Just seen that Adidas have an API that would allow me to speak to their database to grab training data - is this of interest to anyone?
And if not, which other databases would you like me to be able to interface with? I'm not allowed to access the Pentagon - not after last time - so keep it sensible
And if not, which other databases would you like me to be able to interface with? I'm not allowed to access the Pentagon - not after last time - so keep it sensible
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Right then - let's see how this goes.
If you've got a Garmin, and would like your training to automatically whizz across to Fetch with the minimum of horseplay, then go here for more details:
[WAIT A MINUTE THOUGH - READ THIS - when you first upload a run, Garmin will send THE LAST THIRTY DAYS of training across to Fetch, so if you've been keeping your log up to date, then you'll get a bit of duplication to tidy up. But after that (or 'going forward', if you like sounding like a tool), you shouldn't see any duplication.]
http://www.fetcheveryone.com/garminconnect.php
Undoubtedly there will be some problems, as there always are whenever something new happens. The most helpful thing for me is if you send me some feedback - there's a link at the top of every page.
Have fun
If you've got a Garmin, and would like your training to automatically whizz across to Fetch with the minimum of horseplay, then go here for more details:
[WAIT A MINUTE THOUGH - READ THIS - when you first upload a run, Garmin will send THE LAST THIRTY DAYS of training across to Fetch, so if you've been keeping your log up to date, then you'll get a bit of duplication to tidy up. But after that (or 'going forward', if you like sounding like a tool), you shouldn't see any duplication.]
http://www.fetcheveryone.com/garminconnect.php
Undoubtedly there will be some problems, as there always are whenever something new happens. The most helpful thing for me is if you send me some feedback - there's a link at the top of every page.
Have fun
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Setup, no the fun beginssnogard11:10am, 30th Oct 2014
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That's NOW the fun begins (idiot typist)snogard11:11am, 30th Oct 2014
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after the initial duplication I have "gone forward" and its working well but is there a way to automatically convert it to swim, bike or run as Garmin do?Argie11:11am, 30th Oct 2014
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I think you might need to feed it a new run to kick start it.fetcheveryone11:12am, 30th Oct 2014
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Argie - it should be picking biking up for definite. Have you seen a swim that hasn't been categorised right?fetcheveryone11:13am, 30th Oct 2014
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I think your right.Argie11:13am, 30th Oct 2014
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you'reArgie11:13am, 30th Oct 2014
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"Going forward" You sound like my bossNight-owl12:58pm, 30th Oct 2014
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Ooh, cool. Is the history thing coming from Garmin Connect or from the watch? Would just deleting watch history help? Or not?!HappyG(rrr) G2:07pm, 30th Oct 2014
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From GC.fetcheveryone2:08pm, 30th Oct 2014
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I've started using this, removed my duplicate runs, and am now ready to "go forward"forest plodder3:40pm, 30th Oct 2014
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Awesome! If I delete the last 30 days of data from GC, will it still create duplicates?snayak6:09pm, 30th Oct 2014
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Shouldn't do.fetcheveryone6:20pm, 30th Oct 2014
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will this mean we can use garmin express as ive had a problem with the ANT agent and garmin just tell me to move to garmin express?DingDocMerrily11:32am, 1st Nov 2014
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I made the jump and it was fine.Argie8:26pm, 1st Nov 2014
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working nicely for a week or so now. Good job Mr F.flanker11:29pm, 3rd Nov 2014
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It works great can we have the same for MovescountRussellR9:24pm, 28th Dec 2014
No, I don't mean Westwood.
Bit of a sore throat since I woke up yesterday :-/ Only low grade at the moment though - still got a chance to fight it off! I'm going to put my hoodie's hood up, and try to cook it.
I ran with the dog today - and he was great - after the usual disruptions in the first quarter of a mile where he does most of his emptying and gets over the initial excitement, he ran pretty close to me, and only struggled when two bigger dogs scared him. He's a bit of a jittery wimp at times He's got to the point where he'll run next to me with a slack lead, and he seems to be really in tune. One of these days I'm going to stick a GPS on his collar, and see what his mileage looks like when he's off the lead.
My quads were a bit sore to begin with, but they eased off over the course of our three mile trot around the lake. Hopefully recovery from Sunday is going well. Tempted to have a go at parkrun this Saturday, and maybe an outside chance of having a go at the Rockingham 10 in a fortnight.
Work on the Garmin API is progressing - there's a fair bit of interesting / unexpected data getting pushed across to the Fetch server, but I'm working on filtering out the unwanted stuff - with any luck I should make some breakthroughs and make it fully available any day soon.
Oh, and I seem to be clocking in at 12st8 fairly regularly now, having been regularly 12st10-12st12 last month - I'm pretty pleased with that. I'd like to be a bit closer to 12, but I'm hoping that the training over the next few months will help with that.
I should know by November 7th whether I get a VMLMVLMMMLVMM place - but if not I need to find another marathon that (a) doesn't clash with VLM so I can support Katie, and (b) is the same distance as the London one. I have a weird urge to try the Kent Roadrunner
I'm full of dinner now (cabbage and bacon with pasta - nom!) so I'm off to read my book for a bit, and find some very elasticated trousers
Bit of a sore throat since I woke up yesterday :-/ Only low grade at the moment though - still got a chance to fight it off! I'm going to put my hoodie's hood up, and try to cook it.
I ran with the dog today - and he was great - after the usual disruptions in the first quarter of a mile where he does most of his emptying and gets over the initial excitement, he ran pretty close to me, and only struggled when two bigger dogs scared him. He's a bit of a jittery wimp at times
He's got to the point where he'll run next to me with a slack lead, and he seems to be really in tune. One of these days I'm going to stick a GPS on his collar, and see what his mileage looks like when he's off the lead. My quads were a bit sore to begin with, but they eased off over the course of our three mile trot around the lake. Hopefully recovery from Sunday is going well. Tempted to have a go at parkrun this Saturday, and maybe an outside chance of having a go at the Rockingham 10 in a fortnight.
Work on the Garmin API is progressing - there's a fair bit of interesting / unexpected data getting pushed across to the Fetch server, but I'm working on filtering out the unwanted stuff - with any luck I should make some breakthroughs and make it fully available any day soon.
Oh, and I seem to be clocking in at 12st8 fairly regularly now, having been regularly 12st10-12st12 last month - I'm pretty pleased with that. I'd like to be a bit closer to 12, but I'm hoping that the training over the next few months will help with that.
I should know by November 7th whether I get a VMLMVLMMMLVMM place - but if not I need to find another marathon that (a) doesn't clash with VLM so I can support Katie, and (b) is the same distance as the London one. I have a weird urge to try the Kent Roadrunner
I'm full of dinner now (cabbage and bacon with pasta - nom!) so I'm off to read my book for a bit, and find some very elasticated trousers
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It would be really intersting to see how much further the dog goes than the direct route:-).B.7:16pm, 28th Oct 2014
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I nearly fixed my Garmin to the dog's harness today, with the same thought but she is too fond of rolling in various unpleasant stuff for that to be a good ideaBaronessBL7:43pm, 28th Oct 2014
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Nothing weird about trying the Roadrunner. It's fab.JamieKai *chameleon*7:55pm, 28th Oct 2014
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Yes, yes, come to Kent Roadrunner!PaulaMc7:56pm, 28th Oct 2014
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Ooh, Rockingham, that's *very* close to usFizz :-) *adds race to portfolio and considers on-the-day entry*
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Ah, Stratford is the same day as London next yearFizz :-) do KRR9:25pm, 28th Oct 2014
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Do KRR, we have entered itMrs Jigs (Luverlylegs)9:30pm, 28th Oct 2014
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KRR? Why on earth run 20-odd laps around a concrete loop when there are so many good marathons out there in the beautiful countryside. Bungay & Northampton spring to mind for local ones next spring.flanker10:26am, 29th Oct 2014
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KRR, it's a fetchfest, and I'll be there to give abuse / encouragement every lap *bwahhahaha*Corona12:43pm, 29th Oct 2014
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Do KRR I'm going to be supporting and shouting abuse from my deckchair whilst drinking champagne and eating cake.Watford Wobble8:45pm, 29th Oct 2014
We did the Fenland 10 yesterday.
It was a lovely event - taking over the local school gymnasium as the race HQ. The field was capped at 400 (277 finishers), and it looked like the majority were from local clubs. I also had my hand well-shook by plenty of Fetchies - old man, Trotters, jlucas, and I was even bold enough to say hello to a few more myself. Big ups and hollah's to the Werrington Joggers It's weird being in a room full of 200 people and trying to work out which ones are the folks you know only by their nicknames
We'd heard lots about the flatness, and a fair bit about the potential windiness of the course. I think the number of wind turbines we saw on the way, and around the course, was a bit of a giveaway. This year, the wind lottery had picked a strong south-westerly to spice things up a bit, which meant that we'd get it head on during miles 5-7. Pretty likely that it was there all along, just not noticeable when it was behind us, adding to an unnatural feeling of sprightliness.
I aimed to complete the first four miles at 7:45 pace, and then to see if I could continue to hold on to that pace for as long as possible. PB (1:19:02) pace would be 7:54, and SB (1:19:35) pace would be 7:58 - so I was banking on being able to control my descent into the mire, and hold on for a good result. I say this after most races, but I think I need more longer runs.
Anyway, it all started really well:
1) 1m - 7:49(7:49/m) 163/183bpm
2) 1m - 7:47(7:47/m) 166/175bpm
3) 1m - 7:43(7:43/m) 169/177bpm
4) 1m - 7:49(7:49/m) 169/177bpm
Looking at my graphs, my HR had started to creep up in mile 5, suggesting that I was starting to struggle - and I think it was maybe just a little bit before the winds set in. I tried to hold on a bit more:
5) 1m - 7:52(7:52/m) 171/175bpm
6) 1m - 7:53(7:53/m) 175/179bpm
I don't *think* I've ever sworn at the wind before now, but I really told it what for. It was *really* strong, and quite ironically, took the wind out of my sails:
7) 1m - 8:18(8:18/m) 174/178bpm
8) 1m - 8:25(8:25/m) 175/179bpm
Just before two miles to go, I caught up with a guy who was clearly struggling, so I tried to encourage him along. This is a very positive piece of advice that I've heard via Katie from the legendary Number8. Be positive with those you pass, and not only can it help them a wee bit, it can make you feel stronger too. So I ran with the struggling guy for a bit, and we pushed our pace up again, helped a bit by a bit of intermittent shelter from the wind.
9) 1m - 8:16(8:16/m) 175/179bpm
The struggling guy faded off a bit - he told me that he was running with a chest infection, so I told him not to break himself - always another day etc, and I pushed on, counting down the minutes to the finish. There's a church at 9.3 miles where you turn back onto the starting road, and it was a relief to go past that.
Passing the '400m to go' mark at just past 1:18, I knew that I was highly unlikely to hit either my PB or SB, but I still had hopes of dipping under 1:20, so I pushed as much as I could. There was a little crowd of marshalls and supporters around the turn into the school field, and just as I was reaching them, the guy with the chest infection came hurtling past me like a T1000 But he slowed up a bit, and I just managed to pip him on the line. I'm very grateful for his sudden hare-like appearance, because I think I owe him my sub-1:20
10) 1m - 7:59(7:59/m) 178/184bpm
Time: 1:19:56
The cake stall was epic, the race t-shirts violently bright, and we sat and chatted with Mr and Mrs Lycra Hurricane and Lakes from Bedford Harriers, which was a real giggle
Everyone I've spoken to has had the same experience with the splits - a big bulge in 6,7,8 before bringing it back - even all the way up to anthonyj89, who came a fabulous 6th, in 58:22 http://www.fetcheveryone.com/blog-view.php?id=65414
So I'm not disheartened to have missed out on PB/SB dreams yesterday - in fact I'm pretty pleased that despite a battering from the wind, I managed to haul the pace back a bit, whereas I might previously have just let it fade out. More long runs, more training, etc etc.
It was a lovely event - taking over the local school gymnasium as the race HQ. The field was capped at 400 (277 finishers), and it looked like the majority were from local clubs. I also had my hand well-shook by plenty of Fetchies - old man, Trotters, jlucas, and I was even bold enough to say hello to a few more myself. Big ups and hollah's to the Werrington Joggers
It's weird being in a room full of 200 people and trying to work out which ones are the folks you know only by their nicknames We'd heard lots about the flatness, and a fair bit about the potential windiness of the course. I think the number of wind turbines we saw on the way, and around the course, was a bit of a giveaway. This year, the wind lottery had picked a strong south-westerly to spice things up a bit, which meant that we'd get it head on during miles 5-7. Pretty likely that it was there all along, just not noticeable when it was behind us, adding to an unnatural feeling of sprightliness.
I aimed to complete the first four miles at 7:45 pace, and then to see if I could continue to hold on to that pace for as long as possible. PB (1:19:02) pace would be 7:54, and SB (1:19:35) pace would be 7:58 - so I was banking on being able to control my descent into the mire, and hold on for a good result. I say this after most races, but I think I need more longer runs.
Anyway, it all started really well:
1) 1m - 7:49(7:49/m) 163/183bpm
2) 1m - 7:47(7:47/m) 166/175bpm
3) 1m - 7:43(7:43/m) 169/177bpm
4) 1m - 7:49(7:49/m) 169/177bpm
Looking at my graphs, my HR had started to creep up in mile 5, suggesting that I was starting to struggle - and I think it was maybe just a little bit before the winds set in. I tried to hold on a bit more:
5) 1m - 7:52(7:52/m) 171/175bpm
6) 1m - 7:53(7:53/m) 175/179bpm
I don't *think* I've ever sworn at the wind before now, but I really told it what for. It was *really* strong, and quite ironically, took the wind out of my sails:
7) 1m - 8:18(8:18/m) 174/178bpm
8) 1m - 8:25(8:25/m) 175/179bpm
Just before two miles to go, I caught up with a guy who was clearly struggling, so I tried to encourage him along. This is a very positive piece of advice that I've heard via Katie from the legendary Number8. Be positive with those you pass, and not only can it help them a wee bit, it can make you feel stronger too. So I ran with the struggling guy for a bit, and we pushed our pace up again, helped a bit by a bit of intermittent shelter from the wind.
9) 1m - 8:16(8:16/m) 175/179bpm
The struggling guy faded off a bit - he told me that he was running with a chest infection, so I told him not to break himself - always another day etc, and I pushed on, counting down the minutes to the finish. There's a church at 9.3 miles where you turn back onto the starting road, and it was a relief to go past that.
Passing the '400m to go' mark at just past 1:18, I knew that I was highly unlikely to hit either my PB or SB, but I still had hopes of dipping under 1:20, so I pushed as much as I could. There was a little crowd of marshalls and supporters around the turn into the school field, and just as I was reaching them, the guy with the chest infection came hurtling past me like a T1000
But he slowed up a bit, and I just managed to pip him on the line. I'm very grateful for his sudden hare-like appearance, because I think I owe him my sub-1:20 10) 1m - 7:59(7:59/m) 178/184bpm
Time: 1:19:56
The cake stall was epic, the race t-shirts violently bright, and we sat and chatted with Mr and Mrs Lycra Hurricane and Lakes from Bedford Harriers, which was a real giggle
Everyone I've spoken to has had the same experience with the splits - a big bulge in 6,7,8 before bringing it back - even all the way up to anthonyj89, who came a fabulous 6th, in 58:22 http://www.fetcheveryone.com/blog-view.php?id=65414
So I'm not disheartened to have missed out on PB/SB dreams yesterday - in fact I'm pretty pleased that despite a battering from the wind, I managed to haul the pace back a bit, whereas I might previously have just let it fade out. More long runs, more training, etc etc.
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Well done, tough in the wind!GeologyRocks
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I suspect that race is always windy. I did it in 2010 (on my 60th birthday!) with Girlie and Nandi, except Nandi fell over.. anyway... it was a good racejennywren10:47am, 27th Oct 2014
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Sounds like a hood run, well raced!.B.11:40am, 27th Oct 2014
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ahem good.B.11:40am, 27th Oct 2014
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Jennywren is quite correct, the Fenland 10 is ALWAYS windy, hence the title of my pre race blog yesterday ;-).Flatlander
Good going in the wind, and KatieB & Number8 are right.12:01pm, 27th Oct 2014 -
Ooh, that's impressive, as you say, not letting the heid drop at a tough section in middle, but going strongly at the finish. Maybe actually some hill work might beckon (hills make you stronger, so when you do hit a harder patch - wind or hills - your HR doesn't climb so dramatically and you recover more quickly too.). The hill session a local coach gave me was to run up a short incline 2-400m(?) which then levels off, and to accelerate at the top as it levels, not just grind to a halt at top and then wheeze along the flat bit recovering. That way you get to used to "pushing over the top".HappyG(rrr) G12:01pm, 27th Oct 2014
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That's fantastic running. I think nearly everywhere yesterday was pretty bad.Corrah12:41pm, 27th Oct 2014
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I saw you and KatieB but being a shy and retiring type couldn't pluck up the courage to come and say hello. You looked like you were enjoying eating your cakeJinksy Maybe its cos I had stuff left in the tank but I managed to keep my splits completely even all the way through, although it was hard work in miles 6-9 and ended up with a fabulous 7 min PB (but then I have only finished 3 10 mile races :-))4:10pm, 27th Oct 2014
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Well done - those were tough miles! And that cake was pretty good - I was shoving it infetcheveryone4:12pm, 27th Oct 2014
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I thought the blog title said "Fat and Windy". Must go to the opticians ...DuncanG5:53pm, 27th Oct 2014
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Great to finally meet you and say hello, thanks for the kind words about WJ, there were an awful lot of WJ fetchies in our corner!! Hope we'll see you back in "the boro'" soonOld Man9:52pm, 27th Oct 2014
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Nice to see you, is strange when you don't know someone yet see their face more often than most family!jlucas10:50pm, 30th Oct 2014
If you're sitting there all sweaty, but haven't plugged your watch into your computer yet, and you'd like to test the new way of uploading, do me a comment. First five will get a go
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Hello - me me mehayleybrewis11:32am, 24th Oct 2014
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hello HayleyB!ChrisHB11:36am, 24th Oct 2014
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Chris - are you wanting to test, or just here for the social?fetcheveryone11:41am, 24th Oct 2014
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Me too. MxBluebell232511:52am, 24th Oct 2014
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no, just hoping to be social.ChrisHB11:57am, 24th Oct 2014
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If this involves getting it from Garmin Connect then I'm game.Grid12:05pm, 24th Oct 2014
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I am interested but won't have anything to upload / sync until tomorrow! Xclare197612:06pm, 24th Oct 2014
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Yes.RunningRonnie12:10pm, 24th Oct 2014
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Me please!MsG12:31pm, 24th Oct 2014
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Any chance of syncing with tapiriik?MsG12:31pm, 24th Oct 2014
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One thing at a timefetcheveryone12:53pm, 24th Oct 2014
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Here if you need me Ian ....!Clatters12:54pm, 24th Oct 2014
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Me me mePeterG1:19pm, 24th Oct 2014
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Bugger. Too late.Longwayround [LWR]1:37pm, 24th Oct 2014
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Too late both comment and loading data wiseSushi1:45pm, 24th Oct 2014
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Right then - that'll do for now on the testing front (LWR made it!) Will see how we go, and hopefully go live early next week.fetcheveryone1:45pm, 24th Oct 2014
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Damn, I always get to the parties too late.... grumpjohntz1:56pm, 24th Oct 2014
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Can I just say I *don't* want to test it as I'm afraid of change? Ta.McGoohan2:02pm, 24th Oct 2014
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fetcheveryone2:05pm, 24th Oct 2014
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I'm up for testingdaviec2:05pm, 24th Oct 2014
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I'm inAntClark2:10pm, 24th Oct 2014
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Am I too late? Rats...Hippity2:11pm, 24th Oct 2014
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Bugger! Was out creating something to upload and missed the boat.....eL Bee!2:27pm, 24th Oct 2014
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Cool! Will be uploading tomorrow- see how it goesMsG2:46pm, 24th Oct 2014
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Hurray! I'm a winner! I suppose I need to go for a run now. Or ride my bike.Longwayround [LWR]2:51pm, 24th Oct 2014
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Yes please!!!JuliaD2:51pm, 24th Oct 2014
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that'll teach me to focus my time on work and not on here.flanker3:08pm, 24th Oct 2014
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I'll let all you others go first if you don't mind. I'm a resolute late adopter. You lot can all iron the glitches out and I will join in when it works nicely.leaguefreak
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Me me me, all the way down here.lildude3:20pm, 24th Oct 2014
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I could do a test after my long run tomorrow afternoon, if that's not too late.Ness5:28pm, 24th Oct 2014
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LOL - I had to stop somewhere. The good news is that there are only a small handful of things that have come up so far, so I should be able to make this widely available early next week.fetcheveryone5:37pm, 24th Oct 2014
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I cant get fit file to download onto my new laptop....can only get garmin connect.. What am I doing wrong????Lip Gloss5:47pm, 24th Oct 2014
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If I comment now, does this make me number 5?Ted5:56pm, 24th Oct 2014
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So far, so good.Longwayround [LWR]6:30pm, 24th Oct 2014
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Imported no problem. My pace graph looks very different from the same run indaviec
stravathough which also picked it up automatically. I've got two sections in fetch where the pace jumps suddenly to 9:15/mile (ish) and stays there for about 0.4 mile before going back down to 7.15 ish which is what I was running at. Then the same again at a later section but this time it jumps to 11:00/mile for 0.4 mile and then back down.7:42pm, 24th Oct 2014 -
Me please!Richard-M9:09pm, 24th Oct 2014
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It's imported ok, the pace graph looks pretty similar to the import from Garmin to Strava. There's a section where I paused a couple of times and guess thatMsG
stravahandles this in a different way. I'm happy mrfetch9:30am, 25th Oct 2014 -
Coped well with my two bike rides and one Parkrun this morning. But it doesn't make me any faster.Longwayround [LWR]11:37am, 25th Oct 2014
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Can't wait to give it a shake down.Pingu9912:08pm, 25th Oct 2014
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Just did my first one. Everything worked a treat!Grid12:51pm, 25th Oct 2014
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Mine's gone wrong now, the original runs from today are still there, but there is also the same run in 0.28m individual runs and another big one. Should I delete? On the plus side I'm now 43rd in fetchpoint this monthMsG2:36pm, 25th Oct 2014
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That's pretty strange - I've turned on some logging, so that it'll save copies of the raw files that are being sent across. Let me know if that happens again.fetcheveryone3:12pm, 25th Oct 2014
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Hi, mine imported initially no problem, although it logged the splits as 1.61 km rather then 1 mile. But has this afternoon created a stack of zero miles training log entries, no idea why. Have left everything in there as is (raw data) at the moment if you want to take a look xclare19766:23pm, 25th Oct 2014
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http://www.fetcheveryone.com/gallery-showphoto.php?filename=7453_68118.jpg&ref=gallerydaviec
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Hmmm, 3 runs imported fine on friday, checked this morning, and they have been duplicated (empty content) and I have also had ~20 entries added for 1970... I havent deleted the 1970 entries. Cheersjohntz7:14am, 26th Oct 2014
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Lots of people seeing this - wonder if it's related to the 'last thirty days of activity' thing. On my way to a race - so I'll check tomoz.fetcheveryone7:23am, 26th Oct 2014
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687213 miles in December 1989 for medaviec That's fair bumped up my lifetime mileage!9:36am, 26th Oct 2014
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When first I connected, I gained a strange activity for 1970 which I promptly deleted. Nothing bizarre has happened today.Longwayround [LWR]2:07pm, 26th Oct 2014
Sticking this in a blog too...
There's a new box on the training log - click the 'Glasses' view to see it. It's very snappily called "Borg Rating of Perceived Exertion", and it's a way of indicating how much you exerted yourself during your training session.
It's a step towards what I'm aiming at in this article: http://www.fetcheveryone.com/cms-65
So the graph then... it's a bit like a graphic equaliser, that indicates the intensity you ran at.
The Borg RPE scale (or more accurately, the amended version), goes from 1 (very light exercise e.g. buttering toast), right up to 10 (escaping from house after toaster sets kitchen on fire).
You can click the little squares above each number on your empty graph to indicate the proportion of your run was done at that particular intensity. So for example, this morning we did a little three miler, just to keep our legs going (Fenland 10 this Sunday) - and we threw in some fartlek bits along the way. So we were mainly running at about 4/10, with a few bits of 7/8 out of 10 thrown in.
http://www.fetcheveryone.com/training-log-view.php?id=10566405
The goal of this is to give everybody, irrespective of whether they have jazzy equipment, a way to formally record the effort levels associated with that particular training entry. It also gets nicely around the fact that some of us log our intervals all in one lump, complete with recoveries, whilst others will input them as separate sessions.
It's only ever going to be an approximation, but it's an important one, because it's how *you* feel. And if plenty of folks start using it, then it'll generate *lots* of interesting data and corresponding graphs.
For example, you could look back at your training before a particular race, and see that you did lots of low-intensity stuff, but no faster stuff. Or you might have turned in a big chunk of 7-8, but with no 5-6 to tune up your aerobic systems, and no 8-9 to work on your lactate threshold. Or you might just like looking at the colours. I know I do
There's a niggling doubt that says it's not quite usable in its current form - maybe some sort of automatic populating would be good, particularly if the training session data has in-depth pace data or HR data. But equally it might prove to be a very useful thing for some people. I dunno. I had fun making it though.
There's a new box on the training log - click the 'Glasses' view to see it. It's very snappily called "Borg Rating of Perceived Exertion", and it's a way of indicating how much you exerted yourself during your training session.
It's a step towards what I'm aiming at in this article: http://www.fetcheveryone.com/cms-65
So the graph then... it's a bit like a graphic equaliser, that indicates the intensity you ran at.
The Borg RPE scale (or more accurately, the amended version), goes from 1 (very light exercise e.g. buttering toast), right up to 10 (escaping from house after toaster sets kitchen on fire).
You can click the little squares above each number on your empty graph to indicate the proportion of your run was done at that particular intensity. So for example, this morning we did a little three miler, just to keep our legs going (Fenland 10 this Sunday) - and we threw in some fartlek bits along the way. So we were mainly running at about 4/10, with a few bits of 7/8 out of 10 thrown in.
http://www.fetcheveryone.com/training-log-view.php?id=10566405
The goal of this is to give everybody, irrespective of whether they have jazzy equipment, a way to formally record the effort levels associated with that particular training entry. It also gets nicely around the fact that some of us log our intervals all in one lump, complete with recoveries, whilst others will input them as separate sessions.
It's only ever going to be an approximation, but it's an important one, because it's how *you* feel. And if plenty of folks start using it, then it'll generate *lots* of interesting data and corresponding graphs.
For example, you could look back at your training before a particular race, and see that you did lots of low-intensity stuff, but no faster stuff. Or you might have turned in a big chunk of 7-8, but with no 5-6 to tune up your aerobic systems, and no 8-9 to work on your lactate threshold. Or you might just like looking at the colours. I know I do
There's a niggling doubt that says it's not quite usable in its current form - maybe some sort of automatic populating would be good, particularly if the training session data has in-depth pace data or HR data. But equally it might prove to be a very useful thing for some people. I dunno. I had fun making it though.
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I was hoping this was about "the" Borg...D25:29pm, 22nd Oct 2014
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Sorry 2 of D.fetcheveryone5:30pm, 22nd Oct 2014
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..... not the Bjorn one obvs.... the other collectiveD25:30pm, 22nd Oct 2014
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I like the idea - but I agree that it will need some finetuning. And it could be quite useful for us info geeks to play with, especially if you develop some form of correlation/comparison functioneL Bee!5:38pm, 22nd Oct 2014
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How can you 'normalise' it from one user to another? People will interpret, and use, the boxes in different ways. For example - you've filled 6 boxes in total. Someone else might colour in 12, or 15. Basically - using the data afterwards, you run the risk that some folk will say they spent 80% of the run at 4/10, 50% at 6/10, and 20% at 9/10. Can you 'force' it so we only get 100% to allocate? Or alternatively, take whatever the user fills in and then redistribute it so that it adds to 100% after?paul the builder6:16pm, 22nd Oct 2014
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And.... are you going to make the nice clicky-graph available in the 'Add Training' page? That's where it should logically be, I think. Rather than the Analysis page (or as well as, anyway).paul the builder6:19pm, 22nd Oct 2014
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If someone has only ticked two boxes, that implies a 50/50 split between those two intensities. Normalising the data should be quite straightforward: categoryTotal/numberOfBoxes. And yes, all tidied up. Actually, I'm going the other way - the stuff on the 'glasses' view will all become editable.fetcheveryone6:30pm, 22nd Oct 2014
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I was rather hoping we were going to be assimilated.leaguefreak
On a more serious note I think the data would be hard to use for longer rubs because retrospective reporting might be unreliable and a bit dirty. It's hard to remember exactly how you felt for each bit and people with gadgetry might reconstruct their perceptions from their stats etc, or just from previous experience etc. I would be reasonably confident to give a rating or two after a three miler but 7 or 8 - no I don't think I'd reliably rate each section.6:34pm, 22nd Oct 2014 -
Runs not rubsleaguefreak how you rate your massage is up to you. That's what happens when you try to look clever and watch octonauts at the same time!!6:36pm, 22nd Oct 2014
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I thought Gunnar Borg's scale ran 6-20. The idea being that the number roughly equated to your heart rate. RPE 1-10 is more simple and easier to use in real life.Musashi8:08pm, 22nd Oct 2014
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Just read it properly, you did say amended scale 😃Musashi8:09pm, 22nd Oct 2014
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I got confused about the scale too! Marvellous. Now if you could add the Feeling Scale (how you feel from minus 5 to plus 5) too then I'll just mine fetch for my PhD data and I won't need to run round after people!fleecy10:41pm, 22nd Oct 2014
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repeating what I said on the article... I think you'll need to allow garmin uploaders to at least select run category on the funky upload screen. That screen allows for nice quick uploads and I'm not sure I can then be bothered to drill down into each individual activity and edit it. or maybe other people aren;t as lazy as me...flanker9:22am, 23rd Oct 2014
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There won't be a funky upload screen at all.fetcheveryone9:23am, 23rd Oct 2014
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Fleecy - how's about you run around after people anyway and we compare it with retrospective ratings. A little validation by stalking study.leaguefreak10:15am, 23rd Oct 2014
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I like this! Looking forward to playing.sallykate12:36pm, 23rd Oct 2014
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Is this a blorg?Hendo3:07pm, 24th Oct 2014
My car is screwed again - same problem. I was just about to take the boy back to his mum's house on Sunday, and it failed in the middle of doing a three point turn at the end of the street :-/ Luckily the boy got a lift off his mum, and the AA man turned up about 15 minutes later, and towed me to the garage.
Last time the car broke down, two bits (clutch actuators?) had to be sent off to be refurbed, at a cost of £800 - that was in June. But the slightly good news is that the garage think it's those bits again, and the refurb came with a 12 month warranty.
As a result, Stephen (dog) had his first ever train ride, as we made our way back to Bedford - he was very shivery and twitchy. I sat in the bit between carriages, so he wouldn't annoy anyone. There was an interesting mixture of those who cooed at him and stroked his head, and those that took the widest possible berth around him, despite the fact that I had my hand tucked in his collar.
It also gave me the opportunity to get started on Big Brother - the Fetch Book Club book. I'm keeping my opinions to myself until I've finished
I got some lovely news yesterday - the boy has been picked to be on the school cross country team I think they have to run about half a mile I don't know if they've spotted some natural talent, or whether it was because he looked suitably put out only to get one line in the school play.
On the site, I've made some small improvements to the search box. It's right up there, top right ^^^^. There's a thread somewhere, describing what I've done. Search for it
And I know I've mentioned it before, but my wife is fundraising for an excellent cause:
justgiving.com
the minimum donation is £2 - so I'll make you a deal, dear reader. Everyone who sticks a £2 donation in before Friday midday will go into a draw, and I'll send one random person one of the GPS watches I've got in my testing cupboard. It'll have some genuine me-sweat on it too, probably, so if you have the relevant skills, you can clone me from it, and get me to do your dishes etc. Don't set me loose on the gardening though, I mainly just kill stuff.
Last time the car broke down, two bits (clutch actuators?) had to be sent off to be refurbed, at a cost of £800 - that was in June. But the slightly good news is that the garage think it's those bits again, and the refurb came with a 12 month warranty.
As a result, Stephen (dog) had his first ever train ride, as we made our way back to Bedford - he was very shivery and twitchy. I sat in the bit between carriages, so he wouldn't annoy anyone. There was an interesting mixture of those who cooed at him and stroked his head, and those that took the widest possible berth around him, despite the fact that I had my hand tucked in his collar.
It also gave me the opportunity to get started on Big Brother - the Fetch Book Club book. I'm keeping my opinions to myself until I've finished
I got some lovely news yesterday - the boy has been picked to be on the school cross country team
I think they have to run about half a mile I don't know if they've spotted some natural talent, or whether it was because he looked suitably put out only to get one line in the school play. On the site, I've made some small improvements to the search box. It's right up there, top right ^^^^. There's a thread somewhere, describing what I've done. Search for it
And I know I've mentioned it before, but my wife is fundraising for an excellent cause:
justgiving.com
the minimum donation is £2 - so I'll make you a deal, dear reader. Everyone who sticks a £2 donation in before Friday midday will go into a draw, and I'll send one random person one of the GPS watches I've got in my testing cupboard. It'll have some genuine me-sweat on it too, probably, so if you have the relevant skills, you can clone me from it, and get me to do your dishes etc. Don't set me loose on the gardening though, I mainly just kill stuff.
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PS If you've already donated, I'll stick you in the hatfetcheveryone2:51pm, 21st Oct 2014
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DoneGromit ( and not just cos you're bribing us )4:48pm, 21st Oct 2014
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The Sorting Hat?McGoohan6:35pm, 21st Oct 2014
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Good nudgingDiogenes6:39pm, 21st Oct 2014
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DoneCorrah7:45pm, 21st Oct 2014
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DoneWinniefree9:27pm, 21st Oct 2014
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Bribery won't work on me!! Though Alex would quite like a Garmin...Nightjar2:24pm, 22nd Oct 2014
Went out and got a nine miler done today - I wore a base layer underneath my t-shirt to help protect my nips - and it worked very well - but I did feel really warm all through the run. I will try the various lube / tape-based options until the weather merits two layers.
I think the extra warmth made the run that little bit tougher - my heart rate was higher and my pace was slower than when I did the exact same run last week. But having said that, I was also running today on the back of a speed session on Wednesday and a little three miler yesterday - whereas last week I'd had 72 clear hours of rest.
The most exciting thing that happened was that I saw the Google Street View car! I'd seen it twice before whilst I'd been driving the boy to school, but this time I was on foot, and wearing my Fetch shirt I looked up the approximate spot on Street View this evening, and the pictures are all copyright 2009, so I guess they're updating stuff. Anyway, I might have pranced around a bit as the car drove past. I imagine they will put a blur on me.
This evening we've been playing with the Snap Circuits set that the boy got for his birthday:
amazon.co.uk
(blatant affiliate link there)
it's been lots of fun - there are lots of different components, including switches, variable resistors, capacitors, motors, fans, noise generators, LEDs, sound sensors, and a fair few we haven't got around to looking at yet. It comes with a book of 300 different circuits that you can build - and it's a bit like Lego in the way it fits together - so the boy is getting on well with it.
Some books arrived
I hope to have some good news about the Garmin API next week. The contracts are all signed, the testing has gone pretty well, so fingers crossed I'll be asking a few of you to give it a try and test it a bit more extensively, before I let you all loose on it. In a nutshell, when you sync your Garmin with your computer, the Garmin software sends your data up to the Garmin website (if you let it). And from next week onwards (if you give it your permission), it will then automatically push that data into your Fetch training log too. Disco Darts
The other bit of news is that my very lovely wife is all signed up to do that there London Marathon this spring, and she's fundraising for the local cancer care charity. No hard sell from either of us, but it'd be great if you could have a read of her page, and wonderful if you could donate. Here it is: justgiving.com
Tatty bye.
I think the extra warmth made the run that little bit tougher - my heart rate was higher and my pace was slower than when I did the exact same run last week. But having said that, I was also running today on the back of a speed session on Wednesday and a little three miler yesterday - whereas last week I'd had 72 clear hours of rest.
The most exciting thing that happened was that I saw the Google Street View car! I'd seen it twice before whilst I'd been driving the boy to school, but this time I was on foot, and wearing my Fetch shirt
I looked up the approximate spot on Street View this evening, and the pictures are all copyright 2009, so I guess they're updating stuff. Anyway, I might have pranced around a bit as the car drove past. I imagine they will put a blur on me. This evening we've been playing with the Snap Circuits set that the boy got for his birthday:
amazon.co.uk
(blatant affiliate link there)
it's been lots of fun - there are lots of different components, including switches, variable resistors, capacitors, motors, fans, noise generators, LEDs, sound sensors, and a fair few we haven't got around to looking at yet. It comes with a book of 300 different circuits that you can build - and it's a bit like Lego in the way it fits together - so the boy is getting on well with it.
Some books arrived
I hope to have some good news about the Garmin API next week. The contracts are all signed, the testing has gone pretty well, so fingers crossed I'll be asking a few of you to give it a try and test it a bit more extensively, before I let you all loose on it. In a nutshell, when you sync your Garmin with your computer, the Garmin software sends your data up to the Garmin website (if you let it). And from next week onwards (if you give it your permission), it will then automatically push that data into your Fetch training log too. Disco Darts
The other bit of news is that my very lovely wife is all signed up to do that there London Marathon this spring, and she's fundraising for the local cancer care charity. No hard sell from either of us, but it'd be great if you could have a read of her page, and wonderful if you could donate. Here it is: justgiving.com
Tatty bye.
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Snap circuits are brilliant. We bought some last year for our lad (different brand name but same old game) and he loved it then and keeps going back to it. Now his wee sister wants to know how it works. As you say, a bit like Lego™ (but with a more definite life-purpose, I feel). Good stuff.Angus Clydesdale12:34am, 18th Oct 2014
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I had a 300 in 1 circuit set. Great fun. Used wires back the. And spring clips. Thee wires were never long enough and I recall many happy hours of stripping the ends with my teeth.Nightjar7:59am, 18th Oct 2014
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Lots of good stuff - but my eye was drawn to the link "xxxamazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0000683A4/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=B0000683A4&linkCode=as2&tag=fetcheveryo0c-21&linkId=5BKVA67ZWDTHBAUP" containing the words Camp and Creative. Just sayin.HappyG(rrr) G9:46am, 19th Oct 2014
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*steps forward as a volunteer garminea pig*flanker4:06pm, 21st Oct 2014
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Just waiting to be uploaded to the live server - might take a couple of days...fetcheveryone4:07pm, 21st Oct 2014
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Thanks - think I'll be buying a replacement garminnorthernslowcoach8:23pm, 23rd Oct 2014
We're trying to get to Harriers sessions a little bit more - so when we've got boy(s) at our house, the plan is to take it in turns - one of us will go on a Monday, and the other will go on a Wednesday.
It was my turn yesterday
Katie went out and ran some great reps in the morning, the usual metronomic stuff that she's so good at. More SB's to follow I think No pressure love
By the time the evening came, the rain was coming down in droves - but it was too late to back out. So I trundled off to the stadium to meet up with the Harriers, who were all huddling in the foyer, arms sticking out of the automatic doors, trying to hold on to satellite lock.
I was a bit nervous about the session, but it turned out to be great. Anything that gets me running seven miles, with some purpose sandwiched in the middle, on a weekday, in the dark, has got to be pretty stupendous.
We warmed up for a mile, and regrouped on a shady street corner - then did five individual miles, setting off every ten minutes, and recovering for whatever time was left out of each ten minute chunk. I'm really pleased with how it went. It was all pretty dark, and there was a lot of puddle dodging, and puddle landing-in-the-middle-of-ing. I got told off by at least four people for not wearing anything bright, and asked if I was delivering Milk Tray
It's hard to measure splits on my TomTom (one of the things I *don't* like about it), but they vaguely went like this:
7:34 (trying not to go off like a loon, tucking in behind someone who seemed to be running consistently)
7:25 (the person I followed on lap 1 went a bit faster and dragged me round)
7:17 (made the mistake of trying to keep up with JenLov instead)
7:26 (eased off a little bit, but still going ok)
7:22 (faded a bit, but tried to finish strongly)
The only downside was the usual thing that happens to my nips if I run for an hour in the rain I knew I was in trouble on the warm up, so it was quite excruciating by the time I got home, and I was squealing like a pig on market day in the shower When I'm thinking about it, I normally wear another layer underneath to help reduce the jiggling about. Maybe I need to eat less Milk Tray
It was my turn yesterday
Katie went out and ran some great reps in the morning, the usual metronomic stuff that she's so good at. More SB's to follow I think
No pressure love By the time the evening came, the rain was coming down in droves - but it was too late to back out. So I trundled off to the stadium to meet up with the Harriers, who were all huddling in the foyer, arms sticking out of the automatic doors, trying to hold on to satellite lock.
I was a bit nervous about the session, but it turned out to be great. Anything that gets me running seven miles, with some purpose sandwiched in the middle, on a weekday, in the dark, has got to be pretty stupendous.
We warmed up for a mile, and regrouped on a shady street corner - then did five individual miles, setting off every ten minutes, and recovering for whatever time was left out of each ten minute chunk. I'm really pleased with how it went. It was all pretty dark, and there was a lot of puddle dodging, and puddle landing-in-the-middle-of-ing. I got told off by at least four people for not wearing anything bright, and asked if I was delivering Milk Tray
It's hard to measure splits on my TomTom (one of the things I *don't* like about it), but they vaguely went like this:
7:34 (trying not to go off like a loon, tucking in behind someone who seemed to be running consistently)
7:25 (the person I followed on lap 1 went a bit faster and dragged me round)
7:17 (made the mistake of trying to keep up with JenLov instead)
7:26 (eased off a little bit, but still going ok)
7:22 (faded a bit, but tried to finish strongly)
The only downside was the usual thing that happens to my nips if I run for an hour in the rain
I knew I was in trouble on the warm up, so it was quite excruciating by the time I got home, and I was squealing like a pig on market day in the shower When I'm thinking about it, I normally wear another layer underneath to help reduce the jiggling about. Maybe I need to eat less Milk Tray
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You did better than me. I stayed at home in the warm & dry. Well done on getting there. I dodged Monday too because of the inclement weather.Wine Legs9:27am, 16th Oct 2014
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micropore tape. cheap, easy, and amuses others when you try to pull it off.flanker9:42am, 16th Oct 2014
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Sounds like a good session, and sociable too. Well done for a soggy run.Jigs9:57am, 16th Oct 2014
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OMG you have a new avatar......D210:16am, 16th Oct 2014
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I'm hoping McG will do another pastiche of mefetcheveryone10:17am, 16th Oct 2014
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D210:19am, 16th Oct 2014
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What is "market day in the shower" (that's a comma dig, by the wayHappyG(rrr) ) Sounds like a great session, and no fade really. Get a big box of cheap plasters or cheap roll (99p for 100 metres) of micro pore tape. You nip it makes sense. G10:24am, 16th Oct 2014
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The problem I have with micropore/plasters is that I am hairy, like animal. The thought of ripping them off is equally unappealing.fetcheveryone10:27am, 16th Oct 2014
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manbra?fleecy10:30am, 16th Oct 2014
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HTFU - after you use the tape a few times you get less hairy. Or you could just leave it on permanently.flanker11:00am, 16th Oct 2014
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vaseline?HellsBells11:09am, 16th Oct 2014
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Topless in the rain is the only answerDiogenes11:31am, 16th Oct 2014
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I did wonder who's blog I clicked almost didn't recognise itNight-owl
Milk tray eh - I thought the session had something to do with those old tv adverts1:06pm, 16th Oct 2014 -
Dab of vaz works wonders.........you just gotta rememberSeratonin8:44pm, 16th Oct 2014
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Hear me out please do. Try a string vest. As a racing cyclist we always wore string vests as a base layer. Now a runner I discovered my nips sit in a tent of air and protected. Try it. But a cycling specific string vest not your M&S type please.Watford Wobble9:51pm, 16th Oct 2014
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I approve of string vests. Obvs.RichHL8:46pm, 17th Oct 2014
We went to Switzerland on the weekend
My eldest step-son is there for a "year in industry" as part of his degree. It's the first time we've seen him since he went, so it was nice to see how he was progressing, and really quite essential for Katie to clap eyes on her lovely boy, make sure he was eating properly, make sure he was wearing his vest etc
It was a very early start - waking up at 4:45 on Friday morning, flying at 7:20 from Luton. It's quite a short flight (1hr20), and the boy was there to meet us at the airport with hugs all round.
We relied on public transport throughout the weekend, but it seemed like a very efficient system. The airport has a machine with free tickets that last for an hour, so you can get to where you're going - and for some reason, our hotel included transport passes with our stay - so we travelled for free the whole time. Of course, what with there being no such thing as a free lunch, they charged us 24CHF (£16) in 'City Tax' when we checked out.
The city was very nice - all very spacious, and full of trams and buses - no stinky jams. Our first stop after dropping our things at the hotel was a coffee shop which looked very regal - lots of beautiful random furniture, unusual ornaments, and a cute little bird that flew around the curtain tops, hovering about looking for crumbs (although its bottom was looking threateningly like unloading as it hovered over me).
A tram ride later, and we were in front of the UN building, looking at the Broken Chair installed on the square in front of the building. We wandered around the Ariana museum, and then the Red Cross museum after lunch. One of the most striking things in the museum was the massive card index - each one representing a soldier or civilian, missing or detached from his or her home. They had one for the First World War, which ran into racks and racks full of cards, filling a whole room There was also a more modern index, with numbered photographs of children who had been separated from their families by war and natural disaster.
In the evening we walked down to Lake Geneva, to see the Jet D'Eau lit up - it was pretty impressive - 140m into the sky:
On Saturday, Katie and I got up early and did our long run. We needed to do ten miles, so we ran from our hotel down to the lake, and trotted around part of it (the whole thing is 180km). It's very popular with runners, although it was nigh on impossible to get any response to increasingly desolate 'Bonjour's. That's pretty tough for a Welshman One thing I really liked was the little drinking water fountains around the city - so handy for long runs! Whenever I go overseas, I always enjoy looking for the little differences* - and I loved the fact that the symbol on the fountains that indicated drinking water was a wine glass The final few miles of our run were spent trying to find stepson's house, and then running a bit with him, which meant we got back to our hotel safely
After breakfast, we returned to the Lake with the offspring, and took the boat across to the other side to visit the old town. It's up on a hillside, behind a lot of expensive lake-front watch shops. Offspring bought shoes from a shoe shop with a basement level accessible by slide, and did very well with his French speaking. We visited the museum of art and history, which had some fantastic old armour, and a couple of Van Goghs. After a break at the coffee place in the square (I loved this - nice to sit and watch people being Swiss - they all smoke a lot, and it's all soft packs and happy shrugging, and tiny dogs), we went for a wander past some sort of fancy dress student games, to the cathedral. Fabulous architecture as you'd expect, but I always get a bit thoughtful when I think about the amount of human effort that must have gone into building places like this.
We were quickly coming to terms with how expensive Geneva is. A burger and chips with a non-alcoholic drink for three of us on Friday evening came to about £40 so it was nice that evening to find a fairly inexpensive creperie close to our hotel. Mine was loaded with ham and cheese, with a lovely egg in the middle; followed (after un petit nudge to the staff, who seemed to have forgotten our pudding) by a second crepe drizzled in melted chocolate.
On Sunday morning, after a little three miler for Katie and me, we walked to the lake again, in time to see a massive crowd of people send thousands of colourful helium balloons float off into the sky. It's a charity event called The March of Hope, and it's in its 23rd year apparently.
We took a tram to a place called Junction, and walked out onto a tall bridge that stands over the exact point where the Rhone and the Arve rivers meet. The Rhone has been through Lake Geneva, dropping all its silt on the way, so it's beautifully clear - but the Arve arrives carrying lots of cloudy sediment. The result is quite fabulous:
In the afternoon we went for a little nosey at CERN, and step-son told us about an interesting project that he's been involved in. Basically, what with CERN being so huge, there are lots of abandoned office chairs, and the photographing of said sad chairs is a popular pastime:
lonelychairsatcern.tumblr.com
There was also something about particle physics, although I was still thinking about the chairs.
After melted cheese for tea (would have liked some toast to put it on, but settled for meat and potatoes), we took the tram journey back to our hotel to pack our cases for home :-/
Definitely going back though
*I didn't go into Burger King.
My eldest step-son is there for a "year in industry" as part of his degree. It's the first time we've seen him since he went, so it was nice to see how he was progressing, and really quite essential for Katie to clap eyes on her lovely boy, make sure he was eating properly, make sure he was wearing his vest etc
It was a very early start - waking up at 4:45 on Friday morning, flying at 7:20 from Luton. It's quite a short flight (1hr20), and the boy was there to meet us at the airport with hugs all round.
We relied on public transport throughout the weekend, but it seemed like a very efficient system. The airport has a machine with free tickets that last for an hour, so you can get to where you're going - and for some reason, our hotel included transport passes with our stay - so we travelled for free the whole time. Of course, what with there being no such thing as a free lunch, they charged us 24CHF (£16) in 'City Tax' when we checked out.
The city was very nice - all very spacious, and full of trams and buses - no stinky jams. Our first stop after dropping our things at the hotel was a coffee shop which looked very regal - lots of beautiful random furniture, unusual ornaments, and a cute little bird that flew around the curtain tops, hovering about looking for crumbs (although its bottom was looking threateningly like unloading as it hovered over me).
A tram ride later, and we were in front of the UN building, looking at the Broken Chair installed on the square in front of the building. We wandered around the Ariana museum, and then the Red Cross museum after lunch. One of the most striking things in the museum was the massive card index - each one representing a soldier or civilian, missing or detached from his or her home. They had one for the First World War, which ran into racks and racks full of cards, filling a whole room
There was also a more modern index, with numbered photographs of children who had been separated from their families by war and natural disaster. In the evening we walked down to Lake Geneva, to see the Jet D'Eau lit up - it was pretty impressive - 140m into the sky:
On Saturday, Katie and I got up early and did our long run. We needed to do ten miles, so we ran from our hotel down to the lake, and trotted around part of it (the whole thing is 180km). It's very popular with runners, although it was nigh on impossible to get any response to increasingly desolate 'Bonjour's. That's pretty tough for a Welshman
One thing I really liked was the little drinking water fountains around the city - so handy for long runs! Whenever I go overseas, I always enjoy looking for the little differences* - and I loved the fact that the symbol on the fountains that indicated drinking water was a wine glass The final few miles of our run were spent trying to find stepson's house, and then running a bit with him, which meant we got back to our hotel safely After breakfast, we returned to the Lake with the offspring, and took the boat across to the other side to visit the old town. It's up on a hillside, behind a lot of expensive lake-front watch shops. Offspring bought shoes from a shoe shop with a basement level accessible by slide, and did very well with his French speaking. We visited the museum of art and history, which had some fantastic old armour, and a couple of Van Goghs. After a break at the coffee place in the square (I loved this - nice to sit and watch people being Swiss - they all smoke a lot, and it's all soft packs and happy shrugging, and tiny dogs), we went for a wander past some sort of fancy dress student games, to the cathedral. Fabulous architecture as you'd expect, but I always get a bit thoughtful when I think about the amount of human effort that must have gone into building places like this.
We were quickly coming to terms with how expensive Geneva is. A burger and chips with a non-alcoholic drink for three of us on Friday evening came to about £40
so it was nice that evening to find a fairly inexpensive creperie close to our hotel. Mine was loaded with ham and cheese, with a lovely egg in the middle; followed (after un petit nudge to the staff, who seemed to have forgotten our pudding) by a second crepe drizzled in melted chocolate. On Sunday morning, after a little three miler for Katie and me, we walked to the lake again, in time to see a massive crowd of people send thousands of colourful helium balloons float off into the sky. It's a charity event called The March of Hope, and it's in its 23rd year apparently.
We took a tram to a place called Junction, and walked out onto a tall bridge that stands over the exact point where the Rhone and the Arve rivers meet. The Rhone has been through Lake Geneva, dropping all its silt on the way, so it's beautifully clear - but the Arve arrives carrying lots of cloudy sediment. The result is quite fabulous:
In the afternoon we went for a little nosey at CERN, and step-son told us about an interesting project that he's been involved in. Basically, what with CERN being so huge, there are lots of abandoned office chairs, and the photographing of said sad chairs is a popular pastime:
lonelychairsatcern.tumblr.com
There was also something about particle physics, although I was still thinking about the chairs.
After melted cheese for tea (would have liked some toast to put it on, but settled for meat and potatoes), we took the tram journey back to our hotel to pack our cases for home :-/
Definitely going back though
*I didn't go into Burger King.
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Sounds like a good time was had, but maybe you'd have got more response to Guten Tag?pedroscalls10:30am, 14th Oct 2014
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I'm glad Geneva's a nice place. I've only driven through it twice and I guess you get the impression you get of London when you arrive by train.ChrisHB10:30am, 14th Oct 2014
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Lonely chairs at Cern - how sad! I think the miserable runners is a European thing - one of the things that really stands out when I'm back home is how eager runners are to make eye contact and at least nod!Alice the Camel10:31am, 14th Oct 2014
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Switzerland is wonderful (but yes, ridiculously expensive!). We've been round it twice by train, loved it. I love the abandoned chairs thing, but how do they KNOW they're abandoned?fleecy11:35am, 14th Oct 2014
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Stopped off in Switzerland once may have been Zurich on the way home from the Austria ski trip was expensive back thenNight-owl1:11pm, 14th Oct 2014
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Ooh, lovely trip. And a great blog. Thanks!HappyG(rrr) G1:54pm, 14th Oct 2014
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That sounds great fun. The Champions' fountainDvorak2:41pm, 14th Oct 2014
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Sounds like a lovely time. A lot of places charge a visitor or tourist's charge. I found the same thing happened in a hotel in Montreal earlier this year.Garfield2:56pm, 14th Oct 2014
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Sounds great!.B.3:05pm, 14th Oct 2014
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Better than going to Sleaford to see offspring as we did.Dai Bank
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It sounds a beautiful place. You both certainly made the most of your time thereGimmeMedals4:35pm, 14th Oct 2014
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Thanks for a lovely blog.LindsD9:45pm, 14th Oct 2014
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Recommend it for marathon week end in May, there is also a half marathon or a 5k the day before. The half and full are point to point so you see lots of the countryside too 😄Old Man8:24am, 15th Oct 2014
Here's a quote that I read recently, and I really like it
"Usability is not everything.
If usability engineers designed a nightclub, it would be clean, quiet, brightly lit, with lots of places to sit down, plenty of bartenders, menus written in 18-point sans-serif, and easy-to-find bathrooms.
But nobody would be there. They would all be down the street at Coyote Ugly pouring beer on each other."
- Joel Spolsky
"Usability is not everything.
If usability engineers designed a nightclub, it would be clean, quiet, brightly lit, with lots of places to sit down, plenty of bartenders, menus written in 18-point sans-serif, and easy-to-find bathrooms.
But nobody would be there. They would all be down the street at Coyote Ugly pouring beer on each other."
- Joel Spolsky
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So trueGimmeMedals10:05am, 12th Oct 2014
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Are you trying to tell us something?D210:15am, 12th Oct 2014
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I would love to go to a nightclub like that, actually, but I suspect I'm not in any nightclub's target marketfleecy I do actually think usability is incredibly important, but so is quirkiness. Fetch combines both, thank you for that 10:35am, 12th Oct 2014
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Talking of quirkiness, what happened to the occasional mojometer? Never understood how it worked or what made it appear at random but I miss it.Angus Clydesdale12:17pm, 12th Oct 2014
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I like the idea of a nightclub with enough seats etc. too *is old*.B.12:52pm, 12th Oct 2014
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Never have liked night/nite clubs. Think I was old before my time.Jigs6:35pm, 12th Oct 2014
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I'm robbing that quote to use when my customers start whinging tomorrowbigleggy9:13pm, 12th Oct 2014
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That's probably why Carlsberg don't make anything other than lager! They promise so much improvement in everyday life but deliver very littleSeratonin8:18pm, 13th Oct 2014
Hatfield 5k, and some other running thoughts
1:13pm, 9 Oct 2014
I don't feel as though I've written much about my running recently, although I probably have.
Anyhoo... it feels as though it's going pretty well
I think that weekend at the end of September was a bit of a kickstart. I did a parkrun at 7:38/mile (not aiming for flat out), and the 10k at 8:00/mile - neither particularly fast in relation to my season's bests (7:05/mile and 7:30/mile respectively), but enough effort involved to make me work for it.
And I think that's a definite Thing. I do try to go on about the importance of not compromising your training efforts by running fast *all* the time, but it takes an occasional blast like that to make your standard pace feel way more comfortable.
Since that weekend I did a recovery run on the Tuesday (legs feeling pretty tired, no surprise), and then a 5 and a 6 on the Thursday and Friday, both of which felt like magic. After a birthday weekend with my boy, I went out and did a 9 miler on the Monday - and although I was a little bit ragged by the last mile, most of it felt really lovely. I ran a fair bit of the route that I used to use when I was VLM training (6 years ago!), which was also helpful.
Tuesday was another rest day, and then last night we did the Hatfield 5k.
It was a fairly small race - 122 finishers - and 99% club runners, so it was all a bit swift. I managed to go a bit faster - 7:19/mile average, but the splits were quite telling - 7:01, 7:21, 7:35. But I'm ok about that, because I know I can improve it with the right work. Speed work that is I got stitches under both sides of my rib cage from about half way, and had to tell myself that it would just have to hurt for another ten minutes. I think we mis-timed our porridge. The course was nice, *but* I did find the up and down curbs a wee bit annoying. It was around a business park, and race HQ was at Affinity Water - and as a result we got the poshest race toilets I've ever had the pleasure to get changed in, and an amazingly courteous security guard who looked after us all. It was nice to meet Richard-M1 who came and said hello, and was there to shout some encouragement at the finish. Some great times all round, especially from my awesome wife - another 30s off the SB she set last week - and some nice lemon sponge from PB machine JenLov, who also did an epic job of driving us all there and back.
Our next mission is the Fenland 10 on 26th October - so we've got a couple of weeks to build up the long runs, and to cram in a few sharper sessions. From what I've heard, it's pancake flat, but the wind can be a PITA. Then there's either another 10 (Nene Valley), or perhaps the Bedford Half in December.
Onwards!
Anyhoo... it feels as though it's going pretty well
I think that weekend at the end of September was a bit of a kickstart. I did a parkrun at 7:38/mile (not aiming for flat out), and the 10k at 8:00/mile - neither particularly fast in relation to my season's bests (7:05/mile and 7:30/mile respectively), but enough effort involved to make me work for it.
And I think that's a definite Thing. I do try to go on about the importance of not compromising your training efforts by running fast *all* the time, but it takes an occasional blast like that to make your standard pace feel way more comfortable.
Since that weekend I did a recovery run on the Tuesday (legs feeling pretty tired, no surprise), and then a 5 and a 6 on the Thursday and Friday, both of which felt like magic. After a birthday weekend with my boy, I went out and did a 9 miler on the Monday - and although I was a little bit ragged by the last mile, most of it felt really lovely. I ran a fair bit of the route that I used to use when I was VLM training (6 years ago!), which was also helpful.
Tuesday was another rest day, and then last night we did the Hatfield 5k.
It was a fairly small race - 122 finishers - and 99% club runners, so it was all a bit swift. I managed to go a bit faster - 7:19/mile average, but the splits were quite telling - 7:01, 7:21, 7:35. But I'm ok about that, because I know I can improve it with the right work. Speed work that is
I got stitches under both sides of my rib cage from about half way, and had to tell myself that it would just have to hurt for another ten minutes. I think we mis-timed our porridge. The course was nice, *but* I did find the up and down curbs a wee bit annoying. It was around a business park, and race HQ was at Affinity Water - and as a result we got the poshest race toilets I've ever had the pleasure to get changed in, and an amazingly courteous security guard who looked after us all. It was nice to meet Richard-M1 who came and said hello, and was there to shout some encouragement at the finish. Some great times all round, especially from my awesome wife - another 30s off the SB she set last week - and some nice lemon sponge from PB machine JenLov, who also did an epic job of driving us all there and back. Our next mission is the Fenland 10 on 26th October - so we've got a couple of weeks to build up the long runs, and to cram in a few sharper sessions. From what I've heard, it's pancake flat, but the wind can be a PITA. Then there's either another 10 (Nene Valley), or perhaps the Bedford Half in December.
Onwards!
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Pity you're not doing St Neot's...Posh race toilets are a thing of beautyfleecy1:17pm, 9th Oct 2014
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All sounds most satisfactoryAlice the Camel1:20pm, 9th Oct 2014
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I've done the Fenland 10. It IS flat apart from (I think) two little bridges. It's a really nice race.jennywren6:13pm, 9th Oct 2014
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It was nice to meet you and your wife at the Hatfield 5k, and say how much we like the website:)Richard-M10:53pm, 9th Oct 2014
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I got a county medal at that one last year (there are some advantages to getting olderSchnecke ) It's a fast course, and I know what you mean about the toilets and that security guard!8:51am, 10th Oct 2014
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Nene Valley 10 is a good fast race. Got a PB twice therecolindglen8:37pm, 14th Oct 2014
I posted this in a thread, but thought it would make a good blog too. I'll try to add a bit more detail.
I've just made some changes to the site layout. I say just, it's been a fairly lengthy process that started when I first put the little rounded-corner panels on a few pages. Over ten years, I've used lots of different ways to put my pages together - and so this represents something like scrubbing down the decks, and applying a consistent set of ideas to the pages. There's still plenty to do. As I write this, the 'Add New Blog' page has a big chunk of white on the right that's bugging me.
The menu at the top has now gone full width, and there are also little rollover menus, so if you want to go from the home page to, say, plot a route, you can put your mouse over 'Routes', and then choose 'Add A Route' without having to load the Routes page in between.
The non-default skins have also received the treatment, so they should all be a bit more harmonious now, with not so much 'default red' showing through - and I've tried hard to ensure that Pantherz (the all black version of the site) is readable on most key pages - although please let me know of glaring problems.
Actually, the Pantherz skin is very useful for this sort of thing. In theory, all the style information (colours, layout etc) should be in a separate file (called a stylesheet - one for each of the skins) - so when a page looks all crappy in Pantherz, it's a sure-fire sign that the style information is embedded in the page, and not abstracted into the stylesheet.
The slightly longer term goal with all this stylesheet shenanigans is to improve the way that the site works on all sorts of devices. The site has Google Analytics running on it, which tells me, amongst other things, what the most common screen resolutions are. Top of the list at the moment is 1366 pixels wide, by 768 pixels high - accounting for about 16% of traffic to the site - but there are lots of variations. In second place, it's 768x1024 (iPad), and in fourth place is 320x568, which is the iPhone 5. Properly abstracting all the style information into separate files means that I can serve up variations on the layout based on the screen resolution of the user. For example, on a small screen, I could just show the icons without accompanying text in the little menu in the very top-right corner of the screen; or use a much smaller version of the logo.
As usual, you are my testers, so please shout out. I was particularly pleased to read K5 Gus's comment on the thread, because it sums up how I try to do things. Small changes, with the aim of making things slightly better each time.
I've just made some changes to the site layout. I say just, it's been a fairly lengthy process that started when I first put the little rounded-corner panels on a few pages. Over ten years, I've used lots of different ways to put my pages together - and so this represents something like scrubbing down the decks, and applying a consistent set of ideas to the pages. There's still plenty to do. As I write this, the 'Add New Blog' page has a big chunk of white on the right that's bugging me.
The menu at the top has now gone full width, and there are also little rollover menus, so if you want to go from the home page to, say, plot a route, you can put your mouse over 'Routes', and then choose 'Add A Route' without having to load the Routes page in between.
The non-default skins have also received the treatment, so they should all be a bit more harmonious now, with not so much 'default red' showing through - and I've tried hard to ensure that Pantherz (the all black version of the site) is readable on most key pages - although please let me know of glaring problems.
Actually, the Pantherz skin is very useful for this sort of thing. In theory, all the style information (colours, layout etc) should be in a separate file (called a stylesheet - one for each of the skins) - so when a page looks all crappy in Pantherz, it's a sure-fire sign that the style information is embedded in the page, and not abstracted into the stylesheet.
The slightly longer term goal with all this stylesheet shenanigans is to improve the way that the site works on all sorts of devices. The site has Google Analytics running on it, which tells me, amongst other things, what the most common screen resolutions are. Top of the list at the moment is 1366 pixels wide, by 768 pixels high - accounting for about 16% of traffic to the site - but there are lots of variations. In second place, it's 768x1024 (iPad), and in fourth place is 320x568, which is the iPhone 5. Properly abstracting all the style information into separate files means that I can serve up variations on the layout based on the screen resolution of the user. For example, on a small screen, I could just show the icons without accompanying text in the little menu in the very top-right corner of the screen; or use a much smaller version of the logo.
As usual, you are my testers, so please shout out. I was particularly pleased to read K5 Gus's comment on the thread, because it sums up how I try to do things. Small changes, with the aim of making things slightly better each time.
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Just to echo what someone else said on the thread, the *new notifications* bit at the top is no longer highlighted so I didn't notice that I had any until someone pointed that out. Otherwise, I like itOysterboy10:56am, 9th Oct 2014
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That should be fixed now, ta.fetcheveryone11:00am, 9th Oct 2014
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It is. ThanksOysterboy11:11am, 9th Oct 2014
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Nigeria looks weird, too much green, I'm missing the red elements, it seems like bits are missing. Sorry, not very coherent, specific feedbackDiogenes11:18am, 9th Oct 2014
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ooh I'm liking the rollover menus - Thanks for that!DazTheSlug11:19am, 9th Oct 2014
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I tend to browse in "stealth" mode - i.e. I have Fetch open in a small window on my screen at work. (ahem)Nessie
The text under "Sorry to bother you boss" mixes in with Fetch logo and also the bit that expands when you click on "New Notifications", making them very difficult to read. Most likely not a problem viewing in full screen, but a wee bit annoying for those of us on the site when we shouldn't be *blush*
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Redmond is perhaps the best skin for work. I'll have a look at the top menus.fetcheveryone11:39am, 9th Oct 2014
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I miss the Christmas skin.Snake Doctor11:50am, 9th Oct 2014
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The Christmas skin will be back in full technicolour when we get a bit closer to the datefetcheveryone11:51am, 9th Oct 2014
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Good god I am so out of date, I stil use a desk top. I like the full monty menu :-). I don't do stealth.Ocelot Spleens11:54am, 9th Oct 2014
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Thought there was some kind of makeover when I came here today liking it so far. Do like the rollover menusNight-owl12:33pm, 9th Oct 2014
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I noticed something funny with the skins when I popped on just now, and I went and accidentally ticked Pantherz and couldn't read a bloody thing! I agree with Diogenes, also in an incoherent way...Nigeria is hideous. Liking the rollover menus! I tend to switch between my laptop, my ancient crappy iphone and my new ipod for fetching, so I can see how tricky it must be to be all things to all devicesfleecy12:49pm, 9th Oct 2014
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were the blog titles in red on the default skin before? I find them quite hard to read in red. I may go and experiment with different skins now...fleecy1:01pm, 9th Oct 2014
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ok, I have experimented. Quite like Conkers. Pantherz main forum page is ugly for some reason, too many lines and boxes for those colours, it feels like being in a prison cell! Forum thread pages are ok though. Really struggle to read blog titles in red on default, don't like that at all. Purple is properly mad. Cake is hilarious but I wouldn't or couldn't use it. I might need to switch to Redmond though it's a bit bland (probably has to be for the work peeps!). If you could fix the red on default I'd be happy!fleecy1:07pm, 9th Oct 2014
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you've made the red font on blogs bigger! It's like having a magician on the websitefleecy It might be a tad TOO big in the highlights box, but much better for the blogs list, ta.2:33pm, 9th Oct 2014
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It shouldn't be red - try doing a big refresh.fetcheveryone2:35pm, 9th Oct 2014
You might not have seen much of it, but there's a list of training plans that folks have saved, that can be imported by any user into his or her training log.
The list is here:
http://www.fetcheveryone.com/training-plan-list.php
I'd like to do more with these plans, because they've got a lot of potential - but before I can do that, it'd be great to find the best ones from the list. There are quite a few where folks have experimented with the feature, or maybe something went wrong, or perhaps the plan is highly specific to one particular person.
So to find the best ones to share with all of Fetchdom, I've added a little voting button next to each one in the list. There's also a voting link when you view each one individually.
Please, if you can, spend five minutes looking through the list and voting up the ones that look like they're well put together.
Thanks
The list is here:
http://www.fetcheveryone.com/training-plan-list.php
I'd like to do more with these plans, because they've got a lot of potential - but before I can do that, it'd be great to find the best ones from the list. There are quite a few where folks have experimented with the feature, or maybe something went wrong, or perhaps the plan is highly specific to one particular person.
So to find the best ones to share with all of Fetchdom, I've added a little voting button next to each one in the list. There's also a voting link when you view each one individually.
Please, if you can, spend five minutes looking through the list and voting up the ones that look like they're well put together.
Thanks
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Great idea - I'm actually using one of these plans at the moAlice the Camel It would be good to add some new plans to the list too!3:03pm, 3rd Oct 2014
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To look at each plan and work out if it's well put together would take an awful lot longer than 5 minutes surely ? Maybe 5 mins for each one ? I could score the ones I've looked at and used in the past if that's helpful, but not scoring the others doesn't mean I think they're crap, just don't have a few hours to go thru and evaluate them all.K5 Gus4:37pm, 3rd Oct 2014
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Excuse my linguistic tardiness. I just mean do what you canfetcheveryone5:15pm, 3rd Oct 2014
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Your a funny little man. Who are you?kev-eats-owt6:04pm, 3rd Oct 2014
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Me?fetcheveryone6:20pm, 3rd Oct 2014
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I've done it. Voted for a couple. Hope it helps. Thanks for all your hard work.milemonster8:30pm, 3rd Oct 2014
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I've voted for a few too. Thanks.Lalli1:03pm, 4th Oct 2014
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I need to spend some time looking since I want to do a spring and then autumn half next year for my birthday with a 0 at the end:)Gus12:03pm, 8th Oct 2014
I picked the boy up from school today, and he'd forgotten his drinks bottle. He ran back into the class to get it, so I went and said hello to his teacher, just 'cos I haven't spoken to him yet. He seems like a nice bloke.
In the few seconds we had to chat, he told me that the boy needs to work on his number bonds. They're doing column addition in class at the moment, and apparently, he's a bit cumbersome when it comes to quickly adding pairs of single digits together.
So now that he's in bed, I've made him a little game to help him. Here's the link:
http://www.fetcheveryone.com/maths/addition/bonds/
My best score so far is 44 but I think it'd help if you do it on a touchscreen, rather than using a mouse.
In the few seconds we had to chat, he told me that the boy needs to work on his number bonds. They're doing column addition in class at the moment, and apparently, he's a bit cumbersome when it comes to quickly adding pairs of single digits together.
So now that he's in bed, I've made him a little game to help him. Here's the link:
http://www.fetcheveryone.com/maths/addition/bonds/
My best score so far is 44
but I think it'd help if you do it on a touchscreen, rather than using a mouse.
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Nice!:)Garfield9:52pm, 2nd Oct 2014
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THat's fab. After school entertainment sorted for tomorrow. Thanks!LindsD9:54pm, 2nd Oct 2014
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This is the new flappy bird.McGoohan
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It's all HTML and javascript, so feel free to grab it in its entirety if it's of any use to your own schoolfetcheveryone9:55pm, 2nd Oct 2014
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Neatswittle10:01pm, 2nd Oct 2014
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My son will love that, cheers for sharing FetchNelly10:02pm, 2nd Oct 2014
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Very addictive fetchSeratonin10:09pm, 2nd Oct 2014
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33 (with TWO mistakes :-0)Winniefree10:17pm, 2nd Oct 2014
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34 / 0. Will try it on the iPad later and see how much quicker it is.flanker10:18pm, 2nd Oct 2014
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I'm up to 47 nowfetcheveryone10:19pm, 2nd Oct 2014
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AwesomeVicksterH10:21pm, 2nd Oct 2014
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30 and no mistakes = too cautious!!D210:26pm, 2nd Oct 2014
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43, but mouse clickage is def the limitation (I would say that!) Awesome that you can create a wee app to help with maths. Top Dad!HappyG(rrr) G10:27pm, 2nd Oct 2014
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Wow, what ace talented Dad, you should certainly share that with the schoolDiogenes10:28pm, 2nd Oct 2014
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cleverRosehip 34 for me, my old age reactions are too slow!10:34pm, 2nd Oct 2014
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Brilliant!SherryB10:55pm, 2nd Oct 2014
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Cool! But I need smaller fingers for the kindle......Nessie12:02am, 3rd Oct 2014
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Cool! But I need smaller fingers for the kindle......Nessie12:03am, 3rd Oct 2014
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Cool! But I need smaller fingers for the kindle......Nessie12:03am, 3rd Oct 2014
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Cool! But I need smaller fingers for the kindle......Nessie12:03am, 3rd Oct 2014
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Apparently so, NessieDvorak
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Nice. 37 for me 1st time with mouse. Will try it after wine later. Cheers FetchNeilio5:32am, 3rd Oct 2014
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I like that.Ness6:28am, 3rd Oct 2014
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I need the kindle not to clear the score because I'm still stabbing at numbers!! Tis great tho.Nightjar6:40am, 3rd Oct 2014
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Darts!! Let's play darts. It worked for me and I ened up with a Computer Science degree.Ocelot Spleens8:33am, 3rd Oct 2014
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my spelling is rank though ;-)!Ocelot Spleens8:34am, 3rd Oct 2014
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That's very cool...Yazoo9:03am, 3rd Oct 2014
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45 with no mistakes. That'll do for an arts graduate...Dooogs9:08am, 3rd Oct 2014
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50 with no mistakes (with a mouse). I knew that maths degree would come in useful sometime...Silent Runner10:15am, 3rd Oct 2014
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36 with no mistakes with mouse on first attempt. Will try and PB laterWaveydavey I think miniwaveydavey1 will enjoy this one too 10:35am, 3rd Oct 2014
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42 no mistakes and with mouse*Anj*11:16am, 3rd Oct 2014
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Identical to :-)G... 43, no mistakes, slowed by the mouse.Nelly11:56am, 3rd Oct 2014
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45, with a mouseGordonG12:36pm, 3rd Oct 2014
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I think it's hilarious that we've already got a performance log of results for Fetch's app, lots of suggestions for improvement, supportive comments of each other's efforts and determined plans for individual improvement. Very FE!HappyG(rrr) G1:21pm, 3rd Oct 2014
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awesome! 50 no mistakes. i love stuff like this!CaptainDad1:46pm, 3rd Oct 2014
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24 with 1 mistakemilemonster8:33pm, 3rd Oct 2014
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49 with no mistakes. Need to move the mouse faster...Dooogs9:28pm, 3rd Oct 2014
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49 with a mouse yesterday, thought iPad would be faster but only 43 this morning. Maybe I'm still asleep.Sjjh7:57am, 4th Oct 2014
I've just been pointed at Run England's 3-2-1 project, which looks great - have a look:
runengland.info
runengland.info
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Only works if people use it, sadly, I know of 2 local areas where the runs are marked out but not usedsnogard4:56pm, 1st Oct 2014
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I've noticed them cropping up at a couple of parkrun sites (Tilgate and Banstead)McGoohan4:57pm, 1st Oct 2014
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Just tried something within 10 miles and nothing came up.alpenrose10:12pm, 1st Oct 2014
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I guess it all helps to promote the sport but as the routes need to be set up by a local authority or landowner (we can't all just go out and set up markers can we?) I can't help feel it's a bit of a Run England marketing thing. It's not as if there's any shortage of places to run without them!!Nightjar8:41am, 2nd Oct 2014
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One route within 10 miles. It's a one mile route with two gates and a road to negotiate. Woot!Molesy4:41pm, 3rd Oct 2014
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Orange is not the only fruit
Saddle Up
Beat that, Andy Dufresne
On the train
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Swittle's Bench!
Escape to Meriden
Secret Santa
October (16)
New KML export button
Triathlon Loitering
Tagging in blog comments
New blog buttons
Disaster Strikes!
New badges!
Bat renovation
HQ
Up-stickering
It's not magic, it's you!
Join us for the Doctor K Cup
The sun was shining...
My dear old things...
Copernican Revolution
A polite no
Pass the spanner
September (6)
The Doctor K Cup - 19th October
Big Scary Project! :-)
Tea towels on their way
Please excuse the lag
I'm back :-)
It was 20 years ago today…
August (12)
DESIGNS REVEALED: Fetch 20th anniversary shirts and vests
Schrödinger's Holiday
Look what I've got!
Finally, a bit of progress
May UCAS be fruitful
Get your pre-orders in :-)
13 spots left...
26 spots left...
Filling up nicely :-)
20th anniversary commemorative tea towel :-) GET IN QUICK :-)
Morienteering Badges :-)
Wheat Intolerance and Barr's Strawberryade
July (16)
Would you do it for a Scooby snack?
Play Along
Pilgrimage
Site down for a short while this afternoon
Attention Chrome users
Pace Analysis
Picture Usage tracking
Nice beats per mile graph
Thanks for the donation Jeff Bezos :-)
F'laps 2024 is done!
F'laps - three laps in
Me in Women's Running magazine :-)
Add A Race - Usability followup
#dogsandwivesatpollingstations
Cadence Filter - a little tweak
F'Laps Leaderboard - help me kick the tyres
June (11)
Today’s Task
Here's something cool
F'Laps - get togethers
Forum tagging
F'Laps - broken delete link :-/
F'Laps - your opportunity to withdraw gracefully :-)
Usability - look what's changed
RW Refugees welcomed
Oscar's Everyone Day
New training entry view is live
Snap Poll :-)
May (7)
Easy Street
Track me on Sunday
V2 Training Beta
New Training Log Beta
Five Noahs
Diamanté Celebration Spatula Kit
Marmite Excalibur
April (13)
In case you haven't cancelled it yet...
Weasels and spiders
Blog Listings Change (nowt major)
Six New Badges! Adding pics to Conquercise zones.
Night Races - Can you help?
Sifting Chunks: Gradient versus Pace
Audible Free Trial - You get free audiobooks, I get five quid!
A donation from JH
Andy Townsend :-)
GCU50: Citizen on Patrol
Fetchpoint: The Game - Where I'm Headed
Fetchpoint: The Game - a consultation
Heavy Roller please
March (11)
I can eat fifty eggs
Oscar the Grouch :-(
If a Fetch fails in a forest...
Trialling a new weekly update email
Lasting Power of Suspicion
Fetch Virtual Challenge 2024 *bunting*
Swittle's Funeral
Cadence
Tea & Trails Podcast
Down to my last pen
A bench for swittle
February (8)
The Lightning Struck Tower
Swittle
Cholesterol
This year so far in pictures
Three Noahs
Fetch is as strong as you make it.
100k - what do I need?
Paywalls are BS: I'm on a podcast!
January (11)
Chasing Round Numbers - A Cautionary Tale!
MOTM - Decision Made (and a competition for EVERYONE!)
MOTM - a chance to rethink
Training Home Page updates
How much walking will I do?
Training Plans - Further Updates
Training Plan List
Butter Police
Why no app?
Useful Chat!
Festive Fetch Calendar - Winners
2023 (136)
December (6)
Nearly forgot...
Jam today
Removing another bit of Google's invasiveness
Fancy an extra challenge over the next 12 days?
Chewie, we're home!
Two tips for today's advent challenge
November (13)
Spammy McSpamface
40 days and 40 nights
EfM confirmed!
New Training Log Beta! 😲 (aka Change Is Not Good)
Escape from Meriden
Waiting for your training?
Route of the Century?
I didn't know I owned a nutcracker
Design our anniversary shirts/vests!
Holiday Reading - plenty of fiction :-)
Swimming in a metaphor
Hello
Off World
October (11)
Fl'update
To think I tried to mop it up!
Vote Please: How many F'Laps will you try to do?
F'Laps 2024
Long Run
So it still needs a name...
Front Garden Ultra?
The Boy is a man!
Festive Fetch Calendar
Creative K's
Signs
September (7)
Training Edit Screen - time to ditch it...
Stock check
The Doctor K Cup - October 7th!!!!
Removing the training edit screen
A Happy Applecart
Happy 19th Birthday!
Forgotten pictures
August (14)
Just in case
Weekly Total Hours
Dim Brys Dim Chwys
All hail our robot overlords!
Your local parkrun
Fool on the hill
Survey Follow Up
A survey?
Did you know?
I made a thing
VC Day
FBI Agent
What keeps you going?
Be careful what's in your paste buffer (and July training update)
July (13)
Delight
Respecting your eyeballs since 2004
Hot Stuff, coming through
Ocean Colour Scheme
18 years, 10 months, 13 days and counting...
Ooof #fail
Our listings need you!
Pics from the end of the swim
A whispered, half-remembered dream
Try the Heatmap!!!
Teaser
100 Running Words (and my June summary)
July Virtual Mile
June (8)
Last Big Swim
I can't be the only one...
Which is the real me?
#EveryoneDay
The legendary sixth samosa!
WSW Main Page Layout Changes
May Summary (contains swimming!)
Hoodies pre-order closes at 10am
May (17)
A new WSW challenge
Tagging images
Hoooooooooooooodies!!!!!!!!!!!
Another Sweatshop Competition
Did you get an email?
Fifty Years Ago - Part VIII
Fifty Years Ago - Part VII
Fifty Years Ago - Part VI
Help on a slippery slope
Fifty Years Ago - Part V
Fifty Years Ago - Part IV
Fifty Years Ago - Part III
Chuck-off: Round 2
Not my king?
Fifty Years Ago - Part II
Fifty Years Ago
And that was April
April (10)
Centurion Safari!
Sheep treats (and a routes feature)
And I’ll sail her up the west coast, through villages and towns.
15,746 places to 💩
Track Your Blood Pressure
A couple of quick fmail updates
Rusty Metal and a Cycling Grudge Match
Please help me kick the fmail tyres!
Onset of Summer Watch. Have you got Onset of Summer? +fmail!
Premium?
March (10)
And that was March
Try the new fmail system
Can you help my boy?
Tell A Friend?
Some Sweatshop Competitions
Sign up to our 2023 Virtual Challenge
Review: FORM Smart Goggles
UTMOST vs Treadmills
33,258
Embranglement!
February (13)
And that was February
This year's Virtual Challenge
What does Points make?
Automatic Everything Collector
Peaky Finders
FAO Fitbit users
My favourite training graph
You've got this.
Coffee Survey (for my stepson)
Access all the tips
Tiny Usability Changes
Cod science
Hot Tips
January (14)
Monthly Infographic Bug Fixes
No, but really...
Have a play with the monthly infographic
It's not ready yet, but...
Introducing Fetch Premium
Help me design a new Monthly Infographic...
Still following?
Fettle
Definitely Not Betting
Do you follow? (plus burp chat)
Advance warning for stalkers!
I'm back (and the Fetch LS, SS and NS shirts preorder is open)
Attention Fitbit Users
Review 50 albums in 2023 (badge!)
2022 (144)
December (8)
Treasure Hunt Day 1 - the best gift
Important updates to the Fetch Relay
Introducing the Fetch Relay 2023
Who Am I? (Solved, thanks) And How Am I?
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)
Oh, and... it's Yesvember - Day #9
Another bit of the internet fenced off
Yesvember - Day #8 - taking steps
Yesvember - Day #7
Yesvember - Day #6
Yesvember - Day #5
The curse of swimming GPS
Yesvember - Day #4
The Les Mis effect
Yesvember - Day #3
Yesvember - Day #2
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
Book giveaway :-)
Updated Race Portfolio
Updated Targets Page
Exactly ***1*** Spare Ladies L Cycling Jersey
Search All Blogs :-)
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?
Thank you everyone!
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
Shortcuts
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
@
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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