Today’s run was wet and miserable, and look what awaited me when I opened my door to my house. My door broke.
And it wouldn’t close. So I had to unscrew the plate with a makeshift wrench:
At least now, it closes. And here is what was causing all the trouble.
It’s been a while since I checked my Nike+ trophies, and I found out I had won the Elite 8 trophy twice.
After tolerating the instability of ZR3 for a long time, I have finally decided to quit using the app. It has become unusable, crashing EVERY use at least once and causing other apps to force close as Android tries to frantically free up memory for the black hole that is ZR3. Six to Start have not even addressed this issue, even though they acknowledge it is a memory hog.
The resources I have made – the Google Music tutorial page, and the Bitbucket respository, will remain up for now, but will not be updated further. If someone wants to pick them up and continue with them, by all means, do so, and let me know, so I can add a redirect or link to your site.
Easy Run. Aimed for 8K, but ended up doing a lot less…. :-(
Not going to go parkrunning for a while, whilst I get back to distance training to try to get back up to 10K capability.
Did not run Parkrun this morning
No target, just running on a treadmill, adjusting pace as felt comfortable with. And amazingly, busted my 1K record:
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A nice warm day, gentle breeze. A good run, and broke my current parkrun PB at a time of 25:48, and cam in 38th position. Best position so far. :D
My SmartWatch said I beat my 5K PB with 25:52, but it didn’t register as a new on the Nike+ site. EDIT: Looks like it just took a long time to register on the site.
And I have to say, parkruns really are a good way to improving your speed. When I started, my 5Ks were around the 30min+ mark. Now, I’ve been getting down, and have nearly taken off 5 minutes from my average 5K time. Seriously, if there is a parkrun near you, go try it out. It’s almost race-like in its organisation, even though it is isn’t a competition, so it is a good way of getting a feel for how a race might feel like.
Easy run with 60/20 easy/med intervals.
Problems with my phone meant I could only run on 20% battery, which meant a short run.
Rainy day, didn’t do the parkrun, but ran later instead. Still raining. Also was very tired since I was up till past midnight reflashing my phone and tablet devices. Not sure why, but my phone was complaining of low space (120MB left) on internal storage, and I could not seem to free up anything. Spent the night letting Titanium Backup try to restore the apps.
My tablet was running ICS, but now I’ve got it up to KitKat thanks to XDA.
Easy run with 60/20 easy/med intervals.
Note to self: don’t run in the local park in the evening with your mouth open unless you want fly pie. :P
New trophy for finishing my kilometres goal
Sunny, hot, and dry. A complete opposite to last week.
Got my Silver Trophy with today’s run.
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Sunny and warm. A big contrast to last week’s run. My phone’s GPS fritzed again, so no path tracked in Endomondo or ZR.
Also, broke 250K running with my Nike+ SmartWatch.
You finished in 45th place and were the 34th male out of a field of 84 parkrunners and you came 8th in your age category VM35-39. Take a look at this week's full set of results on our website. Your PB at Oak Hill parkrun remains 00:26:11. Your best time this year remains 00:26:11.
Easy run with 60/20 easy/med intervals.
Tempo run.
Cloudy, windy, grey, and overcast. No rain, but it looks like it will any moment. Short run, then I’m starting my 10K training plan again.
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Grey, gloomy, and raining. Although, like most British weather, it cleared up soon after starting the run. No records broken this week, but did get two trophies.
You finished in 41st place and were the 37th male out of a field of 75 parkrunners and you came 9th in your age category VM35-39. Take a look at this week's full set of results on our website. Congratulations on setting a new Personal Best at this event! Congratulations on your fastest time this year.
