20th, 2008 in: Other thoughts, Photos, Short run

Overall, very productive weekend, apart from on the running front!

Around the page… and some

Posted on: Sunday, October 12th, 2008 in: Long run, Photos

The way I measure my runs, when I’m not running with someone sporting a GPS, is marking the route against the edge of an A4 sheet and I can happily report that 16.6 miles makes it all the way around and another couple of inches! This is officially my longest run since I started my blog!

Running with the Woods for a change

Posted on: Sunday, October 12th, 2008 in: Short run

There was sufficient an autumn chill for Nigel to initially run with his sleeves covering his hands and he confessed afterwards that he had leaden legs along that first section, but the sun filtering through the trees warmed our souls and the run warmed the rest of us pretty quickly.

There and back: a tale of crazy folk

Posted on: Sunday, October 5th, 2008 in: Crazy thing to do!, Long run, Short run

The wusses! Staggering along like they had zimmer frames! Even I could keep up!

Repen tense!

Posted on: Friday, October 3rd, 2008 in: No run

Please readers, may I repent?  More than ten days have passed since I last ran and I’m starting to morph into a potato of the couch variety!