North Downs Way 100
Monthly Archives: April 2012
Chipping away
I realise that chasing down my 3,700 excal deficit in four days will be basically undoable, but I thought I’d give it my best shot by taking the scenic route home. April 27 Chocolate in: nil Cycling out: 17 miles = 850 excal Viceathon … Continue reading
Viceathon update
It’s all going a little the way of the pear on the viceathon front. The week after my marathon (had I mentioned that I’d run a marathon?) was very quiet. No chocolate, no exercise, no calculation required. Saturday was parkrun … Continue reading
Inverness and Dulwich parkruns
Not, I hasten to add, on the same day! Inverness was last week. I didn’t travel all the way to the highlands of Scotland just to do a parkrun. That would be madness. Instead, I spent ridiculous amounts of money … Continue reading
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Tagged bruce fordyce, comrades marathon, dulwich parkrun, inverness parkrun, lochaber marathon, Paul Freyne
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Lochaber marathon
The VLM London Marathon is on Sunday. Like a lot of runners, I entered the ballot for it in April last year, but when the ballot places were allocated in October, I wasn’t among the lucky ones. During the six-month … Continue reading
I am a marathoner
At 5 hours and 10 minutes, not the fastest one that you will ever meet, but a marathoner never-the-less. But I’m getting ahead of myself. When last we met, Easter had been and gone and I was (1,150) excal in … Continue reading
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Tagged caledonian sleeper, craigvar, dunnets head, genaeology, inverness parkrun, john o'groats, loch ness monster, lochaber marathon, marathon, viceathon
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Easter Eggs and @EalingHalf
Earlier today, @EalingHalf tweeted: Did you know – one chocolate Easter egg (shell) is the calorie equivalent of a 2 hour half marathon. But is it? How big is the Easter Egg? Is it milk or dark chocolate? Which is … Continue reading
Going home
My first parkrun was at Wimbledon parkrun, on 8 January 2011. I lost a hotly contested (in my mind at least) battle for 198th place, finishing 199th. My second parkrun was at Wimbledon parkrun, on 15 January 2011, where I … Continue reading
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Tagged parkrun, parkrun volunteer, wimbledon parkrun, wimbledon windmilers
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Round the houses
My plan: run to the hot cross bun shop by going under the railway bridge and turning right along the foot path on the north side of the railway line. 2.3 miles. My revised plan: run to the hot cross bun … Continue reading
Counting the cost
The first time I ever got a job, I stopped spending money. Overnight, I went from thinking “it’s only £10” to “that’s not worth 4 hours work”. Viceathon seems to have had a similar effect, and I’ve gone from thinking … Continue reading
Viceathon
This April is Viceathon. The idea is simple: choose a vice (chocolate) choose a penance (exercise) choose a challenging ratio (1 chocolate calorie (“chocal”) = 2 exercise calories (“excal”)) break-even. So, what does a ratio of 1 chocal : 2 excal mean … Continue reading
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