Category: Away from home
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Cambridge
In Cambridge for the first time since 2008, to attend the Cambridge Greek Play, and staying in a hotel opposite the house where I spent my childhood, I had the chance to reproduce nearly exactly the TAG route, that is to say, Trumpington and Grantchester, a family tradition. The word tag thus came to stand…
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Four days to go, three runs in one post
There’s now four days to go to the Beachy Head Marathon. I’ve been in Cambridge, but have three runs to record, one at home, out to High and Over for a one hour trip, the first half hour in dry weather, but then the rain started; but I saw the ponies again. The second was…
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Two runs in one post again
I find myself back in Cambridge due to family illness. Monday was a rest day and I was unable to run on Tuesday, so yesterday and today I ran the sessions that should have been run on Tuesday and Wednesday, 4 X 1 km repetitions with 3 minute recoveries and a four mile easy run.…
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Future runs
It’s time to think about the autumn campaign. So far I think it looks like this: 24 September: Bexhill 10 K 1 October Lewes Downland 10 mile 15 October Jog Shop Jog 28 October Beachy Head Marathon (fourteen weeks away last Saturday, so time for training to start) 19 November Brighton Reebok 10 K 10…
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Three runs in one post
I’ve been away, so three runs are compressed into one post. The first , on Friday, with Claire and Jana, was along a shortened version of the University of Sussex Health Week run I did a long time ago. The other two were in Dorset, where I was camping at the Tolpuddle festival, and ran…
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Nostalgie de la boue
Being up in London for the weekend, I ran a nostalgic rainy route, touring places I used to know. I went from East Finchley to Highgate, down to Crouch End, along the Parkland Walk to Finsbury Park, down to Clissold Park where I used to live, then back again. On the return trip I went…
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A38 run
Away at a friend’s 50th birthday party, I ran before dawn on a cold Sunday morning before along the A38. Time: 39.44 Distance: 4.20 Pace: 9.27 (best 8.07) Average heart rate: 142