Tag: running
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Velká Kunratická
Well, it’s not been a great year for running events for me. Changing cities, countries and indeed continents coupled with a few calendar clashes meant that I didn’t get to the events that I hoped to and there were too few of them. Fortunately it won’t be a completely event free year as I…
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Moving On (Up)
Moving on (up) Well, my dear reader(s) this is one them posts you rarely get, that’s actually about my life. The sort of post I feel that I should be writing but never do. So the headline, in case you’ve not heard, is that I’m leaving Hangzhou and moving to Prague. Why? Well, as you…
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Feeling Fitter
So since we last spoke the sun span on its axis and arrived back for the 10,958th time at the same point it was at when I entered the world. If you prefer, the earth returned for the 30th time to the point in its orbit of the sun that it was at when I…
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Beware Wild Boar Traps
As most of you are aware by now, I’m involved with a running group here in Hangzhou called the Hash House Harriers. So it was that I came to be out in the hills behind Lingyin Temple on my own on Sunday setting a trail that the rest of the group would be following a…
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Phuket
Blog-lag-tastic, we actually got back from Thailand about three weeks ago but here it finally is… It rained a lot the day of the marathon which meant that for the runners it was cooler than it would otherwise have been, very welcome but wet like I’ve never experienced before, not so good. Monsoon season. The…
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I eat hills for breakfast
Some people who are much more experienced than me said it was the hardest course they’d ever run. I believe it. It was hard. I ran 17km of the full 42km course, it took me 4 hours and 20 minutes. It was hard. I’m actually not convinced that it was only 17km. The ipod (which…
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Shanghai Half Marathon
Apologies for blog lag but it’s been a busy few days, yada yada. Two hours, four minutes and some seconds. I don’t have a terribly accurate time as the official time (two hours 9 mins) is way out. We got stuck in the queue for the loos at the start (more loos please) and ended…
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Yet More Half Marathon
Up at 05:00 more or less, ready and off to M’s who was generously doing a full English breakfast and then off to the stadium. We milled about nervously for a bit and did some stretches. DC arrived more than warmed up a little after 08:00 having cycled all the way across Hangzhou. Our support…
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Half Marathon Photos
Still planning on writing something about the half marathon but for now you’ll have to make do with photos (thanks M). Hangzhou Half Marathon 2006 Set
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Hangzhou Half Marathon 2006
The above is what was recorded by my ipod (using the nike+ thing) for today’s Hangzhou Half Marathon. Official time was 02:08:42, just achieving my target of under 2 hours 10 mins. The event was superb (my first) and represents the culmination of 3 months of (somewhat sporadic) preparation. Yay me! Yay M and DC,…