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Saturday Sep 28, 2013 #
Walk 50:00 [1] 2.83 mi (17:40 / mi) +10m 17:29 / mi
shoes: Saucony protread wide
Trip to the main post-office foiled by a late bus and a bad plan around the superstore. Why would you put the main postal depot outside of town and not really on any bus line?!
8 AM
Road running race 21:07 [4] 3.1 mi (6:49 / mi) +6m 6:46 / mi
shoes: Saucony protread wide
Norwich Parkrun.
5k Sat. 9 am race; maybe my first one ever?
Very convenient walk to the start and then just a friendly run with 400 other willing souls. A GREAT concept, a free weekly timed run in a park and a good way of collecting stats that lets one get a weekly snapshot of their fitness level (note the similarities to AP).
Some historical details can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkrun and a bit more writeup on O Joy's posting.
It is surprising that there seem to only be 3 Parkruns in the US currently. While I think that the weekly-ness of these races is probably a big appeal, it seems that well-located US Parkruns would provide a good alternative to the more expensive 5k races.
Aidan had a very good run (21:23). He was staring me down for the whole race, good thing I didn't slow down. We both think we can trim this back a bit.
5k Sat. 9 am race; maybe my first one ever?
Very convenient walk to the start and then just a friendly run with 400 other willing souls. A GREAT concept, a free weekly timed run in a park and a good way of collecting stats that lets one get a weekly snapshot of their fitness level (note the similarities to AP).
Some historical details can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkrun and a bit more writeup on O Joy's posting.
It is surprising that there seem to only be 3 Parkruns in the US currently. While I think that the weekly-ness of these races is probably a big appeal, it seems that well-located US Parkruns would provide a good alternative to the more expensive 5k races.
Aidan had a very good run (21:23). He was staring me down for the whole race, good thing I didn't slow down. We both think we can trim this back a bit.
Friday Sep 27, 2013 #
Walk 1:15:00 [1] 4.2 mi (17:51 / mi) +10m 17:44 / mi
shoes: Saucony protread wide
5 round-trip walks from the bus to work
Thursday Sep 26, 2013 #
6 PM
Road running (Road) 31:41 [2] 3.82 mi (8:18 / mi) +26m 8:07 / mi
shoes: Saucony protread wide
A random walk through the streets into town with Aidan.
Wednesday Sep 25, 2013 #
6 PM
Road running (Mixed road-trail) 35:55 [3] 4.58 mi (7:51 / mi) +30m 7:42 / mi
shoes: Saucony protread wide
This felt hard tonight; Aidan pulled me along thankfully.
Tuesday Sep 24, 2013 #
6 AM
Road running 31:25 [2] 2.7 mi (11:39 / mi) +5m 11:35 / mi
shoes: Saucony protread wide
Seeing some sights in Braunschweig during a visit to the TU to give a talk. Woke up later than expected, possibly unconsciously hitting the snooze button, but I did get to see Bürgerpark and a bit of the town during the morning rush.
Sunday Sep 22, 2013 #
Event: London City Race
Walk 2:00:00 [1] 2.0 mi (1:00:00 / mi)
shoes: Saucony protread wide
Visited the Tower of London. So much history focused on a small place. The White Tower is an exquisite piece of Norman architecture and the Crown Jewel were impressive, especially the ginormous gold punch bowl that holds on the order of 140 bottles of wine. People really seemed to enjoy an afternoon of head lopping back in the day. It was great exercise but the tour would have been nicer without a suitcase.
10 AM
Orienteering race 1:10:18 [4] *** 12.65 km (5:33 / km) +5m 5:33 / km
spiked:19/26c shoes: Saucony protread wide
2013 London City Race. 8.3 km straight line but 11.1 km predicted min running distance.
A really fun race through Canary Wharf and the Isle of Dogs. It was mostly not very technically demanding with a few trickier controls, some longer runs, and lots of route selection problems that were really close to 50/50 choices. Attackpoint is probably about spot on with about 4 min lost time. I made only one significant error, heading towards a dead-end that I had thought looked like it might work on the map, 80 s). I did make a number of smaller errors or definitively bad route choices on legs 4-6 that I should have done better with (these cost between 20-60 s each). I did run fairly hard and there were some parts of the race where there were little competitions with other runners (either head-to-head or with similar runners making different route choices). A fun 3-way finish sprint that I prevailed on; all-in-all, this was a good run finishing in the top half (49 of 102 mens vets, 40+).
A really fun race through Canary Wharf and the Isle of Dogs. It was mostly not very technically demanding with a few trickier controls, some longer runs, and lots of route selection problems that were really close to 50/50 choices. Attackpoint is probably about spot on with about 4 min lost time. I made only one significant error, heading towards a dead-end that I had thought looked like it might work on the map, 80 s). I did make a number of smaller errors or definitively bad route choices on legs 4-6 that I should have done better with (these cost between 20-60 s each). I did run fairly hard and there were some parts of the race where there were little competitions with other runners (either head-to-head or with similar runners making different route choices). A fun 3-way finish sprint that I prevailed on; all-in-all, this was a good run finishing in the top half (49 of 102 mens vets, 40+).