Bullygate came to a good conclusion. I caught up with one of the teachers this morning, and she seemed keen to take the bull by the wossnames. The boy seemed pleased not to have seen sight nor sound of the bully all day. And I completely forgot in all the kerfuffle that he got two housepoints for his reading yesterday 
Today's run was cold and wet and windy and pretty horrible - but on the plus side, it was a little faster than last week, at about 5bpm lower too. I did nearly tear myself a new groin slipping on a muddy patch of grass, but apart from that, all good. 106 for the month
Had a nice chat with my dad - he's been going like the clappers on his treadmill so he can get his 500 miles for the year - planning ahead because he's got to take two weeks rest after having the Death Star treatment on a kidney stone. We might have talked a bit about the rugby
Ready and excited about parkrun tomorrow - I'm planning to run it at HM PB pace, and not do any sort of impression of a samba band, on pain of getting punched in the noggin by Katie, who will (or will not) be aiming to get her sub-25 for her 50th parkrun
Today's run was cold and wet and windy and pretty horrible - but on the plus side, it was a little faster than last week, at about 5bpm lower too. I did nearly tear myself a new groin slipping on a muddy patch of grass, but apart from that, all good. 106 for the month
Had a nice chat with my dad - he's been going like the clappers on his treadmill so he can get his 500 miles for the year - planning ahead because he's got to take two weeks rest after having the Death Star treatment on a kidney stone. We might have talked a bit about the rugby
Ready and excited about parkrun tomorrow - I'm planning to run it at HM PB pace, and not do any sort of impression of a samba band, on pain of getting punched in the noggin by Katie, who will (or will not) be aiming to get her sub-25 for her 50th parkrun
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Almost forgot with the whole blogging thing. Not good.
Today I've been scraping up the loose ends of the update to the training log glasses view - there's still a 12 point list of things I need to square up before I can think about putting it live - so it'll probably be next week now. I've also had a first opportunity to do a proper check on whether the car can remember which way up it is - all seems good.
Have recovered well after yesterday's run, and looking forward (with trepidation) to tomorrow's tempo run - 4M at 7:30/mile. I'm planning to do it on a loop near my boy's school, so I can either do it straight after I've dropped him off (once all the other parents have gone), or before I pick him up. The latter may be preferable as it means I'll get one of the closer parking spaces.
One of the year fives pushed my boy (Y3) onto his back into a puddle today It was seen by one of the "dinner misses", so the year five got a telling off - but he came back for another go. My boy told him to 'step off' (thank you Mordecai and Rigby :-)), but the bigger boy punched him again later and said that his friend smelled of cheese ;-). I asked my boy whether he was ok about seeing the bigger boy again, and he says he's a bit worried, so I've promised to have a chat with his teacher, and the parents if I can find them.
I remember once when I went into school with a note excusing me from PE because I had a cold - but the teacher said that if I was well enough to come to school, I was well enough to do PE. In our school, it was either about having the piss taken out of you by the teacher who enjoyed his B&H and never broke a sweat (by virtue of never doing anything), or being given a perfect demonstration of gym technique by the more militant teacher before being made to feel wholly inadequate when we tried it. When my dad picked me up at the end of the day, I told him what had been said, and he disappeared into the school for 'a brief chat' with the PE teacher, who was always very accommodating after that
Whilst I probably won't use the same tactics that I enjoy imagining my dad using, I hope I can be as reassuring for the boy.
Today I've been scraping up the loose ends of the update to the training log glasses view - there's still a 12 point list of things I need to square up before I can think about putting it live - so it'll probably be next week now. I've also had a first opportunity to do a proper check on whether the car can remember which way up it is - all seems good.
Have recovered well after yesterday's run, and looking forward (with trepidation) to tomorrow's tempo run - 4M at 7:30/mile. I'm planning to do it on a loop near my boy's school, so I can either do it straight after I've dropped him off (once all the other parents have gone), or before I pick him up. The latter may be preferable as it means I'll get one of the closer parking spaces.
One of the year fives pushed my boy (Y3) onto his back into a puddle today
It was seen by one of the "dinner misses", so the year five got a telling off - but he came back for another go. My boy told him to 'step off' (thank you Mordecai and Rigby :-)), but the bigger boy punched him again later and said that his friend smelled of cheese ;-). I asked my boy whether he was ok about seeing the bigger boy again, and he says he's a bit worried, so I've promised to have a chat with his teacher, and the parents if I can find them. I remember once when I went into school with a note excusing me from PE because I had a cold - but the teacher said that if I was well enough to come to school, I was well enough to do PE. In our school, it was either about having the piss taken out of you by the teacher who enjoyed his B&H and never broke a sweat (by virtue of never doing anything), or being given a perfect demonstration of gym technique by the more militant teacher before being made to feel wholly inadequate when we tried it. When my dad picked me up at the end of the day, I told him what had been said, and he disappeared into the school for 'a brief chat' with the PE teacher, who was always very accommodating after that
Whilst I probably won't use the same tactics that I enjoy imagining my dad using, I hope I can be as reassuring for the boy.
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When I drop jess at school I usually do so in running kit and head off straight afterwards. Hope your boy is ok. My dad stopped my bulky, but in a rather different way.RuthB26:02am, 31st Jan 2014
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bulky = bully...RuthB26:03am, 31st Jan 2014
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I find speedwork is good to do near pickup as you have an incentive to run fast so as not to be late! I save slower runs for drop off as its close to breakfastfleecy Poor boy, hopefully it'll be sorted quickly. Ds1 seems to be a bit of a target for being pushed into bushes but so far ds2 has only had the odd incident which has been sorted without my involvement. Emotional bullying is worse IMO, not that physical violence is acceptable either but it's more obvious.6:49am, 31st Jan 2014
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Boo to them bigger boys, hope the school gets him sortedIrontubs9:08am, 31st Jan 2014
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So hard being a parent, almost as hard as being a childD211:33am, 31st Jan 2014
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Hope all will be alright esp the boy not nice is itNight-owl8:26pm, 31st Jan 2014
Dog tired this evening.
We battled really hard this morning on our long run - my hands were so cold I had pins and needles at one point, and we've both been crawling around, barely able to find the strength to chew our food. But chicken casserole was nice, and I'm feeling nicely full now, and ready for bed. Very proud of Katie for doing her 14 miler in the worst conditions we've run in for months.
Today I've been working on the 'glasses' view on the training log. There are quite a lot of what I'm calling 'improvements', and a fair bit more to go. I'll post some screenshots tomorrow maybe.
The dog loves Katie's impression of getting on a button ski lift.
I've just had a text from my sister to ask if I'll do this with my nephew:
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Zombies!
We battled really hard this morning on our long run - my hands were so cold I had pins and needles at one point, and we've both been crawling around, barely able to find the strength to chew our food. But chicken casserole was nice, and I'm feeling nicely full now, and ready for bed. Very proud of Katie for doing her 14 miler in the worst conditions we've run in for months.
Today I've been working on the 'glasses' view on the training log. There are quite a lot of what I'm calling 'improvements', and a fair bit more to go. I'll post some screenshots tomorrow maybe.
The dog loves Katie's impression of getting on a button ski lift.
I've just had a text from my sister to ask if I'll do this with my nephew:
facebook.com
Zombies!
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Haven't been near the car since yesterday. The man from the AA basically wiggled the gear stick forward and back until the gear selection started appearing on the dashboard display. Once it did that, the car started with no problem at all. Got my haircut, got the shopping, trying not to think of the car as being 'flaky'.
We caught up with 'The Bridge' last night - loving it. Keen to see series 1 now. We've spent some time today pretending to be Saga Norén. Yah. I can see a big old cold-hearted logic-off between her and Viktoria Nordgren sometime soon.
It's a cutback week for me, as my previous four weeks have been 17, 21.8, 24.3, and 28.9. The plan then is this:
Today: 4 miles with Katie trialling out her HM pace (8:50/mile) during the middle two miles. She did very well, with an 8:51 in mile 2, and an 8:30 in mile 3 - so that went pretty well.
Tomorrow: it's usually long run day. The last few weeks have been 11, 12, 13, so I'm scaling that back to 10. I'll be doing a little squeeee when we reach 6.3 miles, because that'll be my 100 for the month, and assuming I get back to the house, it'll be my highest mileage month since 2010
Thursday: nowt
Friday: as I've not done much speed work, the plan is to repeat the 4M @ 7:35/mile. Don't think I'll use the canal path this time - I fancy something a bit more tarmac-y - my favourite surface
Saturday: it's Katie's 50th parkrun! She's asked me whether I can get her sub-25, and I've said that I'm sure we can - but like a legal ninja she's pointed out that just because I've said I can, doesn't mean she actually *will*. But I think she will
This morning I've had fun writing a bit of code to integrate the gallery with Twitter. You can tweet a pic, and have it automatically upload to the Fetch gallery. All you've got to do is:
(1) make sure the site knows what your Twitter account is (you can set this up on the gallery page)
(2) tweet a pic, using the hashtag #fetchgallery
You can also:
(3) use #run, #swim or #bike to classify it - if you leave it out, it defaults to 'other'.
So that Twitter doesn't get pissed off with me, the server only checks the feed every five minutes, so you might see a bit of a delay if you give it a try - but I think it will be very helpful for socials and whatnot
Eldest stepson has just turned up mid-run with a sore knee :-/
We caught up with 'The Bridge' last night - loving it. Keen to see series 1 now. We've spent some time today pretending to be Saga Norén. Yah. I can see a big old cold-hearted logic-off between her and Viktoria Nordgren sometime soon.
It's a cutback week for me, as my previous four weeks have been 17, 21.8, 24.3, and 28.9. The plan then is this:
Today: 4 miles with Katie trialling out her HM pace (8:50/mile) during the middle two miles. She did very well, with an 8:51 in mile 2, and an 8:30 in mile 3 - so that went pretty well.
Tomorrow: it's usually long run day. The last few weeks have been 11, 12, 13, so I'm scaling that back to 10. I'll be doing a little squeeee when we reach 6.3 miles, because that'll be my 100 for the month, and assuming I get back to the house, it'll be my highest mileage month since 2010
Thursday: nowt
Friday: as I've not done much speed work, the plan is to repeat the 4M @ 7:35/mile. Don't think I'll use the canal path this time - I fancy something a bit more tarmac-y - my favourite surface
Saturday: it's Katie's 50th parkrun!
She's asked me whether I can get her sub-25, and I've said that I'm sure we can - but like a legal ninja she's pointed out that just because I've said I can, doesn't mean she actually *will*. But I think she will This morning I've had fun writing a bit of code to integrate the gallery with Twitter. You can tweet a pic, and have it automatically upload to the Fetch gallery. All you've got to do is:
(1) make sure the site knows what your Twitter account is (you can set this up on the gallery page)
(2) tweet a pic, using the hashtag #fetchgallery
You can also:
(3) use #run, #swim or #bike to classify it - if you leave it out, it defaults to 'other'.
So that Twitter doesn't get pissed off with me, the server only checks the feed every five minutes, so you might see a bit of a delay if you give it a try - but I think it will be very helpful for socials and whatnot
Eldest stepson has just turned up mid-run with a sore knee :-/
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I'm liking the sound of the twitter pic linkage!sallykate3:54pm, 28th Jan 2014
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I used to have a lovely automatic car but when the fucker plays you up its time to torch the fucker in a car park and get the insurance.Argie4:03pm, 28th Jan 2014
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The Bridge is awesome - Just started Season 2 yesterdayTizer4:12pm, 28th Jan 2014
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I was wondering why Katie was aiming for 8.50 and then I did the sums and realised its 1.55 and a little bit, presumably she's aiming to make up the little bit in a 'run like fuck' sprint finish?fleecy I'm aiming for 1.55 too, it'll be interesting to see whether your longer run training plan is more or less successful than my Furman one with more speedwork and shorter long runs...4:18pm, 28th Jan 2014
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It's the 60% WAVA markerfetcheveryone Just been for a look at Furman - looks interesting. The guidance for goal time suggests I should be looking at 1:36:30 (if I was following the training plan).4:27pm, 28th Jan 2014
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Also, based on that, it's suggesting my long runs are at 7:52fetcheveryone and my tempos are at 7:05 :-O. We do our long runs at about 9:30, and my tempos are 7:30ish.4:33pm, 28th Jan 2014
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Yeah, well, I've only hit the pace a few times for the longer runsfleecy I've done it for most of the tempos though, it's a bit beastly I think the rationale is that you get used to beasting yourself do much during training that for the race itself it feels ok...4:47pm, 28th Jan 2014
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I suppose the overall weekly mileage isn't so bad, and with three days a week you've got a bit more recovery time between runs. I've seen quite a few people go at it like mentalists day in day out, and that's often not goodfetcheveryone I'm interested to see what happens at Bath, because I've never had such a long period of consistent weekly training.4:50pm, 28th Jan 2014
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All the best to Katie on Saturday and her pacerNight-owl5:21pm, 28th Jan 2014
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You're supposed to do 2 quality cross-training sessions as well with Furman, but yes, you really need those recovery days with hard sessions. I suspect that pretty much any plan which makes you train consistently and includes speedwork and longer runs will work, other than that maybe it's what suits the individual? I'm looking at it as an interesting experimentfleecy5:22pm, 28th Jan 2014
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We are hoping to come along for Katie's 50th parkrun, we could even help out with the pacing is she wantsMrs Jigs (Luverlylegs)11:55pm, 29th Jan 2014
Today's blog comes to you from the Tesco car park, as I wait in my car for the nice people from the AA to come and rescue me.
I was heading merrily to get a lunchtime Tesco Value Haircut when the car reported 'Transmission Malfunction' and proceeded to close for business. Now it won't start, and the most use it's being is telling me to 'Select Neutral'.
I have a Mars that I've bought from the petrol station, my copy of 'The Lost World', and a small fly that's wandering around the inside of the drivers window. AA patrol due to arrive by 2.45.
Other than that it's been a good day so far
I was heading merrily to get a lunchtime Tesco Value Haircut when the car reported 'Transmission Malfunction' and proceeded to close for business. Now it won't start, and the most use it's being is telling me to 'Select Neutral'.
I have a Mars that I've bought from the petrol station, my copy of 'The Lost World', and a small fly that's wandering around the inside of the drivers window. AA patrol due to arrive by 2.45.
Other than that it's been a good day so far
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You could use the time to write your Fetch daily Blog. Oh...you haveAlice the Camel2:22pm, 27th Jan 2014
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You will have to report back when the man from the AA (if it is a man) and tell us if he was a nice manNight-owl2:27pm, 27th Jan 2014
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That sounds like an expensive warning message! Hope the AA have turned up by now...fleecy2:50pm, 27th Jan 2014
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Pft annoying for youD22:54pm, 27th Jan 2014
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Cars are far too clever these days. Once upon a time it would have started and let you break it properly.oi you2:55pm, 27th Jan 2014
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Is it the new wiper blades?!Waveydavey2:56pm, 27th Jan 2014
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Back home nowfetcheveryone The nice man wiggled the gear stick up and down enough times to convince the gear-changing motors (it's a sort of semi-automatic gearbox) that it was time to get their act together. Then he put it in neutral, and it started. Felt a bit stupid, but he says maybe one of the motors is on its way out. Then I got my hair cut, and came home, and that's where I am now.3:47pm, 27th Jan 2014
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Is it coincidence that the home page says CHECK ENGINE!minardi3:49pm, 27th Jan 2014
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The irony of that had occurred to mefetcheveryone3:51pm, 27th Jan 2014
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Glad it's sorted and that you had emergency rationsSarahWoo4:00pm, 27th Jan 2014
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Lol, a Mars a day helps you work, rest and blog while waiting for the AA. It might not scan but it does rhyme. :-)GHappyG(rrr)5:53pm, 27th Jan 2014
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Glad you got sorted. At least it broke in a place where there are facilities.GimmeMedals5:57pm, 27th Jan 2014
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But what happened to the fly?jennywren6:41pm, 27th Jan 2014
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Blimey, I didn't know tesco did haircutsFizz :-) glad you got home safely7:33pm, 27th Jan 2014
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On the plus side, at least it gave you a bit of time to write the blog - Every Little HelpsHowHardCanItBe10:27pm, 27th Jan 2014
"Dear Fetch
"We had a lovely fetchfest today in Edinburgh at Parkrun and as usual we were planning ahead, sharing past glories and of course indulging in a wee bit of chat about the site. There's always something going on within the community and you have cause to get involved much more than I am sure you'd like to if we were all acting like good girls and boys.
"I wanted to say that although it must be really tiring cautioning against use of the c word, trolling and general fetch spats there are also many more days like today that you won't get to see (lots of them) where a community and friends who would never have met had it not been for fetch and who wouldn't maintain their friendships without it. Plus you could have laughed at me squeezed into a fetch top at 34 weeks pregnant
"We had a lovely day and have had and will continue to have lots of lovely days and although you probably get involved in all sorts of nonsense 90% of 'fetch' and being a fetchie was like my day today and I wanted to share that with you
"Thank you"
Occasionally I get a message from a Fetchie that makes me smile a lot, and this is one! I'm always pleased that the site has helped in some way to help people get together, or to help with someone's training, or to give someone an outlet - and it feels like a massive privilege to be part of it. There are lots of nice people out there, more than I ever imagined there could be - and it's the combined effect of everything you all do that keeps everything here the right way up and sailing forwards. Ho ho ho and a bucket of rum
"We had a lovely fetchfest today in Edinburgh at Parkrun and as usual we were planning ahead, sharing past glories and of course indulging in a wee bit of chat about the site. There's always something going on within the community and you have cause to get involved much more than I am sure you'd like to if we were all acting like good girls and boys.
"I wanted to say that although it must be really tiring cautioning against use of the c word, trolling and general fetch spats there are also many more days like today that you won't get to see (lots of them) where a community and friends who would never have met had it not been for fetch and who wouldn't maintain their friendships without it. Plus you could have laughed at me squeezed into a fetch top at 34 weeks pregnant
"We had a lovely day and have had and will continue to have lots of lovely days and although you probably get involved in all sorts of nonsense 90% of 'fetch' and being a fetchie was like my day today and I wanted to share that with you
"Thank you"
Occasionally I get a message from a Fetchie that makes me smile a lot, and this is one! I'm always pleased that the site has helped in some way to help people get together, or to help with someone's training, or to give someone an outlet - and it feels like a massive privilege to be part of it. There are lots of nice people out there, more than I ever imagined there could be - and it's the combined effect of everything you all do that keeps everything here the right way up and sailing forwards. Ho ho ho and a bucket of rum
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You don't know the half of what you have given usnorthernslowcoach9:51pm, 26th Jan 2014
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katypie9:55pm, 26th Jan 2014
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And that reminds me exactly why *that* particular Fetchie is one my favourite people. And why I agree with her utterly about this place and what it gives. Thank you for giving us a place to beDuchess9:55pm, 26th Jan 2014
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SharonD10:09pm, 26th Jan 2014
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bigleggy sums it up pretty well10:10pm, 26th Jan 2014
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What a lovely blog, makes meminardi10:10pm, 26th Jan 2014
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phal fetch really is quite awesome 10:13pm, 26th Jan 2014
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great blog.B.10:14pm, 26th Jan 2014
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TheScribbler just brilliant. And so say all of us!10:22pm, 26th Jan 2014
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Ditto. I've had the most amazing time with someone I'd never have met if not for Fetch. Fetch really has changed my life.Meglet8:01am, 27th Jan 2014
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What a lovely message to get. She's absolutely right and I love the fact that she made the effort to write to you about it.SarahWoo8:05am, 27th Jan 2014
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Yup. True dat.jennywren9:13am, 27th Jan 2014
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Oh, nice note written by a lovely Fetchie. She knows who she is. Cake, chat and nonsense was lovely on Saturday morn. I love it when Fetchies come to visit! :-)GHappyG(rrr)9:18am, 27th Jan 2014
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Bit disappointed you don't provide any biscuits though...Mushroom10:12am, 27th Jan 2014
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Elsie Too12:34pm, 27th Jan 2014
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it was like the olden days, lots of fetchies huddled round a table .sharing seats, taking pics- and chatting about, well- fetch. i've said it before in my blogs but i thank fetch everyday for bringing me some very important and special people into my life. i thank you.santababy12:42pm, 27th Jan 2014
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Star1:28pm, 27th Jan 2014
Today we've not done a great deal. The boy played FIFA14 and Minecraft, with and without his Xbox friends, interspersed with a few meals, walking the dog, and breaks to watch TV (lots of Mythbusters, a Simpsons, a bit of The Voice (until we got bored), a bit of Splash! (until we got bored)).
Our major outing was rugby training this morning, which was chuffing cold on the whole, but the boy seemed to have fun, and is making a mud collection which we're keeping in the car. No tries for him this week, but he snagged a few tags, had a couple of nice runs, and seems to be getting the hang of staying onside and generally being pointed towards the action.
At bedtime, after our customary 15 mins of HP, I read him the first 1470 words of my story. He giggled a bit in mostly the right places, but didn't have an enormous amount to say about it, and I didn't push it. I suppose not a lot has happened yet. This could be good or bad - I think I'll have to wait and see whether he asks to hear the next part. Unnerving though that was, it was helpful to read it aloud, and to see which bits didn't feel like they were pitched right.
Tomorrow, for sanity's sake we need to get out and about more. Splash time at the swimming pool looks like a cert, and hopefully a wander down to take a look at the drained out lock.
Now I'm off to have a shave, and to pin down the dog and squirt his medication into his eyes.
Our major outing was rugby training this morning, which was chuffing cold on the whole, but the boy seemed to have fun, and is making a mud collection which we're keeping in the car. No tries for him this week, but he snagged a few tags, had a couple of nice runs, and seems to be getting the hang of staying onside and generally being pointed towards the action.
At bedtime, after our customary 15 mins of HP, I read him the first 1470 words of my story. He giggled a bit in mostly the right places, but didn't have an enormous amount to say about it, and I didn't push it. I suppose not a lot has happened yet. This could be good or bad - I think I'll have to wait and see whether he asks to hear the next part. Unnerving though that was, it was helpful to read it aloud, and to see which bits didn't feel like they were pitched right.
Tomorrow, for sanity's sake we need to get out and about more. Splash time at the swimming pool looks like a cert, and hopefully a wander down to take a look at the drained out lock.
Now I'm off to have a shave, and to pin down the dog and squirt his medication into his eyes.
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Mud collection:) Excellent.HowFar?10:33pm, 25th Jan 2014
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Don't accidentally shave the dog and squirt medicine into your own eye!fleecy10:53pm, 25th Jan 2014
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I liked the mud collection as well. Your story reading description made me think of The Crow Road (where Prentice's father tells him his stories of the mythical beasties).Dvorak12:40am, 26th Jan 2014
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Sometimes not doing a great deal is requirednorthernslowcoach10:11am, 26th Jan 2014
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Hope you managed to get out todaysallykate8:16pm, 26th Jan 2014
Hooray for my car - it needed some new wiper blades, but that was it. MOT PASS
Slept in until 7.45 this morning (I'm a big fan of the boy's new regime), but the only issue is that we then have to rush about quite a bit to get ready for school. We still managed to cram in half an episode of Mythbusters over breakfast.
Got into my running kit and took him to school, then dropped the car at the garage. The plan was to leg it up the canal path for four miles at HMP-30 pace, so 7:35. Two things got in the way of this being a perfect plan - first the watch decided to wander about the place, so that a small part of my route looked like it had been drawn by a three-year-old. Second was the muddy puddles on the path that I had to slurp my way around, over, through - but they were mainly in the first mile, so that wasn't too bad.
Luckily (or maybe not) I'd measured out the route last night, so I knew pretty much where the four mile point was - so as I sailed towards it, I knew something was up. It was a struggle to hold on until the watch called it four. When I got back to the house later, I worked out that I'd done more like 4.15, and the average pace was 7:29, so I'm really pretty pleased with it overall, although it always feels a bit annoying when you can't look at the stats properly. That's my 12th week of 4-a-week, a 29 mile week, and 0.2 away from being my biggest January ever. Tick
I ran past the lock that they are draining (hi D2) - looks interesting - I googled it, and it dates back to the industrial revolution:
nottinghampost.com
I might take the boy along this Sunday for a nosey at it.
Further up (past Sandiacre) there's a submerged boat that's been there for a week or two now, and then a bird with a long beak that seemed to be swimming mostly underwater except for its neck and head.
Last night I got a bit of writing done My overall word count is up over 2000 now. I've moved some stuff out of the first chapter into the second, and pushed the prologue back into chapter 8. So chapter 1 is now 1400 words long, and is moving steadily towards having everything in it that it'll need. Overall yesterday evening I think I added about 600 new words - so it's going to be a slow process - but I don't mind that.
Off to watch the boy do karate this evening - he's trying for his purple and white belt next week
Slept in until 7.45 this morning (I'm a big fan of the boy's new regime), but the only issue is that we then have to rush about quite a bit to get ready for school. We still managed to cram in half an episode of Mythbusters over breakfast.
Got into my running kit and took him to school, then dropped the car at the garage. The plan was to leg it up the canal path for four miles at HMP-30 pace, so 7:35. Two things got in the way of this being a perfect plan - first the watch decided to wander about the place, so that a small part of my route looked like it had been drawn by a three-year-old. Second was the muddy puddles on the path that I had to slurp my way around, over, through - but they were mainly in the first mile, so that wasn't too bad.
Luckily (or maybe not) I'd measured out the route last night, so I knew pretty much where the four mile point was - so as I sailed towards it, I knew something was up. It was a struggle to hold on until the watch called it four. When I got back to the house later, I worked out that I'd done more like 4.15, and the average pace was 7:29, so I'm really pretty pleased with it overall, although it always feels a bit annoying when you can't look at the stats properly. That's my 12th week of 4-a-week, a 29 mile week, and 0.2 away from being my biggest January ever. Tick
I ran past the lock that they are draining (hi D2) - looks interesting - I googled it, and it dates back to the industrial revolution:
nottinghampost.com
I might take the boy along this Sunday for a nosey at it.
Further up (past Sandiacre) there's a submerged boat that's been there for a week or two now, and then a bird with a long beak that seemed to be swimming mostly underwater except for its neck and head.
Last night I got a bit of writing done
My overall word count is up over 2000 now. I've moved some stuff out of the first chapter into the second, and pushed the prologue back into chapter 8. So chapter 1 is now 1400 words long, and is moving steadily towards having everything in it that it'll need. Overall yesterday evening I think I added about 600 new words - so it's going to be a slow process - but I don't mind that. Off to watch the boy do karate this evening - he's trying for his purple and white belt next week
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Will you be writing an official review of the Timex shambles any time soon? I assume it is crap, and not user error..;-)paul the builder2:57pm, 24th Jan 2014
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What's the minimum IQ for "sensible footwear"? (read the link).ChrisHB3:10pm, 24th Jan 2014
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Are you sure the long thing on the underwater bird was its own beak? Perhaps it stole a long beak from another bird, just so it could breath underwater-which would have made it a storkel.HowFar?3:48pm, 24th Jan 2014
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Could the bird have had very long legs too, so was walking on the riverbed?Alice the Camel3:57pm, 24th Jan 2014
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Lol, HowFar!fleecy3:57pm, 24th Jan 2014
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Glad you found it!D24:20pm, 24th Jan 2014
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Excellent MoT newsSarahWoo Bugger about the watch 4:30pm, 24th Jan 2014
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I like the idea of legging it, instead of simply runningGimmeMedals
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I lose signal on the canal. Only place it happens. Where did I used to do my tempos, trying to hit a specific pace? Canal, correct. Hmmm... I smell a conspiracy! :-)GHappyG(rrr)2:58pm, 26th Jan 2014
Back up to the Midlands for a weekend with the boy - and he's finally settled down to sleep.
We've had an evening of Xbox as is fairly customary, playing a mixture of FIFA 14 (he's always Barcelona, and I can still just about beat him if I get to be someone good, like Brazil, although Swansea managed to net a few this evening) and Minecraft (the cake factory I was building has now become my house, so I've embellished it with a fancy entrance, a load of bookshelves, and a secret tunnel to his house).
I emerged from the cake factory to find him building a fenced off area, and decorating it with flowers and torches and other niceness. I asked him what he was building, and he told me it was a love garden. I managed to keep a straight face. He'd made little signs with the gamer tags of some of his friends, and one in a very prominent position with "myself" written on it
Boring work news - I've been looking at the race reviews, which have been in existence for over a year now - so I've been looking at ways to generate a 'best races' list for 2013. I hope to publish that soon
Today was a running rest day, but it's back to business tomorrow, dropping the car off for its MOT (eep!) after the school run, and then doing my 4M tempo up the Erewash canal, aiming for 7:35/mile (double eep!).
I'd better not drink too much of this Rioja then. It tastes like roast beef Monster Munch anyway. I've set myself up in the back room, looking out on the darkness and rumbling trains, with the intention of doing some writing...
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We've had an evening of Xbox as is fairly customary, playing a mixture of FIFA 14 (he's always Barcelona, and I can still just about beat him if I get to be someone good, like Brazil, although Swansea managed to net a few this evening) and Minecraft (the cake factory I was building has now become my house, so I've embellished it with a fancy entrance, a load of bookshelves, and a secret tunnel to his house).
I emerged from the cake factory to find him building a fenced off area, and decorating it with flowers and torches and other niceness. I asked him what he was building, and he told me it was a love garden. I managed to keep a straight face. He'd made little signs with the gamer tags of some of his friends, and one in a very prominent position with "myself" written on it
Boring work news - I've been looking at the race reviews, which have been in existence for over a year now - so I've been looking at ways to generate a 'best races' list for 2013. I hope to publish that soon
Today was a running rest day, but it's back to business tomorrow, dropping the car off for its MOT (eep!) after the school run, and then doing my 4M tempo up the Erewash canal, aiming for 7:35/mile (double eep!).
I'd better not drink too much of this Rioja then. It tastes like roast beef Monster Munch anyway. I've set myself up in the back room, looking out on the darkness and rumbling trains, with the intention of doing some writing...
If you're a daily blogger like me, there's now a group, so that people can either (a) find you, or (b) avoid you
Here's the link: http://www.fetcheveryone.com/groups-view.php?id=1153
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I've never tried Rioja or roast beef Monster Munch so I'll have to imagine the flavour.GimmeMedals9:48pm, 23rd Jan 2014
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Roast beef monster munch are lush - but not in drinkable formnorthernslowcoach9:48pm, 23rd Jan 2014
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That perfectly sums up why I've never had a glass of Rioja I've liked.LazyDaisy
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I think you may need to invest in a better Rioja.oi you10:02pm, 23rd Jan 2014
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4.99 is my limitfetcheveryone10:09pm, 23rd Jan 2014
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I'm going through a retro Cabernet Sauvignon phase. Joe spends half his life on Minecraft, or watching Minecraft videos, I must give it a go some time.Diogenes10:17pm, 23rd Jan 2014
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Race reviews are never boring...fleecy11:45pm, 23rd Jan 2014
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I've heard they are draining a lock on that canal - might be interestingD28:14am, 24th Jan 2014
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Treat yourself to a better Rioja! Enjoy that run todaySarahWoo8:22am, 24th Jan 2014
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lol - My boy is always Barcelona toobigleggy - I play as Accrington Stanley9:30am, 24th Jan 2014
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Who are they?paul the builder9:42am, 24th Jan 2014
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Mmm, Monster Munch Rioja. What's it called?Dooogs
*target audience*
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Glad Dooogs said that: thought I was the only one who thought roast beef Monster Munch rioja sounded like something I need in my life. *wine*Iron_Mum10:51am, 24th Jan 2014
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OFFS, we need a *wine* or more specifically *redwine* icon, pls. There are times whenIron_Mum
just doesn't cut it.10:52am, 24th Jan 2014
Today we set out for our run not really knowing what the outcome would be. Katie has been battling the snot monster for a bit, but she was keen to run a bit further than our 'default' three around the lake. So my rock hard wife ended up running ten miles
For any Bedford/Sandy Fetchies who use R51, there are lots of signs up about flooding on the river cycle path - but we tried it today and aside from being a bit squelchy in a few places, it seems ok.
Our original plan was to do 13, so when Katie went back to the house, I plodded off to make my 10 up to 13 - which felt like a lot of hard work - but I'm very glad that I did it. I felt a bit ragged from about mile 8 onwards, but I didn't stop or walk once, which is a big improvement on my outing at Bedford Half (although that was much hillier to be fair). I was pleased again to keep a low heart rate throughout (except in the very last mile where I accelerated a bit because I'd had a gutsfull after two hours of running
Electrolytes! Not space dust, found only in Glucozade Port - just stuff like potassium, magnesium, sodium, and that kind of shizzle. So I had a banana, and a bagel with marmite and cheddar in it when I got home, which I reckon must have taken care of business.
I've been averaging about 3hrs of running per week for the last 12 weeks now, and I don't seem to have lost a single pound. But I like to think I've just moved it around so that it looks a bit better - like rearranging the cushions on the sofa.
Up to 83 miles for January now - my best ever is 89, and that was six years ago. Raaaar. I am PB hungry.
I finished the excellent 'England's Lane' a couple of nights ago, so now I've moved on to 'The Lost World' by Arthur Conan Doyle. I read it when I was a teenager, because my dad told me it was great. I can't remember much, but I'm enjoying his writing style so far.
There are a couple of mini-reviews on the 'Reviews' tab - the best one being for the 'H2Glow' - it's a bottle with LEDs in it. It occurred to us on our run today that we're very lucky to be able to do most of our running in the daylight. In fact I'm very lucky to be doing this job full stop
It makes me smile to hear people talking about the site becoming more like RW - because really I only speak to those guys about once every couple of months, and it's never about a 'direction' for FE, it's never much more than a social nod and getting my expenses approved. As an employee I have targets, but it's just based around 'make sure we sell X amount of advertisers', and 'make sure we get X number of people using the site'. Beyond those basic requirements that are necessary to make the site function as a business, there's nothing else, no grand plan, no hand on the puppet strings, no nothing I do what feels right, and I make my own plans for what happens next. Which feels pretty weird at times! Despite doing this as my job for seven years now, I still *always* wonder whether at some point, they'll just smack their foreheads and go "hang on a minute".
That's not a thinly-veiled request for validation from anyone, just me writing in my blog
My boy scored his first goal at Tuesday evening football last night, and he's being invested into cubs tonight
Pip pip.
For any Bedford/Sandy Fetchies who use R51, there are lots of signs up about flooding on the river cycle path - but we tried it today and aside from being a bit squelchy in a few places, it seems ok.
Our original plan was to do 13, so when Katie went back to the house, I plodded off to make my 10 up to 13 - which felt like a lot of hard work - but I'm very glad that I did it. I felt a bit ragged from about mile 8 onwards, but I didn't stop or walk once, which is a big improvement on my outing at Bedford Half (although that was much hillier to be fair). I was pleased again to keep a low heart rate throughout (except in the very last mile where I accelerated a bit because I'd had a gutsfull after two hours of running
Electrolytes! Not space dust, found only in Glucozade Port - just stuff like potassium, magnesium, sodium, and that kind of shizzle. So I had a banana, and a bagel with marmite and cheddar in it when I got home, which I reckon must have taken care of business.
I've been averaging about 3hrs of running per week for the last 12 weeks now, and I don't seem to have lost a single pound. But I like to think I've just moved it around so that it looks a bit better - like rearranging the cushions on the sofa.
Up to 83 miles for January now - my best ever is 89, and that was six years ago. Raaaar. I am PB hungry.
I finished the excellent 'England's Lane' a couple of nights ago, so now I've moved on to 'The Lost World' by Arthur Conan Doyle. I read it when I was a teenager, because my dad told me it was great. I can't remember much, but I'm enjoying his writing style so far.
There are a couple of mini-reviews on the 'Reviews' tab - the best one being for the 'H2Glow' - it's a bottle with LEDs in it. It occurred to us on our run today that we're very lucky to be able to do most of our running in the daylight. In fact I'm very lucky to be doing this job full stop
It makes me smile to hear people talking about the site becoming more like RW - because really I only speak to those guys about once every couple of months, and it's never about a 'direction' for FE, it's never much more than a social nod and getting my expenses approved. As an employee I have targets, but it's just based around 'make sure we sell X amount of advertisers', and 'make sure we get X number of people using the site'. Beyond those basic requirements that are necessary to make the site function as a business, there's nothing else, no grand plan, no hand on the puppet strings, no nothing
I do what feels right, and I make my own plans for what happens next. Which feels pretty weird at times! Despite doing this as my job for seven years now, I still *always* wonder whether at some point, they'll just smack their foreheads and go "hang on a minute". That's not a thinly-veiled request for validation from anyone, just me writing in my blog
My boy scored his first goal at Tuesday evening football last night, and he's being invested into cubs tonight
Pip pip.
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Well done that boysnogard4:27pm, 22nd Jan 2014
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I think you'll find it's 'dib dib dib', not 'pip pip'fleecy4:46pm, 22nd Jan 2014
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Does anyone ever ask you when you're going to get a proper job again?Diogenes4:46pm, 22nd Jan 2014
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Consider your existence duly validated.Argie4:56pm, 22nd Jan 2014
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well done the boyNight-owl6:34pm, 22nd Jan 2014
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I like cushions.KatieB7:17pm, 22nd Jan 2014
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Good runningnorthernslowcoach7:46pm, 22nd Jan 2014
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PleaseWatford Wobble7:48pm, 22nd Jan 2014
Today has been a much better day except that the dog has got some £5 eyedrops from the vet, which unfortunately came with £55 of fees for about ten minutes of gawping at him :-/
I've managed to get my article for RW to a place where I'm a lot happier with it. If you've got five minutes to spare, it'd be great to hear your feedback on it - here it is:
http://www.fetcheveryone.com/cms-54
I struggled around the speedwork bits, because there are so many variables to take into consideration, and it's hard to find some consistent rules that tell people what they need to do - it seems like every runner I speak to and every article I read has a different way of looking at it. So I've tried to stick with what's common across the board and suggested an approach rather than anything prescriptive. I've got a few hours before I need to send it over, so if you've got any thoughts, stick 'em down here
I had a nice run this morning - five miles along route 51, trying to keep a lid on my pace, to save my legs for whatever long run we do tomorrow (Katie's got a cold, poor thing, boo ). I tried to avoid going above 145bpm (a few ticks below 70% WHR), and I got some nice splits (8:48 8:36 8:34 8:36 8:40), which is pretty good as I'm normally seeing about 9min/mile for 150bpm
I ran in some Skechers that I've been trialling out (also for a RW review). They 'promote mid-foot strike', and are almost like wearing heels (so I'm told, by a friend), and it's hard not to feel like you're leaning forwards in them. They feel nice and bouncy to run in, but after a few consecutive runs I'd noticed my calves were grizzling at me a bit, which makes me nervous. Definitely a pair to ease into.
Off to make fish finger sandwiches.
except that the dog has got some £5 eyedrops from the vet, which unfortunately came with £55 of fees for about ten minutes of gawping at him :-/ I've managed to get my article for RW to a place where I'm a lot happier with it. If you've got five minutes to spare, it'd be great to hear your feedback on it - here it is:
http://www.fetcheveryone.com/cms-54
I struggled around the speedwork bits, because there are so many variables to take into consideration, and it's hard to find some consistent rules that tell people what they need to do - it seems like every runner I speak to and every article I read has a different way of looking at it. So I've tried to stick with what's common across the board and suggested an approach rather than anything prescriptive. I've got a few hours before I need to send it over, so if you've got any thoughts, stick 'em down here
I had a nice run this morning - five miles along route 51, trying to keep a lid on my pace, to save my legs for whatever long run we do tomorrow (Katie's got a cold, poor thing, boo
). I tried to avoid going above 145bpm (a few ticks below 70% WHR), and I got some nice splits (8:48 8:36 8:34 8:36 8:40), which is pretty good as I'm normally seeing about 9min/mile for 150bpm I ran in some Skechers that I've been trialling out (also for a RW review). They 'promote mid-foot strike', and are almost like wearing heels (so I'm told, by a friend), and it's hard not to feel like you're leaning forwards in them. They feel nice and bouncy to run in, but after a few consecutive runs I'd noticed my calves were grizzling at me a bit, which makes me nervous. Definitely a pair to ease into.
Off to make fish finger sandwiches.
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We had eyedrops like that for Cookie!Dave A2:00pm, 21st Jan 2014
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Was it like trying to pin down an eel?fetcheveryone2:01pm, 21st Jan 2014
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The RW article is a spiffing readTheScribbler Like having a friendly runner give you good advice, without talking down to you or boasting about how fast they go.2:27pm, 21st Jan 2014
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Thanks Scribsfetcheveryone2:33pm, 21st Jan 2014
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Agreed, Scribbler.Nessie2:33pm, 21st Jan 2014
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A change to mid foot striking (and it sounds like those shoes do make you do that) will play havoc on the calves to start with but they get used to it.*Anj*2:47pm, 21st Jan 2014
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We use a two prong attack, which usually results in him just shutting his eyes!Dave A2:47pm, 21st Jan 2014
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What Anj said.ChrisHB3:16pm, 21st Jan 2014
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Mmmm, fish finger sandwiches......................Angus Clydesdale4:17pm, 21st Jan 2014
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Running in heels sounds painfulfleecy4:19pm, 21st Jan 2014
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Do you mean 10% increase per month (isn't it usually per week)? If per week, then monthly might be 50% higher? e.g. 10 ->13.3 after 4 weeks, totals 46.6, but it's up to 19.5 by week 8, so month 2 (weeks 5-8) total 67.9 = 46% month to month increase? Numberwang! :-)GHappyG(rrr)4:37pm, 21st Jan 2014
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Vets fees not likey but fish finger sandwiches yummy might make some myself am hungry. Will go and read you articleNight-owl5:06pm, 21st Jan 2014
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mmmm fishfinger buttiesnorthernslowcoach7:35pm, 21st Jan 2014
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The article is fine, but I would guess you need to think who it's aimed at, if it is total beginners or maybe novices, you might need to have a bash at some suggestions for distances/recoveries as maybe they won't have a scooby, even if that is a can of worms. One of the best meals I ever had was in a pub on a freezing cold day in the lakes, an FFS!Ocelot Spleens10:06pm, 21st Jan 2014
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Good luck with eyedrops and dog - we have a compliant hound but even he thought the novelty had worn off after day two.Helegant11:40am, 22nd Jan 2014
Struggled today, couldn't get my article right. The school of running has impaled me on an innocent question - how do you train?
I did win a raffle though - some Starbucks mugs
And would any Bedfordshire Fetchies be up for submitting a Fetch team to a local pub quiz for a local runner who's fundraising? Drop me a line for details.
I did win a raffle though - some Starbucks mugs
And would any Bedfordshire Fetchies be up for submitting a Fetch team to a local pub quiz for a local runner who's fundraising? Drop me a line for details.
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There are candy canes in the mugs too, as long as Bodie doesn't find them before they get to you! Thanks for coming on Saturday, we raised just over £200.Elsie Too9:45pm, 20th Jan 2014
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Hope you got somewhere with it!fleecy8:11am, 21st Jan 2014
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Pub quiz sounds fun -can't work how to send fmail without it going to feedback ?Rosehip10:13pm, 21st Jan 2014
My sausage cat eyes have returned to normal I think
Early start this morning, 5:45 - to make tea and toast for Katie before her teaching day in Tottenham.
When she set off, I had the luxury of being able to lounge around for a bit.
Found my boy on Xbox, and we did some more Minecraft together. Under his supervision, I'm building a cake factory just across the way from his house.
Read a bit more of the Joseph Connolly book - I'm really enjoying it - his best yet Not without coincidence, I haven't played Candy Crush for about three weeks
Weird having a day off running today, especially as I've had more than enough time to go - but I've done what I planned, so I'll sit out another 24 hours with my dust cover on.
Stepsons 2 & 3 arrived in a blaze of chat, full of smiles and stories, and a big bag of Quavers, but now they've departed again for fun with their friends.
It turns out that Quavers are an agreeable substitute for sausages when it comes to dog recall training, and the luminous yellow packets act as a long distance visual aid for said pooch.
I've done a bit of work on my book today Using Scrivener (ta Fleecy) in cork-board mode, I've tried to map out the story as I see it in my head - with a few sentences (ta JenL) to represent each chapter. And I'm really quite pleased that, for the first time ever in my book writing brain, I've largely worked out where I'm going, as opposed to where I'm starting out from (ta Gimme Medals). So now I've got 17 (ta JKR) brick outhouses, rather than one impenetrable brick fortress (ta Robert Pirsig). There's no doubt that what I still need to do is get on and write it (ta Dubois and PH), but it IS actually feeling achievable now. Ta everyone
Early start this morning, 5:45 - to make tea and toast for Katie before her teaching day in Tottenham.
When she set off, I had the luxury of being able to lounge around for a bit.
Found my boy on Xbox, and we did some more Minecraft together. Under his supervision, I'm building a cake factory just across the way from his house.
Read a bit more of the Joseph Connolly book - I'm really enjoying it - his best yet
Not without coincidence, I haven't played Candy Crush for about three weeks Weird having a day off running today, especially as I've had more than enough time to go - but I've done what I planned, so I'll sit out another 24 hours with my dust cover on.
Stepsons 2 & 3 arrived in a blaze of chat, full of smiles and stories, and a big bag of Quavers, but now they've departed again for fun with their friends.
It turns out that Quavers are an agreeable substitute for sausages when it comes to dog recall training, and the luminous yellow packets act as a long distance visual aid for said pooch.
I've done a bit of work on my book today
Using Scrivener (ta Fleecy) in cork-board mode, I've tried to map out the story as I see it in my head - with a few sentences (ta JenL) to represent each chapter. And I'm really quite pleased that, for the first time ever in my book writing brain, I've largely worked out where I'm going, as opposed to where I'm starting out from (ta Gimme Medals). So now I've got 17 (ta JKR) brick outhouses, rather than one impenetrable brick fortress (ta Robert Pirsig). There's no doubt that what I still need to do is get on and write it (ta Dubois and PH), but it IS actually feeling achievable now. Ta everyone
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So you've given up candy crush, but you talking about it on here got me to try it and now I'm addictedElsie Too5:28pm, 19th Jan 2014
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If it helps, I did the same to Katiefetcheveryone5:34pm, 19th Jan 2014
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Book writing sounds exciting. And thank you to you for reminding me about Catch 22. I'm throughly enjoying re-reading itGimmeMedals5:57pm, 19th Jan 2014
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Good progress with the booknorthernslowcoach6:29pm, 19th Jan 2014
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ExcellentSarahWoo6:36pm, 19th Jan 2014
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Gosh, such productivity on the book front! I have 2 book ideas in my head and have done precisely fuck all with them in the last year, even though they're good ideas: I ought to take inspiration from you!fleecy8:19pm, 19th Jan 2014
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I have deleted CC off my Kindle which surprised me when I went to play it last night. I can't actually remember deleting it but after umpeen tries at level 88 (the triangle of liquorice) I decided I had better things to do. Great start to the book.Nightjar12:33pm, 20th Jan 2014
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Your breakfast making made me smile.RuthB25:30am, 21st Jan 2014
My bluetooth thingummy for our music dock has arrived safely from China.
It cost a fiver, and it's a little block of plastic with probably no more than tuppence of electronics inside it - but it sits on the iPod dock, and acts as a bluetooth receiver, getting its power from the dock. The connector has gotten really wiggly and intermittent, but now I can wedge this new thing into a working position, and never have to fiddle with it again. So I'm sitting at the kitchen table with iTunes open, getting it to play tunes, and I'm very happy with my mastery of the wireless world
Last night after taking the boy back to his mums I went with Katie to sit with youngest stepson at his dads house, and we had a nice time watching Super 8. My first time watching it, and I really enjoyed it - like a modern-day goonies (but set in the seventies).
The only down side was that the cat realised I was allergic, and came to sit on my lap for a large portion of the evening. By the time we were ready to come back home, I was sniffy and a bit wheezy, and by the time we went up to bed, my eyes were itching like hell, and I had to keep them closed. This morning they were a bit better, but still swollen up, and only now getting back to normal.
But anyway, I don't mind that at all, because we've both had a really good parkrun today! For me, the goal was HMP-30s, which means about 7:35/mile. The mile splits on the watch were 7:28,7:30,7:27, with the last 0.1 at something like 6:05/mile as I heard the approaching footsteps of the kid I'd gone past at the top of the hill as he launched his sprint
So I was a little bit quicker than the plan, but I'm absolutely delighted with the way I managed to hold onto the pace throughout. It's quite a way off my PB (21:31 in 2008), and not even as fast as I ran last year, but as a controlled effort, it felt like everything went right. The next step with the speedwork is to do some four mile versions of that pace (where I might not be so keen to take up so much slack as I did today!).
We celebrated with bacon sandwiches and tea as part of a fundraiser at Oakley pre-school, with a very helpful waiter My sole regret was that I didn't get to try the intriguingly titled 'Hot Re-fills' advertised on the kitchen noticeboard.
A lazy afternoon planned with a little wander around at some point
It cost a fiver, and it's a little block of plastic with probably no more than tuppence of electronics inside it - but it sits on the iPod dock, and acts as a bluetooth receiver, getting its power from the dock. The connector has gotten really wiggly and intermittent, but now I can wedge this new thing into a working position, and never have to fiddle with it again. So I'm sitting at the kitchen table with iTunes open, getting it to play tunes, and I'm very happy with my mastery of the wireless world
Last night after taking the boy back to his mums
I went with Katie to sit with youngest stepson at his dads house, and we had a nice time watching Super 8. My first time watching it, and I really enjoyed it - like a modern-day goonies (but set in the seventies). The only down side was that the cat realised I was allergic, and came to sit on my lap for a large portion of the evening. By the time we were ready to come back home, I was sniffy and a bit wheezy, and by the time we went up to bed, my eyes were itching like hell, and I had to keep them closed. This morning they were a bit better, but still swollen up, and only now getting back to normal.
But anyway, I don't mind that at all, because we've both had a really good parkrun today! For me, the goal was HMP-30s, which means about 7:35/mile. The mile splits on the watch were 7:28,7:30,7:27, with the last 0.1 at something like 6:05/mile as I heard the approaching footsteps of the kid I'd gone past at the top of the hill as he launched his sprint
So I was a little bit quicker than the plan, but I'm absolutely delighted with the way I managed to hold onto the pace throughout. It's quite a way off my PB (21:31 in 2008), and not even as fast as I ran last year, but as a controlled effort, it felt like everything went right. The next step with the speedwork is to do some four mile versions of that pace (where I might not be so keen to take up so much slack as I did today!).
We celebrated with bacon sandwiches and tea as part of a fundraiser at Oakley pre-school, with a very helpful waiter
My sole regret was that I didn't get to try the intriguingly titled 'Hot Re-fills' advertised on the kitchen noticeboard. A lazy afternoon planned with a little wander around at some point
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Cats just know who is allergic to them. Next time take antihistamines! Great running!:)Garfield2:12pm, 18th Jan 2014
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Impressively consistent pacing.GimmeMedals2:34pm, 18th Jan 2014
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Great running. Could you post a link to the iPod Dock thing please. Want one!VicksterH11:17am, 19th Jan 2014
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Here you go: amazon.co.uk - it seems pretty good so far. I'm sitting about 2.5 metres away from the dock at the moment, and the sound quality seems very good. It's not great at going through walls or round corners, but for a fiver it seems like a bargain. Also, it took a few weeks to come.fetcheveryone12:09pm, 19th Jan 2014
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I'm a bit allergic to my cat and get "the eyes"; and a find a tablet of Loratadine sorts it out (generally non-sedating and available very cheaply as a generic).Dvorak for the HMP - 40s at parkrun.4:04pm, 19th Jan 2014
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Best reward for runningnorthernslowcoach6:30pm, 19th Jan 2014
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That's a good tempo run. Increasing that to 4, 5 and 6 miles is great training for speed endurance. Good work. Super 8 is fun, isn't it? Cats (and dogs) know and always want to sit on me. I've got bluetooth thing for 10 quid from somewhere, which makes phone talk to car stereo, so I can listen to Marathon Talk and WHW podcasts while driving! :-)GHappyG(rrr)7:05pm, 19th Jan 2014
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We used to have a friend with a cat phobia. The cat made a beeline for him every visitfleecy8:17pm, 19th Jan 2014
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Nice steady splits. Will try harder to keep up next time!Nightjar12:36pm, 20th Jan 2014
The boy is doing very well with his new regime of sleeping in 'til 7:45, although it means that (as we need to be out of the door by 8:35) we've got a lot to fit in, particularly when it involves 15 minutes of Xbox and his ritualistic cuddle with Stephen. When I say 'ritualistic cuddle', I mean it happens every morning - there are no altars or ram's blood.
Today I've been poking around with the 'glasses' view on the training log. You won't see any difference at the moment, because it's all still safely confined to my test machine - but it's been in need of a makeover for a while now I think. One thing that I can tell you will definitely change is that it won't automatically generate a listing in your 'routes' any more. Instead there'll be a button on the glasses view that says "save this as a route". My 'routes' list is an endless list of 'Imported from your watch on 2014-XX-XX' blah, and frankly I never look at them, so they're a bit of a waste of space and server power.
There are some other changes too. The text that gets generated in the 'notes' field will be cut down a bit - instead you'll get some nice visuals to look at, showing you the percentage of time spent in different pace zones, HR zones, power zones (for bikers), etc. And because some of you like to have a look at other people's training, a few of these graphs will be available on their profiles too.
Beyond that, it's just a bit of shuffling around - moving the more useful things to the top etc. I do have the go-ahead to spend some money getting a better graph tool (up to £250), so I might hold the changes back until I've got somewhere with that too. All in all, it's also one of those changes that I get a bit nervous about, because it's a core feature. And yet, there's pretty much no change to the underlying data - so it's not like I'm stealing Christmas
Looking forward to seeing the lovely Katie this evening - and hoping it doesn't rain too much tomorrow morning
Today I've been poking around with the 'glasses' view on the training log. You won't see any difference at the moment, because it's all still safely confined to my test machine - but it's been in need of a makeover for a while now I think. One thing that I can tell you will definitely change is that it won't automatically generate a listing in your 'routes' any more. Instead there'll be a button on the glasses view that says "save this as a route". My 'routes' list is an endless list of 'Imported from your watch on 2014-XX-XX' blah, and frankly I never look at them, so they're a bit of a waste of space and server power.
There are some other changes too. The text that gets generated in the 'notes' field will be cut down a bit - instead you'll get some nice visuals to look at, showing you the percentage of time spent in different pace zones, HR zones, power zones (for bikers), etc. And because some of you like to have a look at other people's training, a few of these graphs will be available on their profiles too.
Beyond that, it's just a bit of shuffling around - moving the more useful things to the top etc. I do have the go-ahead to spend some money getting a better graph tool (up to £250), so I might hold the changes back until I've got somewhere with that too. All in all, it's also one of those changes that I get a bit nervous about, because it's a core feature. And yet, there's pretty much no change to the underlying data - so it's not like I'm stealing Christmas
Looking forward to seeing the lovely Katie this evening - and hoping it doesn't rain too much tomorrow morning
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Just change it and see, how fucked up it can get? Garmin is fucked so you would be in good company.Argie3:04pm, 17th Jan 2014
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What the LHT said.GregP3:21pm, 17th Jan 2014
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You have a test machine ?? Does that mean we are no longer your smoking monkeys ??bigleggy4:14pm, 17th Jan 2014
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Could you give us a quick option to rename a route when we've run it, and take that as an indication that we want it stored?ChrisHB5:40pm, 17th Jan 2014
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Does that mean we won't have to save the route for Fetchpoint on a Garmin download?Lalli5:59pm, 17th Jan 2014
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Lalli's question is absolutely crucial.RevBarbaraG7:05pm, 17th Jan 2014
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And what about Conquercise? I'm in 10th and I want every footstep, cycle track and indeed aeroplane flight to count.McGoohan8:33pm, 17th Jan 2014
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If you upload from a GPS (whether that's the Garmin multiple upload thing, or an individual TCX/GPX/PWX/FIT etc), it will all work out for your Conquercise and Fetchpoint scoring. You won't need to generate a route as well.fetcheveryone
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Like the sound of the changes.Nightjar12:38pm, 20th Jan 2014
Reaaaaaaalllly tired tonight. I think it may be delayed onset long run tiredness.
I'm up with the boy, so I'm sitting at the desk in the back bedroom, looking out of the window into near darkness. The only lights come from the old mill-sort-of-thing (converted to snazzy apartments), and a handful of streetlights in the distance, and the occasional passing train.
The trains have become a reassuring noise now - mostly long ones with big nuggety tanks with graffiti on the sides - but occasionally things light up when there's a passenger train (but I think that only happens when this line gets pressed into action). Twenty years from now (if they ever stop talking, and start building) it'll be HS2, close enough for me to wave at the driver.
I was thinking a few days ago about the fact that it's now ten years since Fetch began. I'm pinning down the official day as September 5th, as this was when I did my first race, and first started using the site to share pics and whatnot.
More interestingly still, it's also twenty years ago this October since I moved out of the family home and out of Wales, and started university life in Bristol - an event which I feel was also a very significant point in my life.
And even more coincidental still, it's thirty years ago this November since my family moved into the house that is very much still our home in the valleys. Over the last few years, I've come to realise just how lucky I was to have that lovely environment to grow up in.
Forty years ago? I wasn't even a twinkle By my reckoning, if I'm to keep the trend going, something pretty cool will happen this August.
Lights out for the boy, and his latest delaying tactic is to ask me for a 'word of the day' - something he's never heard of. My tired brain first made it to 'consternation', but he asked for a funny one, so it was a short leap from there to 'constipation'. He asked me what it meant, so I said that it means you have trouble going for a poo. He laughed at that, and then asked me what sort of trouble people get into. I was trying to explain about getting 'bunged up', but he was far more taken with the idea that a person might fall over and break their leg whilst going up the stairs to the bathroom.
I'm up with the boy, so I'm sitting at the desk in the back bedroom, looking out of the window into near darkness. The only lights come from the old mill-sort-of-thing (converted to snazzy apartments), and a handful of streetlights in the distance, and the occasional passing train.
The trains have become a reassuring noise now - mostly long ones with big nuggety tanks with graffiti on the sides - but occasionally things light up when there's a passenger train (but I think that only happens when this line gets pressed into action). Twenty years from now (if they ever stop talking, and start building) it'll be HS2, close enough for me to wave at the driver.
I was thinking a few days ago about the fact that it's now ten years since Fetch began. I'm pinning down the official day as September 5th, as this was when I did my first race, and first started using the site to share pics and whatnot.
More interestingly still, it's also twenty years ago this October since I moved out of the family home and out of Wales, and started university life in Bristol - an event which I feel was also a very significant point in my life.
And even more coincidental still, it's thirty years ago this November since my family moved into the house that is very much still our home in the valleys. Over the last few years, I've come to realise just how lucky I was to have that lovely environment to grow up in.
Forty years ago? I wasn't even a twinkle
By my reckoning, if I'm to keep the trend going, something pretty cool will happen this August. Lights out for the boy, and his latest delaying tactic is to ask me for a 'word of the day' - something he's never heard of. My tired brain first made it to 'consternation', but he asked for a funny one, so it was a short leap from there to 'constipation'. He asked me what it meant, so I said that it means you have trouble going for a poo. He laughed at that, and then asked me what sort of trouble people get into. I was trying to explain about getting 'bunged up', but he was far more taken with the idea that a person might fall over and break their leg whilst going up the stairs to the bathroom.
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[Tilts head.] Erm ... do you and the lovely Mrs Fetch have news for us, by any chance?Velociraptor9:12pm, 16th Jan 2014
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Loving the way the boys mind works.Elsie Too9:19pm, 16th Jan 2014
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The boy sounds very logicalnorthernslowcoach9:27pm, 16th Jan 2014
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Of course something pretty cool will happen this August, my birthday! A big one at that so I better start planning a celebrationMrs Jigs (Luverlylegs)9:37pm, 16th Jan 2014
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Angus Clydesdale V'rap!!9:39pm, 16th Jan 2014
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Dh went to uni in Bristol. I was trying to work out whether you may have met, but he's 42 so that's unlikely. If you had to hurdle a desiccated pile of vomit somewhere in Redlands in your first year I apologise on his behalffleecy9:55pm, 16th Jan 2014
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You can't kid Dr Dino!CStar9:44pm, 17th Jan 2014
*WARNING* Contains endless half marathon speculation, lists of numbers and self-obsession. Best avoided by all but the very bored or the very interested.
This morning we set out at 8.15 to do our longest run for a while (12 miles). If you exclude my outing at Bedford Half (which was more like a series of Bear Grylls out-takes after mile 10), it's our longest run since last year's Bath Half. I've been comparing my build-up so far with last time, and starting to think about what I can do in the last 6.5 weeks before this year's race to give me the best chance of an actual PB.
Overall Mileage
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In the 17 weeks preceding last year's race, I ran 254 miles. This year, having done 10.5 of the weeks, I've run 213 miles. In the remaining 6.5 weeks, I should manage at least 120 miles, maybe even a bit more - so I'm looking at 333 miles overall.
Long Runs
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Last year, five long runs totalling 58.7 miles, and a longest of 14.3.
Currently I'm up to 57.7, longest of 12, with the intention of taking the longest one up to 15, so I should get 65 for the five.
Speed Work
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Last time I did two interval sessions, but they were both a good 15 weeks before the race, so their effect is probably negligible. I also did 14 miles spread over four faster runs (5 @ HMP-10, and a 3.5, a 3 and a 2 @ HMP).
This time, I've got no interval sessions to point at, and so far a total of 9 miles of faster runs (3M @ HMP, 3 @ HMP-10, and 3 @ HMP-20).
Heart Rate
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I've been tracking my beats per mile figures as I've been training. In the first four weeks of November, my average beats per mile was 1420. In the next four weeks, it was 1386. Since then I'm averaging 1327, so things are looking up in terms of cardio.
GOALS
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1) Long runs - need to fit a 13, a 14 and a 15 into the remaining 6 weeks.
2) Speed work - I'd like to manage 3-4 runs of 4 miles at HMP-30 (so something like 7:35/mile, thanks Jen and Katie). I might find out at this Saturday's parkrun how realistic that is.
3) One longer fast session of say 8 miles at HMP, just as a sort of rehearsal.
4) Stick with four runs a week, but get all the harder stuff done in time to settle back to a relaxed 3 x 3 milers on the week of the race.
5) Remember safety pins.
EDIT:
6) Don't die.
This morning we set out at 8.15 to do our longest run for a while (12 miles). If you exclude my outing at Bedford Half (which was more like a series of Bear Grylls out-takes after mile 10), it's our longest run since last year's Bath Half. I've been comparing my build-up so far with last time, and starting to think about what I can do in the last 6.5 weeks before this year's race to give me the best chance of an actual PB.
Overall Mileage
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In the 17 weeks preceding last year's race, I ran 254 miles. This year, having done 10.5 of the weeks, I've run 213 miles. In the remaining 6.5 weeks, I should manage at least 120 miles, maybe even a bit more - so I'm looking at 333 miles overall.
Long Runs
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Last year, five long runs totalling 58.7 miles, and a longest of 14.3.
Currently I'm up to 57.7, longest of 12, with the intention of taking the longest one up to 15, so I should get 65 for the five.
Speed Work
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Last time I did two interval sessions, but they were both a good 15 weeks before the race, so their effect is probably negligible. I also did 14 miles spread over four faster runs (5 @ HMP-10, and a 3.5, a 3 and a 2 @ HMP).
This time, I've got no interval sessions to point at, and so far a total of 9 miles of faster runs (3M @ HMP, 3 @ HMP-10, and 3 @ HMP-20).
Heart Rate
=======
I've been tracking my beats per mile figures as I've been training. In the first four weeks of November, my average beats per mile was 1420. In the next four weeks, it was 1386. Since then I'm averaging 1327, so things are looking up in terms of cardio.
GOALS
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1) Long runs - need to fit a 13, a 14 and a 15 into the remaining 6 weeks.
2) Speed work - I'd like to manage 3-4 runs of 4 miles at HMP-30 (so something like 7:35/mile, thanks Jen and Katie). I might find out at this Saturday's parkrun how realistic that is.
3) One longer fast session of say 8 miles at HMP, just as a sort of rehearsal.
4) Stick with four runs a week, but get all the harder stuff done in time to settle back to a relaxed 3 x 3 milers on the week of the race.
5) Remember safety pins.
EDIT:
6) Don't die.
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Before I read the Goals bit I was going to suggest parkrun at race pace. Or maybe even a 10k at race pace to prepare.Dave A12:58pm, 15th Jan 2014
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HMP - 30s might be a bit quick? My HMP - 30s would be quicker than my 5K pace. And you are doing it for 6.4K! But maybe your 5K is much quicker than your HM (relatively)? I think intervals at 5K pace (6 x 400, 4 x 800, 3 x 1k etc.) are good too? :-)GHappyG(rrr)12:59pm, 15th Jan 2014
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You might die, or you might get a parkrun PBfleecy1:36pm, 15th Jan 2014
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I'd be really pleased if he didn't die.KatieB2:29pm, 15th Jan 2014
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I'd be really pleased if he didn't die.KatieB2:29pm, 15th Jan 2014
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I've put it as one of my goals.fetcheveryone2:41pm, 15th Jan 2014
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Cor, speedy speed-work! Nice planning.Lalli2:59pm, 15th Jan 2014
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In my experience, it doesn't matter if you forget your safety pins. There are usually some around somewhereDrell10:08pm, 15th Jan 2014
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Yes, someone always has safety pins! When I did the Wokingham half 2 years ago a friend's husband had brought along a whole fucking tin of the things, I had to run fast to get away from the noise it made!fleecy9:57pm, 16th Jan 2014
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I wrote some statto blogs leading up to a HM. Lost all my readersDvorak I also did more distance (if not as far on individual runs and in total) but possibly slightly too much, too close to the race. And the race didn't quite work out (hopefully yours will), but I ran really well a month afterwards. HM pace minus 30s sounds fine to me over parkrun.1:41am, 17th Jan 2014
Five minutes to blog, whilst I wait for Katie to finish with her last client of the evening. I'm in charge of the cooking (cabbage and bacon with pasta), and thus far I've managed to avoid burning anything, although some of the pine nuts are a wee bit singed.
I ran with the dog today - the first time since his haircut - and it's made all the difference when it comes to getting him clean again. It was a little drier and less muddier out than it has been, but with his big woolly coat, he would have brought most of it back home. A quick wipe, and he was pretty much ready to be reintegrated into society.
As you might have seen, Fleecy's article is now live on the home page - and I'm very pleased to see that it's been well received. It's a big help to have something plopped in my lap that's pretty much good to go - and lets me get into that precious state of being Ahead Of The Game. I have two more articles nearly ready, which all helps to keep the home page nice and fresh.
I've downloaded Scrivener on a free trial, and I can see how it can be helpful to be able to home all one's snippets in a manageable way. I've got some money left over from Father Christmas, so if it works out, I can see myself shelling out the £30 for the full version. What I *don't* want to do, is spend more time fiddling with software, so in a way, I'm trying not to explore it *too* much just yet.
Right, time to get the pasta on. Twelve miles for me and K tomorrow morning. Pip pip.
I ran with the dog today - the first time since his haircut - and it's made all the difference when it comes to getting him clean again. It was a little drier and less muddier out than it has been, but with his big woolly coat, he would have brought most of it back home. A quick wipe, and he was pretty much ready to be reintegrated into society.
As you might have seen, Fleecy's article is now live on the home page - and I'm very pleased to see that it's been well received. It's a big help to have something plopped in my lap that's pretty much good to go - and lets me get into that precious state of being Ahead Of The Game. I have two more articles nearly ready, which all helps to keep the home page nice and fresh.
I've downloaded Scrivener on a free trial, and I can see how it can be helpful to be able to home all one's snippets in a manageable way. I've got some money left over from Father Christmas, so if it works out, I can see myself shelling out the £30 for the full version. What I *don't* want to do, is spend more time fiddling with software, so in a way, I'm trying not to explore it *too* much just yet.
Right, time to get the pasta on. Twelve miles for me and K tomorrow morning. Pip pip.
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Enjoy - that's the pasta and the 12 milesNight-owl6:43pm, 14th Jan 2014
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Hope the long run tomorrow goes well.Ness7:11pm, 14th Jan 2014
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We've got a shaggy dog (who, incidentally, tells great long stories) so I feel your pain. There used to be an advert on telly where a muddy dog jumps in the car and shaks all over it - we had that too. One of my oppos has an 'in' with a dog groomer; might see if I can get mate's rates.Angus Clydesdale Enjoy your 12, I'm aiming for 6.7:12pm, 14th Jan 2014
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A wipe down Steve, a carpet friendlynorthernslowcoach
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Thank you for reminding me that I have cabbage to use this weeksallykate11:42pm, 14th Jan 2014
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Thanks for the fame and fortune, fetchfleecy I know what you mean about Scrivener, there is probably lots of messing about with it you could waste lots of time on. However, it's pretty simple and intuitive to use, so you can just use it to structure stuff, write up little chunks here and there and cobble together bits and then move them round. Easier than using Word anyway 11:45pm, 14th Jan 2014
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Off to read Fleecey's articleDiogenes6:30am, 15th Jan 2014
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We have a boxer. *smug face*paul the builder9:23am, 15th Jan 2014
A working day that seemed to whizz by. I've been poking around at an article put together by Fleecy, which should be coming to the home page tomorrow - it's all about setting and achieving goals. I think it's good, thought provoking, and I'm also interested to see the responses it'll produce, in terms of how people choose and attack their goals - and hopefully it'll help a few people.
I've also been doing some stat gathering on marathon training for an article for next week, and I also have one prepared for the week after that, with some basic stuff about recovery. It was written for RW, and is the fifth of the monthly ones I've been doing for them. I've got one more to write - it's all about putting everything together - how to bring together speed training, long runs, recovery, analysis, training plans - so just a sort of general guidelines thing. Any input appreciated, otherwise I might be reaching a bit
This evening we caught up to episode 4 of The Bridge and Comic Relief Bake Off - and we ate chocolate and beef stew and drank red wine.
Book thoughts. Undoubtedly, I'm a Harry Potter fan. I looked up the word count of The Philosopher's Stone - approximately 75,000 words, in 17 chapters - which is about 4,500 words per chapter. I know it's not about copying anyone else, and I'm certainly not aiming to produce a seven book world-famous wizarding trilogy, I'm just looking to make a framework, to give me a way to smash the monolithic wall into smaller bits, so I can find my bricks, and start putting them together the way I want.
I have a 368 word prologue, and I've cobbled together 1238 words of a first chapter. I know what needs to go in it, so I'm forgetting about the rest for now, and treating it as a short story in itself, wandering around it, thinking about which bits to flesh out, seeing which bits start to annoy me, and reading it aloud (in my head). If it takes me a month or more, I've got no problem with that.
Off to bed to continue with the Connolly!
I've also been doing some stat gathering on marathon training for an article for next week, and I also have one prepared for the week after that, with some basic stuff about recovery. It was written for RW, and is the fifth of the monthly ones I've been doing for them. I've got one more to write - it's all about putting everything together - how to bring together speed training, long runs, recovery, analysis, training plans - so just a sort of general guidelines thing. Any input appreciated, otherwise I might be reaching a bit
This evening we caught up to episode 4 of The Bridge
and Comic Relief Bake Off - and we ate chocolate and beef stew and drank red wine. Book thoughts. Undoubtedly, I'm a Harry Potter fan. I looked up the word count of The Philosopher's Stone - approximately 75,000 words, in 17 chapters - which is about 4,500 words per chapter. I know it's not about copying anyone else, and I'm certainly not aiming to produce a seven book world-famous wizarding trilogy, I'm just looking to make a framework, to give me a way to smash the monolithic wall into smaller bits, so I can find my bricks, and start putting them together the way I want.
I have a 368 word prologue, and I've cobbled together 1238 words of a first chapter. I know what needs to go in it, so I'm forgetting about the rest for now, and treating it as a short story in itself, wandering around it, thinking about which bits to flesh out, seeing which bits start to annoy me, and reading it aloud (in my head). If it takes me a month or more, I've got no problem with that.
Off to bed to continue with the Connolly!
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Comic Relief Bake Off was funny. I was once told (I can't remember by whom, so it could have been a writer or a bloke down the pub with a whippet) that you need to know how your story will end before you decide what will happen in it. That way you know where you are heading.GimmeMedals10:16pm, 13th Jan 2014
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Remember you don't have to write it linearly from start to end. Start with headings that go in the approximate direction of the story you want to tell but they don;t have to stay in that order if you decide you need to change things as the story develops. Then write the events and episodes as they occur to you and put each into its own clearly-labelled file so you can retrieve them when you get to the organisation stage. You'll be surprised how fast the words stack up. then you can start joining the sections together like a jigsaw. Experiment with the order of things and try sticking sections together in different ways. Duplication is okay as long as you keep your labelling systematic to prevent repetition in the finished product. Good luckJenL
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Watford Wobble10:57pm, 13th Jan 2014
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Check out Scrivener for helping to put a draft together, lots of writers like it and you can have a free trial to see if it's your cup offleecy
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Write it all now. Finesse it later. That way you'll feel you've broken the back of the work when the tricky part is just starting.Dubois7:52am, 14th Jan 2014
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Just write.Every day.Dont edit, dont read backplodding hippo
this is why nano is so useful
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Cross post with Dubois.I totally agreeplodding hippo7:57am, 14th Jan 2014
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Thanks for the advice and suggestions everyone. I do like the idea of building up nuggets of stuff for here and there in the story - and I'm going to take a look at Scrivener. As far as Writing vs Editing, I'm probably somewhere in the middle - I've had a couple of sessions of writing, and another session of going back and poking around. Word count - I'm not intending to be too rigid - but for now it's helped me cut a piece out of the puzzle, and made it seem within reach - which in turn makes it all seem within reach. More to comefetcheveryone11:21am, 14th Jan 2014
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Every now and again you get a blog come along where the comments on the blog are as good as the blog itself. This is one of them.bigleggy
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If you need a critical reader, I can be thatJenL1:21pm, 14th Jan 2014
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Ooh, you're really writing a real book. Good luck. Also, please can you keep us posted on how you go about trying to get it published. I have a pal who has written a couple of books, but had trouble getting them published. She's now doing daily poems, to build up a FB and twitter following. She has put them together as a book and it's for sale on Amazon as a Kindle book. Will be interesting to see if your publishing contacts (?!) can help you!HappyG(rrr)
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Yep - it's both parts in onefetcheveryone
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northernslowcoach5:49pm, 14th Jan 2014
Sometimes, everything comes together nicely.
I started writing my blog more regularly because I'd enjoyed a year of reading more, and I've also been tempted to try writing a book myself. The first book I've read this year is called England's Lane, by an author called Joseph Connolly - I've been following his fiction writing for about 15 years now.
I tweeted a few days ago to see if anyone else is a fan of his - and today I got a reply in the affirmative, from his son Charles aka @chazhands
It turns out that Charles is a musician, and has spent the last year putting together an album of his work. I promised him that I'd share a link to it on my blog, and in turn, he's going to tell his dad I said hello
Here's the link:
soundcloud.com
Please (if you can) go and check it out, befriend, leave comments, do all the social stuff - and check out his dad's books too - I enjoy reading them.
Hello Charles and Joseph - and thank you for all your creative inspiration
I started writing my blog more regularly because I'd enjoyed a year of reading more, and I've also been tempted to try writing a book myself. The first book I've read this year is called England's Lane, by an author called Joseph Connolly - I've been following his fiction writing for about 15 years now.
I tweeted a few days ago to see if anyone else is a fan of his - and today I got a reply in the affirmative, from his son Charles aka @chazhands
It turns out that Charles is a musician, and has spent the last year putting together an album of his work. I promised him that I'd share a link to it on my blog, and in turn, he's going to tell his dad I said hello
Here's the link:
soundcloud.com
Please (if you can) go and check it out, befriend, leave comments, do all the social stuff - and check out his dad's books too - I enjoy reading them.
Hello Charles and Joseph - and thank you for all your creative inspiration
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Coolfleecy12:01am, 13th Jan 2014
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The beauty of social networkingGimmeMedals5:30am, 13th Jan 2014
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Oooh - sort of electro/dance/jazz. Quirky.GregP7:02am, 13th Jan 2014
Today has been a full-on day with the boy, starting with a wake up call from him at ten to eight (this is very good - he's only just started to move away from his metronomic 7am starting pistol approach). My email inbox contained a note to say that this morning's rugby had been cancelled due to a waterlogged pitch, so we took a further six hours to complete our transformation from pyjamas to clothes. The boy has a growing collection of friends from school who have Xbox accounts, so he ran around TNT'ing stuff and making up games with complicated rules that never quite got played. I think that's the point, isn't it?
Following my book-talk the other day, I dug through some of my old junk, and found the 'forgotten manuscript and unfinished classic' - "The Time Trekkers" written by me in 1988 as it turns out. It's quite sweet, particularly where it lists the computers that the protagonist owns (he takes a BBC Micro with him when they go time travelling), and the many details I'd poached from my own life as a 12-year-old boy.
With the day dragging, and nearing kill o'clock, I think we both needed to get out and do something, so we went to our local swimming pool. It's been a few years since we were there last. More recently, we've tended towards jazzy pools with slides and interactive stuff - so it was weird in a lovely way to see my boy looking so outsized and confident in the big pool. He asked why we didn't go into the teaching pool as usual, and I pointed out (with shock) that all the kids in there were so small.
Following up on some comments on yesterday's blog, here's the before:
and the after:
Stephen is a bit complicated. His mum is a cockapoo (half cocker spaniel, half poodle), and his dad is a labradoodle (half labrador, half poodle). We call him a cobradoodle. Or Steve.
Following my book-talk the other day, I dug through some of my old junk, and found the 'forgotten manuscript and unfinished classic' - "The Time Trekkers" written by me in 1988 as it turns out. It's quite sweet, particularly where it lists the computers that the protagonist owns (he takes a BBC Micro with him when they go time travelling), and the many details I'd poached from my own life as a 12-year-old boy.
With the day dragging, and nearing kill o'clock, I think we both needed to get out and do something, so we went to our local swimming pool. It's been a few years since we were there last. More recently, we've tended towards jazzy pools with slides and interactive stuff - so it was weird in a lovely way to see my boy looking so outsized and confident in the big pool. He asked why we didn't go into the teaching pool as usual, and I pointed out (with shock) that all the kids in there were so small.
Following up on some comments on yesterday's blog, here's the before:
and the after:
Stephen is a bit complicated. His mum is a cockapoo (half cocker spaniel, half poodle), and his dad is a labradoodle (half labrador, half poodle). We call him a cobradoodle. Or Steve.
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Am I wrong in preferring the before? I love a shaggy dog storyminardi10:23pm, 11th Jan 2014
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Whatever kind of poodoodle he is, he's very cute!Irontubs10:24pm, 11th Jan 2014
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Think I prefer the before Steve toonorthernslowcoach10:25pm, 11th Jan 2014
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I agree - he looks lovely with a shaggy coat - but unfortunately he gets matted up, so it's not so comfortable for him - and when we take him for a run, the mud goes into his longer hair and doesn't shift easily. So a month or so with a short coat will really help our motivation when it comes to taking him out when it's wet and muddy, and it helps him too.fetcheveryone10:32pm, 11th Jan 2014
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I love Steve😃Watford Wobble10:45pm, 11th Jan 2014
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I loveLalli Steve, too. 11:05pm, 11th Jan 2014
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I think Steve seems very proud of his new look.GimmeMedals11:28pm, 11th Jan 2014
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I like catsDiogenes12:18am, 12th Jan 2014
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He is lovelyNight-owl5:59am, 12th Jan 2014
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Awwwww...lovely!:)Garfield7:29am, 12th Jan 2014
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Steve is very sweet, both before and afterLazyDaisy8:05am, 12th Jan 2014
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Just don't let him Skype his friends through the XBox. Before you know it you will have some random kid's voice talking through your telly and you realising you've never met them and worrying about saying fuck in your own house! Most disconcertingfleecy8:10am, 12th Jan 2014
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BBC micro! How times have changed.Alice the Camel8:29am, 12th Jan 2014
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cant believe how boy is growing up! where did the time go?D210:23am, 12th Jan 2014
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lol @ time travelling using a BBC Microbigleggy11:02am, 12th Jan 2014
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He looks all grown up and serious with a trim. Stephen X. Fetchington Esq.? My fave games with boy on PS2 were the ones where we made up the rules! Right, this time, no guns, we just have to run around chasing each other. Keep UP Dad!HappyG(rrr). Swimming is always good. Mine now takes himself to the pool! :-)G4:17pm, 12th Jan 2014
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What is the world coming to if Rugby gets called off because of the state of the pitch? (written by a rugby refusenik)ChrisHB4:59pm, 12th Jan 2014
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Go to Amazon and search for "Cowboy magic" A cockerpoo owner says it's very effective and you only use a tiny bit each time.Helegant5:16pm, 12th Jan 2014
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Like "cobradoodle" WHat about getting him a doggie hoodie? Easier to clean than a whole dog. Or a doggie parka? Looks a bit of a canine ace face in the "after" shot.Dvorak5:26pm, 12th Jan 2014
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You were a 12-year-old boy in 1988? I feel very old.RevBarbaraG9:42pm, 12th Jan 2014
I've heard several reports on R4 over the last week from Denmark, where they've been talking about 'district heating'. Apparently, each town has its own little power plant that heats water centrally, before pumping it to the homes and businesses in the vicinity. There was also talk about how, when they generate a lot of heat in the power stations, rather than sending it up into the sky via cooling towers, they channel that all into the heating process. And whilst the UK gets 11% of it's power from renewable energy now, in Denmark it's 50%. They sound very organised.
And I thought to myself... this is like life...
No, not really. I just liked it.
The dog has had a very smart haircut and came back smelling of what I think must be CK1. He must have been in a right state, because the lady in the shop took some "before and after" shots of him for her Facebook page.
The boy has had a good school report He's gone up half a letter in reading, literacy and numeracy, and seems to be enjoying big chunks of the school day. I've just put him to bed after reading 20 mins of the Deathly Hallows to him (they've just fled the Ministry with Yaxley attached), and then he read in bed (Diary of a Wimpy Kid) by himself for about 45 minutes. I really wonder when / whether he'll read any of the stuff that I read as a kid. I'm not sure whether Blytonspeak will be a bit offputting for him now, and the stories aren't so much fun now that they've renamed all the Dicks and Fannys
Ticked off my tenth week of "four runs a week", nudging my weekly average in that time up to 19.6 miles. I'm liking the way that my rest weeks can now be 4 x 3 miles - so I'm not losing the habit of running regularly, whilst still giving myself a rest. No opportunities to run again this weekend, because I've got the boy - so I'll be enjoying the recovery and eating superfoods (Pringles).
So there are seven full training weeks until Bath Half, including the week of the race itself. PB pace for the half will be 8:05, but I'd like to leave a bit of leeway, and go for 7:55 or something, just to avoid the crushing disappointment of the finishing line not being quite where I'd like it at the time when I'd like it. Our long run is up to 11 miles, with the aim of getting up to 15 - and I've done three 3-mile runs at 7:50/mile over the last four weeks. I'm calling those 'tempo' runs - and I think they need to be longer (maybe up to 5-6 miles). All thoughts and suggestions welcome
Statbiscuit: Last January, there were 283 individual bloggers by the 10th of January. This year there are 274. There are still 38 people who have blogged every day.
And I thought to myself... this is like life...
No, not really. I just liked it.
The dog has had a very smart haircut and came back smelling of what I think must be CK1. He must have been in a right state, because the lady in the shop took some "before and after" shots of him for her Facebook page.
The boy has had a good school report
He's gone up half a letter in reading, literacy and numeracy, and seems to be enjoying big chunks of the school day. I've just put him to bed after reading 20 mins of the Deathly Hallows to him (they've just fled the Ministry with Yaxley attached), and then he read in bed (Diary of a Wimpy Kid) by himself for about 45 minutes. I really wonder when / whether he'll read any of the stuff that I read as a kid. I'm not sure whether Blytonspeak will be a bit offputting for him now, and the stories aren't so much fun now that they've renamed all the Dicks and Fannys Ticked off my tenth week of "four runs a week", nudging my weekly average in that time up to 19.6 miles. I'm liking the way that my rest weeks can now be 4 x 3 miles - so I'm not losing the habit of running regularly, whilst still giving myself a rest. No opportunities to run again this weekend, because I've got the boy - so I'll be enjoying the recovery and eating superfoods (Pringles).
So there are seven full training weeks until Bath Half, including the week of the race itself. PB pace for the half will be 8:05, but I'd like to leave a bit of leeway, and go for 7:55 or something, just to avoid the crushing disappointment of the finishing line not being quite where I'd like it at the time when I'd like it. Our long run is up to 11 miles, with the aim of getting up to 15 - and I've done three 3-mile runs at 7:50/mile over the last four weeks. I'm calling those 'tempo' runs - and I think they need to be longer (maybe up to 5-6 miles). All thoughts and suggestions welcome
Statbiscuit: Last January, there were 283 individual bloggers by the 10th of January. This year there are 274. There are still 38 people who have blogged every day.
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Jen says to do Tempo runs at 10km pace. So if you want your race pace to be 7.55, maybe you should do tempo quicker. XKatieB10:56pm, 10th Jan 2014
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Sounds like you have Bath in the bag. I'll see you there!Oysterboy10:56pm, 10th Jan 2014
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(That's 10km pace if you are training for a half. Which you are)KatieB10:57pm, 10th Jan 2014
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P.s. Wish you were here. XKatieB10:57pm, 10th Jan 2014
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38Night-owl10:59pm, 10th Jan 2014
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@KatieB - hmm, so 7.55 makes for 1:43:42. Putting that through a basic time mangler gives me an equivalent 10k time of 47:02, which is 7:34/mile. Eeepfetcheveryone *big hug*
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PS - Have I mentioned me and my youngest (now 15, ulp) are cycling across that Denmark in the Summer?McGoohan11:08pm, 10th Jan 2014
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McG - see if you can spot a district heating thingfetcheveryone I think they've got one in Sheffield, if you need to practice. I hope you'll have lots of fun.11:10pm, 10th Jan 2014
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I will and I'll take some photos too. (It'll be blogging days 200 - 205ish :-))McGoohan11:16pm, 10th Jan 2014
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So nice to hear everyone speaking well of a state provision.ChrisHB11:56pm, 10th Jan 2014
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I like the idea of district heating...it's a shame it can't be adopted here.Garfield8:49am, 11th Jan 2014
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Did someone say Lemon?Lemon109:40am, 11th Jan 2014
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What have they renamed Dick and Fanny to ??bigleggy11:06am, 11th Jan 2014
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Frannie and Rick :-/fetcheveryone11:11am, 11th Jan 2014
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And Dame Slap is now Dame Snap, and doesn't beat her students.fetcheveryone11:14am, 11th Jan 2014
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Can we see the before &after pics pls?minardi11:38am, 11th Jan 2014
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I read and laughed a Jennings books when I was a kid, didn't know the books were still around - must obtain for grandchildrenD212:41pm, 11th Jan 2014
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I am the king of hobbies.OllyW1:20pm, 11th Jan 2014
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It's political correctness gone mad I tell you... renaming Dick and Aunt Fanny for goodness sake.BaronessBL1:41pm, 11th Jan 2014
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I wish we were more like the Danes.LazyDaisy3:02pm, 11th Jan 2014
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I know a smart way to avoid that "disappointment of the finishing not being where you expect it" (assuming it's Garmin v. course length issues, rather than running-out-of-steam issues you're referring to). I might not blog every day (or even every year) but they can still be good despite that - http://www.fetcheveryone.com/blog-view.php#blog207426paul the builder3:58pm, 11th Jan 2014
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There's a district heating system in Nottingham which heats council houses and some of the council buildings.Tazsedai4:45pm, 11th Jan 2014
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What TMW and OllyW said. ANSWER ME!Dooogs8:12pm, 11th Jan 2014
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Don't know if its still there, but there is/was a district heating boiler house on the Birchwood Estate in Lincoln, council run by Lincoln City Council.narrowboat8:18pm, 11th Jan 2014
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There was a district heating system in Wick - unfortunately, as a just realeased Audit Scotland report discloses, it was a complete shambles which burnt through £11.5 million of funding.Dvorak5:38pm, 12th Jan 2014
I have quite literally nothing to say
And that's perfect, because it's the exact problem I was hoping to address by making myself blog every day.
When I read 'Zen &...' back in November, Phaedrus talks about giving his English students the task of writing an essay about the town they live in. He spots one student wandering around campus looking miserable, and she explains how she's stuck - can't see how to write the essay. He suggests that she's thinking too broadly - and that maybe she should focus on maybe one building in the town. And when that doesn't help, he persuades her to focus on just one brick of that building, and write about that. So she sits in the coffee shop across the way from the building, and focuses right in on that one brick, and lets everything spill. And then she moves to the next brick, and writes about that, and the next, until finally it all starts to flow.
I'd like to write a book. I've always wanted to. Not about running, just made up stuff. When I was about 11, I started writing endless crap about kids finding time machines and space ships, secrets behind wooden panels, and stereotypical crazy Einstein uncles. I'd set up the situation, and the characters would wander around for a bit, and look heroically off into the distance, but I've always had a block when it comes to deciding what they're up against, and how to end it in a way that will work out.
So I'm starting one brick at a time. Just by writing. I started Fetch in the same way, and I'm still here, building one brick at a time, whilst around me a whole load of skyscrapers have been installed overnight it seems. There are some fine ones, I'm sure, and you might find you prefer the view, and they might serve better coffee - and that's fine.
Daily bloggers - thank you for choosing to do so. I hope you get as stuck as I am, and that in doing so, you find something new that you may always have had.
And that's perfect, because it's the exact problem I was hoping to address by making myself blog every day.
When I read 'Zen &...' back in November, Phaedrus talks about giving his English students the task of writing an essay about the town they live in. He spots one student wandering around campus looking miserable, and she explains how she's stuck - can't see how to write the essay. He suggests that she's thinking too broadly - and that maybe she should focus on maybe one building in the town. And when that doesn't help, he persuades her to focus on just one brick of that building, and write about that. So she sits in the coffee shop across the way from the building, and focuses right in on that one brick, and lets everything spill. And then she moves to the next brick, and writes about that, and the next, until finally it all starts to flow.
I'd like to write a book. I've always wanted to. Not about running, just made up stuff. When I was about 11, I started writing endless crap about kids finding time machines and space ships, secrets behind wooden panels, and stereotypical crazy Einstein uncles. I'd set up the situation, and the characters would wander around for a bit, and look heroically off into the distance, but I've always had a block when it comes to deciding what they're up against, and how to end it in a way that will work out.
So I'm starting one brick at a time. Just by writing. I started Fetch in the same way, and I'm still here, building one brick at a time, whilst around me a whole load of skyscrapers have been installed overnight it seems. There are some fine ones, I'm sure, and you might find you prefer the view, and they might serve better coffee - and that's fine.
Daily bloggers - thank you for choosing to do so. I hope you get as stuck as I am, and that in doing so, you find something new that you may always have had.
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Interesting! I hadn't thought of blogging as a way of getting opened up to writing stories (I gave THAT ambition up a long time ago, after realising that I don't have an original thought in my head and don't have the attention span required to produce a novel and would get pissed off if some oik in publishing deemed it not good enough) - for me it's an end in itselfVelociraptor10:00am, 9th Jan 2014
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I think that's one of many gifts that running gives you, you always notice something new even if you do the same route over and over. You're out there and your legs are moving but your mind is free to do what it wants, and suddenly you notice the bulbs are peeking through, or someone has an interesting plant in their garden, or the cows have moved to a different field, or the river level is up.fleecy
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I think everyone has a story in them somewhere, if not a book. At junior school we were encouraged to be prolific story writers - I loved it, it was my very favourite thing to do at school and I was never short of ideas. As I got older that creativity was encouraged less, replaced by "learning facts"....by the time I was 20 I couldn't think of a story to write to save my life. Daily blog writing is really hard - I'm hoping as the year goes on, writing will again become a more natural activity. One brick at a timeAlice the Camel10:06am, 9th Jan 2014
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I don't find daily blog writing hard at all. Limiting myself to once a day is more of a challenge.RevBarbaraG10:24am, 9th Jan 2014
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I'm having the same trouble trying to comment on the blogs I read. But I'm telling myself, just say something relevant. Anything.Drell10:31am, 9th Jan 2014
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If you read between the lines, my blog is actually a tense spy novelMcGoohan10:41am, 9th Jan 2014
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Must re-read "Zen..." - actually I don't think I ever got to the end of it.sallykate10:47am, 9th Jan 2014
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Write that book. I am actually enjoying the challenge and look forward to each day to what other bloggers blogNight-owl11:17am, 9th Jan 2014
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Didn't take long for that confession to fall out, eh? Write it!Angus Clydesdale11:27am, 9th Jan 2014
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I did nanowrimo a couple of times and ran into the same thing - I could get a story up and running but after a while it just sort of petered out. I had no idea how the ending was.bigleggy
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I am loving everyone blogging daily, loads for me to read in my dinner break. Enjoyed this blog a lot, the one brick at a time idea applies to lots of things in life. I think of my mortgage as buying a brick a month and running marathons one mile at a time.Lemon1011:47am, 9th Jan 2014
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If this pesky thing called work didn't get in the way I too would blog daily... in fact if this pesky thing called work didn't get in the way I'd have a bash at writing a book.......!BaronessBL12:11pm, 9th Jan 2014
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When's this book coming out then?jennywren12:21pm, 9th Jan 2014
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You're absolutely right about narrowing the margins of what you're trying to write about. I'm not creative enough to write stories but enjoy commenting on daily stuff. I used to really enjoy writing letters when I was young - had loads of penfriends. I reckon you've got a book in you, Fetch.SarahWoo12:32pm, 9th Jan 2014
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Get that book started. Perhaps 11 year old you can be visiting mad uncle Einstein and discover a secret panel with a big red button behind it...Nightjar12:41pm, 9th Jan 2014
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There are plenty of skyscrapers, and sometime I nip into them because, from a certain angle in certain light conditions, the particular view I'm looking for is better from over there.Nellers
I wouldn't want to live in a skyscraper, though. When I want to go somewhere comfortable and familiar and that suits my needs I'll go home.
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I have used that bit recently (go down to the minutiae in order to get a different perspective on the big picture) and it's really interesting the results. Loving the book. Not yet finished it, but suspect it will bear a second and further reading. :-)GHappyG(rrr)1:55pm, 9th Jan 2014
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Writing of any kind is useful, I wish there was more writing involved in my jobDiogenes3:54pm, 9th Jan 2014
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Richard Herring's Warming Up blog (a blog a day for 10 years+) often has interesting bits that tangentially touch upon creativity, generating material and how to write about nothing (unsurprising for a smart stand-up)...Dooogs
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One line at a time, just like one foot forward, all sorts of demons and obstacles will attempt to distract you but if you keep plodding on, no matter what you're pace, you'll find yourself looking up to realise the end was always within your reach;-)SharonD5:42pm, 9th Jan 2014
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I used to blog daily, and they weren't all sort ones either, crikey, no idea where I got time or inclinationsantababy6:43pm, 9th Jan 2014
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As a child I was a prolific writer of stories, and it went on into my teens; at about 13/14 I was writing a story in "episodes", one every weekend, and every Monday morning a group of 4 or 5 friends would be all agog, waiting for my latest episode. But towards the end of my teens it all disappeared; whether the need to write essays drove away the fiction, or whether I became too self-critical, I don't know. I made a couple of attempts in my 20s, but nothing came of them.Columba7:54pm, 9th Jan 2014
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Like a daily run, I guess, you end up in a cold, dark place, lacking inspiration, but hey you still do it and feel better for itMuds9:06pm, 9th Jan 2014
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I'd like to write a book - I used to write when I was in junior school, and always thought I'd be really good at it, but when I sat down and tried, I realised that I have no imagination whatsoever. Still, maybe the one brick at a time approach could work…DrBob9:24pm, 9th Jan 2014
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thank younorthernslowcoach10:08pm, 9th Jan 2014
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My writing is determined by my job - at least one, and sometimes 3-4 sermons a week - and I have to deliver whether I have anything to say or not. Writers block is the main reason why I get less sleep than I needHelegant And I'm supposed to be writing a tribute and a sermon for tomorrow's funeral, and I have run out of words, which is why I ma readng blogs instead, and I guess it'll be another late night tonight...10:48pm, 9th Jan 2014
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Thanks for all the comments and the positive vibesfetcheveryone10:59pm, 10th Jan 2014
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I still only have some hazy vague idea what's going on. I'm almost caught up. I'm going to have to refine my blog-read-comment technique if I actually want to be able to get on with the training logging an bit of blogging myselfSmout
I like it though.
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About time you did nano wrimoplodding hippo
its like a huge does of laxative for writers block10:16am, 12th Jan 2014
A terrible night of sleep last night, including going downstairs for a mug of boiled water at about 2.30am, because my stomach was pretty sore :-/ Sat and read on the sofa for about an hour, and then lay on my side - woke up with very cold feet at about 5am.
We were scheduled to run 11 miles this morning, as part of our Bath Half training (gradually upping our long runs to about 15), so by the time I'd had a bit of a warm up in bed, it was 7.45, and we were due to head out. Katie made me a mug of tea, and I had some toast, and felt remarkably ok - so off we went.
When I did Bedford Half, the hills did me in good and proper, so we've ditched the peaceful pancake that is Route 51, in favour of a route that takes us on a tour through the mean streets of Bedford, dodging wheelie bins, and more relevantly, going up and down as well as along. It's not like scaling the north face of the Eiger, but there's a steady climb of about 40m from 3 miles to 7 miles, with a final poke in the eye.
We finished a good deal stronger than on our previous outing (similar route), so that's all good.
Today I've been connecting up the prize winners and suppliers, and I *think* I've finally done everyone
Statlobster: 41 bloggers still blogging daily. I'm pretty sure there isn't a whole heap of entertainment in mine, but I'm enjoying setting aside a little bit of time each day to do a bit of writing. Who knows, I might confess to wanting to write a book sometime soon. You don't have to read it
We were scheduled to run 11 miles this morning, as part of our Bath Half training (gradually upping our long runs to about 15), so by the time I'd had a bit of a warm up in bed, it was 7.45, and we were due to head out. Katie made me a mug of tea, and I had some toast, and felt remarkably ok - so off we went.
When I did Bedford Half, the hills did me in good and proper, so we've ditched the peaceful pancake that is Route 51, in favour of a route that takes us on a tour through the mean streets of Bedford, dodging wheelie bins, and more relevantly, going up and down as well as along. It's not like scaling the north face of the Eiger, but there's a steady climb of about 40m from 3 miles to 7 miles, with a final poke in the eye.
We finished a good deal stronger than on our previous outing (similar route), so that's all good.
Today I've been connecting up the prize winners and suppliers, and I *think* I've finally done everyone
Statlobster: 41 bloggers still blogging daily. I'm pretty sure there isn't a whole heap of entertainment in mine, but I'm enjoying setting aside a little bit of time each day to do a bit of writing. Who knows, I might confess to wanting to write a book sometime soon. You don't have to read it
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I confess always wanted to write a book not that my writing is of real literary talent is there a connection between running and writing seems a lot of runners I have come across like to writeNight-owl5:48pm, 8th Jan 2014
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Wow, great running! Hills always helpfleecy8:11pm, 8th Jan 2014
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I'm enjoying reading the blogs. Thank you for making time each day to write it.GimmeMedals8:46pm, 8th Jan 2014
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Surprising myself by keeping going.Diogenes11:15pm, 8th Jan 2014
This morning I 'av been mostly working through the process of matching up the prize winners with the prize suppliers. There were 29 individual prizes all together, because some days had two of the same thing, and a lot of email lists to pass on - so stuff's been flying through my inbox.
But that's not all - I got out for four miles with the dog (out to a bridge built by the famous 360°), just as the weather turned a bit biblical. Normally we let him out of the utility room and back onto his bit of sofa after about an hour - but he's still out there drying off, such was the extent of his soaking. He chased some birds over a very large puddle, and it must have got suddenly deeper, because he did the most spectacular faceplant. We went with the waist harness again, which is working really well, although I gave him some time off it, and when that happens I have to hold it - considering getting some hooks put on my shoulders.
I don't think he liked the rain when it was at its heaviest, because for the whole of the last mile he had his ears pinned back, legs at full power, racing for home. When he's pulling like that, it makes me wonder whether JK Rowling runs with a dog, because it feels very much like the way she describes travelling by portkey.
I've just taken delivery of a battered old copy of the physics textbook I used at A-Level. For some reason it popped into my head a while back, and (feel free to back away slowly) I felt like having a little nosey through it, to remind myself of some of the things I've forgotten. 872 pages of fun.
Smell you later.
But that's not all - I got out for four miles with the dog (out to a bridge built by the famous 360°), just as the weather turned a bit biblical. Normally we let him out of the utility room and back onto his bit of sofa after about an hour - but he's still out there drying off, such was the extent of his soaking. He chased some birds over a very large puddle, and it must have got suddenly deeper, because he did the most spectacular faceplant. We went with the waist harness again, which is working really well, although I gave him some time off it, and when that happens I have to hold it - considering getting some hooks put on my shoulders.
I don't think he liked the rain when it was at its heaviest, because for the whole of the last mile he had his ears pinned back, legs at full power, racing for home. When he's pulling like that, it makes me wonder whether JK Rowling runs with a dog, because it feels very much like the way she describes travelling by portkey.
I've just taken delivery of a battered old copy of the physics textbook I used at A-Level. For some reason it popped into my head a while back, and (feel free to back away slowly) I felt like having a little nosey through it, to remind myself of some of the things I've forgotten. 872 pages of fun.
Smell you later.
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Looks like a yes, courtest of Google:Dooogs
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Courtesy, even.Dooogs12:54pm, 7th Jan 2014
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I did physics A-level tooFizz :-) As a hoarder, I suspect my old textbook may still be in the loft 1:08pm, 7th Jan 2014
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don't worry, Physics A level hasn't changed much, it's still all about bits of string, weights and metre rulers.....fraggle1:44pm, 7th Jan 2014
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I used to love running with my (very sensible but strong GSD) dog on a lead attached to my bottle belt; really great assistance in small of backD2 very jealous3:41pm, 7th Jan 2014
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I'm rubbish at physics.GimmeMedals7:43pm, 7th Jan 2014
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I did physics CSE. I believe I burnt my books and ruc sack when I left school in the garden at home (Rugby). I can't remember the fire.Watford Wobble9:47pm, 7th Jan 2014
Back to work today - a mountain of feedback, an inbox full of requests, and some really lovely emails to write to the winners of the advent calendar When it came to drawing out the Club La Santa winner, we enlisted the help of my middle step-son to press the button that would pick the winner out of the hat. But I don't mind telling you that Katie and I were grinning and high-fiving when we saw that Roobarb had won
No running today - too much to catch up on - so it's a definite for tomorrow, otherwise my four for the week is in big jeopardy.
If you missed out on a Fetch hoodie, there'll be a few going up on the shop tomorrow.
44 daily bloggers made it as far as yesterday, with 21 checked in so far today. Keep dancin'.
When it came to drawing out the Club La Santa winner, we enlisted the help of my middle step-son to press the button that would pick the winner out of the hat. But I don't mind telling you that Katie and I were grinning and high-fiving when we saw that Roobarb had won No running today - too much to catch up on - so it's a definite for tomorrow, otherwise my four for the week is in big jeopardy.
If you missed out on a Fetch hoodie, there'll be a few going up on the shop tomorrow.
44 daily bloggers made it as far as yesterday, with 21 checked in so far today. Keep dancin'.
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happy that Roobarb has won.ChrisHB5:52pm, 6th Jan 2014
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WoW! what a well-deserved winner!SherryB5:57pm, 6th Jan 2014
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Its great Roobarb wonNight-owl6:02pm, 6th Jan 2014
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Struggling to think of anyone who might deserve it more. I'm actually happy I didn't win.Angus Clydesdale6:07pm, 6th Jan 2014
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It was great that Roobs won.Ness6:18pm, 6th Jan 2014
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Ah that's great that Roobarb won.Lalli6:19pm, 6th Jan 2014
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I missed the thread for blog a day, but I seem to have managed it so far..... Great news about rooobarbphal6:24pm, 6th Jan 2014
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That's fab news about Roobs! Really pleased that such an excellent prize has gone to an active Fetchie who uses her experiences to positively influence others.TheScribbler6:28pm, 6th Jan 2014
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A lovely reward for Roobs for her campaigningGimmeMedals Those *socks* are obviously keeping people interested in blogging.6:40pm, 6th Jan 2014
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Great news!Drell Keep going on the running...7:08pm, 6th Jan 2014
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So chuffed that Roobarb win the top prize, well deservedMrs Jigs (Luverlylegs)7:30pm, 6th Jan 2014
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Happily wearing my fetch hoody and grinning like a loon at winning the garmin!Lemon108:20pm, 6th Jan 2014
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That is fantastic newsAutumnleaves8:22pm, 6th Jan 2014
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Not too many socks for V'rap to knit then. And excellent news about RoobarbFizz :-)8:35pm, 6th Jan 2014
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Ifleecy my fetch hoody 9:47pm, 6th Jan 2014
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I am still smiling :):):):):) I never win anythingRoobarb Thank you!!!!!!!!! :):):):):):)10:12pm, 6th Jan 2014
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Blog strong, everyoneVelociraptor
I'm chuffed as a chuffed thing about Roobarb winning. I know we're all equal and that, but I'd have been disappointed to see the big prizes going to folk who had just registered, entered the draw, and skulked away.8:05am, 7th Jan 2014 -
Fix!BigChiefRunningBore3:22pm, 7th Jan 2014
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I think the result of that draw is universally popular!forest plodder5:37pm, 8th Jan 2014
Last day of relaxation before I head back to the kitchen table to resume my battle with the website. I have had a million thoughts in my time away from it over Christmas, but no doubt they'll all have flown away come nine o'clock tomorrow morning.
We ran five miles this morning, giving me my four for the week, and my ninth consecutive week of doing so. My average weekly mileage over this period is 19.3 - so I'm not setting the world alight, but it's consistent. I feel an article coming on: "do runners who train consistently get better results than those who train sporadically?" Of course, I know what I want the answer to be, and I also suspect I know what the answer will be - namely "I can't prove it with my limited statistical skills and the data I've collected" - but hey, I can have fun trying.
We walked the dogs, with a supply of sausage to help train Stephen's recall, and then we buggered off to MK for an afternoon drinking coffee and wandering about. We both came away with new boots. Mine are like what cowboys have. When I was a boy, I wore a pair of shoes religiously because my dad told me that Steve Davis wore the same ones. These boots aren't like that. They have buckles and everything.
An evening with wine, a new niece! and watching the first two episodes of The Bridge - it's well good. And Sherlock, which was not quite right really. Bit too sub-plotty. Anyhoo, still somehow captivating.
Night all.
We ran five miles this morning, giving me my four for the week, and my ninth consecutive week of doing so. My average weekly mileage over this period is 19.3 - so I'm not setting the world alight, but it's consistent. I feel an article coming on: "do runners who train consistently get better results than those who train sporadically?" Of course, I know what I want the answer to be, and I also suspect I know what the answer will be - namely "I can't prove it with my limited statistical skills and the data I've collected" - but hey, I can have fun trying.
We walked the dogs, with a supply of sausage to help train Stephen's recall, and then we buggered off to MK for an afternoon drinking coffee and wandering about. We both came away with new boots. Mine are like what cowboys have. When I was a boy, I wore a pair of shoes religiously because my dad told me that Steve Davis wore the same ones. These boots aren't like that. They have buckles and everything.
An evening with wine, a new niece! and watching the first two episodes of The Bridge - it's well good. And Sherlock, which was not quite right really. Bit too sub-plotty. Anyhoo, still somehow captivating.
Night all.
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"All the boys think she's a spyMcGoohan
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Can't beat new bootsMrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) I personally think consistency is the key 10:45pm, 5th Jan 2014
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Sherlock's wedding speech was bizarre. I'm surprised the guests hung around that long.GimmeMedals10:49pm, 5th Jan 2014
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How does your dad know what my brother wore on his feet?minardi10:50pm, 5th Jan 2014
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And congratulations on the new nieceminardi10:51pm, 5th Jan 2014
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Another runner I know always stresses consistent consistency is the way forward. I like thisNight-owl10:51pm, 5th Jan 2014
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Congratulations on the new niecenorthernslowcoach10:54pm, 5th Jan 2014
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Steve Davis was one of my idols in the mid-80s (alongside Keke Rosberg, Boba Fett and Daley Thompson)...Dooogs10:59pm, 5th Jan 2014
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Bette Davis' eyes would surely be more alluring. Unless they're in a jar on the kitchen shelf, that is.RichHL11:14pm, 5th Jan 2014
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Sausage is also our treat of choice for recall work. Unfortunately Wanda now only tends to come back if we shout Wanda - Sausage ratherthan Wanda- ComeBaronessBL6:46am, 6th Jan 2014
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Nine weeks is good going:-)Drell8:40am, 6th Jan 2014
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Good going on the consistent running!sallykate10:25am, 6th Jan 2014
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Bugger, bugger, bugger - did I miss the Bridge last night!!!!Shadow10:31am, 6th Jan 2014
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We watched it on catchup.fetcheveryone10:34am, 6th Jan 2014
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Shadow11:12am, 6th Jan 2014
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It's on iPlayer, look: bbc.co.ukfetcheveryone11:13am, 6th Jan 2014
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Not as bad as I thought - think Wales are a week behind (as usual) so we get the first episode next Sat!! Thanks for the reminder FetchShadow11:17am, 6th Jan 2014
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I thought last night's Sherlock was brilliant, I kept thinking when is he going to sort this "case" out. I laughe dout loud loads of times. I reckon your Steve sShoes were Hush Puppies, yeah, yeah, admit it.Ocelot Spleens11:49am, 6th Jan 2014
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I recommend Trollhunter, if you enjoy Danish/Swedish/Norwegian drama/movies. It's a film, firmly tongue in cheek, but done deadpan, which the Norges do particularly effectively! Good consistency there - and it's def the key (build a base, make it firm), but then you need to expand the base next, as you know! But not at the risk of making holes in it, obv! :-)GHappyG(rrr)5:09pm, 6th Jan 2014
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I'm getting there - long runs up to 11 now, and throwing in a tempo once a week.fetcheveryone5:18pm, 6th Jan 2014
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Excellent stuff Fetch. That's the way to build it - I think getting the "habit" of regular running (like the streakers do etc.) and being a bit "selfish" about it ("when will I run today/tomoz?", not "can I run today/tomoz?") etc. are important.HappyG(rrr)
I've just found an official (MOTM, so you don't get much more brillianter than that!) answer:
... asks: Congrats and all that. What has been the most valuable training session for you in getting your HM time to tumble?
Curly45 says: Cheers. No magic session. Just lots of miles, most slow, some fast and consistent consistency....
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McGoohan thinks Kim Carnes - I think Half Man Half BiscuitDvorak7:10pm, 6th Jan 2014
Finally got out for my run at 3pm after a day long procrastathon.
Chopped all the branches off the Christmas tree with a secateurs (strangely satisfying) and dumped them in the green bin, leaving only a six foot trunk, which youngest step-boy is making noises about carving up on his lathe, but it'll need to dry out properly first.
Managed to link up with my boy via Xbox Live - we played Minecraft together and he gave me a step-by-step tutorial on how to build a water slide. I put a cocktail bar at the top of mine. It's a nice way to chat when I'm not there. On the phone, he's often interested in other stuff around him, so he can get a bit distracted - but with a common task, it feels like we're having a nice bit of time together, and the chatting comes with it, even if we are just pushing a few pigs down a virtual water slide.
Got outside for my run after a load of faffing and dithering, and noticed that our across-the-street neighbour had their big roof window wide open, and it was pouring with rain. I knocked, I apologised for being nosy, I tried to explain, and yet I still felt like a weirdo for doing it.
It was the sort of run where you either have to leap all over the place to avoid the puddles like Indiana Jones in an ancient temple full of poison-tipped darts, or you have to go straight through them, yelling "I hate snakes Jock, I hate 'em". I started out with the former, and graduated to the latter after nearly getting my shoes sucked off (I wear them very loose I think) in an uber-mud-puddle. Once your feet adjust to the squelching, and if you don't have the prospect of a whole long run ahead of you, it can be just the thing.
Statmuffin: there are 51 bloggers still in the blog a day challenge.
Chopped all the branches off the Christmas tree with a secateurs (strangely satisfying) and dumped them in the green bin, leaving only a six foot trunk, which youngest step-boy is making noises about carving up on his lathe, but it'll need to dry out properly first.
Managed to link up with my boy via Xbox Live - we played Minecraft together and he gave me a step-by-step tutorial on how to build a water slide. I put a cocktail bar at the top of mine. It's a nice way to chat when I'm not there. On the phone, he's often interested in other stuff around him, so he can get a bit distracted - but with a common task, it feels like we're having a nice bit of time together, and the chatting comes with it, even if we are just pushing a few pigs down a virtual water slide.
Got outside for my run after a load of faffing and dithering, and noticed that our across-the-street neighbour had their big roof window wide open, and it was pouring with rain. I knocked, I apologised for being nosy, I tried to explain, and yet I still felt like a weirdo for doing it.
It was the sort of run where you either have to leap all over the place to avoid the puddles like Indiana Jones in an ancient temple full of poison-tipped darts, or you have to go straight through them, yelling "I hate snakes Jock, I hate 'em". I started out with the former, and graduated to the latter after nearly getting my shoes sucked off (I wear them very loose I think) in an uber-mud-puddle. Once your feet adjust to the squelching, and if you don't have the prospect of a whole long run ahead of you, it can be just the thing.
Statmuffin: there are 51 bloggers still in the blog a day challenge.
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Splish splashnorthernslowcoach5:22pm, 4th Jan 2014
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51 eh?Night-owl
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Great way to keep in touch and have some fun togetherMrs Jigs (Luverlylegs)6:32pm, 4th Jan 2014
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I'm like HJ in that respect.ChrisHB6:55pm, 4th Jan 2014
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The puddles are all lakes round here at the moment. Jumping is an impossibility.Sharkie
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Love the xbox conversation idea. I must admit I get a bit distracted talking to my dad on the phone, and I'm 46Diogenes7:32pm, 4th Jan 2014
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btw - I'm still blogging but have had to go buddies only for a bit - does that still count ??bigleggy7:33pm, 4th Jan 2014
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I failed to run today, and am a wuss. Well done!Drell8:47pm, 4th Jan 2014
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Fetch - are you counting by hand, or have you got a clever bit of code that counts those still blogging daily? I'm interested, cos I'm inRevBarbaraG10:30pm, 4th Jan 2014
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We've done the same with our tree, it's in the shed drying out if littlest wants it.Elsie Too3:06pm, 5th Jan 2014
A bit of a box-ticker today.
Woke to the sounds of the bin lorry and the torture of yet another Haddin rescue innings.
A day spent playing FIFA, ping pong, and eating fish finger sandwiches, the highlight of which was when my boy discovered that he could make his stomach slosh by jumping up and down.
An evening catching up on TV (The Thirteenth Tale, and the first of the Silent Witnii), and some much needed cwching up with Katie.
A run tomorrow, and some thoughts on the Skechers.
Woke to the sounds of the bin lorry and the torture of yet another Haddin rescue innings.
A day spent playing FIFA, ping pong, and eating fish finger sandwiches, the highlight of which was when my boy discovered that he could make his stomach slosh by jumping up and down.
An evening catching up on TV (The Thirteenth Tale, and the first of the Silent Witnii), and some much needed cwching up with Katie.
A run tomorrow, and some thoughts on the Skechers.
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Mmm, fish finger sandwichesDrell11:14pm, 3rd Jan 2014
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Those poor fishDvorak They'll never play piano again.12:34am, 4th Jan 2014
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Is cwching rude ?Joe Hawk12:38am, 4th Jan 2014
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Oooh, I am so glad Silent Witness is backWine Legs2:05am, 4th Jan 2014
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I've not had ff sarnies for years then read 2 blogs on the same day that mention them. I can feel a trip to the supermarket coming on....Alice the Camel7:19am, 4th Jan 2014
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Fish finger sandwiches are fabSarahWoo7:44am, 4th Jan 2014
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Mmmmm fish finger butties are the bestnorthernslowcoach8:33am, 4th Jan 2014
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cwtching = cuddlingTazsedai8:47am, 4th Jan 2014
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nomnom ff butties, just off to the shops.....minardi12:13pm, 4th Jan 2014
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Suprised that cwch didn't ever make it into the Fetch glossary. Sounds like a good end of hols. :-)GHappyG(rrr)5:06pm, 6th Jan 2014
Christmas is a very hectic time for us - there was a LOT of travelling to see everyone (Nottinghamshire, Wales and the Isle of Wight), and a VERY LOT of missing each other - but it was also lovely at times, even if it's blur of motorways, a battle of gravy paradigms, Christmas jumpers, sea fronts, dog walks, puddles, bowing to ponies to see if they're like hippogriffs (nope) and wet sock fighting on Gelligaer common.
I'm pleased to have got through the last few weeks with my own personal pseudo-streak intact. It's a pseudo-streak because instead of running *every* day, I'm running four times a week. It's the sort of consistency I've been trying to get for a *long* time, and it's feeling great.
On the morning I was due to go to see my family in Wales (which was also our second wedding anniversary - we got to wake up together before I set off on a 500 mile round trip with the boy. Mrs Wife - you're the best!) I got the sniffles and apoplectic sneezing.
It was very tempting to ditch my final run of the week and watch Christmas Wimbledon (aka the darts) with my dad. But the dog made eyes at me, so I took him out for a run along my dads favourite route. It's a cycle path that runs north up the valley along a former railway line, complete with abandoned moss-covered platforms where the miners used to travel to the colliery. On either side, there are what seem like dozens of valley streams and waterfalls - the sort of scenery that as a kid perhaps I either took for granted or simply did not see. It's amazing what running can bring you to.
You could blame it on the proximity to Christmas, or my dog, who looks like a woolly caricature Coraline puppet, or perhaps the fact that I was wearing a christmas pudding bobble hat, but everybody we met along our way (2 miles out, 2 miles back, nothing crazy) was up for that little bit of friendly human contact. Nothing excessive, just a different protocol. I like to think that it's a habitual friendliness that will continue to thrive in the valleys, and it feels good to be immersed in it once in a while. Alright? Fresh ennit? Bit icy ennit? Well done But!
It's a deceptive route - there's 50m of gradual and consistent climb within the two miles north, with the result that after you turn for home, you feel like you're gliding back. For a while I forgot about the cold that had been pinning me to the sofa, and Stephen and I sidled back into the house with smiles on our chilly faces.
I'm pleased to have got through the last few weeks with my own personal pseudo-streak intact. It's a pseudo-streak because instead of running *every* day, I'm running four times a week. It's the sort of consistency I've been trying to get for a *long* time, and it's feeling great.
On the morning I was due to go to see my family in Wales (which was also our second wedding anniversary - we got to wake up together before I set off on a 500 mile round trip with the boy. Mrs Wife - you're the best!) I got the sniffles and apoplectic sneezing.
It was very tempting to ditch my final run of the week and watch Christmas Wimbledon (aka the darts) with my dad. But the dog made eyes at me, so I took him out for a run along my dads favourite route. It's a cycle path that runs north up the valley along a former railway line, complete with abandoned moss-covered platforms where the miners used to travel to the colliery. On either side, there are what seem like dozens of valley streams and waterfalls - the sort of scenery that as a kid perhaps I either took for granted or simply did not see. It's amazing what running can bring you to.
You could blame it on the proximity to Christmas, or my dog, who looks like a woolly caricature Coraline puppet, or perhaps the fact that I was wearing a christmas pudding bobble hat, but everybody we met along our way (2 miles out, 2 miles back, nothing crazy) was up for that little bit of friendly human contact. Nothing excessive, just a different protocol. I like to think that it's a habitual friendliness that will continue to thrive in the valleys, and it feels good to be immersed in it once in a while. Alright? Fresh ennit? Bit icy ennit? Well done But!
It's a deceptive route - there's 50m of gradual and consistent climb within the two miles north, with the result that after you turn for home, you feel like you're gliding back. For a while I forgot about the cold that had been pinning me to the sofa, and Stephen and I sidled back into the house with smiles on our chilly faces.
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That's what I like about it here in the valleys, mostly everyone will give a nod or good day. Tidy.b*Anj*11:27pm, 2nd Jan 2014
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ah, at last! Worth waiting for thoughMrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) I agree with you, you do have a lovely wife and strange as it may seem, her husband also quite a nice chap 11:38pm, 2nd Jan 2014
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With 37 minutes to spareDrell well done on the consistency.11:53pm, 2nd Jan 2014
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My OH is amazed that I "Morning" everyone we see on a walk. He was never brought up to do that. I would feel rude if I didn't.quimby1:15am, 3rd Jan 2014
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"A Battle Of Gravy Paradigms". That sounds like the title of a post-rock instrumental.Dvorak1:22am, 3rd Jan 2014
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I always acknowledge others when I'm out running or walkingnorthernslowcoach
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It is amazing what running can bring to youphal 7:15am, 3rd Jan 2014
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Tarahumara - I'm sorry if I've offended you, but just as your forum post was not meant to refer to anyone else's blog, my tweet wasn't meant to quote or highlight anyone specific. Within the first two pages of the thread, I think at least five people had made a similar point, but I can see how my use of the word 'dross' might make it look like I'd singled you out - I'm sorry.fetcheveryone8:19am, 3rd Jan 2014
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Gravy Paradigm is my new favourite fictional band name. Probably prog rock, although it could be a snotty 90s Blink 182 soundalike...Dooogs9:59am, 3rd Jan 2014
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can we have a picture of the Christmas pudding bobble hat?minardi10:17am, 3rd Jan 2014
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What does Stephen's smile look like?HappyG(rrr) We need to see a pic! Well done on keeping running going through Christmas. It's a tough balance to strike. Love "the battle of gravy paradigms". We had some of those! I love how everyone just smiles a little bit more easily at Christmas and New Year. Oh, also in the rain, have you noticed? I might blog about it! :-)G1:29pm, 3rd Jan 2014
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Oh and thanks for the wee book recommendations below. I'm loving Zen And... (thank you for that!) and did enjoy Catch-22 as a 20 something, and may revisit it. Lots of other great recommendations there that I am going to look into. Thanks so much! :-)GHappyG(rrr)1:31pm, 3rd Jan 2014
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good to know that you and all the family are ok!D22:24pm, 3rd Jan 2014
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*wonders how late tonight's missive will be*McGoohan8:43pm, 3rd Jan 2014
2013 was the year I started reading again, after far too long spent iPhoning myself to sleep. Here's my list:
The Casual Vacancy - JK Rowling
The Art of Racing In The Rain - Garth Stein
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
The Santaland Diaries - David Sedaris
Diary of a Nobody - George & Weedon Grossmith
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
The Dice Man - Luke Rhinehart
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
One Day - David Nicholls
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
Instructions for a Heatwave - Maggie O'Farrell
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea - Jules Verne
Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig
The Magic Christian - Terry Southern
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
The Time Keeper - Mitch Albom
Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
Aiming to write a blog every day in 2014. You have been warned
The Casual Vacancy - JK Rowling
The Art of Racing In The Rain - Garth Stein
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
The Santaland Diaries - David Sedaris
Diary of a Nobody - George & Weedon Grossmith
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
The Dice Man - Luke Rhinehart
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
One Day - David Nicholls
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
Instructions for a Heatwave - Maggie O'Farrell
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea - Jules Verne
Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig
The Magic Christian - Terry Southern
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
The Time Keeper - Mitch Albom
Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
Aiming to write a blog every day in 2014. You have been warned
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*bates breath*McGoohan12:37am, 1st Jan 2014
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I was thinking about reading more this year I only have to finish one book to beat my best in a few years Think the last one I read in full was Charlie Speddings autobiographyNight-owl12:40am, 1st Jan 2014
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I've read six of those*, but none of them last year. Just got 7 books as Christmas presents so that should keep me busy for a couple of months...Dooogs
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Which was your favorite?milemonster6:36am, 1st Jan 2014
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I've read 3, 7, 9, 15GregP7:29am, 1st Jan 2014
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I've read 3, 6, 9, 10, 11 & 17 on that list, with Catch-22 being my favourite. Which were yours and which would you recommend?Diogenes10:19am, 1st Jan 2014
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The Grapes of Wrath is the pick of the list in my opinion. Utterly brilliant in every regard. The Zen book is pretty heavy going, I found. D of a N is also a classic if you find yourself on the same wavelength.Johnny Blaze11:15am, 1st Jan 2014
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Can you give us a score/opinion for each Lord F.CStar11:17am, 1st Jan 2014
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*looks ashamed* I haven't even heard of a few of them. My top two would be Catch-22 and Diary of a Nobody. My very bottom two would be One Day and On the Road - I'm just not cool enough for Kerouac.LazyDaisy11:59am, 1st Jan 2014
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I think On the Road is best read when you're nineteen and probably in the 1950s or 60s. I loved it then (or claimed I did) and read loads of Kerouac. I'm sure I'd find it tiresome and self indulgent now!Sharkie12:37pm, 1st Jan 2014
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And you have beaten me to it Fetch ...I'm half way through a blog about the 49 books I have bought and not read or only half read over the last couple of years. I am determined to plough through them properly over the next few months.Sharkie12:39pm, 1st Jan 2014
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Casual vacancy was a great read, just finished it and started cuckoos calling or something and seventy seven ....might try one of yours after xrunnerbean12:41pm, 1st Jan 2014
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Blog strongVelociraptor You can always review a novel if you don't have anything else to blog about.1:54pm, 1st Jan 2014
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I was surprised how much I enjoyed Casual Vacancy.northernslowcoach2:38pm, 1st Jan 2014
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Up until this year I kept of a log of every book I read, but as with most things this year that has fallen by the wayside. My reading list is not so consistently erudite, I tend to read a lot of what some would call trash. I do like a good gory serial killer type escapage.susietwoshoes2:56pm, 1st Jan 2014
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I'd also rather have a page-turning yarn than something that's of literary merit. Of course, lots of the best books manage to be bothVelociraptor5:20pm, 1st Jan 2014
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I recommend Don Quixote. It might reduce your 2014 tally but it'll be worth itOllyW8:18pm, 1st Jan 2014
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Just started Casual Vacancy, had to steal it back from my wifeSnapstinget8:32pm, 1st Jan 2014
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Interesting list. One of my resolutions this year is to read more, I used to really enjoy reading before the internet got so much more handy. Ironically, it a Kindle (fire) that's caused me to read less.JEB9:52pm, 1st Jan 2014
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Was there at one stage a book club thread? I too would like to read more having got out of the habit in recent years. I find myself all too often wasting an evening on wine and crap telly when I think snuggled up with a book would be a better use of the time.emdee10:11pm, 1st Jan 2014
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Good Luck with the daily blog. If I maintain my diary of daily runs I might take a lookMuds10:56pm, 1st Jan 2014
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Yeah, could you do a one line review of each please? I got Zen And The Art... as a Christmas present because you mentioned it in a prev blog. It's really good. Much easier read than I thought it was going to be. Happy New Year to you and all of yours - 2014's going to be a cracker! :-)GHappyG(rrr)9:37am, 2nd Jan 2014
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I loved the art of racing in the rain, I remember finishing reading it on a Mexican beach and it made me cry!J*C7:11pm, 2nd Jan 2014
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My favourite of all is a book I've read four times now, in 1998, 2003, 2008 and this year - and that's Zen & The Art... It really sang to me. Other standouts were Racing in the Rain (esp if you're a dog lover), Grapes of Wrath (wonderful), Catch-22 (really hard going in places because of the wordplay, but the ending is worth it - HG, you'll like it especially), and the David Sedaris books (he's often on R4, recounting stuff from his life - and his books are just the same).fetcheveryone11:51pm, 2nd Jan 2014
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Escape from Meriden
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Front Garden Ultra?
The Boy is a man!
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August (14)
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Your local parkrun
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July (13)
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June (8)
Last Big Swim
I can't be the only one...
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May (17)
A new WSW challenge
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And that was March
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And that was February
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What does Points make?
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January (14)
Monthly Infographic Bug Fixes
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Have a play with the monthly infographic
It's not ready yet, but...
Introducing Fetch Premium
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Definitely Not Betting
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Advance warning for stalkers!
I'm back (and the Fetch LS, SS and NS shirts preorder is open)
Attention Fitbit Users
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December (8)
Treasure Hunt Day 1 - the best gift
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Introducing the Fetch Relay 2023
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Confessions :-)
12 Days of Christmas Treasure Hunt
Chewie, we’re home!
A few pics from the Foffice :-)
November (24)
Yesvember - Day #30 (and Festive Fetch Calendar Eve!)
The Fetch Festive 160.934 :-) [Yesvember #Day 29]
You'd better watch out... (plus Yesvember Day #28)
Brace Yourself (and there's one spare bobble hat!) and Yesvember - Day #26
Hats in the post! Plus Yesvember Day #25
Look what arrived!
Yesvember - Day #24
Training Graph Manager - usability update (Yesvember Day #23)
Yesvember - Day #22 - Cheating?
Last chance to enter the Advance Performance comp
Yesvember - Days #11 thru #14 (plus Jumpy Boy)
Weather on the training home page watch. Have you got weather on the training home page? (Yesvember - Day #10)
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Another bit of the internet fenced off
Yesvember - Day #8 - taking steps
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Yesvember - Day #6
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The curse of swimming GPS
Yesvember - Day #4
The Les Mis effect
Yesvember - Day #3
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Yesvember - Day #1
October (15)
October gives way to Yesvember!
Anyone fancy a threeway?
More thoughts on races
Racing, post-pandemic
Contracts exchanged!
Competition Time!
Last call for Flobble Hats
A record year for swimming?
Woburn Lido
Order your Bobble Hat! If you like.
I appear to have entered a race! (plus new Garmin import queueing system)
Eric the Eel
Get your hobbit on
The Doctor K Cup: Saturday 8th October!
I felt the touch of the kings and the breath of the wind
September (16)
Take This Bus To Cuba
Fetch Bobble Hats
Trumpeting
Training View tweaks (switch maps, game overlays, mile markers)
Training View tweaks (and a play button bug fix)
A long ride and a cold swim.
Play Button
UTMOST Wava & Bike Division Rebuilds
New UTMOST leagues for cyclists and WAVA fans
The Doctor K Cup
Chance encounters
Do I ditch our Facebook stuff?
A keeper, from my feedback inbox...
Ultra distances - update
Adding ultra distances to Fastest Fetchies league.
Try the new Training Groups pages
August (11)
Training Groups Update - Coming Soon
Garmin Queue Issues
Donations without reference numbers :-)
New Elbow Laws
No longer the 3398th fastest Fetchie over 10k!
Pulling counties into league tables
What was I thinking?
County Champion?
Just bear in mind that you asked for this.
Wahoo and Coros users
How to make half a million quid (batteries not included)
July (6)
Club Listings
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Updated Race Portfolio
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Exactly ***1*** Spare Ladies L Cycling Jersey
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June (10)
Imagine you could search all the public blogs...
Banking Scandal at Fetch Towers!
7pm on Baker Island #everyoneday
#EveryoneDay - Sunday 26th June 2022
Spare Challenge Coasters
The North West Passage
Feature Request Voting - Know Your Limits!
UTMOST Division 8: YIKES!
Shepperton Weight Gain Programme
UTMOST Division 9! Sub-50 10k :-)
May (16)
Four hours left :-)
Division 10: No hope of escape?
Book giveaway :-)
Division 11: No place left to hide
New HR Analysis
They're here! Well, not exactly *here*, but...
A quick Darth Mode update
Darth Mode! And a few biscuits for the hyperdrive.
Division 12: Two hours of pushing broom
Dark Mode: Beta
PB Potential? Fancy a quickie? ;-)
Division 12: Running Out Of Road?
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Making UTMOST moves :-)
Do you want a Fetch shirt?
I did my UTMOST :-) (plus new sharing infographic)
April (7)
Today's plan
NEW UTMOST BADGES!!!!!
A plug for some races
Raspberry Pavlov
Win a book :-)
United Colours of Cross Training
A little Streetview adventure
March (11)
The lockers are a pound.
Advice for Gym Noobs!
Feedback made easier
#EveryoneDay June 26th 2022
Fetch Virtual Challenge 2022 🎈
Thanks Chunky: parkrun routes!
Sniffer Dogs
Yikes!
Fetch Cycling Jerseys - Update
Route Plotting tweak
The Crow: A Pipedream!
February (7)
Fetch Kit Spares
Updated Race Listing Pages
Introducing Rundle!
I appear to be training for an OWS event!
Fetch Cycling Jerseys!!!
Does you wantz free shoez?
Post Office tomorrow - kit spares
January (13)
Updated Flanci Design (now with more Fetchness)
Badge Collection Graphic!
Updated elevation trace
Book Lists :-)
Updated sharing infographic - do you like it?
Spare Fetch Kit
Badge page refresh / feature requests
Flanci / Fetch Leggings
New Badge Pages
New hill badges
Join me on my fitness journey!
Are you the farmer?
Blog every day challenge - finishers
2021 (187)
December (14)
Book List
Ten years ago today...
A big slobbery elephant snog.
If you don't like hills, this must be getting tiring :-)
When does a hill end?
Hill finder - prototype v2
Hill Finder - prototype
2022 Targets
Chewie, We’re Home! Happy Fetch Independence Day!
Embed badges, plus a new badge :-)
Updated people page
Seeking map
Streak Watch
The new Fetch buffs are here…
November (23)
Almost there...
The Fetch Library
Update your thread titles
Ascent dissent
Mute a thread
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Training Import Queue
I fell off (but not really!)
Croeso i Fetcheveryone. Ydych chi'n siarad Almaeneg, Swedish neu Eidaleg?
New mobile nav
Last call for shirts
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Just a trim please
Brought to you by wind power
300 miles later
Golden Ticket Shocker!
Banjobax (aka KOG)
Home and Away kit preorder - with long sleeve option
A little competition - win a copy of Daniels' Running Formula
Garmin testers - thanks
Add your grub stops!
Points Of Interest: Grub Stops
Garmin-owning testers wanted
October (19)
New home and away shirts and vests
Benchmark league - a few more updates
Benchmark league table
Hill areas
Preorder is now open!
'b'uffs then
Necktube design #1 & #2
Buffs (well, neck tubes)
Report dodgy GPS stuff
An apology for people who follow my training
New cycling and swimming badges
New Conquercise Feature: Grids
Sprouting a tiny biking antler :-)
Have a try of the cycling gradient analysis
Struggling with my big ring
Cycling: gradient vs pace
A question for cyclists
For Doctor K
Shan't.
September (14)
New comments (FID 1212)
Forum post previews
Garmin imports with a snippet more info
Gallery upload options
Golden Tickets
"No need to panic donate", says Williams
Forum Quotes
Spoiler Alert!
20th of March and all that.
Have you signed up yet?
This bit of crappy Upminister nearly cost me my f***ing life.
A guide with no pages
To steal a catchphrase from a wise lady...
Multiple choice polls
August (11)
Pre-Race Training - Updated
A connection!
New Member of the Month sponsor
Best Weeks - bug fixes
Your Best Week Ever
Rainbow Kit - preorder is open
Age Bests - filtering out the mistakes :-)
Sign up, sign up, for the Doctor K cup
A message from my lovely wife ❤️
Another batch of rainbow kit?
Spares: Event Clips, Swim Hats and a few rainbow tops
July (10)
A bunch of site goodies :-)
Hello kitty
Holy Simmering Mercury Batman!
Settings
A heart rate question
Sleepy Shuffle?
365 graph
Slipping on ma noob shoes
Meatronomes
World's Sexiest Bridges
June (11)
Benchmarks - a *tiny* little improvement
Race Leaderboards - some small improvements
Race Finder - Update
Up there ^
Routes - more updates
Last call for FE Event Clips
Server update
Minor code problem
Some little updates to your route list
Feature requests - two years on!
More than just a rainbow
May (8)
Rainbow Kit - update on delivery time...
Fetch Ron Hill Cycling Jerseys
Pre-order your rainbow kit now :-)
Jimi Hendrix vs Run DMC
The return of parkrun - a poll
Something in the woodshed...
Default to walk
A tour of the Fetch Office
April (11)
Instabanned :-)
I has Instagram
Fetch Event Clips
FERC
Castle Challenge Coaster!
My chess rating
Jab - symptom watch
This just in...
REVIEW: XMiles selection box
Let FE pay for your coaching qualifications :-)
Castle Challenge - A Quick Blog
March (18)
The Fetcheveryone Castle Challenge
Running vs Cycling Cadence
Fetch vests and shirts (and swim caps)
Elevation vs Follow Roads
£500 of England Athletics courses up for grabs!
TomTom users
Music by year: 1993
10k Analysis: Part 7 - Length of Training Runs
Music by year: 1992 (plus some 1991 additions)
Bot sniffing win :-) plus daily blogger count!
User profiles
10k Analysis: Part 6 - Training Pace Again
Time to update your injuries :-)
User profile - sticker button.. EDIT and race standard
More user profile adjustments
User Profile tweaking
Cute story of the week*
10k Analysis: Part 5 - Training Pace
February (17)
Year on Year mileage comparison
Elevation graphs
It's all kicking off in chess club!
Music By year: 1991
10k Analysis: Part 4 - Weekly Training Habits
Tagging virtual races
Chasing rainbows
Rainbow Shirts
Lance!
Blog writing improvements
10k Analysis: Part 3 - Accuracy of human predictions
Music by year: 1990
Smacking bots
29 slices - my seven days of dinner
10k Analysis: Part 2 - Age and Performance
Pass it on
10k Analysis: Part 1 - Distribution of best 10k times
January (31)
January
Mobile Usability Team Helping All Fetchies...
Salmon Ramen Recipe :-)
Salmon Ramen (for TBR)
Backup dog
The best GPS watches in the world... volume 1
Pick it...
People who liked...
Obscure bugs
Zen & The Art of Heart Rate Training
FIT file import - temporary issue
Keep the change, ya filthy animal
The honeymoon is over
Dirty data
Mobile Usability
Oops
Readership!
Stay sticky
It's Hip To Buy Squares
Related Threads - Exposé :-)
The Batshit Association
Jobs
Tag Team
Feed the monster!
An ad for Fetch Chess Club :-)
Estimating VO2Max
Three little birds
A not uncommon swelling
Church Mouse January
Honey, where's my super suit?
Not here.
2020 (128)
December (6)
Blog A Day 2021?
9 years ago today
Chewie, We're Home! Happy Fetch Independence Day :-)
Be Prepared
Becoming an effluencer
A few Fetch Mugs left
November (10)
The Festive Fetch Calendar is back!
FIT file import
Mugs!
Thank you, mysterious Fetchie!
Chess
UTMOST in the age of COVID-19
This'll cheer you up for sure...
Lost in translation?
Annual Infographic... updating now.
In theory...
October (11)
Training Plan Analysis
Mini plans with the training plan
5k with The Boy :-)
Welcome to tomorrow
Thank you
Become tradeable!
Pre-Race Training Volume
Doctor K Cup Week
Last orders
Advice for a friend
Trader Makeover
September (6)
The shop is open!
Hoodie Colour!
New Fetch Hoodies
A big up/holler!
VO2max
A benchmark derailed by GPS data *nerd*
August (8)
10k analysis
Officially a Sheepy Shuffler!
Pi Watering
Pre-order Avoid Everyone Face Masks
I got sent these...
Other sites? :-O
Benchmarks - an infinitely configurable set of ladders.
Try the monthly infographic :-)
July (10)
Update on Monthly Training Infographic
New Infographic
Monthly Summary (with a little tweak)
A quick Garmin update
Open Water / Wild Swimming Database
Avoid Everyone - spares
OWS Locations
Thread-level search
New Sharing Graphic & New Pastures
My first lamp post
June (16)
Replacing the Who's Training page
Combining some pages
In pursuit of the Gridmaster Ultra
15th Anniversary Kit - Spares
Shoelaces
A new How To video
Training Plan Updated
Black Lives Matter
Avoid Everyone Spares + Second Batch
Wikipedia page
Another YouTube video for sharesies :-)
Getting data to Fetch from **other places**
Feature Voting - some further updates
Feature Voting - speeded up
Another How To video - this time, Conquercise
Fantastisches Tweeten
May (13)
A video for sharing
Bees!
Fetch Introductory Zoom Presentations
A promise to all Fetchies
Fetch Virtual Weekend: Replacement Bus Service
How has Fetch use changed?
Fetch Weekly Virtual Races
Zoom Meeting - Thursday 9 til 10am
WAVA Standards Update
WAVA Standards + Poll
Fun with Age Grading :-)
New Badges Day
The test shirt fabric has arrived :-)
April (14)
Zoom Podcast - watch the video
What is WBC?
If you did the free Amazon trial...
Some small amends (and shirt version)
Pre-orders open
I was only joking, but...
If Fetcheveryone did lockdown merch
Site outage - Thursday 16th April 11pm
On exercising responsibly
My Sports Quiz - how would you have scored?
Your creative thinking required
WBC My Favourite Teacher (a bit later than the deadline)
Updated Training League
Server Downtime, Thursday 9th 00:01BST to 04:00BST (and thank you!)
March (13)
New Fetch Game: Hide and Seek
Free trial of Audible
Do you have a good memory?
New Opt-In for Fetch Miles
New Badges for Fetch Miles
The Fetch Five: Don't Let CV19 Win!
Amending event dates and notifying of cancellations
A green light comes on over your head, and you can get on with life
Most Popular Shoe Brands 2019
A review
Android: Session I
Compare Your Training
Book Now to avoid disappointment :-)
February (10)
Imports from Suunto, Fitbit, Polar and TomTom.
Plot A Route - mobile improvements
Happy tugging!
Something to play with
Adding A New Feature
February Treasure Hunt
Server Downtime
Miles = Smiles
Build Your Mile
Pop Will Eat Himself: Update
January (11)
Clarence the Cadence Kitten
Trim your trails :-)
Seven Day Leaderboard
Let's try that again
Some minor blog amendments
Try the new Forum Search Prototype
Pop Will Eat Himself
A card from HowFar?
Thank you HowFar? (Statement, not a question)
Take the red pill
Climb every mountain
2019 (134)
December (7)
The Christmas Poem
Where your treasure is...
Listen to the dog breathe
Chewie, We're Home
Thursday's Challenge
Which GPS?
Fetch Shop (of sorts)
November (12)
The zeroth challenge
Polar users - auto import
Calling all Polar users
Mobile Optimisation
Calling all Android users
Did your ads disappear?
Pin that sucker down :-)
Easier tagging
Category now editable from VIEW
Kit now editable from VIEW
Working towards tagging
Manual Add Training bug
October (16)
Boring Cricket Blog
Books Part 2
Books :-)
42
Training tags Part 2
Training tags
Let's Jazzercise
My precious
Cricket Week 4: Footage :-)
Forum Training Threads
Benny Neutrino Returns
Cricket Week 3: Wingardium Leviosa!
Benny Neutrino's Filter Tips
Cricket Week 2
Continuing Amazon Affiliate Saga
In case you haven't seen...
September (11)
Updated: Spare Anniversary Kit
Affiliate links
I did a cricket!
Fetch365 - enjoy responsibly
Filth
My dear old things
Buddies vs Follow
Server Invoice Day
Our new MOTM sponsor
Fetch Power!
Race Listings: Please Read
August (5)
Everyone *rainbow*
Almost there...
Quick blog
Country Badges
A new set of badges
July (6)
Pre-orders open
Anniversary Shirts v2
Fetch 15th Anniversary Shirts
Fetch Fest 2020
Shout Outs
Missing imports from Garmin yesterday
June (13)
Who Squares Wins: 64 screenshot
Who Squares Wins: 64 Player Edition
Training summary - older pages
Training sub-menu rejig
Try the infographic
Steady Edina
Annual Summary Infographic
The height of daft things
The training summary - the morning session
The training summary - a wordier blog
Try the annual summary thing
How to listen to the Fetch Podcast
12 month summary mega-graph!
May (15)
£79.99 off the bottom line
Competition
parkrun reviews - now with routes
Fix It Friday; Project Joker Week 2; and some shout outs.
Fetch Kit Cupboard Sale
The bonus ball
Project Joker - Week 1
Fix It Friday
A quick update on the server
Fetch 15th Anniversary Kit
There is a good service operating
Oof.
In case you're wondering...
Trouble auto importing from Garmin?
Fix It Friday: Stuff that came to me in dreams
April (12)
Feature Voting - now with virtual badges :-)
The moment of triumph!
New Feature Voting
Fix It Friday: What would your horse be called?
Marathon Pacing: tyre-kickers required
Fix It Friday: Back to Basics
Podcast Poll
Fix It Friday: The League Of Everyone
Dom, dom, dom, I've got DOMS, I've got DOMS!
Crouch, Touch, Pause.... longer pause... what am I doing again?
Training Log - Update
Site Update: New Font
March (15)
Fix It Friday: An Endless Mission
Naming and faming :-)
2nd in my age category!
Fix It Friday: Brought to you by Surprise Inset Day
New training log
Route Matching - Ready :-)
Fix It Friday
What's your unit of measurement?
Ciderthon competition
Fix It Friday: Stroopwafels of Doom!
Route Matching - Update
This week's cool list
Me in the river
Big Fetch Miles 2019
Fix It Friday: Fingerprints!
February (13)
A Maths Challenge
Fetch Legends: Activate!
Whose coat is this jacket?
Fix It Friday: The Fix Awakens
Joining the awesome list...
Fix It Friday
Naming and faming :-)
Fix It Friday - Monthly Summary
Training Month Summary
Podcast Q&A
If you can't read this, don't panic.
*redsaber* The force is strong with these Fetchies!
Fix It Friday *bluesaber*
January (9)
Some shout outs :-)
Fix It Friday!
Podcast Ep 3, plus some naming and faming :-)
Fix It Friday
Fetch Chaos
Oooh! Second chance Berlin trip! And new subbers, podcast episode, and Trader.
My week of running
Naming and faming - this week :-)
Naming and faming :-)
2018 (138)
December (8)
A Christmas Message (in podcast form)
Rungeon :-)
Hey, Everyone!
France Trip Vote
Happy Fetch Independence Day
Actual free trip to France (incl. flights)
Litter
Sombrero's Lovely Cards
November (14)
Hoodies + other spares
Spare Fetch Kit
Festive Fetch Calendar 2018
Avatars
Book Giveaway - Can We Run With You, Grandfather?
Fix It Friday
Bedford Harriers Half - place offered
Updated Kit Bag
Family Fortunes :-)
Any adidas experts out there?
No Fixes Today - just two challenges
Big Fetch Mile Cardiff
Fix It Friday
Festive Fetch Calendar 2018
October (14)
Hello landlubbers
Embedded polls
Member of the Month
Fix It Friday
Spare Fetch shirts and vests
Abingdon
Fix It Friday
My Fetch Mile
One thing's for sure, we're all gonna be a lot thinner.
Fix It Friday - 'Ave It!
Automatic route matching
Automatic route matching
One last reminder for those cycling jerseys
Fix It Friday - Forensics and User Experience
September (14)
Fix It Friday
Server Downtime 2.30pm 26th September
Never Again
Fix It Friday!
Handling your weirdness
Cards ordered :-)
Just wondering...
Fix It Friday :-)
Try the Fetcheveryone Tutorial
40 days and 40 nights
Fix It Friday
ARION insoles - review part 1
Fetch Shirt - Black Ones, and sizing
Shirts and Vests Pre-Order
August (14)
Fix It Friday
Blog Height squished
Site Outage Last Night
New Mobile Nav
Fix It Friday
New feature - how you doin'? :-)
Sunflower spread
Fix It Friday
A new pre-race mileage graph
Fetch Social: Draycote Water September
Fix It Friday: The Supermarket Analogy
A run with _andy :-)
Suunto 9 Review
Fix it Friday
July (5)
Fix It Friday!
Five Get Wet In Devon
Big Glasgow Weekend - Part 1: Gies A Cwtch
Tom Williams Interview - Final Part
Glasgow Big Fetch Mile Results and Pics
June (17)
Abingdon Week 17 - P&D Booster rockets
Interviewing Tom Williams: Part III
Walking League (and one just for Nellers)
Follow Roads - continued
Week 18 in the bag
Tackling turds
Abingdon Marathon Training: Week 18
Interview with Tom Williams - Part 2
Server
Five Questions (ready for serious answers)
Kick some tyres for me
Interview with Tom Williams - Part 1
Five Questions
Follow Roads saga
Google maps progress, plus Abingdon plans
Training Summary - Infographics
Who Squares Wins - ranking update
May (10)
Training log maps converted
More mapping updates
Who Squares Wins - The Wizard's Hat
De doo doo doo... another one bites the dust...
Invisible changes
Silverstone 10k
Three year throwback
Why your support makes the difference
Some high mileage Fetchies
dryrobe winner
April (14)
Interviewing Tom Williams
Swimming Caps!
#finishformatt
New batch of shirts and vests
You make big mistake my friend
Fetchpoint
Glasgow Big Fetch Mile announced
Two tickets to the Running Awards
Pics from Dudley Big Fetch Mile
Notes for London Marathon Fetchpointers
Results from today's Big Fetch Mile
Who Squares Wins - prototype board
Attention London Marathoners!
New game - coming soon
March (9)
Intervals, Solidarity, Swimming and Fmail
Ready to give the new fmail a try?
More on fmail
New fmail system
Win a dryrobe :-)
For jabberknit...
Updating the Training Home page
Pics from Bedford Big Fetch Mile
Sledgends :-)
February (13)
Buffs On Sale
Big Fetch Mile Bedford
Vlog :-)
Marathon Talk
Important GDPR stuff - PLEASE read
A page of historical importance
Vlog :-)
Road Rash, Marathon Prediction and T-Shirts
This :-)
Capturing the dog
It's BACK!
Enter Wilmslow Half Marathon
An advertisement
January (6)
Local Fetchies - Opt In
Revealed: World's Best Shoes
How I chose the Big Fetch Mile venues
Big Fetch Mile 2018 - Venues & Provisional Dates
Try adding an image to your training entry
Mileage Targets 2018 - Update
2017 (147)
December (12)
Mileage Targets 2018
Thank you
Brownie Recipe :-)
Phew
Fetch Hoodies + Buffs SALE Update
Chewie, We're Home
Fetch Hoodies SALE - what's left
Fetch Hoodies! SALE!!! (and Buffs available too)
Chewie, We're Home
Sharing pics
Fetch Jingle Mile Cambridge photos
Glorious Failure: Bedford Harriers Half Marathon
November (20)
Serpents, hamstrings and inversions
A special anniversary approaches...
Hamstring and prototype updates
Training Log Prototype - Today's Improvements
Red Venom sale
For what it's worth...
Training Log Prototype - Update #2
Training Log Prototype - Update
Big Fetch Mile - venue hunt
RT for a Garmin
Training Log Prototype - To Be Fixed
fetcheveryone.com/amazon
The Weekly vLog (by me)
Thanks :-)
New Training Log Prototype - Available Now
Thanks for following
VLog - footage from the Cardiff Big Fetch Mile
Big Fetch Mile[s] 2018
Win a place in the Surrey Half
I vont to scan your barcode.
October (12)
Big Fetch Weekend :-)
Fetch Mile Results
Festive Fetch Calendar :-O
Calling Parkers everywhere!
In which I decorate a cake.
Regent's Park Fetchie Discount
Elevation in colour
"I didn't come here to walk to Sparta!"
New elevation info
Chicken Ballot-ine, with a side order of beef
New training log headers
Ballot day tomorrow - help needed
September (19)
Weekly vLog - COCONUTS!!!
River Thames Half Marathon
The lollipop update
On failing gracefully
Doctor K Day
Fetch Kit Sale - Updates
Weekly vLog
Fetch Kit Sale
Training Log View Update
Fetcheveryone Weekly? Vlog?
Fetchie Race Discount - Regent's Park 10k
Training Log Tags - Live
Training Log Tags
Weekly vLog - Derby Mile, and a pause to salute the legendary Doctor K
24 hours later
Doctor K donation page
Doctor K
Fetch Weekly vLog
Derby Mile - tomorrow!
August (8)
Race Prices; and an alien earworm
Straight outta Cromford - the Fetch Weekly vLog!
A Fetch vLog! With prizes!
Quick search location for sharing
New WAVA graph
Weird FIT file thing
Back from me 'olidays :-)
Linking race results to training log entries
July (12)
Race Pricing - crowdsourcing
Appdate for Android and iPhone
Inhalers
Fetch Mile - Cardiff?
Bookends
Race listing omelette
Coding and town planning
Please review your races
A2B winners
Motivational Sounds - the final 10
Two more Big Fetch Miles? :-)
Bedford Fetch Mile Results
June (19)
Big Fetch Mile
Motivational Sounds
Fetch fug - updated design
Fetch fug (available at the Fetch mile)
I've done the naughtiest thing ever.
Donating Blood - my Vlog
Fapp In the App Store :-)
Can I kick it?
A***biscuits
This just in...
For Bean
Your app status is Waiting For Review
A2B
Fetch Caps
Garmin Communicator Plugin
Fetch App - strong and stable testing
HTTPS is here
Fetch App progress
https access to the site
May (14)
Fetch App
Apostrophes
[Untitled]
[Untitled]
Site down at 11pm
Round and round the garden
Try the new home page layout
Server down tonight @ 11pm
Browser testers wanted
The Big Fetch Mile!!!
Site *NOT* down tonight. [cough]
Bluffer's Competition - Winner
Bedford parkrun timelapse
Return of the cap
April (8)
Fetchpoint (London and Milton Keynes!)
Base camp, VMLM
Bronze!
Just for D2
Off to the awards
Bloodvlog
Hoodies - it's on!
Updated Training Home Page
March (6)
'Train' page
Project Joker
Hoodies and Londons
Hands up, hands UP! Draycote Water 10
Bluffer's Competition
Project Joker
February (12)
Draggable?
Running Awards shortlisted
Route Plotter now with OpenStreetMap
Plan for Bluffer's comp
Update to Route Plotter
First update to the route mapper
For Angus
Virtuous Circles
Competition coming soon
Race Guide Ads
Club La Santa vLog
Fetch Fixtures
January (5)
Word Clouds
Buckets Ready
New Home Page
Do me a favour...
Limited Companies, filing accounts, that sort of thing
2016 (128)
December (11)
Festive Fetch Calendar - Winners
Festive Fetch Calendar - Winners
Five Years Ago Today
Pantsfest! May the stains be ever in your favour!
#FEXIT
Photoshop SOS
Attention: Fitbit users
Bedford Half 2016
Luton Fetchmob: Breaking Point
Vote Fetch!
Breaking news: Paris Marathon
November (21)
How to end a LiveChat.
Define wrong
TomTom Runner 3 Review - Any Questions?
Deliveryman
Movember: Project Beard: Day 24: Beardraggled
Festive Fetch Calendar 2016
We're gonna be in the Hudson
Hey Chiefy
I've written summat
Going Postal
A special mention
Training Log Beta
Spare Hoodies
Updates to Training Beta
Movember: Project Beard - Day 8 (The Seven Day Itch)
Vote for Fetch
Training Log Detail View - Some Changes
Aberdeen University Study
Consultation V2
[Untitled]
Fetchpoint - October Winners and November Prizes
October (16)
Alien nuggets!
Keeping a tight lid on the biscuit tin
Training Log Beta
100 Running Words
Pssst....
Fetchmob, December 3rd
Where to mob?
Little things
That All-Time Mileage League
The sudoku that keeps on giving.
Sub-25 for 1km :-)
Fetchmob - December 3rd
New Training Log Preview
Fixed the overlap...
Why the new training log isn't ready yet...
vLog
September (12)
Doughnut or Donate
Training Log - Sneak Peek
Fetch Shop Sale! Old stuff clearout!
vLog!!!
The consultation system...
Garmin support for timezone info
The GMT/BST/Timezone problem
Training Log Consultation...
Training Log - Consultation
Fetch Social Runs
Subscriber shirts, vests and hoodies, and determination.
Fetch Voluntary Subscriptions
August (3)
Ze Gryndylows! My first #OWS :-)
Testing Fetchpoint exclusion zones
Fetchpoint scoring system
July (7)
Conquercise Prize Draw?
Fetch Games: Checkpoints (and what's wrong with them)
More owls...
Your Favourite Fetch Game?
Even More Utmost Than Before...
Chiswick!
15 days later...
June (10)
Five days on...
[Untitled]
A quick thank you...
What do you think?
If you'd be so kind...
Poised
Which watch?
Run Bedford 10k
Import from a TomTom
Attention TomTom users
May (10)
Race Distance poll
An ungainly fish
A five year plan
What Club La Santa can learn from parkrun
Cream Me Up, Scotty
Greetings from Club La Santa
And a quick poll...
Club Charter
A poll about intervals
More owls!
April (11)
Robin Hood and his Merry Dad :-)
Warning: Dull - some screen res stats
Responsive Design Update
For all you marathoners
A Poll
Fetchpoint
Ditching the forum categories?
Moving to Responsive Design
Sandy 10: Be Kind To Horses
Owls!
For Adam and Jamie
March (11)
Bacon Smoke!
Benchmarks Update
Bath - Race Report
PB!!!!!!!
An annoying eight-year-old.
Let's Cook and Cut and Paste :-)
Let's Cook :-)
RIP Gramma
Book Winners
Dog farming
Site header update
February (5)
Book Giveaway
Pi Club
Pi Project Update
Because I'd like to check the blogging badges are working...
Crapruary
January (11)
Snooker Freak
Badges - Another Update
Unlockable Badges - Update
Unlockable Badges
TomTom Runner 2 Review
Gallery updates
Snowball coding and Fetch Unlockables!
Achievement Medals - what do you reckon?
Run The Sum
2015 Book List (and a bit of a review / plan)
Festive Fetch Calendar - Winners
2015 (175)
December (7)
Red Red Wine
A Poll
Gis a job!
Bedford Half
REMEMBER!!!
Vote for Fetch
Now you've hopefully got the idea...
November (13)
The Festive Fetch Calendar
Don't get excited or anything...
Slightly Dismal Friday
Pre-order your Fetch Buff now :-)
A message from our sponsor
Dr Fetch will see you now
Only the grumbliest, achiest chocolate... :-)
The Stanford Experiment
Buff Design
Snugs - Review
Love, Commitment, Support
The pre-wedding blog!
Good morning Fetchers, good morning Everyone
October (9)
Monthly Totals
Did you write a blog yesterday?
The First Rule of Web Server Maintenance
The gain line
Fectch
The zipper challenge!
Sugar daddy
Now in colour!
Competition Time!!!
September (14)
Teach your kids (or yourself) to code
Sticky Training Choices
Goodies: GetMore water and the Alcatel OneTouch Watch
Shirt size guidelines
This nearly made it...
Subscriber Shirt Design
I've got wood!
Humbled
New Beginnings
Some more questions answered
Swimming
Some responses to your comments
Standing on the shoulders of Fetchies
Funtleks
August (8)
24 hours in the south
24 hours in the north
Fetchies Assemble!
Thank you
Better knowledge than riches
Fitbit Urge
The villainous Mr Fetch!
Uncomfortable rear
July (8)
Why don't you play Conquercise?
Another week of strange training
Book Giveaway - Winners
GPS Reviews
Criteria for reviewing a GPS
Auto-bike-detector :-)
Win some bookses :-)
Half Way!
June (13)
Time Lapse Clouds
TomTom Bandit - very QUICK first impressions
My wings are like a shield of steel!
Running plus Cycling update
Embarrassingly...
Stalkers Paradise!
Recommend me a bike :-)
Holy Steamrollers Batman!
Rest day (no such thing)
Sqveeeeze!
We will now imitate the flight of a goose :-)
You made me ink! Snorkel safari :-)
Good morning from CLS :-)
May (10)
Club La Santa :-)
The AWESOME Power of Fetchies!
Home Insurance Shaftage :-/
Editing Forum Posts
The Future!
Some London Marathon stats
Walking On The Moon
Hardest parkrun?
New found wisdom
Week 1
April (11)
Marathon vLog
I owe some hugs!
And that concludes the voting from the Danish judges
Adventures in geocaching
Your video clips wanted!
Jelly with no spoons
Random Ultra
Suncream in my eyes - a review of 'Running and Stuff'
Books what I've read this year
Measuring the effect of wind
Wind Roses
March (18)
Watching the tide roll away
A great week of running!
Happy Jigs Wisdom!
Mobile Fetch
I don't do this very often...
Breathless Optimism
20 miles yesterday
This Week's vLog
Decision Trees and the sub-4!
Democracy Street
Mayan Maths
Bath Half (at last)
Still a chicken
Costume Drama in Bath
TomTom importing
Updated 'Train' page
Zonked
Nearly
February (29)
Pheasant
An Unexpected Journey
Wind picking up...
An unplanned kit alarm
Race Pace Test
2nd place
Week ends
Bounceback
Barking carrots
Bedroom pizza
Top of the mountain
Blogs get the mobile treatment
Supersonic Katie, and a marathon pace question
Back home
Racing parkrun ;-)
Unblocking the sink
Start in Darkness
Some times I'd like
Mobile Site - Forum Section
All-Time Leaderboards
Batteries
Sword fighting
PB Attempts
Duct tape and WD40
Big Elephants Can Always Understand Small Elephants
Lessons
Shoe horning
Training vLog Week 13
Big February Project
January (35)
Cake, invalidated
Small sips
LiRF, award shortlist, beginners, books, boy.
Dog Available :-)
Cutback
New Recipe Section
Lazy
Another threshold run
New Beginnings
Blah
But far more importantly...
Fetch Beginners Programme
Give it a go :-)
Training vLog - Week 11
Threshold Run (a running blog)
Long day, short blog
(Lack of) Pump Action
A thread to follow
This Boy Can
Local Leaderboards for Checkpoints
Choking.
February 18th
Godzilla!
The Travelling Checkpoint Salesman
Acorn Antiques
Bearing Up
Deleted Bridges and Dodgy Lasers
I'm Batman!
Healthy and Appy
Punch O'Clock!
The plan, then.
Ten mile toes
On Parliament
[Untitled]
Bold Claims, and a Challenge for 2015
2014 (262)
December (9)
A trip to Wales (vLog)
Christmas Messages from Fetchies
Various
FERC London Marathon Places - Draw
It's gone in my sock...
Festive Fetch Five
This Week's Training
To the Post Office!
Training vLog - Week 4
November (12)
I Am Groot!
Slightly Dismal Friday
Week 3 - in which I nearly drown my wife!
I said yes :-)
Free Daps! aka Test GORE-TEX® footwear this winter!
Training vLog - Week 2
More chances for VMLM entries
Marathon Talk
My first training vLog :-)
Second place?
In :-)
Questionnaire about personality traits amongst runners
October (16)
Adidas API
Horseplay minimiser
Running with the big dog
Flat and Windy
Who'd like to test the Garmin API then?
Advantage Borg
Deal?
Jumble
Milk Tray Reps in the Rain
Geneva
Quote
Hatfield 5k, and some other running thoughts
Site layout changes
Vote for Training Plans
Maths help
3-2-1
September (8)
A quick device poll
Garmin Connect API
Cake at the lake :-)
Empowering Women
This Week's Training
Tick :-)
Article help
First outing with the Harriets
August (7)
Book club and Harriers
A treasure trove for bookish types
What I did on my Summer Holidays
Local decoration
The Fisher King
Mojitos and no mosquitos!
Cake-athlon
July (26)
James Mason
Missing Week
Camping View
Wild Camping
Quick
Transalpine Race
In brief
Urgent! Pair of runners wanted!
Fetch Kit Available to Pre-order :-)
Fetch Anniversary Kit - Preview
API and FAK!
That dog has a puffy tail
More books
Reverse Moses
Zombies vs Plants
Shovel required
Nightfever
Dayfever
Catcher in the Rye
My sister the psychologist
Drink your strong limey drink
Keep me in the loop
Bread knives, hedgehogs and the dog in the night time
Whoops
Pinteresting
Q&A?
June (34)
Checkpoints video
Walden
Happy boys and giggly imps
Spring loaded
Elbow grease
Fetch 10th Anniversary Kit
Fetch YouTube Tutorial - Race Guide
Finding the Library folder on a Mac
Stoat!
Sonic screwdriver
Live wires
Wiring help needed
Garmin Express Experiment
Scalded sloth
Garminge
Potching
New Forum Layout
Further updates to the blog layout
New blog layout
First woodpecker
Beastin' parkrun
Pantoball
All was well
USA! USA! USA!
Marking Territory
The People's Poet Is Dead :-(
Holy Water
Throwing shapes
Life moves pretty fast
Recursion is beautiful
Win an OS Explorer / Landranger map of your choice
Intervals with a Suunto Ambit 2S
Tick
Economy done two ways
May (31)
[Untitled]
Vorsprung Durch Lego Technic
How do I liberate my boy from his XBox?
Questions?
Life in the Woods
Lazy
MovesMissed
Intervals with a TomTom
Electioneering
[Untitled]
Tree fluff
More camping
Zen and Camping
Not eaten by bears
Bear food
Camping List
Camping Venn Diagrams
Floppy dog
Routes but not Rathbone
Illustrator wanted
Masking
Highlights
The Cosmic Ballet Goes On
Silverstone 10k :-)
Quick one
[Untitled]
Superhuman snooker
Dogturdflagman
Numbers!
Whittlin'
Chapter 1
April (29)
King Bin
Quiet day on Feedback Mountain
Listing
42
Go directly to parkrun. Do not pass Godzuki.
A day in Wales
[Untitled]
Spanner
The Lost Diadem of Fetchbook
Falling asleep in my dinner
Egg
Sofathon
God gave rock and roll to you.
Sugar Mule
Not bad, consid'rin.
Tinkering
Can U Dig It?
A weekend in Wales
Looking forward to Oliver!
Thank you, and more App talk
RIP Nan
Blah
Appy
Pyjamas at both ends.
Thump. Saturday has started.
Sore tum :-/
Zombies aside... first impressions of the new TomTom
TomTom Runner Cardio Press Event
Am I pregnant?
March (31)
Cornflakes Cornflakes Cornflakes Cornflakes Cornflakes Cornflakes Cornflakes
Sandy 10
#bedfordhappy
Me on YouTube
New graphs live
Follow the dot
Only the best for the Captain's table
Mrs Diahann Wagner is GOING HORNY
Sport Relief Win
Hot dogs, quick blogs
Toton Sidings
A sign!
Owen Farrell visualisation technique
Kebabs!
Booster fails to ignite
Myton Rugby Run (5 Miler)
Rugby before rugby
Sweetcorn antidote
Custard factory
Pooped
I did some intervals :-)
Speed work?
Many things
A bit cabbagey here.
Angry Wasp
Minty
Rainbow's End
Core Dump
Bath Half (in detail)
A quick overview
Down to business in Bath
February (28)
Made it to Bath
Unexpected hugs
Slider
I like to go a-wandering
Spring cleaning
Tongue-lolling
Because We're Worth It
I don't know what!
Thanks Jim
Enough now
Clearing the pipes
Crouch, Touch, Pause...
Medication, that's what you need.
Symptom Tour
Hello FBI
Dazed day
Why I'm an optimist
Mobius birds
Snotty knuckles
In this house...
Retch Everyone
Carrots
Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also
Ultrahalfmarathoner
Angry Birds
Belching
Clarkson averse
Good day :-)
January (31)
*bunting* *cake*
Bigger Boys
Zombies!
Pretending to be Saga Norén
Waiting for the AA
Ship shape
Readthrough
Technology takes you further
Love Garden
Cushions
High Heel Striker
Bit of a rubbish one
Ta
Hot Re-fills
Coding Grinch
An august prediction
Some Running Goals for Q1
Wipe-clean dog
Breaking it down
Snakes and Ladders
Bigger Ponds
Drink Your Weak Lemon Drink
All in All
Panning the pancake
Does JK Rowling own a dog?
Back to the kitchen table
Steve Davis shoes
Pigs on a water slide
Sloshing
Protocol
19 books :-)
2013 (29)
December (3)
Oh...
Engine Management Light
Hannibal Vector
November (3)
Speed skating
Stew-pendous
Cool Hand Grandpa
October (3)
Bookish
Minecraft Cake
Random dump
September (2)
Blog by Email!
Catchup blah
August (3)
Big Green Caterpillar
Questions answered - final CLS blog
Last Days at Club La Santa
July (10)
A nice morning of swimming and tennis
Please Read: Questions for a sports coach
Snorkeltastic
Hitting the straps
First Impressions at Club La Santa
Mile High Blog
Clocking off
For the second week running...
Another Club La Santa catchup
The Floor In The Plan
June (3)
Club La Santa
Bulk Uploading, and win a book
FERC Charities 2011-2012
March (1)
Bath Weekend
January (1)
Meet Steve
2012 (39)
December (2)
Tired Now Boss
Bath - Week 14 + Foodbank
November (3)
White Level Reading
Bath - Week 15
Bath - Week 16
October (2)
Onwards!
C'mon Dave
July (1)
RIP Arnie
June (2)
Rub some bacon on it
18 weeks
May (9)
Techy not tetchy
Time for a techy blog
Time to walk the dog
Stevington 12k
Properly coldy
Still a bit coldy
New blog design live
A bit coldy
Blogs Redesign
April (2)
Easter
SERIOUSLY LORD FETCH, SORT IT OUT
March (8)
A long run up
Running Tick
Weekend
Sport Relief Mile
Back once again
Swimming sweetcorn and other vegetables
Joy Rides, Sticks and Medals
Training Tip
February (9)
And...
Katie, ICT, and some more MySQL
May The Ground Force Be With You
Functions
Well done Batman.
Optimisation Crossword
Snow Days
Gallery, and parkrun
Pleased
January (1)
There Are Some Really Sexy Girls On Fetch
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