Monthly Archives: October 2015

Tor Messenger Beta: Chat over Tor, Easily | The Tor Blog

30 Oct 2015 By in Security Tags: , ,

What is it?

Tor Messenger is a cross-platform chat program that aims to be secure by default and sends all of its traffic over Tor. It supports a wide variety of transport networks, including Jabber (XMPP), IRC, Google Talk, Facebook Chat, Twitter, Yahoo, and others; enablesOff-the-Record (OTR) Messaging automatically; and has an easy-to-use graphical user interface localized into multiple languages.

Source: Tor Messenger Beta: Chat over Tor, Easily | The Tor Blog

RPHM Splits

26 Oct 2015 By in Fitness & Health Tags: , , , , , , , ,

Just posting this here for my reference in future. My time splits during the RPHM. Held a good pace until 13KM

1
 4:57 — 4’57″/KM
2
 10:29 + 0:35 (-12%) 5’32″/KM
3
 15:54 – 0:07 (2%) 5’25″/KM
4
 21:21 + 0:02 (-1%) 5’27″/KM
5
 26:53 + 0:05 (-2%) 5’32″/KM
6
 32:23 – 0:02 (0%) 5’30″/KM
7
 37:55 + 0:02 (-1%) 5’32″/KM
8
 43:28 + 0:01 (-1%) 5’33″/KM
9
 49:23 + 0:22 (-7%) 5’55″/KM
10
 55:27 + 0:09 (-3%) 6’04″/KM
11
 1:01:05 – 0:26 (7%) 5’38″/KM
12
 1:07:16 + 0:33 (-10%) 6’11″/KM
13
 1:13:43 + 0:16 (-5%) 6’27″/KM
14
 1:20:13 + 0:03 (-1%) 6’30″/KM
15
 1:26:36 – 0:07 (1%) 6’23″/KM
16
 1:32:55 – 0:04 (1%) 6’19″/KM
17
 1:39:20 + 0:06 (-2%) 6’25″/KM
18
 1:45:50 + 0:05 (-2%) 6’30″/KM
19
 1:53:03 + 0:43 (-12%) 7’13″/KM
20
 1:59:59 – 0:17 (3%) 6’56″/KM
21
 2:06:35 – 0:20 (4%) 6’36″/KM

Royal Parks Half Marathon

11 Oct 2015 By in Fitness & Health Tags: , , , , , , ,
Royal Parks Half Marathon

The Royal Parks Half Marathon was my first full-blown race, officially-timed, and my first attempt at the 21.1K distance. Never did that distance before, even during my practise runs, and my body is screaming at me not to do it again. But we’ll see.

The race was pretty comfortable for the first 10K, but when I hit 13K, my hip started to hurt and I had to drop down to a walk to recover.

The remaining race was much slower than the first half with my hip and my hamstring (both of them) hurting like hell. Even when I got to towards the finish line, people were walking. One of them had pulled muscle, so I stopped to help him out for a bit. He was concerned about my time, but as long as I finish, I’m happy.

I got over the finish line in 2:03:35 according to Endomondo, and my official time was 2:07:33. Considering this was my first half marathon, and I managed to average 6:00 min/km (I hit 20K at 2:00:00).

It was a painful journey home too. My legs hurt like hell, climbing up or down stairs made the pain spike, but it’s getting easier now.

I don’t think I’ll be running a full marathon any time soon, until I can get the Half Marathon distance down comfortably. It was really hard going at the end:

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And plenty of new achievements and awards from Nike+

HM1 HM2 HM3 HM4 HM5 HM6

RPHM App

5 Oct 2015 By in Fitness & Health Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

Just got an email from the RPHM organisers. There’s an app in the Google Play store that allows you to track the runners (including me) during the race, and also provides split times as they run over the timing mats. For runners, it also shows you where you are on the course at that time. Although I wouldn’t recommend it — you need to make sure you’re not running into the barriers :D

Google Play: http://royalparksfoundationemail.org.uk/1L97-3PL8Z-ERXF5H-1SKAD2-1/c.aspx

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