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running
Only my second run in a fair old while. I was summoned out early on Boxing Day by a friend of my sister's for a run that turned more into a continuous attempt to stop sliding into the Kennet+Avon canal (fun, but very slow), but today's was quite satisfying ( Read more... ) -
unexpected consequences of cold weather
I had to keep our bikes indoors last night, as the previous night's cold had made the grease in the brake cables solidify and jam them.
Fortunately they defaulted to jamming "on" rather than "off", but it's quite embarrassing to try to move and find you can't, particularly when there's a stroppy bus driver just behind you. -
run
Nice run this evening.
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devil's dyke
I'm using up my leave; today I indulged and ran the whole of the devil's dyke from Reach to Ditton Green and back.
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half a nursery rhyme
I've got half a nursery rhyme in my mind; to the tune of the 12 days of Christmas, it'd go ( Read more... ) -
running
Last tuesday, I did my (6.1 mile) Histon Loop in 46m30.
This week, I thought to warm up a bit before starting, and did it in 44m10. That's 7m15 miles, and (according to the magic non-linear rules for estimating race times[*]), equivalent to a sub-3h30 marathon on the flat.
I think that when I was running a lot I got to doing 5 mile runs at ( Read more... ) -
bird identification
Last Sunday, in the early evening, I was on Coe Fen, just by Fen Causeway, and saw a bird fly rather oddly up onto the top of a street light. It had the kind of paranoid hunched posture of a bird of prey, and indeed from the photo I grabbed of it, it certainly isn't a pigeon ...
I was wondering if anyone could id it?
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running
My running year has started developing a certain shape; the defining point in it is early May (the Neolithic has become a regular feature). Some years, I manage to do the Fairlands Valley Challenge in July. But there's a bit of taking stock and recovering after both ( Read more... )
