Posts Tagged ‘ OGB ’

My regular running commute has been on the back burner for a while. I started at my new placement a few weeks ago which has pushed the required running distance to 13 miles, part of which covers a portion of the West’s very own murder mile, or in fact murder 12 miles. Needless to...
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Somehow I managed to miss my invite to the Juneathon challenge, neither XFR Bear, Jogblog or Jogger blogger saw fit to let me know of the great event before it was too late and I was too pissed to join in. On the 1st, I managed an unexpected sprint home from the pub, as...
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I dragged myself out of bed at some ungodly hour this morning so I could get to the registration desk for The Great Escape run. Arrived too early as usual and then had to perform jumping jacks for about 2 hours to ward off hypothermia while we waited for the finance society to organise...
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Grief it was cold today and windy, but I shouldn’t complain – it seems the wind was in my favour for most of the route and that never normally happens. I felt really strong at the end, my hip was hurting but I had stacks of puff left and finished with my fastest time...
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Just been to the 24hr gym to get my running fix. My normal machine was broken so I had to use a new and unfamiliar gerbil wheel. It was quite snazzy and offered a few speed training sessions like 400m repeats and mile repeats but I opted for a 5k tempo run as I...
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Turned out to be a pitiful week. The cold that started last friday is still with me, in fact it got a lot worse over the last few days and the result is a bedroom overflowing with discarded tissues and absolutely no update on the weekly running stats table. I made a few positive...
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I already mentioned how impressed I was with Nike’s organisation at Sunday’s North vs South 10k run but amazingly things actually improved post race. Within a few hours the main result – announcing a win for the South – was up on the runlondon site. In addition the race time, position and a video...
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Despite about 3 months of excuses and general complaining, both OGB and myself managed to get ourselves to the start line of the Nike 10k Runlondon event. I can’t say we were overly happy – we still maintained an air of cynicism which acted as a cover for our fear but we were clearly...
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Ok that title is a bit melodramatic but I was certainly a bit disturbed on the day of my first Nike training run. It ocurred to me that I had somehow managed to voluntarily sign myself up for an event that could only prove to be as horrendous as school sports days. Horrible childhood...
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